Abercrombie

Flawless
Sleek, and smooth
Tatters upon glory
Trailing seams of silken beacon
Tangle, tousle, touch again
And play.

Feels Good

Did I just exhale?
So much tension gone
Shoulders roll
Easy
Cold doesn't chill -
Warmth exuding.
My face: I've been smiling
All day.
Hold back nothing;
What is TMJ?
Acupressurized placebo,
non therapy-induced -
Is this what happens?
Accepted. Changed.
Feeling all I am,
Alone, but safe,
In momentary lapse,
And I relax.

Daily Grind

Life intrudes
Give way for daily rote!
Make time to rush
Steal a kiss or three
Smell the flowers
Be
Between sinks into
Frantic, disheveled
Reality

After Trauma

I only hate when I remember
Only when it burns
When I remember
It shouldn't take forever
To remember to forget
That I never have to
Never need to run
again, from this.
Never need to hide
No more fear,
If I can just remember
to forget to remember again.

Imbalance

How good is too cruel
Amazing, wrong for you
Can I take all you are
Laughing
Never look over shoulder
See you broken as I stay
To play, today, for all forever now?
Facade, escapade, mystery so plain
Between you and a hard place, your face I adore
Abhore I crumble to dysfunction
Imminent and breathing
Stupid is as does, I suppose I fell, you do
Daily take my shit, always fall for it,
What to see if you can take it
Make it right for we? I'll try
Mind, it's right, over matter, fine!
Give my breath,
Time
Together, you're mine and I find
that I can't stay amazed again
So now don't wake, softly
As I leave you. Don't dream
of me, turn in your sleep to hold what I can't be
There, messed in my mind, wrong
When you see I don't know who to be
Wrong for you, maybe wrong for me

Fairy Tale Ending

Mankind's potion,
Faust aside
Accidentally cruel, or
Mistakenly kind?
Pity in weakness
or sorrow for shame
Out your own window to
Weather your foibles and
Burnish your affluence
"Know thyself" then and today
lay thy plans, storm dungeons
o valiant, mouse of men;
Retreat and beat the hand
that fed you as a babe
and raised you up to curse the day
you birthed and bawled and
met the world, a new bald scraeling,
Empty pages yet to fill - to tear
and scribble out, erase and pen -
Scribe thy saga, Cinderella of this
Misery now, but faithful at last.

The Biggest Difference

Am I seen truly

in wonder or settlement?

Find in my freedom

your own, or new shackles?

I am the same

And you, oh you both sides affix

and afflict with intention!

And on in eros, in eras, in space

See me, see destiny! or cringe at the lowliness,

brought you to find me: brings home and you here:

High is the pedestal, lowly the loam, 

Chasm betwixt too immense to be breached.

And so, shall you keep me above or beneath?

Hair Coat

Sleek lovely shades caress
with care, tear out
what lies beneath
No need to buffer
from chill and wear
undercoat of armor
Stripped to fit
Accepted norm,
Now be seen invincible
not appearing unprotected
As you are.

Forever

It always means
Until
Nae, I mean to stay! Protest long
And loud - not I, to falter, hurt you, leave.
I am not the same as he;
I'll not leave you behind, nor go on without.
I need you. Need.
Forever.
Protest loud and long
It always means until:
Forever

Monster

Seen as darkness
Broken, vile
Bad inside, and wrong
Why this mark, this scar?
Step away! Why?
Oh why did I look?
Oh, Christine!
My love has let me go,
I peer beyond,
Un-allowed to see
I saw the key, withheld
and held against me
I have answers to questions
Unasked, and to riddles
Unspoken, having seen
through the ring of ice
Inside the beast, the way
to unwanted peace.

In this Bubble

Harm none
Heal, rest, ponder
Laugh aloud and sing
Alone. With me.
Touch lightly
Love fully. Breathe.
Keep compassion,
Remember to thank
Those who please.

Understanding Sylvia

Wider smile, shimmy and clap
Add in volume, quick retort
Witty banter, intellect abounds
Between bouts of brawn
Frenetic motion, some erratic
Run, play, pound!
Encompass all in whirling frenzy
Edge of chaos waits in spite
holds in anguish, fear, despair
Until, as placed by loving hands
my bell jar gently rests from falling
atop my spinning world
and on the ground.

Leuk

Cells so tiny
How can they end
a beast as this?
I could break those cells and crush them,
Smash and quell them,
Make them cease to be!
Cells so tiny,
I could stop them -
But they're me.

Anxiety

Fight all known
Else unknown, you all
Afraid fight on!
Despair to lose, aye,
Dread to win - For then what?
In peace, jitters crave war
Endorphins crash into emotions
Bring the battle. Create your chaos
and stir amid it all the peace
Foregone of friends and lovers.

Joy

Where this optimism?
How it builds, elapses,
Still entangles! Eyes shine
Glisten, dance - lashes flow
frame gleaming shine.
Grin and bear with
Grit the days, enjoy
them one and all because
you Must. Escape deep darkness
Skirt all evil thoughts and whereabouts
forced manic extroversion key
to blessed oblivion of just
Happy.

Shower

Steam and song
rise, surround
scrub and ohm.
Tile warms; window builds fog.
Shreds of care, of worry
ebb and ease with
Rinse, repeat, re-sing refrain
Tension leaving, left and gone.
Terry-wrap and faucet turn,
and sink in solace,
Mab to seek.

At the Jetty

Balance, pose
Flare to flair and then,
Let go of driftwood, lift on air,
Land in sand and then,
Dance light footed, break to run.
Elicit landed murmuration's
Sparkling, swift, and sweet migration,
Off jetty's sandy shoulders as
Solitaries left behind jump,
Flutter from the wave.

Sweet

Kind, soft touch, so new?
Sorrow for lack
for gentleness unknown
Peace unenfolded and arms unembraced
Never felt?
Weep for missing touches
lost caress, imagined hand
to hold, shoulder to lean.
Mentor to guide
lover to lie. Oh
Lack of indulgence in peace!

Migraine

End,
Please,
Or replace!
Unknown terror better
than unquenched ache -
Tugs and binding tight
Bands of steel, drills of ice
Inside the melded mind
Of I, and why?
For care?
End, gnawing,
aching pain,
Oh, end!

Morning After

Same place
New
How, magic,
chamelion-eyed
saw tearing shield,
calloused arm?
Etherium
crash down
Bring sorcery
Here
Abound amazement
Smith's orbs
Wide to see, as
Neophyte to joy
This time around

Dirge

Barely knew
Who
A few stories, a song
Laughter, deception
You to her,
She to them? When
Did you know?
To grieve more
What's gone,
Or should have been?
Reflect her, in life,
or just in tears
Shining as they fall,
Bear witness to loss
of another.

Open

Rubble strewn
Gravel hid
Amid
The trail of gone
Amulets lie
and I
Alone
Plod on
See beyond
Open eyes
Vista of all, pass beyond
The rubble and sigh.
Sky is wide
And I
Lean on
Open

I wanna be a rock star

No one can touch a star:
Bend or break them
or make them unhappy.
No one can catch a star:
hold them or keep them
or change them in any way.
No one can touch a star.

Love Song

There are so many songs in the world
That say what I'm dying to say
There are so many poems and phrases,
So many words in the way!
But it isn't my voice singing those love songs!
It isn't my heart swearing those words!
If I had more ways to say it, of course I would,
And If I had music, I could play it, play it good!
But that's other people's music, other people's songs;
I didn't write the lyrics, but I can sing along.
Then it'll be my voice singing her love song.
My voice, from my heart, slurring her words, her love
To her you.

Mediocre

I like to think that I
Would have chosen this life anyway,
not wait for the magic click,
but then it was a perfect fit.
Surprisingly enough, it was ok with me
Being submissive,
Giving in, not baring hisses.
Come home soon, purse on shelf
Tuck me in, hold me tight.
Suffer the night,
For promise of
One more try, by daylight.

There's a passion in standing still,
Floating with the grain,
Something heroic in being mediocre,
So I would do the same again.

Hero

You don't have to ride a charger
With a suit of chain mail
And a sword in your hand
To be a Hero
Don't have to contend hand-to-hand
With fiery dragons
and be knighted by a king

You don't have to be brawny and fair
With a mountain of strength
And a mind to compute
To be a Hero
All you need is to care at all,
to want to make it different, offer
your hand to lift a friend
To be My Hero

Faith

Life's blows, punches thrown wild
She counters!
Fire chases,
She feeds death to flames awash in waves!
You see,
for you, she fights the dragons.
For you, she will be strong.
When defeat looms close,
And sorrow lends a curse or two,
She holds you up, if you allow.
Believe:
That she can love you, set you free.
Trust her, please!
Why won't you trust her?
She is
Me

Aroma

Deep, rich, dark
Distance, wealth, lack of light
Sweet is taste, wild is why.
How to say a smell of warm
of purring fur, content
How to convey
This feline form of grace
Stands upon me
Rubbing cheek to face.