…what if
You 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
Featured on Feminine Intent on Redbubble
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
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
what are you?
what is a heart, i ask
is it you? do you hear me?
flowing blood
protecting love
building walls
melting eyes
always beating . . . beating . . .
you carry lifetimes
of veins
of cells
and secrets of who we are
© r.e.l. 7/9/12
image of my soy latte by simeon schatz photography
time stopped thru raindrops
when time stops
through raindrops
i’ll know you are
here
with me
touching me
with your unknown
as silence will be shattered with speech, in small droplets
as it is, as it will be, as it always has been…
© r.e.l. 6/19/12
image by simeon schatz
just told me
your fingers
that reach to the sky
just told me
i’m not the same without you
© r.e.l. 5/31/12
image by simeon schatz photography
posted for Poetry Picnic 6/3-6/10/12 on Jingle Poetry
covered in moss
write with me
… as if i’m writing you
… as if i hear only your voice
your substance, your curves, your nuances, your eyes
as if for the first time
seeing me, perhaps
as a tiny particle of life in the ripple of a pond
it’s true, i remember the stars
when we first met
did you know that the cobble stones
on our path
each covered in moss
growing
alive
know that to provide direction
to you
is to cheat you of your trail of treasures in life?
… with your warm beaming clouds
listen to them
(. . .)
i do
© r.e.l. 5/27/12
Posted for Thursdays Poet Rally 6/6-6/13/12 on Hyde Park Poetry
as if i’ll know
hear me
as if you feel
who i am…
as if you’re about
to melt
but don’t know how
as if you are the only person
who i’m speaking
to now
as if these words
mean something
maybe the world
to you
as if i’ll know
your heart is
beating faster
as if
your wish
just came true
© r.e.l. 1/7/12
image by s i m s h a
Posted for Thursday Poet’s Rally 1/12-/18/12 on Promising Poet’s Parking Lot
Recited live for Jonathan Montaldo poetry event at CIIS 2/28/12
my own shadow
find me in my self
if you dare
to look
into your own
shadow
© r.e.l. 11/20/11
image by andrea clarin
Posted for Poetry Picnic 11/20-11/27/11 on Gooseberry Garden
imagining flames
teach me
the way you move
through silent instincts
i remember your words
waves moving
through me
to the space
that only imagination
and bodies feel
then minds are still
© r.e.l. 11/16/11
Posted for Thursday Poets Rally 11/17-11/23/11 on the Promising Poets Cafe
together with me
together
in me,
deep
moving imagination
that you are,
call me
to a place
that works
in solitude
living
lightly,
accept me
never forgetting
that i
live in a circle
that repasses
that which
occurred
yet sees
its tunnel
to shine
© r.e.l. 11/1/11
image by simeon’s clay art
Posted for Thursday Poet’s Rally 11/3-11/9/11 on the Poetry Palace
spaces between
in the spaces
between
where i start and you end…
i need you
© r.e.l. 9/21/11
image ‘treekiss’ by s i m s h a
Posted for Poetry Picnic 9/25-10/1/11 on Gooseberry Garden
silence savored
in your
silence
savor me…
what i said
to you
for you…
does not
need
a response
anyway
© r.e.l. 8/30/11
image by simeon schatz
Posted to Poetry Picnic 9/4-9/10/11 on Gooseberry Garden
Featured in Writing: Pursuing Happiness on redbubble
of red, of wood
laid out
your fire, the sun
that only looks directly at you
through reflection
of red, of wood
everlasting
in me
© r.e.l. 8/22/11
image by s i m s h a
Posted for Poetry Picnic 9/25-10/1/11 on Gooseberry Garden
melt me, soon
my heart
is your
garden
.
looking into
you
my eyes
touched your
clouds
.
the ones
that drink in
their deserts
.
to answer,
i floated
in dark leaves
.
knowing you
would
melt me,
soon
© r.e.l. 8/21/11
Posted for Poetry Picnic 8/28-9/3/11 on Gooseberry Garden
Featured in Touched By Fire on redbubble
that holds it all
you drift
you feel
your way to me
as steam
seeping…
in your way
that holds it all
together
somehow
a prize
© r.e.l. 8/19/11
Posted for Poetry Picnic 8/21-8/27/11 on Gooseberry Garden
image in a japanese garden
the mountain
every step i take
i’m closer to you
the way i feel you
see me
as if looking through
piercing…
did you know
you are the mountain
i intend to climb
and reach?
…after all
you are the one who
taught me
how to whisper
© r.e.l. 7/21/11
image by simeon schatz photography
Posted on Poetry Potluck 7/24-7/30/11-Nature and Life on Jingle Poetry
am i?
through words
and time
we find our way
cobwebs of fears …
clarity that whispers…
dusty ashes, long ago speaking
of time gone by
sunlight laughing
on beaches with no name
when in the end
what i really want to know is
am i worth it?
© r.e.l. 7/5/11
Posted for Poetry Potluck 7/3-7/9/11 on Jingle Poetry
Featured on Love Bytes on redbubble
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your way across
a strange rain in june
my petal stretching out
to you
when you reached for it
i leapt
and prayed
to you that you would
find your way across
to where i am
© r.e.l. 7/3/11
image by simsha
Posted for Poetry Potluck 7/3-7/9/11 on Jingle Poetry
my hourglass
please
don’t watch
me
when
i’m crying
i will
only
see you
through an
hourglass
of tears
© r.e.l. 6/16/11
image of my new logo that i designed myself while contemplating
a deeper order
create me like i created you
in the space
which lies deeper than you know
it is where, you see,
i first found
the concept of your
decision
to think outside your unexpected life
and roar instead
impactful.
i sighed
© r.e.l. 5/18/11
Posted on Thursday Poet’s Rally 5/19-5/25/11 on Promising Poets
… thank you, Promising Poets, for the Celebrate Poet of Summer Award!
… thank you, Promising Poets, for the Perfect Poet award! I cherish this community of poets and am honored… For next week, I nominate deadpoet88. -robin
me
me… because i am your “me”
but also
the greater collective of “me“
who you could know
© r.e.l. 4/28/11
image “sprungrass”
its vapors
as the mist, its vapors
turns my air
to its breath
i can feel that i knew you
once
before i knew…
you burned me
with your fire
inside:
i have always known you
and even when i did know
i didn’t know yet
yet i knew too…
that all along
you were building a mystery
that had dissolved into me
© r.e.l. 4/20/11
image of me at marin headlands by simsha
**featured in Touched By Fire on redbubble
posted for The Thursday Post 21.4.11 on Ethereal Heights
posted for Poetry Potluck 4/24-4/30/11 on Jingle Poetry
to the end of the road
words only take me to the end of the road… where feelings are footpaths… but, opening me to you and you to me… i miss you when you go… i am yours… sing to me anyway… never forget that your tears are your soul…
© r.e.l. 4/6/11
image by simsha
**featured in Freedom to Shine on redbubble
posted for The Thursday Post 7.4.11 on Ethereal Heights
posted for Poetry Potluck 4/10-4/17/11 on Jingle Poetry
