The ancient ranges hold the fading sun,
Once day is done.
The ironbarks sleep deeply in the stone,
And watch the stars ignite the dark alone.
Fears turn to sand,
Against the timeless patience of the land
If you love me, tell me now.
Actions speak louder than words,
Especially when I wear my heart like a crown.
You’re my choice of drug—
Addictive.
Mentally, physically, and emotionally.
You’re the queen of my heart,
No crown needed.
Till death do us part,
But death will be beneath us.
Nothing will ever come between us.
Eyes blue like the Atlantic,
So deep I get lost in them.
My lips on your skin—
What a heavenly taste.
You’re all I desire;
You can call it a sin.
You’re mine, forever and always.
Pull me closer.
I’m in your arms, my love.
All my worries fade away,
Like a cloud on a sunny day.
You’re perfection.
You’re my peace in every storm.
Even on the darkest days,
Your smile still shines through.
Just me and you.
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While we're spooning under the moon,
Hotsie, your kisses make me swoon,
Planting smooches on love's face,
Old as the whole human race,
Your kisses spark my hand,
Well met upon this land,
Lip syncing me with such flair,
Love kissing Mr. Debonair,
Not really quantum physics,
More of lover metaphysics,
Romance blesses each kiss,
Dear Hotsie, keep our timeless bliss!
Dreamscape
Only in a dream can you come and share this dream.
I am in it, and you are here too.
Oneness.
In this sacred space where time ends,
We exist only in inner light.
As we jump into this atmosphere, we find
deep, alien oceans of parallel intimacy.
Vanishing by one step,
In closeness, we take off.
We fly, dreaming of a World 2.0,
consciously interconnecting on a deeper level.
Here in our space station: one plus one.
Never-ending while we dream,
Stars are all around us.
Mirrorality-no boundaries here.
Alone, together.
You are orbiting my universal odyssey
In this digital nomad’s journey,
taking us on an unforgettable moment that glides.
We have left the shores of the physical,
A thousand light-years from yesterday
We once knew.
In this world 2.0, our love is the code,
Written in the stars, gliding forever.
(“Zero Point of Creation”, 2018, original encaustic)
There in the moment
Caught up without a thought
Captured by the sunlight,
A gust of wind, the perfume of roses
The soothing feel of water
Flowing through a garden hose
What was that
Timeless, mindless
Respite?
The gap between all moments of time
The little oblivion
That connects it all.
(6/20/26)
Looking at me from under the shades
of your eyelashes, will not solve the problem.
i see on your chin a stubbornness that is you,
you would say nothing, fearing it may lessen you,
neither will you let me say anything,
in fear it may lead to a path to friendship.
I know you have been hurt before,
yet no reason to live in an emotional prison.
there is perhaps some goodness still out there
to seek, to know, to make it your own.
in the long path to love and salvation,
there are many moments for wisdom,
that make our resolve stronger, the destination
easier, and further journey a pleasure.
looking at me with those beautiful yet sullen eyes,
only make me fall in love even more.
we are across a thick pane of glass
longing for an embrace.
we deny each other the friendship
we deserve, and yet I can only watch
and admire, with a resolve that at some point
the divide would shatter.
When one is in love, eternity is
only a brief moment in time.
The timeless, touchless song of you
this melody and flowing that you are
comes everytime I reach to catch
the strains of love, and see you opening up
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in the light and release you find
as slowly you yield yourself
completely to the love and freedom waiting
in the heart of God for you
and in your own precious self;
and here's the reward that's given to me:
like Auden in his journey toward Atlantis,
to be grateful even to glimpse you in a poetic vision
because you, darling soul, are the gift
waiting to be opened by the fingers
of quickening time, only to reveal the beauty you've always promised
in smiles and sighs and virgin hope, and every way you touch the heart.
No wonder the morning and all of us so completely, deeply, and happily love you.
Christopher M. Swan 2011
The sun, a melting pocket watch, drips oil into the sea,
Where shadow-fish drink fire and speak in reverse poetry.
A stone-white cloud climbs down to sleep within the burning sand,
As shadows hold the lightning, trembling in a hollow hand.
Ice cubes ignite with emerald flames upon the frozen lake,
While noon and midnight trade their eyes, and both remain awake.
This is a timeless endeavor,
The day goes on forever,
Breaking into every moment,
Staying present and aware,
You share in life's love affair,
Embracing all that's there,
Staring into a reflection,
A collection of ideas and opinions,
Running your thought engine,
The selection becomes the projection,
Mistakes create perfection,
Learning changing perceptions,
The exception to the rule,
Experience is your tool,
The fools journey,
Eternity in every second,
Beckoning for you to see,
Now,
Is all there will ever be,
A temporary moment,
Within your reality,
A temporal event,
Creating your memory,
To remember we are alive,
Striving to survive,
The hive thriving,
Driving deeper into the core,
You'll see so much more,
Exploring a timeless endeavor.
Wake!
Timeless dawn,
Lights praying divine,
Messaging eternally,
Devoted to peaceful day,
Reflecting our grace,
Forever
Loved.
nothing there would be
without the vast Universe
no humans, land, sea
none here for better or worse
no lineage and odd verse
with no galaxy
adrift in cosmic darkness
no angst, apathy
rather complete absurdness
wrapped in unholy starkness
without stars above
could there still be you or me?
no rush, push or shove
all silent with nought to see
without longings roaming free
no blue, green planet
circling the Great Attractor
no floors of granite
no acts by a strange actor
sin becomes a non-factor
none subject to change
no progress or thoughts divine
nothing to arrange
no strange dreams or past bed-time
bound inside the timeless time
without history
when ancestors were not born
total mystery
when from existence we're shorn
leaving none to weep and mourn
such is human debt
while life is in the offing
driven to regret
when cosmic paths are crossing
'tis not dice we're tossing
Time does not celebrate
Nor sunrise play kazoo
The folly of the “New Year”
Belongs to me and you
The orbiting of Jupiter
The gleaming Milky Way
Know that being where you are
Don’t mean that’s where you’ll stay
For geese will cut the sky with V’s
And bears retreat to slumber
While we are left to pondering
The days we try to number
For time is but a monitor
Of movements without cause
And we the counters of the days
Enshrine time’s timeless flaws
Timeless
The madness is the New Year, how so
when time is endless, or as we think
has no beginning
This is an interesting thought
A sudden flash of massiveness realized
into a thread of time
Stone Age man avoided the forest
We love forests now
time changes everything, except
The ritual killing called war
Is that the price we have to pay
for the freeing of time, the forward
movement of all that exists
Life in all its pain and glory
On the big screen as deep as a Grand Canyon
And in the private little rooms
Oozes through the tiniest cracks and crannies
Blows across the widest open plains
Swims in depths and soars to heights beyond.
Where is this most valuable something,
Which isn’t really a thing,
Found or not found
If not here?
When does it ever come and go
If not now?
More than we can ever know
Here it is
Exactly, not kinda sorta,
As it is
Simply
Here and now.
(12/26/25)
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