Don’t you ever think you can hide your love away Or that fickle Time could ever be your ally For Time, I know, will bring you back my way And then we both wish Time stop when, together, we lie. Like the long winter that seems forever cold Soon its steely grip must give way to the spring So that in the summer sun your body hold The harshest season soon surrender to the love you bring. And though the night has seemed only too long Where dreams are the only place you appear Soon the d...

Where Love Best Belong  Why did I ever doubt what you feel for me? Today, you only showed how I am insecure  Before such stakes I was afraid what could be  But, then, your words spoke of something sure. What's left is that convention must be let aside  So your words my love for you express The proof when you're lying by my side And your body and soul before me undress.  But, what I write here this page only know  When I see you again can my desires obey? For the circumstances we...

Sonnet 340 (Final Winter) I watch as leaves from Arbor safety fall Once swathed in summer breaths of cold now blast Their brilliant shades can’t breach the nighttime pall What seemed so long, in truth, can never last. And, so, I saw forever in a leaf Before its cradle of tranquility And learned our life’s own season is as brief While Heaven did beckon only distantly. And though the leaf did fall, the tree stood still  What fragile showed, to me, a higher plane We are like leaves...

Even Worth Living So now that you have left me I am too numb to feel And afterwards will come the pain Right now nothing seems real Except not seeing you again. But sleep is coming and, so, my dreams Maybe there you will reappear But the morning will show the sun’s beams And you will not be here. I don’t know how such loss will affect me Except an empty place you once made full And tomorrow where, you, will not see In a world you made wonderful. I don’t know how I can face s...

Sonnet 344 (This World Move) The sun now shines but still not bright The day is warm but still, to me, feels cold The song bird’s notes do not on me alight So long as on this Earth your hand can’t hold. Though Roses bloom their radiance don’t see Their gardens full but, still, to me are bare The beauty only seen when you're with me And all else pales when, in your sight, compare. And life goes on but, yet, to me stands still All else may live but, now, my heart denied For all th...

My Life’s Garden The morning comes but, in my heart, you first are mine Or else no use in waking up to the day And if you weren’t here the sun wouldn’t shine It will only shine if I know you will always stay. The birds sing but first I hear your song Or else their chords an empty harmony But with you here they sing that we belong Serenading the love, you share with me. The flowers blossom but your bud in me first grow Else my heart wilted no matter how bountiful For you are the ...

Never Alive I heard this Robin singing so melodiously But, she is alone so only the woods and I can hear I wondered what happened to her family Would she sing more happily if they were here? And though her chords reverberated in my heart I, too, am in her isolated audience of one From my humanity and my love so far How more pleasant if from my life did not run? And if her winged family arrives to hear her sing How more buoyantly her notes will sound? For to her serenade the harm...

Mere Words Words, conveyors of what is our mind and heart Is there anything lost in the translation? What words could I use to explain when we are apart Or is it enough that I am seen past salvation? What could I write here to show how I feel That some reader see in some future age? Not unless Time could before these moments kneel And my love for you becomes its center stage. While on a page the most moving verses written That to a man’s heart render so very close and true How c...

Your Kiss I tried to say goodbye but not easy to let go Anyway, what I feel, could it ever be realized? It would be some different place to show Even then would I get one I most prized? I decided I should leave your beauty For some other man to happily discover Then the wisdom of my decision you would see I could never be your lover. So, now I will go but not before you, one last time, turn To let see one that I must leave behind and miss And for what might have been will always...

Sunbeams She traipses on sunbeams like a spirit, here, free And Heaven an angel like this must surely miss And in her beauty nowhere else need to be For I am in Heaven with only her kiss. She rides rainbows until she follows the sun Their colors her aura's brilliance transcend And with the sky now clear she the only one That to the day her beauty lend. She skips so daintily across the ocean crests Like a sea nymph goddess of modern lore So to the mystery of this world she at...