I can't help but wonder
what heartfelt fortune
would be like
laying down beside you
not as a celebrated lover
but as a cherished friend
I can't help but ponder
if we might touch
sometime in that night
if we might kiss each other
I can't help but imagine
if that sort of touch felt right
if love would allow
its famous bite
to let us make love
exciting one another
love reminding us
of its fanatical contagion
would passion dare
to dim that bedroom light
or with blazing delight
would we even care
I can't help but reason
if on that desirous night
all our tender words
be truth as well as sorrow
if our needy hearts
might somehow find strength
unite our gentle sighs
until our morrow's light
expressing heartfelt highs
into the soulful dawning  
I can't help but dream
our beating hearts
soundly bound together
our heady thoughts
tasting blessed cream
our ready kisses
love's sweet poetry
we would write
just for that one
fleeting loving night
just like finding home
founded in that wonderful
intoxicating dream

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let me
sleep now
let me
dream now
let night
tell me stories
let dawn come
adoring morning glory
let daylight
integrate my dreams
let starlight
create integral love
let moon beams
delight from above
let true love
be what it truly means
let blessed love
permeate all our lives
let treasured love
instigate all our dreams

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after each tsunami
we picked up pieces
knowing wicked sea
would come again
gathering tidal intelligence
telling enigmatic stories
earthquakes bequeathing
gigantic horror
reminding idealistic us
about nature's order
all our grieving
leaving pessimistic memories  
about token beginnings
over broken endings
about washed-up lives
even sinners sinning
intrinsically believe
spoken prophecy
we're all woken
beginners so enlightened
by visions via seers
views on creation
words of destruction
forest instructing us
during each portal of disaster
all could plainly hear
screams of anguish and fear
beseeching warning alarms
screeching emotion issued
beyond those fiery gates
 of hungry angry hell
wait and watch
as unmanageable time revolves
screaming prophecy
elocution founding resolution
evolutionary meteors
eloquent as comets  
as they fly by
space and time treasures
each resounding heartbeat
measuring every
grounding breath
cherish each loving sigh
all those seizures
quadrillions of excited
atoms and molecules
reciting a trillion
waves of circumstance
inciting like a billion
raging saviour suns
universal inertia
sucked into a million
controversial black holes
each reverential half-moon
every impartial crescent
each parallel universe
hierarchy reconstructed
storied in that dream state
or is it all a daft charade
first romancing antenatal
then neonatal
some fatal blow
then entrancing resurrection
something creation knows
marking immortal institution
such crashing waves
so many holy woes
reverse as inverse
disturbing every sea
tearing up turbulent bottom
finally we are huddled
hovering in some dank cave
incredible change
full moon is something
we must always see
there are looming things
making us earthlings
take demanding ovulation
life is baptized  
glands leaking semen
speaking watery conception
still we harbour
liquid misconceptions
misunderstanding dreams
believing false convention
we must realize
earth's mortal reception
pondering gravity
dreaming divine inception
marveling and wondering
feeding immortal fire
seeking something colossal  
breaking over oral waves
sorting mortal seeds
sort of grounded in
our desirous moral caves

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along the way
we lose things
left right
from the start
things always change
that warm
dark place
if only we
could have stayed
then our mystical
painful journey
through newly opened
mysterious eyes
seeing mystery
our mother's
smiling face
left not knowing
right from the start
life and leaving
is risk and hardship
as well as grace

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a mosquito bite
a flea bite
a spider bite
a rat bite
a skunk bite
a wolf bite
a lion bite
a tiger bite
a shark bite
a needle stab
a knife cut
a sword gash
a spear wound
a bullet hole
a grenade blast
a mortar round
a tank shell
a shoulder launched RPG
a jet firing explosive rounds
confounded war markets
a HIMARS missile
seeking far off targets
an atomic bomb
then were gone

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celebrate fire
flashing flames
matching godly attire
why not put on
your dancing shoes
execute your flashy moves
generate public dancing
watch entrancing sparks fly
focus on something fancy
romance glowing embers
remarkable what fire does
we all have memories
all that hot flickering
our history of untamed flames
we know fire don't we
one member of our clan
remembering how to build
desiring each new fire
fire carries man
we're involved with fire
inspiring spirits appear
dressed in flaming attire
remember that burning bush
God knew we were crying
resolving unfettered human desire
together we're sitting around
feeding our nightly fire
staring into dancing flames
imagining how
we should be
care more
encourage licking
a perfumed reservoir
fuel before dying
sticks and drum beats
we're mesmerized
spark and ember plan
cruel trembling fire
leaves us sighing
truly fire can be
starkly generalized
dark destructive motion
devouring everything
institutionally externalized
so fire is desiring
familiar sticks and stones
more amicable fire
future us enabled
become more mechanized
technically we can
we are dexterous
bar none
maybe we
shouldn't be
politically religious
trying so damn hard
nature gives us fire
natural woman
natural man
we sigh and moan
should fire always
burn us up
self immolation perhaps
burning up our tracks
racking my brain
I'm wondering
if more
penitential wandering
maybe preferential rain
would help
perhaps some great wind
will blowing out will
all our fires out
it would be
one cold day
bemoaned in hell
what if all
scorned hell fire
was blown out
knowingly extinguished
still distinguished fire
needing fuel and air
we're bleeding oxygen
still we dare
grazing every depth
degenerating oceans
more heat needing fuel
reconnoituring revolutionary fire
venerated birth
generating death
fueling evolutionary emotion
flickering flames of desire
regenerating triggering fire
it's all relative  
celebrating tricky fire
karma's fiery narrative
fire's riveting devotion
sparks flames embers
inspiring human emotion

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once upon
solvent time
granted linear
it seems
time aligned
with servile love
vile insolvency
it seemed
evolving love
could never
leave us
such sizzling passion
volatile love
clearly dizzying treasure
deep within us
shear pleasure
love's caring kisses
surely measured
even rarely kissing
we kept grace
maintained purity
never dismissing
riveting compassion
giving and playing
sometimes slaying
our gasping hearts
what if each
lasting circle
mirrors real love
every magic circle
reliving life
forever grasping
crazy love
as always
simply revolving
teasing us
dreams resolving
clever time
hurricane weather
saint or fraud
fractal vibration
spatial rhyme
still some prophet's gaze
a ratio of miracle
encircled by love's haze
old tragic man
a token sphere
of unspoken love
old magic god
boldly speaking
as love's oracle
I'm truly breaking
foolishly fractured now
love's impatient heart
deep azure blue
turning lapis
lazuli somehow
grueling barren winter
surely winter's ruling
keeping us apart
who truly knew
my iceberg soul
love as captive
could be cold
yet caring
even courageous
rapturous
even daring
it seems
I am forever
knowing all
that argent blue
glacial ice
beneath fool snow
once again
I have come
return atoning
love's evolving
reflective goal
quite vain
so harsh
if love would
rise up again
aptly reprise
happily realize
this captive heart
could shed
winter's brooding guise
love return
to moody summer
sweet kisses
blooming midst
perfumed refrains
how far from right
could love be
vainly turning left
could bereft love
sail some other
selfless sea
what about
clearly amazing
fulfilling love
fearlessly crazy
what about
all those
lonely days
love is detained
attuned to night
surely pure love
remains frozen still
please forgive me
I'm still abstaining
disconnecting pleasing love
silly me
I'm retaining
memories of insistent love
still I'm feeling
sadly distant
true love being
far out of sight
I'm madly reeling
watching solvent time
agree with servile love
matching compassion
we all are feeling
comparative trials
attached to trembling love
attracting and caressing us
assembled with love's wisdom
love and time catching us
true love's lasting passion
sharing heedless vision
feeding arousing rhyme

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