Walk with me
once more along the water’s edge:
sun on my shoulders,
sand between my toes,
your shoulder nudging mine.
You are my strength,
my tower of song,
and I -
I still have your heart.
#writtenriver 1399 you’re my strength
Blank page like a white slope -
words as elusive as ever.
Snow blankets your sleep,
my muse:
you on your hill
and I, still grieving.
Each word drifts,
a mote of frozen dust,
above your dreaming head.
#WrittenRiver Elusive Muse
For Mark.
The tide rises,
salt and sweet.
A sliver of moon
peers through cloud:
my innocence,
wrecked
on the shoals of your desire
#WrittenRiver Wrecked my Innocence
Luminous Lulu loved Lusty Len, lingered languorously lakeside. Linnets lilted lovely lullabies.
#WrittenRiver 1279 #TwelveWords starting with L
If I could raise
you, I would, my love:
if time could turn
in its tracks and flee.
If love could live,
your heart could start
again and you’d hold me
safe in your arms
and
always,
always warm.
#WrittenRiver If love could live
The Funeral
By tea time I was home again:
four hours
a ferry journey
and a world away
from where I’d left you.
Behind me
your small smoke signal
lofted unnoticed
into the Helensburgh sky.
#WrittenRiver tea time
I wish for a sea change:
to turn away,
transform myself,
and swim forever
in your eyes.
#WrittenRiver
Words I want
to hear you say:
love,
need,
desire,
random,
laughter,
sausages,
whatever.
I’d give anything
just to hear your voice again.
#WrittenRiver 1213 words I want
You had my back,
kept me from harm,
always safe
in your arms.
You held my heart
until you slept,
honour whole,
promise kept.
#WrittenRiver
Years from now
I’ll be walking
on white sand,
holding your hand -
our griefs forgotten
every one.
#WrittenRiver #CalgaryBay #IsleofMull
Autumn wears a mask of sun,
its touch still hot on my skin.
The reign of warmth is almost done:
now there is ice on the wind.
#WrittenRiver
The ambient music
of a broken heart
is a shattered symphony
of poetry
without words.
#WrittenRiver
Love of life
the mask I wear
to hide the fact
my cupboard’s bare.
I turn my gaze
on empty skies
& wear a smile
a thin disguise
#WrittenRiver
You are not here
though I wished it so:
I wasn’t there
when you let go,
and oh, my dear,
I miss you so.
#WrittenRiver 1140
Speak with emotion
but hide your heart.
To make me love
is your black art;
you knew I was yours
from the start.
#WrittenRiver 1134
I get lost in your eyes:
crimson corners and
clear depths of forest
where curious deer
peer from shelter,
but show no fear.
#writtenriver
Over my head
summer vaults effortlessly
into weightless blue,
lit with shafts of gold.
Here,
in my silent heart,
still winter.
#writtenriver
This cathedral’s columns
are living wood,
its windows pure light.
Heaven strikes through
illuminating angels
of dancing green.
#writtenriver
Imagine crying-
a heart bereft.
Imagine sighing-
a lost delight.
Imagine dying
to be with you;
Hold me, darling-
hold tight.
#writtenriver
I thought I’d get a taste
of what holds you together,
but you made me
come apart
in fragments of bliss.
#writtenriver
Skin to skin,
shining so bright,
the translucent world
shook to the rhythm
of your heart.
#writtenriver
I’m coming darling
I’ve climbed so long in the dark
clinging to this
very long ladder
I can’t remember
if I’m going up
or down
#writtenriver
Love much?
(My cheek on your shoulder.)
A bit,
you said.
The smile in your voice
took the top of my head
right off.
#writtenriver A bit much
If you’ll be wiser,
I'll try kinder.
Marvell says
we shan't embrace,
but I say
I will cradle your bones
& take back my heart.
#writtenriver
Surprising how often
I still wake
to the calming sound
of your breathing,
only to remember
that you are gone.
♥Marcus♥
#writtenriver
Moon Mermaid
Moon breathes upon the sea,
its watery child.
Ocean cradles me
in a salty embrace
as I wave
to Grandmother Moon.
#writtenriver
You’re there,
a white shadow,
haunting the edges,
your green glance
brushing the cool ice
of my mind.
#writtenriver
Who’d have thought
our lazy river
would have such rapids in it?
Or that you’d fall
beyond the reach
of my hands.
#writtenriver for Mark.
I want to stay sad,
but spring is kissing
me to laughter.
My words become flowers,
and my heart is a singing bird.
#writtenriver
Were you not to exist,
I would have had to invent you.
I could not have imagined
how empty my life
now you are gone.
#writtenriver
