Shamefully, I have been neglecting my blog posts since September. I hadn't realized and this is terrible. So what could bring me back from such a hiatus? Love of course. I have lots to tell you about my art and theatre projects but that can wait. Today I want to honour all of the Valentines and lovers and those who are clasping their severed hearts in hope of better affairs. I give you poetry. Enjoy.
This one is new.....
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Orchids and Bees
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I am the orchid
you are the bee
a pseudo-copulate analogy
I'll call out your brightness
a light that holds still
a whisper, a song
a longing, a will
a call and a will
a light that holds still
in the sun, in the rain
in the heat, in the pain
you are the light that holds still.
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I am the cloud
you are the rain
soaked in your spirit
I quench and refrain
I hope and refrain
I want and refrain
try not to refrain
in the sun, in the rain
with the heat, with the pain
when the light stretches thin
when the dark has moved in
I am left wanting, I mourn.
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Keep tails about windbreath
and eyes about face
there are cat calls all over
and barking moon howls
be a mammal, be a madman
why do mammaries
keep expanding
neverending
still pretending
message sending
false pretending
It's a tale of two pieces, a duel.
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Orchids and bees
and wants and needs
and searching and pleading
and hoping for meaning
above primal feeding
It's all so redeeming
to waken from sleeping
in breathing, in breathing
the stillness of leaving
the lost heat of passion
a moment in passing
there are no tears in flowers, only dew.
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In the Absence of You
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In the absence of you
there is only hope
of life
better
of life
sweeter
held at the seams.
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In the absence of you
there are whispers
longing
fibrous
nimble
softly speaking
felt not heard
whispers of song.
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In the absence of you
there are too many pieces
ragged, broken
moments
edges
closing in
words forgotten
remain unspoken.
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In the absence of you
there is nothing
pale tones
breath in
no marks to hold
no heart tick
in the absence of you
it is done.
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And some little ones......old......fragmented but still alive....
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I can see you frustrate
your lip turns blue
in abandonment of you
how do you escape yourself
so well?
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You didn't have to drain me
you didn't have to squeeze
I had already fallen
when I was upon my knees.
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if you knew
how the very sight
of you
could make me feel lost
within my soul
fighting for control
what would you do?
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although it seems to me
to be
inadvertent sensibility
don't believe
all that you hear
I so intend
to keep you near
if folly bends
my wobbling heart
don't leave me
to pull my chest apart.
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somehow we missed it
we missed it together
we never missed anything
until now
people play games
to gain admiration
where was the humour
in this failure of mine
how do you need me
if needing is knowing
how do you want me
if wanting got lost
I feel my want thicken
my need is a lesson
seeping sorrow
heaping, harrowed
youth narrowed
a lesson indeed.
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And yet, hope remains...... Happy Valentine's Day to the loved the loving, the hoping and the broken-hearted.
