"White garden"

White garden

A wealth of white is witnessed in the garden on the end

The tulips and the daisies and the daffodils attend

A while was washed upon the vine wisteria would lend

Oh, the hopes and pending doom I never could defend

With the wall and trellis top the white and I did blend

No wasted words or whispered will while weather's on the mend

But, how to woo beyond this point, what withered way will wend

I see a gap between the hedges leading to an end

The moat has now seceded, there's no way in which to tend

The words are fading on the vine, seems nothing's left to send

A poet's word, a wizard's wound, the wanton dragons rend

The wealth of wooing, now it seems, unwillingly must pend

Or, is the white garden just wintery spray

Of blizzards that paste the white garden per se

Supreme celebration of warmth and blue skies

Takes two to explore with their hearts and their eyes

Not just any two can you mix to compose

Supernovas and fireworks produce cosmic rose

The nature and magic of potent emotions

Of passion and romance and constant explosions

Can only be cast by the spell of the wizards

Overcoming the white of the tulips and blizzards

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"The fountain"

 The fountain

More patience than a mountain

Or a sparkling silver stream

Trickling from a fountain

Pouring love of life extreme

I will not bide

The waning tide

I will not cross

The albatross

On way to loving dream

The ripples from the fountain shake

The ways of life, a cresting quake

That carries on beyond this life

Past pain and ache and sudden strife

Into your loving arms

The fountain turns to steam

"Dimensions"

Aug 28, 2022

Dimensions

Lovely blooms all lined up in a row

No fragrance; one dimension to the show

A cavalcade of mountains stalk the skies

An ocean view, with waves and tides that rise

Notes upon piano all alone

One dimension all, an epigone

But you!

Infini Entendre was a phrase

That tried to capture all of you ablaze

There is no count that captures all you are

Dimensions; never-ending avatar

All facets and entendres and expressions

I tried to indicate your vast impressions

It is no wonder that I'm mesmerized

Boundless poems never crystallized

I do not think you can be capsulized

That is the grounds on which I've emphasized

Desire to know you closer, colorize

The wonder that is you to energize

The revel's in my spirit evermore

But, revel, far or near, I know the score

I cannot stop, I've tried to tone it down

To not impose on you this crazy clown

For a tiny while, I thought it true

That I could end my sighs, attempts to woo

I cannot; And, yes, it still is true;

I'll revel on my own and out of view

I'll beg the stars to grant another time

In which 'tis more than words composed in rhyme

You're incredible, invincible and so very fragile.  Just like me.  No big god required.  My fragility, though, is now transforming into iron with the appearance of my humanity.

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Even this!  The dimensions, I now realize, go even further than I ever imagined.  This only describes one array of dimensions.  I might have to write another. 

"Mountain mists"

Mountain mists

The swirling mountain mists enshroud the quiet majesty

Enclosing all the trails and joy of pomp and pageantry

The solemn vows are hidden 'neath the cap of each dewdrop

The pinnacle revealed in light as mist departs the top

The rumble of the mountain can be heard both far and wide

The pain of rocky remnants tumble down the mountainside

The tumble scatters risks down on the trails on which we ride

No shelter can be taken with no place in which to hide

The mist in mountain's shadow cloaks the rumbles deep inside

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"Clouds"

6/20/2017

Clouds

Contemplating sky and clouds of mist

I find that, once again, I can't resist

To think upon the beauty of this realm

But, then, of course, to you I turn the helm

For always in the mystery of cloud

I see your face of beauty most endowed

Infinity of dazzle and delight

Kaleidoscopic beauty you bedight

My heart, once more, it bursts on wings of sighs

On to the heart of life, again, it flies

"Stellar"

 Stellar

So many stars within the sky

Just one that shines so bright

To warm the Earth and dazzle eye

Creating day and night

So strong the emanations from that star

It stirs the world to grow

To burst with life, both near and far

In presence, waters flow

"Small breakthroughs"

 Small breakthroughs

It's funny how the smallest things in life reflect the large

And, how the microcosm shows the infinite in charge

A slight nuance, a subtle thing, is noticed as a change

It tumbles through the heart and soul, all life to rearrange

Inertia, foolish habits, come steamrolling through the day

But, just a nudge, the slightest push, consumes your every way

To move a mountain's easier than move the drone of life

To break apart mundaneness, live each moment well and rife

No foolishness, no coy belongs, no lack of will or sight

To move momentous mountain, you must push away the fright

"Rainbow Knight"

 The Rainbow Knight

The Rainbow Knight, along the river, walked in prism dreams

The sun was shining on the ripples in chromatic streams

And, now, he pondered light and hue

Once more, the spectral sight in view

Of passion's willing ways

His stride was broken by a thought of life in toneless tale

At the thought, a pain was wrought, that heart and will would fail

The wind picked up and tossed the whim

The river washed it past the rim

To shores of pallid days

He felt, within his glowing heart, the end of burden's blight

The mystic gleam cast, from afar, kaleidoscopic light

And, with the rippled light between

A brilliance settled with a sheen

To set the world ablaze

"Painting Rainbows"

 Painting rainbows

I don't know how it happened, how you came into my life

So many lives ago with each one cutting like a knife

You and I, seem only ones to sense the depth of broken

Wizards on the winds of life, we sense the love unspoken

So many lives ago, the living flung us far apart

Until the love could flourish there from heart to loving heart

The ache I felt across the eons kept me on the run

To bring to you all warmth and love, a glow that rivals sun

I use the words to turn all life and love into portrait

To lay before your feet, the love, so real to captivate

You screamed across the rainbows that the love must match the score

Now, the time has come for loving life, forevermore 

The blade is gone

The cuts can heal

It is new dawn

For love is real

But, knowledge is my avenue and you're the one to sense

Only you can know the tune, when loving can commence

I await your pleasure

When you sense that there is treasure

I await the time

When the loving in your heart sings out in rhyme

Mike

I hope you are filled with love in this life.

"Picturesque"

Picturesque

There have been times within my life that seemed so picturesque

That left my mind the imprint of a complex arabesque

A feel, a smell, or pattern left across the fields of mind

All senses well arrayed to swell the heart and later find

A vision, blinding, in its gift to take the breath away

Triggered by a sight or scent or song I seldom play

A song in heart that sings a sigh that only my heart hears

A surge of soul that slumbered deep across the spanning years

Perchance to wake at slightest hint of something in the past

And thunder through the senses fully wrought and fully massed

Like breath upon a window pane, the intervening years

The sun burns through the foggy view and silent, windswept tears

And brings it all back home again, head bowed, I softly kneel

It brings the will to heightened state of majesty and steel

Eternal sighs, again, might be a phrase that I could use

But, breathless, from the memory, is word that I would choose

Beauty binds a way of life that captures as it sends

It happens just so often now, I wonder what portends

A hint of things to come?  Of pure beauty's final race?

I staggerdrop and wonderfall at thought I might embrace

All of life, complete the dream, then, gone without a trace

"Ragged edge"

This one really could have gone here or Sentient Perspective.  By default, though, it belongs here. 

Ragged edge

I wish I could do more, this life, to soothe your savaged heart

A special key of life to make your hopes and dreams restart

But now I feel my own have started journey to depart

To whip away  in channels o'er the tumbling waterfall

From all the drones of life that force the energy to stall

To splash among the rocks, cascades of wondrous shatterfall

The gloom that seeks to claim me, for the first time in this life

Has found a passage through the armour, cutting like a knife

So far, the will has not succumb, but blade has ragged edge

All pain, a long familiar sort, from depths of life I dredge

The force of mind to shape the ache to breathless song of sky

Ah, it's always, always, there's another scheme to try

And, so, I carry on, again, with captivated sigh

I leap into the depths unknown

"Traveller"

 Traveller

Between the stars a spirit roaming free

No tethers tied that anyone can see

Perspective, granted by the distance, glossed

So much is gained but, oh, so much is lost

The juggernaut sought love for all his kind

Illuminating all had left him blind

No room within this life or in his mind

No setting set aside for him to find

Distances are measured 'tween the hearts

Each galaxy alone as it departs

Fusing of the two, becoming one

Was written twixt the stars as he flew on

Relieving burden was the chore he took

Releasing love in every single nook

With all the love released, where is the star

He passed beyond the bounds both near and far

Now, his star is dimming with its age

As he released the loving from its cage