i’m used to your fervor
your passion in the moment
touching the part of me
that lingers
moving toward you…
but your attention
drifting
although lovingly
remembering
the way you used to be
before me
© r.e.l. 4/10/11
image “Golden Brown” by Mayou
posted for Poetry Potluck 4/10-4/17/11 on Jingle Poetry
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
**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
a
special
kind of
butterfly
in my
stomach
.
i adore
the way
you are
made of
stardust
as if gathered
together
for me
© r.e.l. 4/5/11
**published on Micropoetry 2/6/14
**featured in Love Bytes on redbubble
posted for Thursday Poets Rally 4/7-4/13/11 on Promising Poets
if you forget me
do you think i’ll forget you?
not a chance…
because you are part of
the idea
that i’ve always had
where a secret
floats like a cloud
and you already know
what it is
before it invites you
© r.e.l. 4/4/11
image of “forget-me-not flowers” by simeon schatz
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
you could live there
your heart beating
in my mind
as a trail
to the sun…
…missing life
without you…
…like the times
when the flowers
kiss
the
bees
© r.e.l. 4/1/11
image “flowers kiss”
posted on Luna’s world
Posted for Poetry Potluck 4/3-4/9/11 on Jingle Poetry
you complete me as you rise
to fill every gap
with each perfect
complement
knowing
you truly
to be full
of cells
immersed
in your deep
as the covers of me
of time
left
basking
purely invisible
© r.e.l. 3/31/11
image “mountaintree5” by simsha
inspired by kundalini energy, induced by hatha yoga
posted for The Thursday Post on Ethereal Heights
Posted for Poetry Potluck 4/3-4/9/11 on Jingle Poetry
what is your wish?
why don’t you tell it to me
now…
so i can keep it safe in the place
where the trees know
your name
and why not tell me too
if you are for real
in a place where i am you
and you are me
did i tell you yet that you are my wish?
© r.e.l. 3/30/11
image of my wishng tree…
Posted for Poetry Potluck 4/3-4/9/11 on Jingle Poetry
i yearn for
the touch
of your river
flowing toward me…
as the river settles
to the ocean
i am the mix
of me, your warrior
of you, my wave…
© r.e.l. 3/23/11
inspired by the Bhagavad Gita and the Osa peninsula of Costa Rica
posted for Thursday Poets Rally week 40 on Promising Poets
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
you changed my life
as i went numb
waking with your lightning storm
inside in my dream
your fire, outside
of me…
i wondered, silently,
will i last through this next moment
in your presence?
drawn to you, still
forever in my memory
© r.e.l. 3/13/11
image “stormyard3” – a lightning storm
posted on Poetry Potluck-3/13-3/19/11 for Jingle Poetry
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
do you
know
what it
feels like
to know
that
when i hold
my hand up
to the sky…
it has your fingerprint on it?
© r.e.l. 3/6/11
image by simsha
posted for Jingle Poetry week 25
shared on Ethereal Heights
featured in FREEDOM IN WORDS & ART on redbubble
featured in Love Bytes on redbubble
on the mission to forever
my sun is yours
did you know it finds you
when your eyes are opened?
a seed, free to be…
floating with something
beautiful
the embers keep you alive
. . .
but i have a secret
listen
come up for air
i’m thankful that i know
what happens to seeds
who are loved
© r.e.l. 3/5/11
image “the sun”
posted for Jingle Poetry week 25
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
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
this is how it works
i see your insides
they speak to me
© r.e.l. 2/23/11
posted for Poetry Potluck week 24 (2/27-3/5/11)
color me
with your eyes, crystal clear
look into me
jump into your self
find the bluest part of you
in your clouds
there is something about you
that changed me
remember me
find it again
© r.e.l. 2/20/11
image “Agave” by George Lenz
posted for Poetry Potluck week 23 (2/20-2/27/11)
featured on Ethereal Heights by Sharmishtha Basu
will you catch me
if i fall?
i am jaded by my past that haunts me
the wild are free
and unpredictable
and contagious
and luring
yes…
i always love their mirrors
that show me
myself
it was already yours…
© r.e.l. 2/18/11
image by NINA-L
posted for Poetry Potluck week 23 (2/20-2/27/11)
posted for Poetry Picnic 10/16-10/22/11 on Gooseberry Garden
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