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Just Your Smile

It's really just the smile

It's really just the smileThat tells it all. A smile that seems transcendentTo our core. Complete fulfillment, Existential bliss For every beating heart that feels itsGlow. A happy smile of joy and sweet delightThat spins our moods from blueness  Into glee.To utter satisfaction with this life. Such smilesAre bringers of a glowing light.Of sunshine, Exultation for Each life. But never was such grand momentousBliss,Such shi...

In huckleberry wine they soared Serenely and rhapsodicallyAmong the gracefully delectable scents of lavenderTripping in pulchritude laden steps of blissSinging out melodically trembling notesSpinning stunning arabesques of wonder Sipping ambrosial offeringsFrom the goblets of the godsTouching handsFingertipsBeatific smiles of serenityTo the veneration of all future desiresTo the celebrationOf elemental intoxicationTo the...

That Thing I Do

You know that thing I do...

You know that thing I doYou know that thing That sets your heart to beatingThump... thump... pounding pulseIn time with mine That sets your legs to tremblingShake... shake... shivery quakeIn time with mine That sets your breast to heavingSigh... sigh... shuddering breathIn time with mine That thing I doSo often when you writheSo close to where my fingertipsMay touch That thing I doSo often when you smileSo close to where...

Gentle, the Touch We Share

Reach out and touch me one more time along the way

My darling at my side, she feels my giddy pride,The singing of the wheels a serenadeAs the touch of mystery joins we two together once again,Double digits frolic...           who knows where or when. Mariachi music infuses the air with lighthearted mirthfulWhimsy,With exuberance, With prankish joy. The touch of the digits expands our gaiety galore...           much more and more. Landscape drifting slowly, quickly, just b...

Never So Wrong

The lady speaks

You started it allWith a touch to my cheekAnd the smile that just lit up your eyes. Twas a frissonOf mystery and depth,Of ecstatic delight through the night. All the untoward spasms and shiversThat enraptured my heartWith your touch. You imbued me,Enfolded,Impressed,And my ladylike mannerWas lost. Now it happens so often, my darling,I rejoice with each hint of a touch.It's so magically surreptitiousWhen we spend these dea...

When The Last Leaf Falls

Will they be there

When the last leaf falls will they be there to watch it. How often have they told you they love you.Perhaps not as often as you needed. Even once is wonderful.Even once is not never. When it is taken away does the autumn of your soul descend upon you? Words, words, words. What do they mean? What about trust. They said trust.Did they trust?They said love. Did they love? The autumn of your soul descends.The last leaf succum...

A Somethin' Kind of Day

Somethin' is better than nothin'

We have what we have,A somethin' kind of dayIs really somethin' little darlin' A somethin' kind of guyA somethin' kind of ladyThat's what we are When it comes to seein' dreams of what may comeWhile sharin' what has been beforeWhile knowin' what we have now It's somethin'Little darlin'Really somethin'And somethin' is better than nothin'On a somethin' kind of dayLittle darlin'Of mine Never fearin' for tomorrowWith a somethi...

You and I must recallHow we swayed in the Spring on the Champs-ÉlyseesHow we whirled all about in a Viennese waltzHow we skipped around Rome, and we spun near the old Spanish Steps You and I must recallIn our thoughts and our dreamsWhen we danced close together through life You and I must recallAnd remember it allAs it might really happen again When we touched and caressed under stark desert moonsWhen our bodies enfolded ...

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Night falls when it seems I am alone, and I know all those things I have learned need to be remembered for the future, more especially the truth and not those lies that can be found in-between most things like blue on black, or black on blue. As I stand here in what seems to be a courtyard in a city of shadows where sound can be heard echoing off the dark tiles and enclosed by dark walls the colour of anthracite and notic...

The love we let subside, the fear we try to so hard to hide, the hopes we dare not speak, and the nightmares we keep alive   Whether it's depression's blight, jealousy's sabotaging bite, or simple resentment and spite, all act as condemnations for the self   A host of symptoms that serve to bind, we give into loneliness and despair, pop the pills we are prescribed, or simply pretend that we're alright   We cower behind wh...

Millionaire of Love

Wake the very clouds

"Who am I but a millionaire of love."That is what I whisper to my darling oneIn her sleep I gently breathe her essence in and smileKnowing we must never part in this lifeNo, not yet It seems I can soar aloft in her eyesFlying so high I wake the very cloudsUp above My little dove the constant star of loveShe twinkles so brightly smiling with joyIn her heart True treasures have not always come my way This just award must be...

Are they There

My fingers are numb

And after we're gone who'll remember to care Despair waiting there for the loss all will bear For the loss  For the loss They show love and despair We will never return But remember to care Knowing despair that is already there When the chill sets in will they share that they care When their fingers are numb and their heart is still bare It's despair It's despair It's despair they must share They will wipe away tears  And...

Still and silent stream in the midnight darkResting amongst the flax is the night sky beauty herselfQuenching a thirst from the sweet, still watersWinds that whisper vows and carry the faintest of spellsHer eyes are deep pools of wintery waterPlaying in the shallows feels safe, any deeper and you risk drowningAn otherworldly beauty emerges from her secret streamSuch an ethereal maiden has never before been seenRushing to...

Before There Was We

There was you

Before there was we there was youAnd when you were young all was new.Do you think about that. I still do.Before there was we there was you.***Before there was we there was meAnd when I was young I was free.But I dreamed about you on my knee.Before there was we there was me.***Before I brought tears to your eyesThey had visions of stars in the skiesAnd they traveled in books and grew wiseBefore I brought tears to your eyes...