Heart

 

"Thunder"

 Thunder

A template, a reflection of

Relentless as the need for love

That which shakes us in this life

Amidst the horrors of the strife

The empathy will never yield

Relief from pain is centerfield

I do it in a shroud

You do it right out loud

To bring the joy to millions

You sing of Troy cotillions

You push away the pain of all

By bringing ecstasy to fall

Among the crowds

Branded in the land of many

Slowly, I moved through the plenty

Thrashing through the pain to find its source

I've learned the difference now 'tween love and force

Amidst the shrouds

Just like me, you wish to turn heart inward

Instead, you turn and face the pain at windward

You celebrate your heart in desperation

I celebrate the next in devastation

Now, I know, again, another way

In which my heart goes out to you today

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"Blaze"

 Blaze

You blaze in incandescence, so do I

My flame is for the firmament; just so, you light the sky

It is the same in everything we do

"Truth"

Truth

As the morning turns to fall

I find the answer that I always knew

I'll love you right or not at all

You certify the answer remains true

I'd like to say

It is my way

But, that would be the greatest nonsense of all time

To think that I

Hold more than sigh

Is nothing but the barest nonsense set in rhyme

I've struggled on

From dusk to dawn

Only since you would not have it any other way

Make no mistake

I know the quake

If heart's desire were served before the day

That doesn't mean

My heart's not keen

To have you, even though I know the score

That life with damaged love is such a bore

That skin on skin is wonderful

But, not enough to light the dull

Long years of love gone wrong

You know it's not my will or way

With slightest impulse, I would stray

Into your arms, forevermore

It's you that I adore

In pain until the door

Is opened wide

And, in, with loving stride

We move on through the ages

It seems a conundrum, it's true

For I must find the way on through

It still is just because of you

You keep me going on until it's true

I have to laugh as I did not ever realize how appropriate the title of this collection was.  I did not intend it to mean an avalanche of poems but there you go.

But, the real point is that I know it (and hate it), that I have to go it alone one more time.

"Weather Gauge"

Weather Gauge

The wind has whipped around, again

Midst force of will and driving rain

The hurricane has found a home, once more

As, now, I step on through the open door

I sense the weather move as it is changing

As all of life, once more, is rearranging

There is one weather gauge that I do treasure

That wilding sense of life for which no measure

For all the heat and wild emotion's pressure

Her smiles still crystal clear and ever fresher

All Her aches and all Her pain

Produce in me a hurricane

Without the slightest feeling of remorse

That hurricane is set upon a course

To rip apart delusions held

All false reality be felled

The force of hurricane

Blast the needless pain

And fury of the storm

Does, then, begin to form

Into something human

You are my only gauge that showed the way

Through deep and pensive thought to smiles' array

"The Flame"

The Flame

A water drop from fountain spills across

Its shimmering and gleam creates a gloss

As spreads across the pool at fountain's base

Creating many ripples that erase

Upon its entry into pool below

A plume of mist creates a certain glow

Mingled plumes become as one

The glory brief beneath the sun

Never was my spirit broken

Only silent; now it's spoken

Of nascent note and key that love fulfills

In  symphony of human life

To strike away the needless strife

To see what love instills

For many years I sought the key

To bring to life the harmony

To filter through the misery

Personified in songstress, She

Holds the smile apart

From all the pain that goes on in Her heart

The spell She cast had willed the start

Of journey long

Her song is played in key of heart

"Moderation"

 Moderation

If moderation means no coercion

Than moderation it be

I can only suggest a lovingly version

Fulfillment, fusion, and free

.....

Fulfillment, fusion, and glee

I think I like 'free' better than 'glee'.  It's tricky.  I really like both but free suggests something important about the change.

Oh, and, otherwise, it is in no way moderation which I write or feel

"Carnations"

 Yeah, duck soup.  Asa meishi maie.  Piece of cake.

Carnations

I had to create a word or, more exactly, definition

"Re" or '"In" were just the wrong rendition

I used the term of avatar to describe it once before

But, even that, does not explain the score

I am hesitant to write it down but this I take for granted

If ever I am blessed to give you flowers, carnations will be planted

I think this poem says it all in vagueness of intent

I no longer need explain, I understand what's meant

Not a care within the world if others follow route I lay

Except, my dear, I would lead you on your way

Though, I know that is not needed.

"The Diamond's Facets"

The Diamond's Facets

I peer into each of the diamond's faces

And find a new kaleidoscope within

 In each and every facet, finding traces

Of stirring, swirling changes that begin

To hint at something more than just the wonder

At evolution laced with fire and thunder

One facet of the diamond is the song

With genre-free transcendence all along

Each song itself, bold changes in its course

Rearranging all of life with force

Another is display of all expressions

All of the emotions of a life

Brought to life in infinite confessions

All of loving, limitless and rife

So many other facets shining bright

Removing all the darkness from the light

Validation comes in many forms

In eyes of adoration and in storms

As I peered into the vast reflections

I came upon reflections of my eye

Startled by my own immense affections

A mist began to form, I can't deny

At the heart, the pulse that always pleaded

For rarest breed of loving that is needed

As heart was freed, and living was preceded

By loving that became as something bleeded

Poured upon the floor, then gathered up

A struggle, then, ensued when something new 

Occurred beneath the burning of the sun

Requiring finer fettle, something mettle

To take the stress required when it is done

When all the jarring turned too many times

When all the loving's launched in words of rhyme

When all the many facets mirror never-ending blend

Of diamond-hard renditions; when the movement has no end

Now, at last, we come to the conclusion

That loving's on its way with no confusion

Within a merest lifetime, all the loving should be free

"The Willow"

 The Willow

The wind approached the willows

Blowing branches in the air

Just like the heart that billows

Dreaming thoughts of love and care

Upon the wind, across the land

It spreads in subtle ways

At last, the loving takes a stance

Like violin, it plays

A sense of something greater

As the wind picks up its speed

The time, no longer later

As the loving has been freed

"The poetry train"

 The poetry train

 I see them running by along the track

Unending poem train goes clickity-clack

Each car that passes by contains a few

Whenever, as is always, thoughts of you

Delighted with the hum, though feelings wrack

Never, on those rails, has been a crack

They chug along with smile on engine car

Ahhh, I hope, for love, that they go far

I feel there is some meaning

As they wildly go careening

Through my heart

"Show me the way"

  Show me the way

I watch the stars streak through the night

The ever-setting suns

I pass eternity in spite

Of all the painful runs

You drive me on to stay in play

So mystically, you show the way

Surprisingly, it just surprises you

In all the lives and all the times

You've never sensed that all the rhymes

Would never have existed without you

I do not know just when the love will come

When the end to endless run succumb

My patience rivals mountains, heavy sigh

But, only you will know when time is nigh

I've never said it better.

"Raffishly"

 Raffishly

It seems that once I start the poem train

It makes of life its own, begins to reign

Releasing thoughts of you without restraint

Precluding slightest effort or complaint

Becoming nigh impossible to shake

It pours out from my blood and bones, awake

Reaching transcendental, hit the brake

As if all life and love were now at stake

I try so hard to give it lightest touch

But, always, it comes out a bit too much

Chagrin and rolling eyes becoming vogue

Spiced with feelings of the raffish rogue

But, there beneath the tentative and fright

Remains essential thoughts of pure delight

"Static"

Static

No frozen features all on down the line

Infinite expressions of you shine

So many times, so many ways

That I have tried to scribe

Each moment drawn, re-etched in clays

Divergent tune and vibe

As if all time were molded new

Each moment gone, no end in view

Each sketch but lasts a moment

Each heartbeat a bestowment

Of a new Kaleidoscope

The last one did elope

Just a note ago

As time and years accumulate

The beat of drums attenuate

Allowing golden heart to press

For din of life to acquiesce

And slow the tempo down

The loveliness begins to coalesce

Into a form more stable effloresce

As if, for all of life, commemorate

To settle down but not to abdicate

The bearing of the crown

"Anonymity"

A freedom from the shackles found in anonymity
Of burden of the heavy pound of personality
No limit to expression found when template is displaced
The prison of the soul not bound when sketch has not been traced
Preconceptions all are drowned, restrictions all erased
All those habits, once renowned, are suddenly displaced
Who you are is now unbound and all of life is graced

"Twisted round a finger"

 Twisted round a finger

It came to me, as if a dream, amusing anecdote

A twisted little finger danced around the rites of rote

Never could it bother me

Just set the tone and let it free

This life to create and the next animate

All the loving that sings in the wind

The wind's potentate, as he learned to relate

To the sighs through the trees, simply grinned

The twisting round a finger is a measure of extremes

In which the one is bonded but the other bound, it seems

"Strange Tides"

 Strange tides

Rhoetry's intentions came a-calling just today

Blasting mind's connections to the scenes along the way

Meaningless relations as a substitute for life

Faulty alterations made; each moment, then, is rife

Parading right on down the street of pain

Glorifying rites of hurricane

Exaltations in attempt to just exist

False confessions made to heart that can't resist

Shatter now that mirror into shards

Pour it down the rabbit hole that guards

The nightmare 'gainst the dreams of stranger tides

Of life that has a meaning and intent

Along the ridge of life the specter rides

Until you learn to love, it won't relent

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"Streaming colours"

Streaming colours

A multi-colored light illuminating

Through facets of a diamond in a room

That's made of mirrored  glass accentuating

More colors than a rainbow flaring doom

Will never have a chance at liberating

Or rate the fate of even indicating 

The flashing class of wonder that is you

The essence of entendre that is I

Attempted every lifetime lived to scry

The Infini Entendre that is scattered

Through infinite dimensions that are you

For all the lives, with all the strength that mattered

With wonder at the sparkles that you threw

But shutter speed of millions to the beat

Could not reveal your heart's unrivaled heat

Nothing of the efforts that I tried

Revealed the supernova that belied

Your constellation's glitter in the sky

In varied colours of a butterfly

At all extremes, in every combination

Remains a sparkle's endless fascination

With constellation's glow as it's inscribed

When all the draught of life has been imbibed

Always Florence radiates the sky

(as well as my heart and soul)

M

"Destiny"

  Destiny

Destiny is seldom as it seems

From life to life, the love will see extremes

From loving of one lover for another

To loving child for sake of loving mother

A cry across all time for loving of

A soul that cries it's always been in love

"Real Love"

 Real Love

I know I looked at you with tragic eyes

Neediness, as loving, in disguise

The neediness, uncertainty, is gone

Horizon's glow presages a new dawn

Not the addled wits of never knowing

That love is more than words with brightness growing

But thunder in the heart can't be denied

Counterpoise now takes me for a ride

Awaited you, a thousand years or more

I am content; I know whom I adore

If shattered lightning strikes within this time

I'll revel even more within the rhyme

A loving of extraordinary score

I'll love you for another thousand years and more

"Right and wrong"

 Right and wrong

I know that I am right, but all along

I knew the steps I'd taken were all wrong

So, please excuse my mania, it seems

Just knowing you exist unleashed extremes

My darkest days you match with slightest whim

Remarkably, the darkness became dim

And brightness, like a breath of life began

To stir my heart to measures with no plan

"Witness"

 Witness

Even if it means a certain distance

I am content, this life, to be a witness 

To all the many wonders that you are       √

A fiery, bright, elusive morning star

I'll let the rhyming poetry

Remain to keep me company

If that is as you wish for it to be

As age and situation make it true

I'll revel in my words and thoughts of you

That is enough for me but still I dream

Of loving you in every extreme

Yikes!

"Loving Flow"

 Loving Flow

A battle it has been, I'm thrashing back

From all insanity of ruin and wrack

Of nonsense bred millennia ago

Transformation is a ruinous task

A little sanity is all I ask

As life begins; reflect the loving Flow

"Abiding Lover"

 Abiding lover

You say you are no mother

That you are no bride

Ah, but what a lover

Like two oceans that collide

Enough to make me run for cover

Explosive force aside

So, please just let me hover

Let me take you for a ride

"Disappearing stars"

 Disappearing Stars

Until the cosmos turns to dust

Til every star within the sky should disappear

I will always love you

My heart will every time combust

My soul will always quest, a chevalier

I will remember you

My tears become the morning dew

My blood, the setting sun

I know my heart will always woo

In every life that's spun

Tout les vies, chaque vie

"Fierce"

Fierce 

We've been in fierce agreement all along

'Tis all about the passion in the song

From entirely different points of view

To limits bounds of all we knew

We wrote it on the stars for all to see

Etched into the fabric of the glee

It's all about the pleasure in the end

A lover but, much more, a loving friend

It's all about the pleasure, but I add

As measure of the will of life unclad

I want to see the love appear within your loving eye

As life is lifted on the wings; to watch you as you fly

As life, once more, is lifted to the skies 

For that I sacrificed so many lives

M

"Do I miss you?"

 Do I miss you?

As the Earth would miss the sun

Or a butterfly its wings

Like sea would miss its water

Or you would miss your rings

As the sky would miss the blue

And bee would miss its sting

I've missed you through and through

From that moment in the spring

When your golden voice did sing

And images did ring

I long to cause your golden heart to sing

As well

You always leave my heart amazed

Happy Birthday 2021

Kaleidoscope (again)

or Happy Birthday, 2021*

Kaleidoscope, your colours just dismay

Swirling sparks revealed in vast array

The myriad expressions on display

Spirit fills the songs with swing and sway

Kaleidoscopic voice and lyrics flay

Inspiring art, not subtlety, your way

The whole that hints at passion's overlay

Nuances send this heart on holiday

"Kaleidoscope", a humble sobriquet

Indicative of all in ricochet

Definitive it's not, for who can say

That ever have they plumbed the depths aweigh

My fare has been a bare and sparse entree

I only dreamt of, once, an interplay

To leave me breathless, not in disarray

A simple word, four syllables, betoken cabaret

Of all the love and wonder that I celebrate this day

(my own choice for 2022 is "Do I Miss You?", but choose whichever you desire. i also really like "bomb squad".  it just tickles me)