Angel of the air and lunar light with blazing florescent wings

"Projections"

Projections*

As I ponder life's projections

I find, so often, my reflections

Cluttering the scene

Peering through the windowpane

A mirrored view reflects the rain

Amidst a profile lean

I cast upon each view I sought

A remnant of my ways and thought

It changes images I view

To look like me instead of you

 This is really old.  As with all of the rhoetry I wrote with a certain person in mind, this applies to both Tapestry and Avalanche.  The wizardry and mastery seldom leave my mind.

"Differences"

 Differences

Now I understand the differences in age

It also emphasises the difference in the rage

I can look at life as something mostly passed

From early youth or aged days, differences are cast

Differences in age is more than I had thought

Difference in perspectives is how it all is wrought

Stuck in the middle with life bursting out

Finding a way to leave it in rout

In youth, before image becomes quite so bound

The chance of redemption remaining so sound

In back end of life, my image has cleared

No more of the ghostings humanity feared

Caught in the middle, amidst the desires

Seeking the solace of pure spinal fires

Desperation can come like the wind off the sea

Forcing the issue of that which will be

I tried to explain the narrow way through

To focus attention on centuries due

My selfish desire clouded that which I said

And rendered the meaning as if I had pled

For life to be whole, so that we could be too

But, once more, was stolen, for time became due

I am convinced that the time will arrive

For next incarnations to glory and thrive

Yes, once again, this straddles the boundaries of Avalanche and Tapestry.  I'll put this one in both.

"Destiny"

  Destiny

Destiny is seldom as it seems

From life to life, the love will see extremes

From loving of one lover to 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

"Bomb squad"

 Bomb Squad

Like a skittish colt on Sunday morning

Or, bomb squad just receiving warning

Blood that burns like lava flowing rock

A mind like cheapest jewelry out for hock

Is me in your presence

"Do I miss you?"

 Do I miss you?

As the Earth would miss the sun

Or butterfly its wings

Like sea would miss its water

Or Saturn miss its 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

The heart did spring

"Whirlwind"

Whirlwind

In praise of a woman with wonderful eyes

Transforming expressions forever arise

The sweetest component, to ne'er realize

Her songs of the heart mesmerize

My celebration of her heart sustained in will and fire

The lifetimes will be many more, led by my heart's desire

To find new ways to celebrate the loving of that heart

And mesmerizing way she has from finish to the start

The whirlwind of emotions that cascade along her skin

It is my goal to circumvent the armour and the din

"Smooth"

 Smooth

Like soft summer showers that light up the skin

Like warm, gentle touch of the loving within

So smooth, like the wash of the sea on the sands 

Like jagged chain lightning ignites as it lands

Like two-twenty volts made of satin and lace

Like rockets exploding and gone without trace

The smoothness erupts and the shock comprehends

That loving will last as each heartbeat transcends

"Woman"

 Woman

The briskness of a winter morn

The warmth of summer breeze

First light of day as it is born

A sigh among the trees

For Woman

Daffodils in garden growing

Falling leaves of color

Lovely as a freshet Flowing

All of life is fuller

With Woman

The wind that sings from far above

The heart that moves us on

The engine of unending love

That brings about new dawn

You are woman

"Resplendence"

 Resplendence

Resplendent in a hurricane of lace

Bedecked in piles of elegance and grace

She walks upon the wind in her attire

To take the steps of life amidst the fire

The wonder of her wizardry, it seems

Is best displayed amongst transcendent dreams

"Sky II"

 Sky**

I lay upon a carpet of green grass

Contemplating sky and clouds that pass

As shades of white and blue go through my mind

So like the clouds, I drift along and find

That, once again, my thoughts have turned to you

Obscuring all that falls within purview

Ever-present loving saturates

I ponder thoughts of passion and the fates

Upon the drifting clouds, so soft and fair

Drifts these thoughts of deepest loving care

Heart goes with the clouds upon their travels

As the worried thought of heart unravels

Wind picks up and sighs with thoughts of love

Heart returns with feelings far above

Sun begins to set upon the day

Night begins to fondle interplay

The shining moon reflects your sweet demure

Twinkling stars emerge as feelings stir

Night of summer breeze so slowly passed

Light of newborn day is coming fast

Sun arises with a heartfelt sigh

In radiance of shining clear blue sky

Filling, once again, with love that I

Give back unto the morning's open sky

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lost poem

 Happy Birthday 2016/(17?)

Crystal ships soar high above and glisten

Angels sigh and songbirds pause to listen

For the day has come

With beating of the drum

Celebration of the day she first

Brought to me a life-fulfilling thirst

As from her lungs the songs, in colours, burst

From that moment on, my beating heart

Responded to the tunes she did impart

For long and long, her glow ne'er came to rest

In journey of the heart made manifest

Trapped beneath the waves, she found her way

But, always, always passion held her sway

The power chained within the hurricane

Drew from heart of mine the depths of pain

She knocked the stuffing right out into staves

Washing all the shores with all She craves

Her glow began in rhythm as she rose above the sea

The pulsing of her heart and glow stir in my memory

A shelter rose within this heart in time of greatest need

In return for dazzlement of wonder do I plead

The blowing of the hurricane transforms

From battering of ships into the storms

To gentle breeze of swaying song

Of loving of a life so strong

Strengthened by the love I have for you

Into a cord of life with loving view

Happy Birthday 2024

 Happy birthday 2024, My Gypsy Empress

You spread your wings and fly beyond all bounds

Of  strictures held by all relentless hounds

You glisten in the morning of new dawn

I pray you love until all wind is drawn

The passion of the moment turns to passion everlasting

Beyond the bounds and scope of life's tremendous casting

My vision has been focused on your love deserved

In presence of spectacular delight as lightly served

As selfless as can vastly be construed and still retain 

The sanity so necessary midst the pouring rain

Don't worry, I don't cry that much

Immensity of time and such

Assures me we connect

All lives in retrospect

I'll love you all eternity, I celebrate each ray

When time arrives in which we both will sing and play

Excitement all I care to feel

Anticipating love so real

Let the hardened armour deliquesce 

Enough for interchange to acquiesce