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My RoseHow can I extol thee
Paint a perfect vision
Sing a golden sunbeam
Write what can't be written?

Soul of burning wonder
Angelic, perfect heart
Overwhelmed I struggle
To capture thee with art

How can words paint heaven
The beauty I perceive
The rising sun of love
Such words I cannot bleed

Unworthy this poor tongue
To ring with fulsome praise
To sing a truthful hymn
Would take me all my days

Daughter of creation
Sacred jewel of night
Within this lonely heart
Shines your radiant light

How to scribe such beauty?
One comparison I know
Thou my hearts desire
Art like a perfect Rose...

The Moons DaughterA gentle blue caress
The subtle touch of night
Your heart softly beating
Beneath this silver light

Sacred jewel of Nyx
I long to hold thee near
To share my lonely world
And stem the falling tears

Moonlights chosen daughter
I hear your ageless song
Are these foolish yearnings
Or with you do I belong

Something calls within me
I feel and smell your land
Forests bathed in silver beams
And serpents in your hands

In this place of wonder
May savage wounds be healed
Or deep dreams and desires
Be magically fulfilled

Still I hear thy music
Though sense bids hope to cease
My errant heart still lingers
In search of love and peace..

Crimson ShardBeautiful crimson shard
Glistening on the floor
Some say thou art broken
Though I see something more

Dancing in the candlelight
I see the heart within
Starlight's wondrous beauty
Caught and held herein

Sweetest Crimson shard
Thy radiance enchants
Lost in sweet surrender
My heart begins to dance

I'll hold thee forever
Make thee all mine own
Beloved crimson shard
My heart will be thy throne

Soft Tide of LoveThe moon shines in splendor
Against skies velvet blue
Night breeze softly stirring
Its caress with power endued

My will gently calls thee
Whispering dreams of love
My words in silver beams
Soft falling from above

Passion's river flowing
Fantasies stir and rise
Love's intoxication
Sails on sleep's soft tide

Let my heart possess you
Pray love take wings and fly
Lost in sweet sensations
Till dawn means dreams must die...

The PromiseBlood red skies the herald
Of dark unfolding night
Stars and moon give promise
Revealing sweet delight

Come oh breath of darkness
Bequeath thy gift so dear
Living death eternal
Thy kiss it holds no fear

Released of shrouds embrace
I leave thy comely womb
Palace, home and haven
My beloved, sacred tomb

This my treasured kingdom
Mountains, valleys and plains
King and bloody tyrant
Still my legend remains

The ruins of my castle
Hold yet my lonely throne
Here you are imprisoned
Your life and soul my own

Tremble then my darling
There is no hope of flight
I love to see you quiver
In flickering candlelight

Can you hear my hear

LonelinessCruel day surrenders
To mists of softest dreams
I hear thy siren song
And walk in silver beams

Blossom rains in moonlight
Soft breeze brings thy caress
Sweet the song of nightingales
All by heaven blessed

In charmed world of wonder
This heart calls out for thee
My lonely, yearning soul
Pleads for what might be

Come then my Cleopatra
And fill this empty life
Wipe away the tears
And end this lonely strife...

Our Hourglass...Sands of oblivion
In our hourglass of time
Pouring without mercy
A trickle so sublime

Life so very precious
We often seem to waste
Missing opportunities
The wine of joy to taste

Will the page we're writing
Be marked with sad regret
Longing and not living
With doubt and fear beset

Journey then in wonder
Live and love and play
Use each precious moment
And treasure every day...

The BrideBlue beguiling velvet
Heralds sensual night
And a liquid silver moon
Promises pure delight

From the land of dreams
My voice thy waking call
Servant of my passion
Thou art in my thrall

Come my sweet disciple
Unseeing through the night
Answering the summons
To dark and wild flight

Midst crumbling headstones
Seek thou my siren charm
Hungry for the fire
Found in undead arms

These hands shall free desire
Lace dropping to the ground
In this sweet surrender
Rapture thou hast found

My hands trace thy desire
I feed thy wanton need
Planting deep within thee
A dark insidious seed

Searching lips so eager
Taste my willing gift
De

EchoesDawn is softly breaking
With gentle golden light
Painting faintest echoes
Of sweet enchanting night

Waves breaking on the shore
Herald rising splendor
Banishing the darkness
With touch warm and tender

Yet love forgets thee not
Breaching all defenses
Thine image in my heart
Stirs romantic senses

So my soul believing
Gives love its willful flight
In sweet intoxication
Of your beauty I will write...

And the moon bled...The moon was gently weeping
Her blood coloring the sky
Scarlet droplets billowing
And the wind was asking "why?"

Below the frost was busy
Painting all with ice
Ghostly pristine beauty
Her touch was so precise

The world wrapped in silence
So little noise to hear
Just a mournful sighing
And the echo of sad tears

The angel of death wept
His task a bitter blow
To carry these poor souls
What shame the world should know

In one arm Romeo
In the other Juliet
Death of star crossed lovers
Earth and moon would not forget

For hatreds bitter blade
Killed the heart of love
And cast the blackest stain
That saddened heaven above...

Her CallSo soft thy siren call
Sweet echo in the night
Dreams silk ribbons cut
To flickering candlelight

Sensual and alluring
Enchanting heart and mind
Oh vision overwhelming
Thou my soul must find

Thy perfume on sweet breeze
To heightened senses call
I walk in velvet night
Serene in deepest thrall

Unerring through the darkness
Thy voice dost guide me home
Through silence I can hear thee
I can't bear to be alone

Oh beguiling vision
I pray that thou be real
To long by grief held captive
Such healing love I feel

Thy smile it lights my heart
Thy embrace, sweetest bliss
The desire of beating heart
The passion of thy kiss

Thy lips

Possessed...Place of darkest memory
Enshrouded tomb of lore
Lingering in darkness
The legend of Lenore

Here sat he who loved thee
Neath dust the salt of tears
Love still echoes faintly
Despite the passing years

Dark tomes on dusty shelves
Muddy prints upon the floor
Well meant the dire warning
The Raven's "Nevermore"

Sweet heaven bids me run
Pray and don't look back
Yet I sit upon his chair
Seeking what we lack

For I am imprisoned
In love forever more
I looked upon the portrait
"The legend of Lenore"

The Gallery of LoveIn this crystal river
The crimson blooms of pain
Burning in times fire
Love ever leaves a stain

Read the sacred map
Inscribed on every soul
Every mark and blemish
Recalled upon a scroll

Teardrops from a broken heart
The echo of a smile
Every portrait painted
To mark another mile

Riding on a white horse
Or falling in the sea
Blossoms in the wind
What will be, will be

Fragile wings of beauty
Petals that will fall
Wind and rain and sun
Living for them all

The power of love deceiving
Leaves no room for choice
Our hearts will sing its melody
Our souls must give it voice...

The FlowerAching winds of loneliness
Enfold this empty home
Here I sit in silence
Upon a pointless throne

Ruler of this keyboard
Ensconced before a screen
Living in the ether
And in a world of dreams

No warm and gentle arms
No tender, loving kiss
No sweet words of comfort
How did it come to this?

Is emptiness a mercy
Does sorrow set me free?
The chains of love no burden
If you would hold the key

Beautiful heart please hold me
End this torture with your kiss
Let love take root and blossom
It's flower our perfect bliss

Heavens Perfect WonderHeaven's perfect wonder
Sculpted in a dream
Born in lotus blossoms
Egypt's wondrous queen

High priestess of Isis
Within thee burning fire
Men could but adore thee
In thrall to deep desire

Caesar knelt before thee
Begged thou be his bride
Rome beneath his feet
Perfect beauty at his side

Oh bitter blade of hate
Thou saw poor Caesar bleed
Love lying in the dust
Cleopatra forced to flee

Then did comfort whisper
With seeds of greater love
Mark Anthony and Cleopatra
Love decreed from up above

Sweet and perfect passion
Two hearts that beat as one
Love by heaven anointed
Bright shining as the sun

Then tragedy unfolding
Greed

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My Lady...I feel the breath of sadness
Soft and cold upon my cheek
Siren voice beguiling
"Thine the heart I seek"

Sadness blessed with beauty
In this heart thou havoc wreaks
Truest eyes a message whisper
"Thine the heart I seek"

Oh siren song of Sadness
Such beauteous words thou speak
Sensual beauty in thy lips
"Thine the heart I seek"

Deft the touch of sadness
To both heart and soul she speaks
Promising love so constant
"Thine the heart I seek"

LostLost in this unending maze
Trapped forever in deep gloom
How then canst hope survive
In the face of gathering doom

Stairs that lead forever down
Rooms without a windows light
Corridors that lead nowhere
This the hell that I must fight

Shallow words that others speak
Hope and strength and light
In Stygian darkness simply lost
They know not depressions might

Cold and bare this lonely place
Its walls whisper "I belong"
Stripped of worth and self esteem
I surrender and join its song...

Hell's GripOh to fall from warming sun
From thy beloved hand to slip
Spirit wings lost and numb
Falling deep to hell's dark grip

Swallowed in thy Stygian gloom
Bound fast in melancholic chain
Depressions suite my prison room
And endless plays this sad refrain

From these depths God canst thou hear
Must thou see me suffer so
Must here I shed unending tears
So great the cost for them to flow

Sweet Jesus take this pain from me
If this mortal frame cannot be whole
If it means the sun I cannot see
Then Lord crush my body, not my soul...

Twenty twenty vision...What is there to love
I see the hidden things
The barren, empty soul
The hatred deep within

What is there to love
Scarred and broken one
Fear's your navigator
And love you simply shun

What is there to love
But wreckage on the floor
All that's left is poison
Leave, and shut the door...

I see defining moments
Grown ups shout and fight
Give no care or thought
A tiny heart they blight

I see defining moments
Drugs and sex and drink
Shaping your behavior
No, they did not think...

I see defining moments
Your wife took back her love
You broke and called to heaven
But no answer from above...

I look at you and hate you
See no r

Conversation with my heartWould that I could end thee
Remove thee from my breast
End of pain and loneliness
Would that be for the best

No more these falling tears
And thee, loneliness, undone
But what price such victory
What loss, for battle won

For thou doth bring me joy
Sweet, sparkling and intense
Oh wretched, foolish heart
Must every emotion be immense

Could not thy song be measured
Thy blade by wisdom dulled
But then again to lose thee
Would life's purpose be annulled

Thou extraordinary creature
Filled with passions many hues
I feel the heights thy wings may reach
And the depths thee plummets too

But thee and I are one
There are tears, but la

Unspoken...I hide the deepest turmoil
Deny the grip of pain
Live with love unspoken
Whilst teardrops fall like rain

Living on thy margins
Absorbing radiant grace
Whilst another holds thee
I can but see thy face

Foolish flightful heart
Oh cupid, king of fools
Why deign this hopeless love
This beautiful, poisonous jewel

Cursed above all men
This lonely heart dost roam
To feel the tide of love
But never call thee mine own

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The Gift

by *Gary-thedreamingpoet, Mar 31, 2012, 4:33:32 PM
Literature / Poetry / Horror / Traditional Fixed Forms

Evening paints its splendor
Across a crystal sky
Stars and moon appearing
As sunbeams fade and die

Comes the sweetest music
Seductive and deceiving
Beckoning the senses
Spirit, slowly yielding

Floating, falling, needing
Heart take wing and fly
Surrendering to passion
Desire a pleading sigh

Come then honeyed darkness
And banish ordained death
Love that lives forever
And life that needs no breath

Drink this scarlet river
For all I am is thine
Death the path to life
Where spirits shall entwine...