. . . . . . . did you know that i sit next to you now in the tiniest house of time?

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as if you came here just to

twin_flameshe moved at a speed that allowed him to replace loss.

each morning from a painted scene to a dark bluff.

you’ll try your whole life to understand how a single person can affect you as much.

how it can seem as if you came here just to wait. years. knowing something then that you would later feel, at first illusive, later definitive. that it was your forever. the bridge was of time.

sometimes you just wait—your mind, your body and the silence. the backs of your eyes aching, but calmed with what will later be known as meant to be.

© r.e.l. 6/18/13

say yes

my heart has chosen.. my heart has a plan.. say yes.

you are watching.. inside me.. inside you

an adventure to climb.. a mountain to fathom..

© r.e.l. 6/7/13

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image by Life on a Beach

i shine of rust and moonlight

rust_and_maili am here for you
your letters
i am magic

watch me while i
deliver your
sand and stars and thoughts

i shine of rust
and moonlight

© r.e.l. 5/29/13

 

Photo credit Govinda Kai

cathedrals of dreaming

istanbul_underground_waterone thing i can be sure of. i feel like i’m under water, underground or under something when i imagine you.

sometimes when it’s late and i know i’m asleep, i also know that the cathedrals of me are open.

and, during those times, when i’m actually not asleep, but awake, you are with me. you whisper.

i can’t even say ‘yes’ now to your offers because i don’t know how.
yes.

am i dreaming?
yes, you’re in my dream come true

i have conversations with you when you aren’t here
it’s ok, i’m always there

© r.e.l. 5/7/13

like smoke, of blue and green

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like the smoky light that passes by
inside me
my stomach, on edge
my senses, fluttering

as i hang thoughts
of us
on the baffling air
that defines our devotion

the time approaches
as we’ve planned
…and then i hear a voice inside speaking softly
but i’m not perfect enough yet. not today. one more day.

yet waiting, unfathomable

but, i know you
and all the reasons
as lessons
for them
for you
for me

so that in the end i
could have you

and still, i can’t help but get tangled up in the world of wondering why you aren’t here right now.

© r.e.l. 4/14/13

image source: mary mary

all in one long sentence

rose_q&aand so it goes…
there is so much to remember,
that as i sit here to think
nothing comes.
(at least in this moment)

yet, all—at the same time…

why is it that my body feels
all that is
all that was
all that will be again?

the truth is
that there are words to express
what you mean to me
but it would take a lifetime
to say
(all in one long sentence)

there is no question about it

© r.e.l. 4/6/13

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…what if

dreamsthatcometrueYou love the fire. You are it, moving quickly, emulating its spark. Your miles to go in your mind, before calmed, drive you. Transfixed on you I am.

Be you, be the you I have known. Smile at me until I melt into something else. You are beyond getting my attention. You make me know why I’m alive.

And now I’m on fire because when I first saw you, recently and not, I fell in love with you. All I knew from before, relived in a moment, rejoined with all that we created then, to be continued later. You smiled when you knew I loved you then. You knew. You know now.

© r.e.l. 3/25/13

 

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you had time to save me

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thank you is not the same
without you here
to stare into
to touch with my fingertips
lightly

seconds pass by loudly
as sand moves through time
enunciating each tick

impatiently, i allow my wandering senses
to embrace simple thoughts of you,
every memory relived

…a teardrop—of joy—on my pillow,
and i know i am reaching out
for your grasp
to taste you in a form
that exceeds words

yet you are an apparition
of time that happens,
but not here in my moment

dear illusion,
please show me where you and now coexist
so that i know

because i have learned
how to stop time…
i will find you
interlaced with me

never forgetting
that in the midst of it all
you found time to save me

all i have i will give to you
i will give you
me

© r.e.l. 3/12/13

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that in i mixed with you

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as soon as i told you
you wouldn’t let me go

touch me again
as i turn you inside out
dynamic and raw

drawn to climb into me with your eyes
smile speaking with textures, words uncovered

you know that already
you knew all along

lightly touching
our cells fuse

you know, as do i,
that in i
mixed with you
there is nothing to hide

all along we’ve been
a river containing all that we have tasted,
and verses to stories we have yet to ascend into
as mountains of a dream
that would be ours

© r.e.l. 10/28/09

be you

time by robin my secret innuendoi want you to
stay
a secret

because i entered
a story, immersed
now full of words
and moments

having just opened my eyes
as if waking from a dream

stay undisclosed, clandestine
a mystery
a given

be coded, be hidden
be you

© r.e.l. 3/2/13

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captured

birds2when you’re losing your edge

captured

your mirror

is reflected in all that you see

even you

…even you

you know how

without knowing

my eyes that are drawn

to your choice

to you

my time, precious

and still

you have captured me

© r.e.l. 2/27/13

as i remember

a_penwe met by accident.

not quite.

in all the ways i know
to explain what it meant
to watch my feelings
trickle down my logic
tease my soul
into believing i’m crazy
that day,

in a moment
my words [pause]
to express,

i can only explain
the paper
unused pen
blank screen
and feelings of you
still in the air
in me
as i remember

and how time
has a way
with the intrigue
of the heart

© r.e.l. 2/14/13

please know your heart

and now, i’ll fall asleep
when you are shining

wiping out your demons
you will be ready
when it takes your heart

you’ll know what to say…

as a circle almost touches you
please be strong
tonight you know you’re in my heart

© r.e.l. 1/9/13

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not merely a nebulous

by simeon schatz

when do you feel like offering
your flower?

sporadically, on a silent moonbeam?

or do you hold a grudge
that makes me want to
tempt you
to change…
to be heroic…

i want to throw you the rope
that will guide you to your
clogged and tender words, unspoken

you are not merely a nebulous, a hazy unknown
you are you

so, speak

don’t lay dormant crying unheard
the truth is that we do care.
reach for it anyway

© r.e.l. 12/21/12

disappoints, not

it’s why i’m a writer
because life is in balance
a seesaw, tipping

i see life through a lens
that looks for what’s interspersed
as opposites
each sting
has a petal

i can hear what you see
when i am grateful
to be alive

behind the eyes of a thinker
who disappoints, not

because there is a balance
always
and the thought of a dream
behind a barrier
cannot exist unless
you see it

© r.e.l. 10/31/12

Posted for 10/30/12-11/5/12 on Jingle Poetry

listen to me

a part of me
the one you already know
is already there
yes, me

when you’re not looking, i’m a wave
when you are looking, your choice
made

now listen to an idea
that i’m about to tell you..

watch your body
it’s breathing
it’s reading the river of your mind

© r.e.l. 10.22.12

Posted for 10/30/12-11/5/12 on Jingle Poetry

where are you going?


oh precious soul,
priceless
where are you going?

… speak to me.

with your mysterious vision
your body–its inflections,
its words

you come to depend
that it’s always
listening

fly now into
your life
which drizzles
like the wind, cleansing

© r.e.l. 10/8/12

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Posted for 10/30/12-11/5/12 on Jingle Poetry

what would you write

what would you write to me if you could?
would you say what you feel,
what is real?

would the world spin
to a place
it hasn’t been
for you
for me
so we can understand…

what would you write?
tell me

© r.e.l. 10/3/12
posted for Thursday Poets Rally week 76 10/31/12-11/7/12 on Hyde Park

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