Thursday, March 10, 2011
Teardrop......
Beneath the tattered remnants
Of a ragged half-moon sky
I hear it like a love-song
And it makes me want to cry
As moments trickle swiftly
Through my empty, out-stretched grip
I cannot hold them near me
One by one they softly slip
Into a phantom ocean
History’s vast and unclaimed sea
Yet its depth is but a teardrop
When contemplating eternity
Janet~
Love's Reasoning.....
I don’t really want you to be
Like the book I’ve read too many times
Losing its allure somewhere
Between the once-loved lines
I love the yellow full moon
But I also love the rain
And knowing you’ll be home soon
Adds sweet pleasure to my pain
We seem to gather pleasures
Each in our own personal ways
Darling, you’re my greatest treasure
Wish that I could touch your face
Some pleasures are preceded by desire
Some come upon us unexpectedly
I will not pause to inquire
Which pleasure you are to me
We cannot begin a new season
Until the old one ends
But let’s love without rhyme or reason
For time waits on no man
I don’t really want you to be
A memory between dusty pages
Darling, love me slowly
Do not rush me through life’s stages
I hope we’re somewhere in the middle
The beginning far behind and the end still far away
All I’m really sure of is I love you a little……
…..a little more than I did yesterday
Janet~
Time's Demands......
Mostly....
Mostly I feel you in the blanket of mist
As it hangs in a moody shroud
Over the fields where once we kissed
Beneath a moon-brushed cloud
Mostly I feel you where raindrops weep
As they glide ‘cross the windowpane
Where aching memories will not sleep
And in them I touch you again
Mostly I feel you where shadows lay
Like etchings on the grass
Before the flowers fell away
In frozen streams of glass
Mostly I feel you in the sigh
Of soft twilight’s deepening hush
Where dark still-life pastures lie
Beneath the artist’s muted brush
Mostly I feel you deep-within
Like a trembling melody
Seeping into everything
For somehow you are part of me
Janet~
Communication's Frustrations
Why is it that the things I need most to tell you
And the things I really want you to know
I cannot find the proper words for
Or have to ability to show?
Why is it that when you are miles and hours from me
Suddenly the perfect words evolve
In striking, startling clarity
As our divergences dissolve?
Why is it that when we stand face to face
My mind draws a gaping void
As all the perfect words erase
And good intentions are destroyed?
Why is it so easy to do the right thing
When you are too far away
But when you’re standing next to me
I don’t know what to say?
Janet~
Do you ever feel like this?
Unspoken.....
Do you hear it?
In the trembling of light-touched trees
As the eager fingers of dawn
Play on the rushing breeze
Or in the moody quietness of dusk
As shadows slip across the day
And another day folds behind us
In forty shades of gray
Do you hear it?
As you pause for a little while
And contemplate life and love
With the hint of heavens smile
Gleaming on ribbed-cloud up above
And need becomes more dominant
Than longing or desire
Do you hear it softly moaning
In a wind-tossed pine-tree spire?
Do you hear the things I want to whisper
But somehow I cannot say?
As life’s moments wrap around us
And today becomes yesterday
While time’s translucent power
Keeps the doorway tightly barred
In the ticking of the hours…..
…….darling, do you hear my heart?
Janet~
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Birthday Wish
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Invisible You......
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