Summer sky

is a halved peach,

swelling of sugar, red  

on your tongue, rain 

We keep watch of summer fireflies
Flitting of orange red
Dazzling of lights, a symphony
Cloaking night with silk threads 

       Let's stay

               under the stolen sky

            twining

As two seed pods, marking
Time a bandit, for come sunrise
All too soon, we're parting 


The above poem follows Robert Herrick's stanza form:

x x x x x x x a
x x x x x b
x x x x x x x c
x x x x x b
x d
x x x x x d
x c
x x x x x e
x x x x x x x a
x x x x x e 


Posted for Imaginary Garden for Real Toads - Play It Again
& Poets United - Thanks for the visit ~

Picture credit:   here

Naked under the moon

your words are both sweet and silver
flaming my candle wick --  
incandescent and fevered lips --  
perhaps a full moon's trick  
or song 
weaving spells for miles long --
i slip
smaller hands unto yours --
trusting this:  flare, heat and river 
sweeping, flowing like (h)ours-- 





your kisses are like fire and ice
awakening my words
to gentleness, beholding peace
precious like sharpened sword --
i bare
my thoughts, wounds to your care--
i cease
building walls, an island
next to the sea, lofty with a price
but empty, frail as sands   

Artist:   Gustav Klimt 

Posted for OpenLinkNight of D'verse Poets Pub - every Tuesday, starting 3pm EST 
and One Single Impression 
and Wicked Wednesday - Nice to meet you ~

Based on form of  Robert Herrick's poem - To Daffodils - This is my second offering using this format as I was inspired by the terrific responses to my first -  Shaken by your beauty.

x x x x x x x a                                               Inspirational poem: 
x x x x x b                                                     "All night I have slept with you
x x x x x x x c                                               next to the sea, on the island.  
x x x x x b                                                      Wild and sweet you were between pleasure and sleep,
x d                                                                     between fire and water. "  
x x x x x d                                                      ~ Night on the Island by Pablo Neruda
x c                                                                  
x x x x x e
x x x x x x x a                                             

x x x x x e                                                       

Shaken by your beauty

                                       i am awakened by beauty

                                                          crystal flake & sunset -

                  tangerine bloom, speckled pink cheeks 

                                       i gaze, basking your scent  

                                                   shaken                        

      by joy, keenly taken

                                                   i speak     

                                       no words, as if lightning 

                         arrowed my tongue, piercing ruby-    

                             heart to burst into spring  

                                         you fall by the crackling coal fire 

          snow drift of seeds and pines -  

                         alabaster skin turning gold

                                         i dream that you are mine   

                            shaking  

like a leaf,  deep aching    

                            to fold    

                                         my arms are lengthening 

                 to cup your spires, hollows and flare

                            until there's us - ripening

Posted for OpenLinkNight of Imaginary Garden with Real Toads & Poets United

and Sunday's Challenge - based on form of  Robert Herrick's poem - To Daffodils

x x x x x x x a                                               Inspirational quote:
x x x x x b                                                    “You lethargic, waiting upon me,
x x x x x x x c                                               waiting for the fire and I, 
x x x x x b                                                     attendant upon you, shaken by your beauty.
x d                                                                  Shaken by your beauty.
x x x x x d                                                     Shaken."
x c                                                                 ~William Carlos Williams 
x x x x x e
x x x x x x x a
x x x x x e 

This year has been a productive year of writing for me.   I have written 132 for this blog, and another 176 in my other blog, a total of 309 for 2012.   Thank you for all the support and encouragement.   Happy New Year to all my blogger friends.