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
Posted on Micropoetry 7/17/14 for #glass theme
poetry
only time, constantly
something right
brought me to
carry the fire
shut your eyes or look away
i’m only time, constantly
stopping only
in a memory
© r.e.l. 6/14/11
image of old clocks
Posted for Thursday Poets Rally 6/15-6/22/11 on Promising Poets
Featured in All Out Emotion on redbubble
behind your eyelids
there’s a forever
in there somewhere amongst you
behind your eyelids
© r.e.l. 6/2/11
[haiku for you]
image by simsha
posted for Thursday Poet’s Rally 6/2-6/9/11 on Promising Poets
why
why
you know
is because it
is your way to find
me where i am… where
the edge meets the whisper
that washes away the sands of
surrender, to touch me with patience
© r.e.l. 5/30/11
image of me by simsha
posted on Poetry Potluck 5/29-6/4/11 on Jingle Poetry
velvet moon
like a dream you wander
through the side of you
that gathers shadows best
but it’s in the time
in between moments
that scratch at you
and die off as ashes,
your secret revealed
when i sleep
your path is you, you know
so follow it
© r.e.l. 5/27/11
image by simsha
Posted for Poetry Potluck 5/29-6/4/11 on Jingle Poetry
also absolutely
photographer: Chris Burkard (image of surfer Peter Mendria on Chile’s West Coast)
***
as it seems… there is a you
that experiences something other
like a wave with its ocean,
or a particle of air with its vast space
as if you, the wave
join with the other, the ocean
and yet,
also absolutely
something larger
now
© r.e.l. 5/23/11
inspired by Erich Schiffmann meditations
Posted for The Thursday Post 26.5.11 on Ethereal Heights
Posted for Poetry Potluck 5/29-6/4/11 on Jingle Poetry
Featured in Vibration in Art and Verse – VaVoom! on redbubble
Featured in Nautical on their “Special Gallery – Poems and Images that Delight” on redbubble
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
where do you go?
where do you go at night when i think you are sleeping?
i looked under my pillow
but you weren’t there…
i hear you
and feel you
especially when
the nocturnal
start to stir
and tell me
you are here
again…
just listening
© r.e.l. 5/15/11
Posted for Poetry Potluck 5/14-5/21/11 on Jingle Poetry
wander
wandering free,
yet expressed…
come with me to see how
somewhere between the wild
and the calm,
i know you
as you are
you.
© r.e.l. 5/12/11
image by simsha
Posted on Poetry Potluck 5/22-5/28/11 on Jingle Poetry
the fire in you
how is the fire in you
the fire in me
at times when i least
expect it to be?
you lead
i follow
when your steam, your inferno
catches me…
in a moment i blaze…
and you know the truth
whether you
created your moment
for me or not
© r.e.l. 5/9/11
Posted on Micropoetry
Featured in All Out Emotion on redbubble
Posted on Poetry Potluck 5/22-5/28/11 on Jingle Poetry
your piece of bark with quills
i haven’t
written
yet
or
spoken much
since the last time
i found
the way
to your
place inside you
that you protect
© r.e.l. 5/4/11
posted for Thursday Poet’s Rally 5/5-5/11/11 on Jingle Poetry
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”
secrets unknown
through hidden stairways 
i see you best
the way you grow
in between
that which is covered
(and unknown…)
but beautiful you are
(secret, speak to me)
the ones who know
are lucky ones
who live there
in your recipe of magic
the others
pass
and find in you
their favorite
moments
(reverse time now
to show me
your unknown)
© r.e.l. 4/27/11
image taken at a secret 108 address
posted for Thursday Post 28.4.11 on Ethereal Heights
seeds
i will
plant more
seeds
near the flower
that is you
walking away now
to your
innuendo
in a dream
where a shadow
misses your touch
f a i n t l y, with eyes closed
a fire burns, a purple hue
and its silence speaks
© r.e.l. 4/22/11
image on “suntrail” in mill valley, ca
posted for Poetry Potluck 4/24-4/30/11 on Jingle Poetry
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
especially when
on the pathway to greatness
realized, by your form
and your flow
the way it washes into me
especially when i’m not looking
© r.e.l. 4/18/11
image “sun beach”
posted for Thursday Poets Rally 4/21-4/27/11 on Promising Poets
red
fire
me up
with your
sun
and your
soul..
like
the way
i sometimes
feel
the flame
pierce the
shield
i keep
around me
it feels good
to know you
do it
again
…
© r.e.l. 4/17/11
image “red sun”
**featured in All Things Poetic, Artistic, Philosophical on redbubble
posted to Luna’s World week 3
posted for Poetry Potluck 4/17-4/23/11 on Jingle Poetry
my twists, your turns
i see you
only partly
and maybe later
you’ll know
the difference between
my twists
and your turns
whisper to me,
snakelike path
of wholeness…
you deserve
a view
© r.e.l. 4/15/11
image on mt. tamalpais in mill valley
**featured in All Things Poetic, Artistic, Philosophical on redbubble
posted for Poetry Potluck 4/17-4/23/11 on Jingle Poetry
my secret innuendo® 
