Comment toucher une fleur
et la faire éclore
en la pénétrant du regard
jusqu'à ce qu'elle s'épanouisse
sous le sceptre de ton regard
Categories:
toucher, beautiful, flower,
Form: Free verse
(detail from "Methow Water", 2024, original encaustic)
Hallucination Engine
Whatever we touch
Morphs
Into a reflection
Of the toucher
And so it is
With all senses
Each reflecting
Our sense
Of self
No other but
An engine of creativity
In ever changing
Display
(2/4/24)
Categories:
toucher, creation, life, perspective, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Mes bras grand ouvert
Ce sont des cœurs bien aimé
Qui a bien semé
Accueilli l'amour du Seigneur
J'ai écouté parmi le font de mon cœur
C'est le temps de rire
Réjouir
Mon sourire parfait
Qui vous apporte la paix
Un cadeau unique
Bouge la brique
La force en nous
Des Anges et tout
Aucun homme et non-hommes
Peux vous toucher
Vous êtes tous protéger
S’il demande
C'est temps que ça change
L'armé du bon Dieu
Sera chaleureux
Categories:
toucher, blessing, celebration, deep, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
You move your body
but you can’t change your mind
To many broken bits
It’s your choice to waste your time
You wish and you want
to finally be fine
Penny for thought thinking
another glass of wine
You hide behind screens
Blinded by your bliss
Nothing could be better
Than your imagined kiss
A click and a flicker
Anticipation cloud nine
It’s just a bit of fun
You want a good time
Screen upon screen
they glow while you talk
Alien cyber moments
Clicking away the digital clock
You look at the door
While praying she’ll knock
She’s your fantasy fetish
the girl on Tik Tok
The images of sexy
Lust within the machine
You wait and you want it
the very next scene
It lives in the flickers
The bits and the bytes
Mesmerizing magic
Rising to new heights
Yet the feeling is empty
So you graduate to zoom
The need for more stimulus
The desire to consume
A watcher not a toucher
Witnessing blossoms bloom
All the while just a prisoner
There trapped in your room.
Categories:
toucher, computer, crush, fantasy, lust,
Form: Rhyme
MS. HATTIE: THE SOUL TOUCHER
Her kindness kindled the soul,
Her sense of dignity and brilliance
Permeated the classroom
Inciting logic and wit
That only a “thinker” could endure
She plunged forth in strident awe as though
Learning about God were all there was to life.
Her smile engulfed the hearts of her students
And evoked an intrigue for enlightenment.
O, the mystery of the Soul Toucher,
How well she proselytized us into believing
that all things were possible to the
“thinker” and the “doer”
She taught with providence
as she subtly glided about our gray matter,
uniting the hemispheres
so as to unite hearts
daring us to become
the sole proprietors of our destinies.
Categories:
toucher, bible, childhood, god, school,
Form: Free verse
I have to get this right! Old Gus settled.
My first essay without Miss Edward’s help.
For a contest; so it wouldn’t be right.
My feet were mammoth, I tried to collect them.
Old Gus’s ears perked up. He was gone.
Raccoon or opossum maybe.
A tribute to my mom I thought,
Remembering her smile, her laugh, her hug.
I was seven when flu took her.
Came home from school to find out.
Dad grieving so hard. Bad time.
He had lost a wife. I had lost my sun.
Dad peeked in. How’s it going, son?
He gave me a nod. Anything I can do?
He was not demonstrative. Not a toucher.
“She was a hugger,” I wrote. “I miss that the most.”
Written 9-30-2019
Contest: Realism Art Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Eve Roper Photo Selected: #2
Categories:
toucher, angst,
Form: Prose Poetry
Vous croyez que la joie n'existe pas
Croyez moi elle est bien la
Il faut profiter des moments de plaisir
Et les occasions de bonheur il faut les saisir
Car ils ne dureront pas pour l'éternité
C'est malheureusement la triste réalité
T'avoir connu pendant toutes ces années
Avoir pu être a tes cotes
Est un rêve devenu réalité
Cependant toute chose doit toucher a sa fin
La vie , la mort et meme l'humain
J'aimerai pouvoir te dire combien je t'aime
J'aimerai te prendre entre mes bras
Notre amour le plus grand des dilemmes
Et ta beauté illimitée crois moi
Je t'aime plus que tout au monde
J'aimerai rester avec toi chaque seconde
Cependant la vie et ses problèmes
Ne me laisseront pas te montrer combien je t'aime
Prends bien soin de toi mon age adorée
Meme dans l'autre monde je t'attendrai
Je serai toujours ici pour te voir sourire
Amour amitié ou fraternité
Je prendrai n'importe quelle role pour te faire plaisir
Ces mots n'ont peut être pas de valeurs
Mais c'est mon dernier cadeau pour toi
Je t'aimerai toujours et cela ne changera pas
Categories:
toucher, love,
Form: Free verse
If I could have a longer day with you
My nights could be shorter and less toucher to get thru
All I do is lie awake until' mornings light
I would stay until the dusk sets and pray you don't get wet
For all I know you might get caught in the snow
I would try to stay away til mornings light then fall on my knees to please
So tell me if you think I'm sick it won't cut me to the quick
Daylight savings time is near I hope you hear my plight dear
Say you will stay all day
Until the night comes I need you near promise me my dear to stay and not go for this is my fear
2.7.2015
Categories:
toucher, allusion, beauty, day, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
I am the toucher of lost hearts
Allow me to reach into you
So the rivers of pain may part
The words I speak to you are true
I possess an ancient power
Allow me to reach into you
I come to you in morning hour
Relief is but a string away
I possess an ancient power
With practiced fingers I do play
Your heart becomes my symphony
Relief is but a string away
You live within my poetry
Your heart becomes my symphony
I am the toucher of lost hearts
So the rivers of pain may part
For are you? Fantasy character contest.
I think all poets possess magical powers.
Categories:
toucher, fantasy,
Form: Terzanelle
The blood runs free and flows like a river down the arm and into my palm its peaceful to
watch like fish in the sea but for your sake to night will not be the end for me I will toucher
my self in a way others can not I will cut and Ill slit till the bleeding seems to never stop only
when I have no more room to slice will my blade fall and it will be suffice shall you hate me I
do not know but care I shunt for the demon in side has not died he will only grow stronger
and take over my soul he will use me like a child with a doll I shall laugh in the face of them
all as I stab and I kill I will mascara them all they will feel the pain that they gave me only I
will take it out on them physically I can not wait to hear there pleas for me it will be so funny
so shall we let the games begin and see if its me or them who wins ?
Categories:
toucher, death, fantasy, imaginationme, me,
Form: Blank verse
insolate myself from everyone
i dont want to breath
my soul hurting
im cleaving at invisible walls
has he hit my bi-polar switch?
did it decide to toucher me again on its own
twitching my feet
my hearts unsteady beat
trying not to hyper-ventaliate
with my anxiety and no antidote
i cant find his lips
his kiss stolen away from me
. . . but for one night i stole him from the world. . .
he barely talks to me now
. . .[but still his flashing, heart catching smile]
he wont risk their fallout
my girls lie - and say he feels it too
my soul hurting like explosives
my eyes not crying cause its so cold
did karma kiss me with its poisen
off the subject - my disorders arent his fault
but i want him so much and i cant
my hearts unsteady beat
i need to calm my anxiety
i think i need to bleed - but bad habits are adictions
i dont want returning
just as this world is turning . . .
Categories:
toucher, me, kiss, me,
Form: I do not know?