poems

poem: against the wall

Bound and gagged
That’s the way you like me
Your way – you take me
Five against the wall
Subdued and masked
A tight fit – but you’ll have me yet
Five against the wall.
Your ego stroked
Your arrogance dominating
A power play is growing flowing
Freudian slips are showing
But you know I prefer it this way too –
Five against the wall, and you.

poem: burn

I burn the you right out of me
I forget your face
I hardened my heart against your words
I magnify the space
Too late to change the past I fear
Too late, my destiny is set
And I cannot go back
I will not break free
The walls you find so hard to crack
Are there to keep you out
I’m protecting both of us
From uncertainty and doubt
Too late to be who I once thought
I could learn to be,
Too late to learn to love and trust
To stop indemnity.

poem: rhyme and season

// shine

You’ve gotta burn to shine,
You’ve gotta stay firm to last,
You’ve gotta be in it to win it,
But am I fading out too fast?
Why am I always cold –
So cold,
Like snow falling on water.

// pocketwatch

I’m out of step
I’ve got no sense of timing
I’m always a day late
Or a day early
Someone wound me up too tight –
There’s a spring loose
Somewhere inside me.

// Life is an infinite thing

This is where
Life… comes together
This / is where life / comes together
This / is where the distance
Between time and space meld forever
Into a kaleidoscope of monolithic glee
This is where…

poem: a collection of romantic poems about hands

// Ships (1998)

My blue hand reaches
For your pink one
Our eyes interlock and I
Gaze at the mystery of you;
I almost grasp the key to knowing you.
I almost understand the suffering I’ve been through
As a justification for this moment;
and then you slip away,
Into the distance of this
Still, dark night,
Our contact limited to a chance missed
For loving you.

// Masterpiece (1998)

Paint your smile on me
You’re my da Vinci, my Van Gogh
Take me, shape me, into a masterpiece
I am a neo-classic love child
The bastard of an oil and canvas copulation
Deepen my hues
Shadow my crevasses
Paint me wild and free

// Dreamkind (2000)

You held me
Wrapped your strong arms around me
And smiled at me,
Your gentle sweet contagious smile
Circled in your embrace,
I marvelled at how warm I felt
How safe, how small, how loved
How proud I was to have you at my side…
How nice it was to lace your fingers into mine.

// Your Hands (2001)

I’m in love with your hands –
The way you communicate
Your eyes have never held such secrets
as the ones that reside in your grasp…
You touch me, and mysteries are revealed
My resolve crumbles to dust at my feet
You have woven your spell around me
Trapped me with your honey-dripped fingers
Placed bracelets of restraint around my willing wrists.

// Hybernate (2003)

Warmth is…
Curling up next to you
A blanket of companionship
On a wintery mountain night
Your strong arms around me
Your crooked half smile
The deftness of your hands
The silkiness of your hair
As it whispers through my fingers
Like seagrass on the ocean floor.

poem: emoticons

Life:
That beautiful bastard child
Of a union not meant to be

Death:
The only severing link
Between you and me

Us:
A two-letter word that no longer
Holds in its weight

Love:
A twisted, futile thing
That in its urgency came too late.

poem: a moment frozen

A moment frozen in time
It’s the right one and we know it
The lips that a moment ago spoke shy
Now capture each other with yearning

A connection – you feel it
I feel it too, and surrender
To the torrent that rises up
Within me like a hurricane

Breathlessly your hands trace my form
Touching me like stolen treasure
My body yields its secrets like a
Rosebud opening its petals to the rain.