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

"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

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

"Kaleidoscopic"

Kaleidoscopic

While shattering a life into its parts

Rearranging shards through loving arts

Swirling them to view within the eye

Only yours create a breathless sigh

To spin the barrel, gaze through swirling maze

In dizzy wonder cast before my gaze

The colours of the rainbow on display

Of images and sounds and words that play

I thank you for this gift that saw me through

The struggles of revealing something new

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While  shards of your Kaleidoscope abound

I cannot paint a picture of the sound

The voice rings out, evoking crystals that I spy

Creating spinning whorls before my eye

The spell entwined, coincident with images of you

Begins, again, eruption of the feelings that are due

And now I know I've known it all along

Kaleidoscopic voice that sings the song

Strums the deepest nuance of my heart

The lovely spectral views, its counterpart

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The lyrics, like the voice that shatters glass

Kaleidoscopic fractals strewn en masse

Another whirlwind always stirring heart

The pieces of the whole that fall apart

Creates the shards of crystals in the eye

So, wondrous and heart-wrenching, do I fly

I'll detail not kaleidoscope revealed so long ago

Moving on to all the other shards of you I know

Each prism on its own that makes my heart careen

Combine in constellation and a panoramic scene

I drift upon the sounds and varied images of view

The sense of life, the soul of love, and peace I touch anew

No more to spout the depths of desperate longing that I strew

Kaleidoscope, a sea of depths beyond a stage review

The violin plays softly on the constellation's stars

Each note performed distinct as sensed in love's harmonic bars

Stained glass is scattered far from window pane

In multi-coloured hues of hurricane

A rainbow in the sky of clouds and rain

Kaleidoscopic symmetries remain

In all directions I still see the same

In symmetries, I recognize a name

Kaleidoscopes expand into cocoon

As growing sense of change is being strewn

In cryptic restlessness, the skies festoon

The butterfly emerges from typhoon

To far horizons, symmetries commune

In cavalcade of stars that sing in tune

All meaning held in phases of the moon

My heart transforms this gentle afternoon

"Under The Sun"

The flower blooms in brightness of the sun

Remarkable complexity to stun

High functioning exotic lightly spun

Always leaving me a bit undone

Amazingly, She's new beneath the sun

"Kaleidoscope"

Kaleidoscope

Crafted from the cosmos, mingled colors on the run

Venting cosmic teardrops, sparkling diamonds in the sun

Living chips away each day to bring more rays to light

To craft Kaleidoscope that is unrivaled in delight

This is no mere combining of a barrel and some chips

Something more's been added to the whirling as it trips

Gigantic to the minuscule, the measures never change

The tumbling of the diamond chips will always rearrange

All variance that crafts arrays of love that move the soul

If you reel in close enough, take time to see the whole

It seems I cannot help but be enamoured by your light

The sparkling incandescence midst the blazing of the night

Like warmth upon the brow of blinded beast beneath the sun

Like flame that fills the emptiness as revel is begun

I sought the charm with every sense, but, once I was enchanted

A traipsing vagabond across the darkness has been  granted

A glimpse of something more

A tempo beat, a measured score that changes on a whim

Beneath the dark, a blaze betrays a brilliance as prelim

To ever-changing note and key, excuse me my delight

In ever-coruscating Flow of radiance so bright

I could not ask for more

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Happy Birthday 2024

 Happy Birthday 2024, Artful Dodger

Unto the day, impatiently I wait

For wonder that will come to celebrate

I always start on poems way too soon

In restless state beneath the summer moon

This year is different in degree

I start this poem in the lee

Of winter's frost

The wind picks up the song of celebration

Sends it off in high anticipation

Across the sea, the plains, and mountain ranges

Echoes all your grace that never changes

Amidst the forest rumour flies

From the flowers to the skies

Of heart embossed

Wings are spread as angels seek the ground

Flutters stilled as angels seek the sound

Of ache and love that only one can sing

Deep body blows midst revelries that ring

"Sands"

 The tide that rides up to the shore

Brings sand to sprinkle and explore

The wash of deep momentum of the voice

In waves and waves of eloquence rejoice

Like sparkle in the sands upon the beach

Each lyric holds the heart within its reach

Dismaying as reflections of the sun

The way in which the body blows are spun

Happy Birthday 2023

 I sing to the skies for the look in your eyes

Of a heartbeat that spies as the love mystifies

The crescendo of life in its wake

Like the fractals of wintry snowflake

The tune that is sung, once the revel's begun

Where fireworks are flung, in full passion of sun

I love you for all of all time

In word and in thought and in rhyme

"Blaze"

 Blaze

You blaze incandescent but, then, so do I

My flame to the firmament, you light the sky

It's always the same in all that we do

You light the sky, I light the view

" Vanishing point"

 Vanishing point

Bursting along in the fire of cadenza

Flame of the heart reignites in Firenza

The wisp of the trails of the whirlwind remain

To empty the seats in applause for the reign

Of the grace in this life and a way to anoint

This moment in time through the vanishing point

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