Beauty

Numerous pairs of eyes, Searching in a crowd
All searching for someone else
All searching for...

like an alabaster box
left in a downtown manhole
you're a fragile beauty
yearning to...

dare I close my eyes and wonder where you’ve gone?
return to me, the happy ending of my dreams...

He calls himself Mister Gorgeous get out of his way
Preens in front of the mirror every...

Trying to preserve time by staying on the grind
Planting seeds in my prime so my future me and mine...

Speckles of blue light
Dance on the floor
A pattern created
By draught at the door...

Look over there,
it’s her.
Her.
Just her.
No one more.
Her.
She...

A Haiku inspired by Greg Etsell’s lovely poem “The Colors of Life

The colors of life
...

In three days time she will be 74, but looks more like 47;
She is the gift that I appreciate most,...

You're my perfect lover,
In Life,
My true sweetheart, My forever soulmate, Your my best...

I'm​ waiting for her,
Dreaming of her in my life,

I'm watching my time go by,
Slowly...

Far away
So far away
My mind now loves to go and play

Its cold
And damp there...

Body.

I say, I have a voice,
they say, no, you have teeth,
that aren't white,...

Your voice pure
As honey, Gentel whispers.......

Your warm touch,
Your bright smile...

Overlapping as it climbed the stairs,
unable to be sweeped away.
Finally the sun takes it...

Sultry heat of night in stray,
Beauteous auburn leaves that lay,
Sporadic in twirl upon soil...

Your smile always touches my heart,
Your soft touch leaves me breathless, I'm falling in love,...