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’
© r.e.l. 1/10/11
image of ‘Twisted Heart’ by byzantinehalo
featured in Love Bytes on redbubble
posted for Poetry Potluck 5/1-5/7/11 doubts, fear, inhibition, hesitation
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.
© r.e.l. 1/3/11
inspired by song ‘Inscape’ by Stateless
Featured in Imaginative Skulls on redbubble
Posted for Poetry Potluck week 5/1-5/7/11 doubts, fear, inhibition, hesitation on Jingle Poetry
Posted (partial) for Micropoetry 3/20/14
he barely scratches the surface when he knows
that he wants her
to take something from him
just what… is elusive
but does it matter to you?
take the last bit
maybe more
it is the least i can offer
to you
for, in this moment
this unique instant…
my heart beats against the wind
© r.e.l. 12/24/10
inspired by D. H. Lawrence
**this post is for Poetry Potluck Week 16 on Jingle Poetry
Featured in Love Bytes on redbubble
Received The Most Creative Blogger Award from Jingle Poetry
a smile can speak a thousand words
but it cannot calm a broken heart.
how do you talk to a heart
and tell it to live in the moment
to tell it it’s been broken for a reason?
it has no reasoning
only feeling…
how, after convincing it to open wide
to give itself to another
again going to a vulnerable place
this time because it’s safe
because the other expresses heart and soul,
how do you convince a heart
that its message is received, appreciated with love
but that demons have eaten it
because it was perfect exactly as it was?
how do you tell a heart that it’s ok
to stay open and surrender
when it can think of nothing else
but the last time you told it this
answering its prayers?
how do you tell it that
its karma was shared with another
so you did it no harm
trust me this time and surrender
sent to me from the stars
just your heart in exchange for mine
your soul for mine
to be a colony in which to become each other?
a heart is a star
but it can’t shine when it’s broken
broken because love brings up its brokenness
surrender…
because it’s unknown how long it will take
to heal, if ever.
yet all a heart asks is
why do you walk away from something beautiful?
it does what you say though
and surrenders again…
feeling itself in everything
for guidance
but still it all tells it the same,
that the heart it opened for
is still open
just hidden underneath
and that it should hang on.
© r.e.l. 2/9/08
submitted to caesura 2/5/14
featured on Love Bytes on redbubble
featured on Poetic License Series in may 2011
posted for Poetry Potluck 5/1-5/7/11 doubts, fear, inhibition, hesitation on Jingle Poetry
posted for Poetry Picnic 10/16-10/22/11 on Gooseberry Garden
submitted to Knuckle Sandwich Publishing
you
have no
idea what you
are doing to me now
inside… how you watch me
with your future eyes that penetrate
the air between us… i realize that i describe
a moment that hasn’t happened yet
but still, somehow i find
myself inside
you
..
© r.e.l. 12/8/10
Photo of the Helix Nebula
Featured in Freedom in Words & Art on redbubble
this post is for Poetry Potluck Week 14 on Jingle Poetry
thanks so much to Jingle for this Stellar Blogger Award on Jingle Poetry
you, alone in your chair of green
looking at me as if…
you’ve known me all your life
you have
you watch me with a loving stare
of nothingness
of sadness so deep, the tears have dried up
you believe in your world
made up amidst feathers
anything to make you feel safe
and loved
you ask me
though silently
please don’t ignore me while i sleep
© r.e.l. 11/19/10
Featured on Vibration in Art and Verse – VAVoom! on redbubble
you said you love me and then …
and then i breathe
inhale you
to find that your ‘no’ now is really fear
afraid of trusting the moment unfolding
the moment is beautiful, don’t you see
when i’m with you i see, i trust
when we’re apart sometimes it’s hard for me
it is like a bird flying away that i cannot capture
light yet i have a cage
trust me to return to you
i trust you
i’m on my way back already
you are weak and need me now most
i’m afraid to say so
you want to be in control and the one who decides
not the invisible hand of destiny
softly, she touches my life..
she knows you
yes, she is who i recognize in you
you leave me now with no voice
i am here to listen to your heart’s whisper
shhhhhhh
i feel your heart
silence is real
© r.e.l. 10/27/10
written together with Wingpoem
Featured on The Wonderful World of Words on redbubble
we are
together
against the waves
of life…
take my hand
move forward with me
quietly
to discover…
only because i whispered it
only because i asked you
© r.e.l. 10/23/10
Featured in Touched By Fire on redbubble
Posted on Poetry Picnic 8/28-9/3/11 on Gooseberry Garden
you sit with me
and we gaze at the moon
from afar
it is the same moon
and invisible
i am
to you
yet i hope my flower
reaches your heart
in this moment
i picked it for you
© r.e.l. 9/4/10
Featured in All Things Poetic, Artistic, Philosophical on redbubble
i see myself
blurred
in the mirror
as you gather
my hair together
and wrap it around your wrist
for a moment
i am your p r i s o n e r…
eyes glassy i gaze
at a layering
of all my previous days
and all the time that is coming
and suddenly
i feel as if
i’ve become
invisible…
© r.e.l. 8/26/10
inspired by The Time Traveler’s Wife
Featured on Love Bytes on redbubble
Featured on Freedom in Words & Art on redbubble
Dear heart, sometimes I wonder who I am. I feel like I’ve never done this before, like I am new to love. Sometimes I get too nervous as if my vulnerable child is coming out of her shell for the first time. And when I do, I feel like a hummingbird alone in the rain.
A silent moment asks me to
breathe in all that I feel and ‘stay with me please’ with eyes looking into me. The answer is in the presence. To really feel the present moment with ease is to not worry about anything else but it. The answer is to not worry about needing to describe it in words, to anyone else or to myself. Those who share the moment too, will know exactly what I mean anyway. Silence speaks with a swirling energy between two people anyway, whether they are touching, across a room, or across the world. In that presence, another spirit is born… left to float off into the clouds at sunset but never to stop penetrating the everlasting moment.
© r.e.l. 7/24/10
Photo of Minnesota sunset by Michele Kamenar
Featured in Love Bytes on redbubble
is it me
for a moment
who leads you?
are you looking for me now
inside
some way… without defining how?
did you know that
i sit next to you now
in the tiniest house of time?
who am i to lead you…
i don’t know
but it is happening
still
© r.e.l. 7/21/10
photo from ‘The Fountain’ movie.
inspired by Kabir.
Featured in Speaking Out on redbubble
hold on
open and true
only you know your power…
please don’t close yourself off
to the world
that works for you
in the shadows
unfolding something
magical
for you
you do not
want to miss it
look up into the sky tonight
it’s the place to leave your doubts
i’ll hold you up
in the first star you see
© r.e.l. 7/5/10
Featured in Speaking Out on redbubble
unspoken words
speak above
emptying your soul
to me
but i know your secrets
i’m in you
the missing stone on your path
find me at the edge
near the bridge i see you on now
in the cold
you see me waiting
with your words
don’t ever change who you are
© r.e.l. 6/25/10
Featured in All Things Poetic, Artistic, Philosophical on redbubble
**This post is for Thursday Poets Rally Week 35 (12/16-12/22/10) on Promising Poets. Received The Most Influential Poet Award. thank you 🙂
Winner of The Celebrate Poet of 2010 Award (with Promising Poets and Jingle Poetry)
Posted (partial) on Micropoetry 8/8/14 for #empty theme
i fell asleep
with you
holding you tight
eyes closing
with a smile
your mystical roots
fears no more.
in the morning
you were still there
my hands in stillness
enclosing you
you whispered a secret…
you slept with
my magic
© r.e.l. 4/27/10
inspired by some magical gemstones
Featured in Touched By Fire on redbubble and Touched By Fire the blog
Posted on Poetry Potluck 7/24-7/30/11-Nature and Life on Jingle Poetry
through the vines
connecting my blood to infinity
i move so that i can water
your roots.
they reach out to me so…
each with its own strength, its own sound
its own breath, its own life
yet moving together as one.
i find you
where you are raw
not dark
but vulnerable
needing to be held
to feel safe
my breath, my attention
to your every need
your every call for touch
to be an open room
for you to pour your soul into.
you ask that of me
and i hear you.
your warmth has the power to soothe
and pierce me
to puncture the balloon
where i keep my secrets
can you feel it now?
as a bit seeps out
released in the air, to the open
to find its way
no longer trapped, no longer secret.
a veil between you and me
its thin yet it covers
that which we need to protect
until time opens its wings for our flight.
© r.e.l. 4/7/10
inspired by an embodied meditation at CIIS
Featured on Touched By Fire on redbubble
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