Category Archives: love poems

When in Silence, Comes

When in silence, comes she whose heartbeat scatters stars for his ghosts to follow flicker out lost loves fall away, this susurrus to humble ears, hear not promises made of fairy dust. One is kept away from you, one comes … Continue reading

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Awaiting this

Wave the hand of consciousness to reveal what lies beneath the mist of thinking. That realm of obscurity, where faith is a wick; knowledge, its wax; and the Beloved, the igniting breath. We read the words and seek their meaning, … Continue reading

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The Absence

Part I – The Absence In the silent strike of her haunting hours she slowly stirs, wakes, and sways from a drunken fog to awoken dreaming He beckons across a midnight lake and says, “Come beloved, wash the confusion from … Continue reading

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In the Hidden Wood

I thought to myself, “I have a haunting feeling I’ll be passing this way again.” But what if I were to take a different path to get here and then from here onward, yet another. Could you be with me? … Continue reading

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Palpable Specter of Absence

The palpable specter of absence, brushes the lips ere the press of a kiss, softening on the edge of a sigh’s sweet perception and there upon this precipice we cast our wishes in all cardinal directions. Every sad memory holds … Continue reading

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Precisely Enough

When I do not have You I endure, Yet, I’d break were You only mine Without You I depart When I’m with You, I arrive. If I am kissing You, I cannot hear Your words. When we are done kissing, … Continue reading

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Long Sweet Solitude

O’ long sweet solitude beside You and if not with You, then surrounding the thought of, If not the thought, then within the vast lingering emptiness that only Your limitless essence could leave. I melt and pour myself into Your … Continue reading

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Mysterious Depths

There are page-empty days that I do not wish to draw you, in charcoal or yellow or write of you, or kiss you, or make love to you; or to sing beside you about lost treasure, or to hear you, … Continue reading

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The Edge

There is love at the edge and on either steep side below the scintillating surface and ocean’s lost depths and boundless sky. I am the ocean’s thin edge step thee nearer to me step far into this sea foam you … Continue reading

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Candle Shadows

Hauntings in the tiny hours, When you wake in the morning darkness Surrounded by the sparks and sputters of the world, But yet quite alone in its starkness. Ghosts of things you wished you had said To visages and voices … Continue reading

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