be you
i 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
Featured in Redbubble’s “Feminine Intent” group.
as i remember
we 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
not merely a nebulous
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
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
forever in a second
forever in a second
i realize
that i love you
like the breath
we share
in a mystery
time set free
remembered
and then i’m aware
that evermore
is a long time
ineffable
smile with me
© r.e.l. 7/2/12
image of yosemite at night by simeon schatz photography
you will stop
the colors that touch us
never stop to let us know
to stop… to see
all that’s in between
us and them
they know
that if you k n o w them
you will see
you will stop
© r.e.l. 6/19/12
image by s i m s h a
Featured on redbubble’s Vibration in Art and Verse Vavoom
with a secret
before you knew me
i felt you …
knowing me,
piercing me
to the core
with a secret
unspoken
let me know when
you’re ready
to do it again
remember, i’m your innuendo
© r.e.l. 5/5/12
image by simeon schatz
Posted for Poetry Picnic 5/6-5/13/12 on Gooseberry Garden
my mystique
it would seem
that as it goes
there is no
color before the storm
we stand together, all good
with wonder
is there another way
that’s right
to shake my mystique?
speak to me now
in the only way
you know how
© r.e.l. 4/8/12
image by simeon schatz photography
Posted to Poetry Picnic 4/8-4/15/12 on Jingle Poetry
of all that whispers
swirls of life
judgments
and tears
we move past it…
as our hearts dig deep
to the soul
of all that whispers,
we know
without question
that which tells a story
in the spaces of us
and that which lives
forever in a moment
© r.e.l. 11/24/11
image by simeon schatz
Posted for Poetry Picnic 11/27-12/3/11 on Goosberry Garden
as crazy as you
imagine me
as crazy as you
in your forest
that smiles with your sound
i see you
don’t go
touch me again
in only a second
…i knew you
© r.e.l. 10/23/11
image by s i m s h a
Posted for Poetry Picnic 10/23-10/30/11 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
through a mystery
what do you think of
when you fall, slowly through a mystery
looking through
the eyes
of me?
© r.e.l. 8/20/11
image by s i m s h a
Posted for Poetry Picnic 8/21-8/27/11 on Gooseberry Garden
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
its paradox
ever emerging
all sides
of you
choose the
one in your now
who is
in between
your dark night
your early dawn
rising
because it knows
what to do
…next
is it the
mystery
u n f o l d i n g
its view
its paradox
that chooses
without limits
to protect you?
© r.e.l. 7/20/11
image klamath lake by simsha
Posted for Poetry Potluck 7/17-7/23/11 on Jingle Poetry
Featured in All Out Emotion on redbubble
Featured in Touched By Fire on redbubble
star on a distant paradise
where are you now
in this moment, i ask
climbing a ladder to a distant cloud
that only i know…
floating on a bubble under a wave of life?
you are crazy
with the mystery you breathe
you are the pure energy
of love
… fire mixed with water
and raindrops inside sand
you are tears and joy forever intertwined
like a bird not knowing his wings
still… after all
you know you are
the one who saved me from a distant paradise
and you are true
© r.e.l. 11/4/10
image nightbird2
Posted on Poetry Potluck 7/10-7/17/11 on Jingle Poetry
speak to me
speak to me, greatness
through your door
of mirrors
and mist
© r.e.l. 6/23/11
image by simeon schatz photography
Posted for Poetry Potluck 6/26-7/2/11 on Jingle Poetry
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
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
try to fool me
you can try to fool me
fool me not
but maybe at morning
as the day begins to remind me
that day can be night if i let it
or i can move backwards
through time
deceptions as distractions
flowing through my brain
when it believes that maybe chaos does rule the world
try me, try to fool me, maybe once…
and then maybe, i’ll go to the other leftside of the moon later
© r.e.l. 4/1/11
image “blumoon2009″
posted for Poetry Potluck 6/12-6/17/11 for Jingle Poetry
ghost
can i face you, ghost
and know everything
that what isn’t said
could be
but is masked instead in a mist…
its chosen way
lose yourself
in me
when you feel you see me
but don’t
a side of me, you follow
gone like mist, maybe sleeping
eyes lost
given
proudly to you
and for you
© r.e.l. 3/15/11
this poem inspired uncleblack to compose a song ‘ghost’ using these lyrics… posted on bandcamp (the katie winter).
thank you! 
posted for Poetry Potluck 3/27-4/2 on Jingle Poetry
featured in Feminine Intent on redbubble
within cells behind parts
you brought me up
from the shadows
a mystery of parts
crying
a voice heard only
by the ground
healing
through air,
now whole…
balanced on me
to float
in your way you
could see what others did not
within the cells behind parts
how?
© r.e.l. 3/11/11
posted on Poetry Potluck-3/13-3/19/11 for Jingle Poetry
reason realized
you are my soul…
i see you as i am inside
looking out
to feel
with your magical sight
positioning yourself
to give me eyes
but still i ask
who are you anyway?
i know what i know what i don’t have
do you?
you have spaces
that my spaces fit in always
leaving me speechless
you are precious and tough
i’m reaching for you
you are a smile that lasts from the first light
to the last dream of you
and for you…
to see you is to hear you
knowing this about me
ever-changing as you read
my mind
to bring me my finest moments
and so i speak to you
we are reason realized
my world inside
as my tiny roots blend with you
© r.e.l. 3/4/11
image “blumoon” by simeon schatz
posted for Thursday’s Poet Rally, week 39 (march 3-9)
thank you, Jingle, for the Perfect Poet Award I accept… [For next week I nominate Loomings poetry ]
featured in Feminine Intent on redbubble
the way your roots reach into me
empower me to empower you
you know, the way your roots reach into me
like feathers on a journey
to find themselves
find me where you would not
think to imagine
remember i’m an enigma
i’m a mystery that floats in
the shadows,
t h e u n k n o w n
and sometimes, it’s strange
but i can feel the moments
when a secret begins…
© r.e.l. 2/16/11
written for Thursdays Poet Rally week 38 (feb 17-23, 2011)
image of Feather of male peacock (Indian peafowl), Wikimedia Commons
featured on Vibration in Art and Verse – VAVoom! on redbubble
submitted to World Poetry Movement (Published! — for book Stars In Our Hearts)
an anonymous soul
you are a mystery and a mind who flies
among thoughts, reacting to time
in a body, yet not… memories
only a part of you because
you know there’s a space
between, that is silent
it will heal you if
you let it
speak
and know
you, before you do
for a reason unknown
but do it anyway because
it is your trip through life
we are more real every day
© r.e.l. 2/12/11
inspired by another soul
featured in Freedom to Shine on redbubble
posted for Poetry Potluck week 22 on Jingle Poetry
