List: Love's Longings

  • The Concealment (Tanka)
    Like bark of ancient / sequoia forests, your eyes / (textured, dark and deep) / conceal from me the tender / flesh beneath I long to reach.
    8 lines, 2 comments, on Jun 3 8:54 PM 2007
  • Ignited
    Like blaze of raging bonfire / Flared high against my stacks, / And piqued inexperience, / Rendering me without shield, / Was love when fir
    45 lines, 14 comments, on Jun 6 5:40 PM 2007. In Love, Personal, Sad
  • The Tire Swing
    Hung low from elderly oaken branch / Upon the slanted slope, It waits. . . / The only seat where I can hope / to ride the wind that rushes
    7 lines, 9 comments, on Jun 22 11:46 PM 2007
  • Oh! If Just to Taste
    Limbs dripping / with sweetest fruit / In orchard / not my own
    7 lines, 10 comments, on Jun 23 9:39 PM 2007
  • Foreshadow's Touch
    Acquaintances-- / Sultry shoulders brushing fond, as / Mystic willow branches longing-- / Sensing lovers' soon delight
    6 lines, 7 comments, on Jun 25 9:58 PM 2007
  • The Greeting
    It was only, / "Nice to see you," / But spine still chills / and flesh ever shivers.
    8 lines, 5 comments, on Jun 26 5:23 AM 2007
  • Pale Reminder
    Scrawled, / the dust of ages / (though blood once wrote vibrant red), / upon tinged memories / smudged by disappointment’s drowning, / encr
    13 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 13 9:50 PM 2007
  • Castle of Confusion
    past moat of maybe / across bridge of hope / lie ecstacy's halls / but bastion's crumbling rejection /
    7 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 13 10:35 PM 2007
  • The Dawning
    half adorned in the robe / of what might have been / "what if"s lingering / on still tingling shoulders / "if only"s sweltering / in yet sw
    16 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 15 6:17 PM 2007
  • Imagined Touch
    ribbons from your fingers / encircle me with silken soft / first caressing length / then crossing back in strings / of sultry stay / enrapt
    12 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 15 7:28 PM 2007
  • What Happened to Rainbows?
    Through browning field, past willow stroking pools
    8 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 16 11:09 PM 2007
  • Tabled Appetite
    broth of lofty promises / ladeled into pefect crystal bowls / but wanting season / marinated cuts of pleasure / in colorless au jus / dress
    14 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 17 9:46 AM 2007
  • Keeping Time
    Passion's / playful sands / passed through / narrow curve / to hollow / building there / mound of awaited / gladness / with grains / of fli
    28 lines, 7 comments, on Jul 30 12:06 AM 2007
  • Autumn's Opening
    Splitting deep / the trunks of you / fire leaps / toward soul's escape / and lemon lollipops / lap about / in playful meander / amber breez
    36 lines, 11 comments, on Jul 31 12:07 AM 2007
  • Desert Flower
    I am beauty
    sprung from the deep
    23 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 1 9:46 PM 2007
  • Freckles
    brilliant shafts of sunlight
    hidden behind once-blackened thunderheads
    23 lines, 24 comments, on Aug 1 8:04 PM 2007
  • Searching Bliss
    shine's milkiness
    pours its silk
    21 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 10 10:22 PM 2007
  • The Dipping
    Let me but taste that hallowed place / Where streams run rapidly / In pursuit of deeper drink / And let rounded, twin pools of intellect an
    13 lines, 18 comments, on May 11 2:01 AM 2007. In Life, Love, Nature
  • As They Walked Toward the Door
    I noticed how
    he placed his ample hand
    17 lines, 10 comments, on Sep 11 12:09 AM 2007
  • Involuntary Closing
    Longing eyes
    and lips that ache
    11 lines, 3 comments, on Sep 28 8:03 AM 2007
  • Gift
    When forlorn in darkened heaven feeling want for more
    13 lines, 5 comments, on Oct 1 3:08 PM 2007
  • Crisp, White Handkerchief
    He pressed his lips
    with linen cloth
    10 lines, 10 comments, on Sep 2 9:18 PM 2007
  • Song of the Adolescent She-Fox
    A song drifts gently through the midnight wood
    overtop the swaying trees.
    21 lines, 6 comments, on Sep 29 11:54 AM 2007
  • Early Turning-- collab with Lex-i-Con
    Upon the hill of summer's waning
    with other trees still retaining green
    52 lines, 4 comments, on Sep 30 11:03 PM 2007
  • Thoughts from Upon a Stone-- Collab with Soulful Woman
    A thousand lovers have walked these sands
    with hands entwined and minds infused with future
    29 lines, 5 comments, on Oct 13 10:42 AM 2007
  • Waters
    I am
    18 lines, 6 comments, on Jan 5 10:22 PM
  • Enough
    Music’s
    decrescendo tumbles
    33 lines, 18 comments, on Feb 13 6:58 PM
  • Torn
    Why should heart, sworn to duty
    be so drawn to beauty's other allure?
    18 lines, 4 comments, on Mar 28 2:54 AM
  • Song of the Adolescent Shefox (revised version)
    A song drifts gently through the midnight wood overtop the swaying trees.
    Its fingered mist creeps down to beckon me with soft, repeated,
    24 lines, 1 comment, on Apr 2 9:29 PM
  • Unspoken
    Imagining your breath-- soft,
    15 lines, 5 comments, on Dec 24 12:40 AM 2007
  • Mirage?
    Once,
    when cotton tongue clung
    38 lines, 12 comments, on Jan 11 12:37 AM
  • Redemption's Rain
    Outside the shade of elder sycamore
    she bent to touch the seam of garden’s barren edge
    60 lines, 21 comments, on Jan 13 2:30 PM
  • Loves Me Not . . .
    How many petals must I pluck
    one by languid one
    24 lines, 6 comments, on Jan 18 8:54 PM
  • Bearing Reflection
    Coming from the edge
    of crowded, winter wood
    35 lines, 28 comments, on Jan 29 1:38 PM
  • Astute Preference
    Oh, the mystery that broods
    behind the face of tempest billows
    40 lines, 14 comments, on Apr 14 12:41 PM
  • Because
    When you, from distant place,
    chanced upon the vast blue
    43 lines, 10 comments, on Apr 20 11:07 PM
  • Upon Viewing Guiseppe's Nun
    Maybe he thought that if he sculpted her,
    Chiseled out the shape of her wide eyes,
    26 lines, 4 comments, on May 1 4:35 PM
  • Abacus
    Came across the small pouch today
    where you tuck away your spare change.
    68 lines, 12 comments, on Jul 21 12:25 PM
  • Recognizing Distance
    I chanced to overhear the vespers
    of the moon,
    19 lines, 10 comments, on Aug 14 3:46 PM
  • Door
    I know I’m not the first to knock--
    I recognize the smudges of her hand.
    31 lines, 9 comments, on Aug 26 4:39 PM

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