after the first kiss

 love’s not refined it’s undefined

it’s meant to make you lose your mind

she says don’t you hash tag me too

then shows up drunk and wants to screw

then turns into a little girl

who needs approval from the world

 

you’ll never know just what she wants

to get on base you’ll have to bunt

it’s not a game that you can win

she’ll change the rules with passing whims

the worst part is it’s not her fault

she’s multi-flowered, we’re asphalt

 

she’ll sacrifice all that she is

then tell you that you failed the quiz

because of all the misspellings

you thought that love ended with e

then suddenly you’re god made man

don’t even try to understand

 

it will remain a mystery

why she would want to be with me

complicated curvaceous creature

she’ll cut your scene from every feature

she’ll beat you with a baseball bat

then make a meal and rub your back

 

you’ll never know why you’re in love

with raven’s claws on turtle doves

cause we’re too dense to know that rain

will fall from clouds that are in pain

not qualified to even guess

if she is settling for less

or in her mixed bag of emotions

i’m the river to her ocean

 

          *

valedictorian of love

kiss me like you mean it – the magnetic fields

 

her whispered breath will resurrect the journey into spring

on cloudy days she finds a way to make the joy bells ring

and light the night ten times as bright as any moon and stars

and outshine all the neon lights on any boulevard

 

beyond compare i cannot stare at anything but her

i find my meaning in the day when from her sleep she stirs

my bucket list is one more kiss before i close my eyes

i dream about her every night and wake up satisfied

 

the fortune that we long to know when we are in our youth

is not the thing that will bestow what i’ve found in this truth

that nothing can redeem the heart except her emerald eyes

in her embrace the lines i trace were written by the wise

 

distracted by her beauty till i think of nothing else

ecstatic with contentment is the only thing i’ve felt

so let your passion burn for things your fingers cannot hold

i’ll sing like birds which herald spring and never feel the cold

 

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the seamstress

in saint joseph missouri is a street called lovers lane

where with a brown eyed beauty eugene field penned it to fame

the poem sublet the surface street as a place to abide

where maple trees could shield a kiss from all the prying eyes

 

i’ve never walked upon that street but if i ever do

the moment will be incomplete unless i walk with you

you’ve sewn a seam that’s in-between the distance of our hearts

a fabric forged from all my dreams that can’t be torn apart

 

and like this poet from the past this street is just a street

it was the hand that he held fast which made the moment sweet

for what surrounds often abounds as just a place to be

it doesn’t matter where we are as long as you’re with me

so let’s walk down this lovers lane or sit by the fire

you sew to flow through all my veins patterns of desire

 

          *

 

the day the sun stood still

the sun submerged its southern tip into the salty sea

i asked to kiss your silken lips and therein you agreed

that i could kiss you till the sun had sunk behind the waves

i quickly pressed my lips to yours before time slipped away

 

so lost within the ecstasy of your lips pressed to mine

i didn’t see the sweet mercy which came from the divine

for when you finally pulled away so you could gasp for air

where the sun was it had remained and hung without a care

 

and i reminded you you’d said until the sun had set

the grace displayed upon that day i never will forget

 

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unbridled

the sky divorced the raging sun

the evening song has now begun

like mist that rolls in with the tide

i seek a kiss which will imply

a need to heed a warm embrace

so frigid cold can be replaced

with the fire you inspire

in the flames of my desire

 

roses will burn till nothing’s left

the heat can take away your breath

ashes to ashes, dust to dust

there’s no returning from this lust

decimated with desire

drowning in the flames of fire

yet from the ashes i will rise

to beauty without compromise

and burn the same within the flames

a fire raging uncontained

 

          *

it’s called love

exiled stardust, lovers in lust

kissing like nuclear fission

still forbidden, un-forgiven

gay people beaten with disgust

 

the love they feel, so very real

they’ve met the person of their dreams

love’s fabric joining at the seams

love defined as two who can heal

 

each other when nothing is wrong

they’re not a subgenre of love

its love everyone’s dreaming of

each other’s arms where they belong

 

          *

my poetry is a plagiarization of your beauty

the only thing that never changes is that all things change

and yet i kiss your sultry lips and live in a refrain

 

of this chorus soft and porous

adjectives alive and aurous

about a love that is a verb

within each kiss which is superb

 

refrains the same but rewritten each time i write of you

act one complete and then we meet and i will write act two

 

in a chorus soft and porous

adjectives alive and aurous

about a love that is a verb

within each kiss which is superb

 

the poetry abounds in me, you’re my inspiration

immortalizing memories endless in creation

 

with a chorus soft and porous

adjectives alive and aurous

about a love that is a verb

within each kiss which is superb

 

          *

 

unabated

a hundred love poems in a day

could never be enough to say

the love i felt upon first sight

and felt it grow to greater heights

 

if i could find a diamond mine

and shower you on valentines

a million diamonds would not show

how all the love within me grows

 

you’re an essence effervescent

the holy advent and ascent

the evidence of the divine

the meaning of any lifetime

 

there is no praise that i can raise

or action that’s not a light glaze

to quite convey an apt display

of all the love i feel today

 

          *

lingering in the lyric of you

love doesn’t divide or take sides

within her laughter it will hide

lyrical love flowing with rhymes

her smile causes the wind chimes

to ring and sing in the still air

while gardens bloom to draw her there

in hopes the fragrance they employ

will fill her with a playful joy

 

although her looks leaves one reeling

her heart’s décor’s more appealing

her laughter lines have been refined

by pure expression of the divine

in the wealth of her affection

i am perfect imperfection

perfectly placed within her eyes

i feel forgiven and baptized

 

          *

 

lost within the lyric of you

your smile sets worlds on fire

fanning flames of my desire

such beauty without compromise

no poet ever vocalized

 

with you there’s none who can compare

where dreams of love just stop and stare

and say no love here or above

or any that is spoken of

 

could ever be considered real

if it’s not how you make me feel

by splendor and magnificence

as you define all loveliness

 

by all your beauty which i see

wherein my heart can barely breathe

consuming flames, beauty burning

for your kiss i’m ever yearning

 

          *

 

ne plus ultra

your beauty has me mesmerized consuming all my thoughts

where just one look into your eyes will make me fall apart

and when i cannot be with you i look at your picture

your beauty occupies my heart like a golden fixture

 

i want to take you in my arms and kiss you like a shout

no other beauty has such charms of this there is no doubt

my love for you i can’t undo as evidenced with words

that there is none more beautiful i’m sure you’ve always heard

 

oh come to me and let me be with fingers on your face

so my heart can soar to skies as all my fingers trace

the hurricane of beauty that is storming on your skin

my fingers interlace in hair to pull your beauty in

 

until your lips collide with mine like waves crashing on rocks

where waves can go no further and are happy to be blocked

for there’s no destination which can lead to ecstasy

except the expectation of your beauty next to me

 

          *

 

leftover lyrics

leftover lyrics in my mind

i string together with a rhyme

this manuscript i write for you

is filled with words fragile and true

your photograph or your presence

inspire me with their essence

where with just the thought of you

i’m writing poetry anew

and dance extreme within the dream

to flow just like a laughing stream

others annoyed as i enjoy

the sidewalk that i now employ

moving to music in my mind

dancing like a twisting vine

where melted’s how you make me feel

i live for kisses that i steal

and rush to gush another poem

intoxicating jeroboam

this desert field has come to yield

this poetry you make me feel

 

          *

beauty and the bliss

i use to walk these city streets without a place to go

aimlessly and incomplete i traveled sidewalks slow

but now i can’t walk fast enough to get to where you are

i’ve left behind the hobo life of waiting for boxcars

 

sometimes the sun will watch me run the closer that i get

or moonlight might watch me in flight arriving in a sweat

when at your door a knock implores the passion of your kiss

you open up i lose my stuff in beauty and the bliss

 

i barely let you close the door before my lips impress

the fullness of your fragile rose blooming with tenderness

“you’re stunning” i will always say as beauty gives me pause

i am so dazed and in a haze that words are a lost cause

 

and so i fill the silence with a lingering embrace

where every breath is just a sigh wafting across your face

you’ve come to learn i’m made infirm by just the sight of you

facilitate our pending date by putting on your shoes

open the door and motion that we must be on our way

if beauty is a flower you’re a million bouquets

 

          *

 

!

the rain was falling on the night

outdoor café we stayed in spite

of soggy mozzarella

hands over drinks like umbrellas

 

the laughter lining both your eyes

made me feel both warm and dry

travel agents cannot invent

such a wonder and amazement

 

i use to laugh at the lyric

experience was empiric

that all one really needs is love

“get away from me!” as i shoved

now in this café consciousness

i want to scream my new assess:

 

“oh give me, give me all your heart

i’ve loved you from the very start

take my temperature with your tongue

you are the air within my lungs

unless it’s you no one will do

i have learned dreams can come true

we waste and wonder while looking

change recipes while we’re cooking

they advertise a satisfy

with our longings we run and buy

but keep it all, yes everything

i’ve found the joy of which they sing

it’s in your eyes looking at me

i’ll give to you the flowing streams

that unifies every ocean

swim the depths of my emotions

till you are drowning in the love

everyone is dreaming of”

 

          *

all is well

the sky has cried a trillion tears that saturate the night

they fell like diamonds from soft eyes and dance now with delight

as picturesque as this may be i only give a glance

i’m walking with you next to me and lost in this romance

 

it’s just a walk that’s filled with talk like laughing lullabies

i kiss you at every crosswalk, give changing lights a sigh

all the love songs in the world are living in l.a.

within my heart they are an art which filters out the gray

 

for there is nothing in this world that makes much sense to me

but i am winged when i can sing of how i’ve found the key

to every door that will restore the reason and the why

defined by conversations about laughing lullabies

 

and you can bet the world will fret about things that will pass

but broken mirrors still reflect in fragments of the glass

and i’m content without relent when i am in your arms

the watchman can call “all is well” and never be alarmed

 

          *

 

 

get thee behind me world

the world is waiting with the wind to sweep away our love

unconscious beast that comes to feast upon a fragile dove

but as the gutter gobbles up the street sweeper’s supply

i’m standing strong by looking long into your emerald eyes

 

and sing to bring a lover’s swing without a windy day

amid the roar of a downpour my words are here to stay

there’s only you and all you do that’s worth the sacrifice

let all the world dwell in hell with all of its advice

 

i will linger with my fingers forming firm foundations

a monument made to your love viewed for generations

i’ll pave the streets with heaven’s gold and build beds of feathers

all harvest will be bountiful regardless of weather

 

reject the seed of satan’s greed that we must sell and buy

invoking divinity’s creed that we must give and die

the all and all and wherewithal i’ll make all roses bloom

and fill each space with an erase so you’ll always have room

 

and all the pain in a refrain the world mindlessly throws

will only find an unclogged drain wherein i’ll let it flow

i will distract with second acts which have happy endings

reality is just perceived let’s master pretending

 

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