Short Lidded Poems

The whirling fan stirs 
The soft warm air
And lulls to sleep 
The hazy mind

The clock in the corner 
Ticks on and on 
The heating vent sighs
Closing heavy lidded eyes
AS time slips away
And says good bye...

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As the year goes to sleep, all the crisp air is laden with light
The wind has a way of shaping the leaf around its restless form
lining each road and trail with heavy-lidded brilliance
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For Andrea's Contest
October Bliss/November Dreams 10/10/14...

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I lie here watching you
eyes half lidded with bliss.
I match my rhythm
with your own.
Gradually, the trot turns
to a full blown gallop.
We struggle to sit the saddle,
to prevent descending over the edge,
concentration stays our course.
At the end we radiate,
reveling at the wild ride....

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AS YOUR LIGHT STRETCHES
ACROSS MY WINTER SHADOW
I FEAR REALITY'S INTRUSION
ON MY ENCHANTED DREAM
I AM CONTENT TO WATCH
FROM AFAR
SO I HOLD YOU IN MY MIND
INTACT AMD TANGIBLE
AN IMMACULATE FANTASY
MY DAYDREAM DEVOTION
EYES HALF CLOSED
BLUE LIDDED FLAMES
I AM LEFT
WITH YOUR SWEET SERENADE....

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The wind
howled ice-cold, clear-sky
lullabies

and awoke the moon,
who gazed, heavy-lidded,
at the stars around her

Leaves and dust
danced sambas and pirouetted
along the desert's river,

who was shivering uncontrollably
while midnight birds
struggled to fly upstream

against the manic,
stinging, musical currents
of turbulence and wonder...

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Moon rise spherical, glacier white, sheds mask of clouds for orb of pale light
Dark blue symphony hums its low cadence in song to whispering mist
Winds wafting breath slows, pauses to gentle pulse of sleep
The fireplace holds minuscule specks of red embers
Downy covers cocoon, soothes, comforting rest
Time melts, weary souls settle
Heavy-lidded eyes close
The walls dissolve
Softens into
Dreams...

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Hiding out my soul,
in Carles’ Happy Flamingo,
feeling too small
to be larger than life.

She was a tattooed lamp and
shape-shady,
willing to go down
for the wrong guy.

I bought her a drink,

a double-lidded wink -
a ‘bar lizard’ move,

there was nobody
left to care
here or anywhere.

The music was nasal wallpaper
I just sat there
dripping into my heart

until she - bored
with my silence,
slid
her hips away
to pour into someone else.

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For this, I willingly bypass
food, drink, and sleep.
I need no other sustinance than
your warm skin adjoining mine.
The more I have,
the more I want.
I yearn eagerly
for your figure
next to mine.
I have it all
but all will not suffice.
To feel your soft moan
escaping your lips
into my sensitive ear
and to see your eyes
half lidded with ecstasy.
This is my mission
one in which I engage
mind, body, and soul alike.
I use all my senses
to accomplish this task....

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Catapulting forever into oblivion
Height without measure…..infinite treasure
Weightless ecstasy….explosions of fantasy
Perfect exquisite test of my sanity
Reckless relentless haunting ache
Like crisp sweet apples against lips just awake
Juices like nectar collide and release
Multitudes of color….kaleidoscope fervor
Half lidded eyes…..shuddering sighs
Wanting only this memory, familiar but new
Floating on into infinity
Breathless realization of 
Catapulting forever into you...

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