poems

poem: block

And you slip-shod drove your Metaphor
Into my Simile…
Breaking the code of the language we both used
You tripped the English words across your tongue
Sticky smooth and hung like honey
From a bee’s knees
I tried hard to find
The synaptic gaps inside my mind
And failed…
The sum of your parts
Being greater than your whole.

poem: my orion

A complete surprise to meet you there
When first I caught your sultry stare
Your confidence and debonair
Held me spellbound, awkward, to my chair

I watched the hands I longed to touch
And wondered why you cared enough
To try and teach me how to trust
And make me want you oh so much

The copulation of our minds
The erection of our souls entwined
Made my need for you sublime
And the touch of skin on skin divine

You penetrate my deepest fears
You hold nothing sacred that I hold dear
My defenses you do not revere
But something keeps me standing here

You’ll make me risk my heart and soul
And accept nothing that is not whole
My wanton for your gaze is bold
My resistance weakens and grows cold

Replaced now by a fierce desire
A need to feed your tongues of Fire
To watch the blaze in your eyes burn brighter
To reach new heights, to love aspire.

poem: egypt

Make me
As the tiniest gold pendant
Simplistic, unobtrusive, unadorned

Rest me
In the soft-swelling
Shadows of your bosom

I will sojourn in Canaan
Where the milk and honey flow

You are my Egypt,
My mother;

I am bound to you
By ties that cannot break

poem: playtime

The erection of what was not was
The flames are blazing hot and strong
The burning of that heated buzz
My endurance will not last long
The length and breadth and depth of you
Sliding toward the edge
The dying one’s last breath
The kisses seal the pledge
Like starbursts and spinning ‘
You know that you are winning
You hear my breathing change
Feel my tremoring so strange
I let go because I know
You’ll catch me when I fall
From the hexagon you got me on
Caught up in lust’s enthral

poem: now

Whisper words into my ear
Tell me the lies I want to hear
Tell me you care
That you’ll always be there
A fabrication so insane
When I don’t even know your name
But I need it
Need to feel it
Need to believe it now

Hold me in your arms of steel
Make me love how you make me feel
This is the only comfort I’m going to get
Tomorrow as soon enough to repent
But I need it
Need to feel it
Need to believe it now

Let me substitute sex for love
Let me claim passion as my drug
Let me pretend them someone else
Let me fuck the demons from myself
And if I should close my eyes
Don’t ask me why, just let me cry
Because I need it
Need to feel it
Need to believe it
Now.

poem: for jim

Sweet –
You burn…
I reach out in the dark
Seeking,
Needing
Release for just this once
I climb out of myself
And drown and amber glass

Numb –
You love,
You teach me how to be
A void,
A place,
I don’t have to feel alive…
I don’t have to feel a thing,
As I drown pretence away

Hurt,
You heal;
Stay with me tonight.
Aching,
Craving,
This void I cannot fill –
It all just goes away;
Wash over me tonight.

poem: purity’s sting

You make me feel
Like I could be worthwhile
And the way that you smile
Makes me want to smile
You make me think
That there could be some hope
You make me feel
Like I think I could cope
I want you here
I love to feel you inside me
I want your love
Your willingness to hide me
Your strong arms around me
And your hand on my face
Your lips at my breast
And your sweetness to taste
You make me love you
You make me care
I just want to be with you
I don’t care how or where
With you beside me
I could face anything
Your beautiful face
Is like purity’s sting

poem: sucked dry

Life is a vampire
Death is the grave
Inhuman demandings
No way to save

The secret submission
As dark as the world
Fills me entirely
Phantoms unfurled

Blind to my emotions
Can’t read the writing on the wall
Keep me unconscious
So I don’t have to feel at all

poem: satisfaction / 15 minutes

A nice, easy feeling
Cold beer on a hot afternoon
That first drag on a cigarette
Since you quit 10 days ago
(for the last time)
It’s having your lover in your arms
And knowing nothing can touch you
You are
You will be
You have been
King for a Day
Fame for 15 minutes