She distances herself
Traveling on her way
From his radiance and heat
Wishing she could stay
Watching him with glances
Over glaciers of apathy
Too hard to rest on
Too cold to comfort
And slowly from her view
His light fades
Dimming on her way
Through her heavy atmosphere
His heat
Now barely touching her skin
The fields of the past
Are mountains of the future
The depths of the oceans reach
To the clouds high above
Weeping for the river
Born to feed the land
And all the colors given
Existing from his hand
Ever changing on her way
Making little changes each day
The cold and dark surrounds her
Her gown of white turns gray
Before her now
Only the empty black
Interrupted
With all these distant points of light
And maybe
Her hero is there
Waiting
Reaching to her
With the bursts of gamma
Light years away
And the life and death
In random clouds
Of iridescent dust
Between the galaxies
Spinning to their black hole doom
And she wonders
Looking back
At his pulsing light
Remembering how he touched her
Hands of warmth
Hands of love
And she wonders
What if I die this day?
Forever lost in this universe
Frozen and empty
Uncaring and unforgiving
And to this heartless universe
An insignificant amount of time
The eons collide
Stretching the boundaries
Of what is yet to exist
And in a second of time
The planets make their solstice
And a day goes by
When the comets make their return
With their messages from the heavens
And the years are measured
With a kiss from a distant star
And in her lifetime
This galaxy spins one more time
A billion years spent growing
And a billion more to learn
And a billion more to love
And a billion more…
Veins of ice
Web across her skin
And still behind her
She can sense
The heart of her hero
His loving light
Forever shines
Through a long breath out
His spiced sigh
In the heat of his passion
Between out-stretched arms
He reaches for the maiden
So distant
Coveted but unreachable
A cold distance
The silence of the distance
And the silence of the space
Too much to bear
Within the heat of his heart
The heat of his passion
Blinding luminescence
Reflected by all that surrounds him
Still his only desire
His mistress to possess
He seeks to lie
In her lush fields
To rest his head
On her mossy grounds
And he seeks to taste
The bounty of her lips
To have the pleasure
Of her sweetness
On his tongue
Still her cold shoulder turns
The other cheek
Icily toward him
Frosted from her winter blanket
Not warmed by his kiss
Or his breath
Unknowing of his heart
The chambers inside
And the room he has made
Where his life flows strong
Her lips seal in
Her hanging breath
While she pretends
To ignore
The flames from his belly
And the heat that can burn away
The façade of her frozen gaze
A school girl’s game
Blissfully uncompromising
She spins around him
And she spins away from him
As he lights her way
The game goes on
Under the blanket of white
The Earth reclaims her right
As the feet turn to inches
Slowly before their eyes
The heat and fury
From deep below
Stretch and yaw
The fingers of the woman
Buried alive
Claw and dig and scratch
From underneath
Consuming her prison walls
High above
The hero of the day
Fights valiantly
Behind the colossus of the sky
To reach his fair maiden
Strands of golden curls
Drape the frozen towers
Her sentence
His quest
A word spoken
Like the sweetest honey
From her desirable lips
A word for his sake
A word for her hope
“Faith”
With the word
Fresh on the vibrations
Off her tongue
Echoes through the millennia
Giving rise to his heart
Buoyed from the stratosphere
Filling the salty oceans with tears
And love
And hope
And the fears of eternity
And the words spoken
From the lips of another
The fruits of his soul
And the passion once long lost
“I believe”
With those words
His taught muscles strained
Lifting this galaxy of weight
Deftly and agile
But seemingly insurmountable
Tired and weary
Crossing the light years
To drench her skin
To warm her fields
And ignite her flame
The steely silver blades
Threaten in his way
His time is short
To win his battle
To save his mistress
From the slumber of eternity
The dagger blades
Drive toward his heart
The time passes
And days go by
And still she lies
Under snowflakes that cover
Her glistening flesh
Soft and supple
Waiting for decay
Or her hero of the day
Beneath this ring of fire
In the winter freeze
Ice and snow
Shift to tiny daggers
Pointing to reach the flame
But with each passing moment
They creep farther away
COMMENTS
I will be reading and re-reading this one. I love it.
This is loaded with really good combinations and turns of phrase. I am really digging Birra.
That was epic.
Creepingandpeepingandseepingandreapingwhileothersaresleeping.
Nohidingyourefindingandtimingandtryingtogetaway.
Itsbreakingtheserankingsaroundlovingandloathingbutneverwillyouhavewhatyouwantwiththeseundertakings.
Whatmattersnotstillboilsyouhotwhileyourecreepingandpeepingandseepingandreeping.
Go away now, I should be sleeping...
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o.0o.0.o.0.o.0.o..0.o.0.o.0.o.0.o.0.o.0.o.0.o lotsaeyeballs
LOL
A crack in the shell
All the opening I need
Within lies the pearl
COMMENTS
Don't denigrate your haiku. Leave that for the people who really love you.
Personally, I rather enjoy your poetry.
...
Her frozen gaze to the distance
Looking to the future
Looking away
Left behind
The forlorn and forgotten
The unforgivable from the unforgiving
Through the broken window
Glass on the floor
The empty window
Hiding what she will not see
And she looks away
Instead she seeks the refuge
Of the amber prairie promise
And the wanderlust
Found in the blue sky
Spotted with white clouds
Peaks of mountains
White capped
Waves crash
White sand
An hourglass
And the promise
Of everything
And from what she mourns
She looks away…
COMMENTS
Truley excellent way with words
Marvelous.
You are incredible.
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Sinora
15:41 Jan 31 2009
At first I was'nt sure which was my favourite part, then I realised I liked all of it.
faeriemoon
05:10 Feb 02 2009
The pictures you've painted with your words are stunning. I can see through her eyes. The emotion is tangible. You never cease to amaze me.