"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)

Happy Birthday, 2020

Happy Birthday, 2020

The wind upon the water moves the wave

The crest I ride is what the water gave

The moon sets loose in shimmering delight

The spectral beam's kaleidoscopic light

To celebrate the night before the day

That loving in this world was born to play

Plucking heartstrings of your life in song

Building to crescendo fine and strong

A will for one to live a life that's full

That heart of yours that on these heartstrings pull

The sweetest dream that lasts throughout all time

With evocations of this heart in rhyme

A simple gesture from this humble one

To craft a spell that blazes like the sun

To fill the days of one this day was born

With all the love in life to be adorned

In loveliness achieved in many ways

To crest the moon in loving, gentle days