Romantic Mystery Poems

Appreciation:
A big thank you Silent One for your splendid narration of this poem.

THE GANGSTER

Through foreboding, whispering, wintery air
A woken Heron shrilly shrieks somewhere
Reflective iridescent gem...

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The name 
mistakenly saintly, 
the other one 
a rite-of-life, 
a gauche passage 
for some, for most
the contract costly,
imprints its meaning 
post firey baptismal dive
to rise...

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Who can say where it comes from?
Only that it’s there, when least expected,
thought to be rare if not obsolete

One night, the air a swirl of...

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Oh, thou art of the greatest mystery,
an enigma of time and place and space
flitting with ethereal quality.
Mind not paling stars that surround this place.
They languish...

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Foggy mists engulfed the bright 
When raindrops fell throughout the night 
The lampposts glowed at midnights dark 
When sweethearts kissed at Lover's Park

Seductively waltzed as...

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The Hidden mysteries of love
   is written across my face.
Every time you come into the room.
 
The atmosphere changes when I look at...

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I love reading fun books
Life is in the pages
Humor~tears~mystery
Reading eyes feel heavy
Book slips down to my lap
Dreamland I am headed
Pages coming to life...

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The Spirit of the Lord is here it's here Can feel him in the Atmosphere!  Spirit of the Lord! Spirit of the Lord is...

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In Our Feasts, We Both Drank Lover's Wine,
Second poets tribute series, third poet Gerard Manley Hopkins

Blood that entices with its red-glow appeal
Its bright warmth into...

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My dear, hear me and not my perceived guilt
For my distancing quiet you demean
It is not a wall but a guard I built
To keep my...

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Beware Thee The Unsavory, Unfettered Throngs

When distant mystery has curdled the blue sky
The old hag cursed the earth and the skirt of rain
Dance girls danced...

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Love's a mystery 
famed in history,
magic;
It's a great story
made with mastery,
mythic;
At times comedy,
sometimes tragedy,
epic. 

Pretty romantic, 
it's so terrific,
so fine; 
Truly fantastic,
and so ecstatic,
divine; 
Echoes...

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I will always wonder what sort of love we had.
I was naive and blindly infatuated.
You were seventeen years older than I, and sad. 
From the...

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Do we break the mirror of life,                  ...

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Stunned by the feelings, trembling
Through my thoughts – my memories
Edging their way through my poetry, even the poems
I read became epiphanies of the moments
When tenderness,...

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