EVANESCENT

Why do I feel you 
In the gentle breeze 
Why do I hear you 
In the rustling leaves 
Why do I smell you 
In the fallen snow 
Why do I see you 
In the moonlight's glow 

Will I forever just build you 
From fragments of your words 
As I play and I replay 
Your lines and your curves 
Will all I ever have of you 
Is the blanket of your soul 
That descends softly to embrace me 
In your warmth, and makes me whole 
Till I snuggle deep into the lap of sleep 
Painting your eyes with stains of my kohl

MS

EMBERS

Drops of golden sunshine

Mingle with your steamy sweat

They slither down your back

Arching over your silhouette

It’s like the blushing amber dawn

Dipped in the sparkling starlight

Painting shadowy rivers of trembling souls

On the canvas of the waning night

MS

WISTFULLY

I reach out to you with my wispy hand

Into the depths of a shadowy dawn

The blushing skies don’t seem so bright

When from my horizon, I find you gone.

Days don’t beckon with treasures new

Warm sunshine has lost its sweet allure

Bird songs don’t soothe my harrowed brow

For I can’t see your smiles anymore.

As night descends on tired souls

Its cozy blanket of shining stars

Sleep eludes me, so I paint my iris dark

With dreams of you to hide my scars.

MS

STARRY STARRY NIGHTS…

Visions of an enchanting world

In my head each day I brew

Where aspirations soar high

And dreams forever come true

It’s a world of happy laughter

That heals the hearts their pain

Drops of golden sunshine

Play chase with mists of rain

Each thought of mine a star

I arrange in shapes of love

Each bit of my soul, a galaxy

I paint in the sky above

In deep blue depths unknown

Of the majestic canopy vast

Rise strains of soundless music

Playing with strings of my heart

I feel the kisses of angels

Fall like feathers on my skin

Wisps of longings take my hand

We dance

To serenades on the mandolin

MS

BARED

I loved his 
speaking iris, 
so dark, 
they wrote his heart 
upon my core… 
Their beauty 
I can't fathom 
though, 
for I looked 
at his eyes 
and he showed me 
his soul. 

MS

BETWIXT AND BETWEEN

Some memories 
Stop to grieve 
In the barley fields 
Of autumn heaves 

Some dreams

Stand hushed, stilled,

In the land of twilight

Unfulfilled

Some stars

Pause in space

Mulling over,

To birth or to break

In hopes of another day

Their spark still aglow

Fighting to hold on

Fighting to let go

MS

LOST EPOCHS

Maybe 
A prince will come some day 
And see through time's hand 
Peel away the layers of ages, 
Blow away the tonnes of sand 
With hands gentle as the breeze 
He'll touch my tender core 
Gather me in his stormy tides 
And wash me to his shore 
Maybe 
It’ll be yesterday once more….

MS