Poetry

However it cooled between us, let it begin again. Show me the room in you that I was welcome in again. Your shoulder shrugs my hand off like a coat in April, so I pocket both hands, fold all my wanting in again. I ration tenderness now like sugar in a war year, afraid to offer what will not be taken in again. We used to talk until the candle...

You may not be able to see me, but that does not mean I am no longer here. You may not be able to touch me, but that does not mean I am gone forever. The physical world may know me to be dead, but I am, in truth, very much alive – more alive, in fact, than I have ever been, In ways that you do not understand. You think that I am unaware of how...

i know the shape of your shadow better than my own it falls across magazines bus stops and my morning coffee you exist in loud and i exist in quiet between us is a velvet rope made of time zones and strangers who got there first i am a lyric you will never sing wrong because you will never sing it i keep it folded in my mouth like a...

i found you on a rock-shelf coast one bright spring day the thunderous waves so powerful and free i threw the ring as far out as i could and watched you disappear into the sea i found you walking through the trees one summer day delicious cool within the forest shade you touched my neck, my hot skin sudden chill and goosebumps, in that...

And there were sweet singing days When first we left the valley and the shadowed wood We headed west and saw the promise in the sky A pledge of future hope, of love that never dies Collecting every song we could We sang them happy on our way And there were warm piano nights Within our hand-built cabin in the sheltered glade A haven here, a...

YOU CAME LIKE THE WIND OH SO NICE! YOU WENT LIKE LIGHTNING MY LOVE'S SAD DEMISE! WELL,ITS NOT THAT I LOVED YOU THE BEST MILLIONS AWAIT YOUR HAND EITHER CLOSE OR FAR FROM WHERE YOU STAND. WHEREVER YOU GO I CANNOT CONTROL, BUT IN YOUR MEMORY SOMEHWERE I SHALL STROLL WHISPERING TO YOU AT EVERY BREATHE. TELLING YOU MY LIFE TILL MY DEATH.

We have stumbled often — traded wisdom for noise, turned faith into display, forgotten the difference between brilliance and glitter. Yet even in our errors, a quiet rhythm survives — the instinct to fold hands before beginning, to touch the ground before taking flight. Nations have risen beside us and vanished like spoken breath. We stayed — not...

I don’t know how I expect you to be happy, When even I sicken myself With the things I do, I portrayed things are wonderful When thats all but true. The mistakes I’ve made, Bare to bellow in shame, And I’m deserving Of the silent cursing, That brings us this pain. Words won’t ever express, The respect, I have for you, And our moments, I...

Soulmates by Dawn Sinclair The day the sun first shone Our hearts touched the blue beyond You and I were meant to be Soulmates for Eternity Still, when the moon shone bright that night We knew the time was not quite right We caught a glimpse of how it would be When fate wove our souls seamlessly Coloured strands of you and me will One day make...

i lay there — bare skin on your comforter, watching you leave the room. you said you’d be back in a minute or two. three minutes later, i heard you laughing. i stayed. another fifteen. cheeks flushed, not from warmth but something like shame. i wiped my face and told myself it isn’t healthy to only speak to your partner. i told my brain to be...

If you and I, we could walk together, along the river banks, in the night— maybe even twilight, where nothing else exists, and neither of us knows how to swim, yet we cling to the banks, honoring the boundaries that separate dry from wet. And afloat we set, on walking boats, looking in the mirror— the eyes, that were never ours. I search for...

In the silence of the fleeting hour, When words were soft, and hearts were flowers, We stood at the edge of something real, But time had its grip, and we couldn’t heal. You sat with a shy, tender grace, A laugh in your eyes, a smile on your face, We danced in the space between hello and goodbye, Where the heart spoke truths that the lips could...