the way your roots reach into me

February 16, 2011May 9, 2015 / my secret innuendo / 44 Comments

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…

submitted to caesura 2/5/14

written for Thursdays Poet Rally week 38 (feb 17-23, 2011)

image of Feather of male peacock (Indian peafowl), Wikimedia Commons

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submitted to World Poetry Movement (Published! — for book Stars In Our Hearts)

i’m still here

February 14, 2011May 6, 2012 / my secret innuendo / 6 Comments

i
live
in
the
subtle
world.
can
you feel me?
breath me?
see me? if not,
it’s ok. i’m still here…. for you
© r.e.l. 2/14/11

heart-rock spotted near pt. reyes lighthouse

an anonymous soul

February 12, 2011February 23, 2015 / my secret innuendo / 14 Comments

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

inspired by another soul

featured in Freedom to Shine on redbubble

posted for Poetry Potluck week 22 on Jingle Poetry

find a way to show me

February 8, 2011February 23, 2015 / my secret innuendo / 17 Comments

as soon as i think i know
then i remember
that i don’t…

you’re already there
don’t forget
who you are

i won’t turn anything on
or off
can i just be me?

can’t you try to keep your soul
and fill your heart
but not take mine?

you mean let the ground speak
through my feet?

you’re irresistible to me
in ways that i cannot tell

find a way
to show me

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posted for Poetry Potluck week 22 on Jingle Poetry

featured in Love Bytes on redbubble

your glow

February 6, 2011February 23, 2015 / my secret innuendo / 9 Comments

your glow
it speaks
syllables
through sound to me

perceive me
receive me
move with me
in circles
outward
piercing

be gentle with me
thank you
i am me

i feel you as you are
i heard what you said
don’t go
don’t stop
you are the best part of you

image “Peaceful Green” by AmandaGWright

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posted for Poetry Potluck week 22 on Jingle Poetry

it helps me sleep at night

February 5, 2011May 6, 2012 / my secret innuendo / 25 Comments

please don’t
steal my heart away
unless you know how to hold it
i think i need to keep it
close to me
for me… now

you play games
and i don’t…
don’t you see
it is all real to me?

yes i can feel your heartbeat
running through me
it helps me sleep at night
the way it whispers to me
sleep with me… i have a heart too

Posted for Poetry Potluck week 21 (2/6-2/12/11)-Aims, Goals, Ambitions on Jingle Poetry

you sighed

February 2, 2011February 23, 2015 / my secret innuendo / 14 Comments

tell me how you do it
remaining
still
yet luring
silent…
pulsing
as a mystery
i asked for long ago
you know
i prefer no answer
because i know you
are not done yet
telling the truth
and are as honest
as the way
you were
when i first knew
in that fine moment
that with you
how could you not
be a secret…

you sighed through the sky
and i heard you say that
i’m still here
you are priceless

image “Lamp” by dab

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Posted for Poetry Potluck week 21 (2/6-2/12/11)-Aims, Goals, Ambitions on Jingle Poetry

i believe you, your innuendo

January 28, 2011May 6, 2012 / my secret innuendo / 24 Comments

you sparkle
with your gift
i slept next to you
last night
you are my wish, you know

and you are mine

where are you now
in this moment
stepping lightly
through misty time
with a fire not forgotten?

you say, don’t rush it
but stay on the edge:
your whisper…

to you i respond, i believe you
my secret:
your innuendo...

it’s time
to open the door
if ever so slightly
to me

i am here
and i knew you
before
i knew you were coming

image ‘Through My Window’ by Ron Moss

posted for Poetry Potluck week 20: Peace, Relaxation, Spirituality on Jingle Poetry

even if you aren’t sure

January 25, 2011February 23, 2015 / my secret innuendo / 22 Comments

alone.

at peace.

to hear the silence of the ripples before the storm

and to know that you are always

the best part of you

…even if you aren’t sure

image ‘Night fisherman’ by Lorenzo Castello

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posted for Poetry Potluck week 20: Peace, Relaxation, Spirituality on Jingle Poetry

alive

January 23, 2011May 6, 2012 / my secret innuendo / 12 Comments

i see you
in the mirror of my life
there in the twilight
not knowing.. not breathing.. just being..

who is to know what is real?

stealing myself
from the fire in my aura
you are alive with the heat that wraps around you in a field
of that which is alive,

yet not.

image ‘Red Tree Spirit’ by Ron Moss

posted for Poetry Potluck week 20: Peace, Relaxation, Spirituality on Jingle Poetry

are you a dream come true?

January 21, 2011May 28, 2011 / my secret innuendo / 54 Comments

are you a dream come true
like the ageless mist
with its hue?
you are the wind that keeps me moving
the force that guides me to know…
that it will all be ok
no matter what.

close your eyes now
remember the time when
i last whispered in your ear
and held you tight.
remember me that way.
that way, only.
it is how i remember you.

Image of ‘her place’ by melanie crawford

Posted for Poetry Potluck week 19 (rules, regulations, laws) on Jingle Poetry

tell me yours

January 19, 2011May 6, 2012 / my secret innuendo / 35 Comments

a story to tell
…tell me yours
……you wonder though when to surrender
………i see you hide behind
…………the way you are
……………just around the bend, you whisper
………………i’ll fly to you

Image “. . .” by mimi yoon

Posted for Poetry Potluck week 19 (rules, regulations, laws) on Jingle Poetry

half spoken, half heard

January 12, 2011February 23, 2015 / my secret innuendo / 22 Comments

i believe you
in every word
there is a silence
and past reminding me

you who have answers… or do you call them reasons…

reasons with questions that ask me do you always speak to me in colors that keep their beauty? through tears in paper that beg to know me?

through words, half spoken, half written, half heard but always known…

like the pages of time
i ask myself now, who am i?
but you know better, so i flip through the pages

to find you, to find me, to find the other half of me..

Image of ‘Lost Goddess Diaries: The Truth BE Told’ by AmandaGWright

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Posted for Poetry Potluck week 18 (1/16-1/22/11) Languages, Signs and Symbols on Jingle Poetry

Received The Sunshine Award from Jingle Poetry

beg me

January 10, 2011February 23, 2015 / my secret innuendo / 22 Comments

beg me
to take a second look
by placing a thought of me
in your mind
twist yourself in me

then let me sleep…

you again, who are you?
calling you
to say
‘throw in your heart too’

image of ‘Twisted Heart’ by byzantinehalo

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posted for Poetry Potluck 5/1-5/7/11 doubts, fear, inhibition, hesitation

beautiful one

January 7, 2011May 6, 2012 / my secret innuendo / 36 Comments

come to me in a dream from far away, through smoky eyes or darkened skies. fly…

do i describe a land or courage that only i know?

the river is near to take us
with few words it speaks clearly…

i felt you watch me as i slept. i reached my arms out
did you feel them?

you are listening… say something to me, beautiful one

Image of a liquid star

Submitted for Thursday Poets Rally week 37 (1/13-1/19/11) on Promising Poets

maybe i’m scared too

January 3, 2011February 23, 2015 / my secret innuendo / 16 Comments

maybe i’m scared too. i’m scared to know that i do feel what you say.

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux of Valenciennes

i’m scared to know that inside me is a seed growing, unstoppable.

powerful enough to find you. that if i water the seed it will grow, that it is already growing, that you are my future, that if i look into your eyes i will be swallowed like pools. to drown.

but in a sweetness that i won’t want to forget.

i’m scared that inside i know my life will have to change, that i’m not who i’m meant to be now, but i will be with you.

i’m scared that the unknown knows more about us than i do.

so, i ask you now, don’t stop.

inspired by song ‘Inscape’ by Stateless

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Posted for Poetry Potluck week 5/1-5/7/11 doubts, fear, inhibition, hesitation on Jingle Poetry

Posted (partial) for Micropoetry 3/20/14

in the raindrops

January 2, 2011May 6, 2012 / my secret innuendo / 18 Comments

you know
that you are
the light
that enters
my dark
the eclipse of you
a mystery
opening the door
to me
to my breath that lies floating now
exposed
lost in the raindrops of
knowing the cracks
in the spaces of us
tell a story we have yet to know
touched by the gap between inhaling and
remembering that you
do not leak out of my life
forever in a moment…