Poems

Greeting Card Poetry



How can I tell you, my dear love

How much you mean to me?

How knowing you are in the world

Brings life to all I see?



You fill my days and warm my nights

With joy I am replete

Without you, dear, I'm only half

With you I am complete.



Haiku



Timeless flood of life

Cold and confused we drift

Love - you are the shoal.





Shakespearean Sonnet



How can one soul another so enflame

As you who burn me daily on your pyre?

My heart ignites at mention of your name.

I burn for you, the forge of my desire.



If ever body yearned for immolation

Then mine so longs to leap into the blaze

To join you in eternal conflagration

And hold you 'til the end of both our days



So come into my arms and quench my yearning

And strike again the tinder to ignite

The passion that sets both our bodies burning

To bring illumination to the night.



For Love is not a fire that life devours

But flame of joy to light our darkest hours





A Villanelle



Don’t speak to me of what can never be

Nor cease to lie here nestled in my arms

I have no ears to hear nor eyes to see



Beyond this dreadful brilliant ecstasy

Which heart and sinew soothes and yet alarms

I have no ears to hear nor eyes to see



You are to me more precious than a sea

Of precious gems, or other women’s charms

I have no ears to hear or eyes to see



But still you turn away and say to me

That this and that our brightest future harms

Don’t speak to me of what can never be



I long to hold you for eternity

To feel the heat that body and soul warms

Don’t speak to me of what can never be

I have no ears to hear nor eyes to see.