List: Searchings

• 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, 10 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, 19 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, 9 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, 3 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

  18 lines, 6 comments, on Jan 5 10:22 PM 2008
• Enough

  Music’s
  decrescendo tumbles

  33 lines, 22 comments, on Feb 13 6:58 PM 2008
• 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 2008
• 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 2008
• 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 2008
• 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 2008
• Loves Me Not . . .

  How many petals must I pluck
  one by languid one

  24 lines, 6 comments, on Jan 18 8:54 PM 2008
• Bearing Reflection

  Coming from the edge
  of crowded, winter wood

  35 lines, 29 comments, on Jan 29 1:38 PM 2008
• Astute Preference

  Oh, the mystery that broods
  behind the face of tempest billows

  40 lines, 16 comments, on Apr 14 12:41 PM 2008
• Because

  When you, from distant place,
  chanced upon the vast blue

  43 lines, 10 comments, on Apr 20 11:07 PM 2008
• Upon Viewing Guiseppe's Nun

  Maybe he thought that if he sculpted her,
  Chiseled out the shape of her wide eyes,

  26 lines, 5 comments, on May 1 4:35 PM 2008
• Abacus

  Came across the small pouch today
  where you tuck away your spare change.

  68 lines, 22 comments, on Jul 21 12:25 PM 2008
• Recognizing Distance

  I chanced to overhear the vespers
  of the moon,

  19 lines, 10 comments, on Aug 14 3:46 PM 2008
• Door

  I know I’m not the first to knock--
  I recognize the smudges of her hand.

  31 lines, 12 comments, on Aug 26 4:39 PM 2008
• Sure

  Though restless sun
  will never reach her trembling pinnacle

  45 lines, 28 comments, on Aug 31 1:05 AM 2008
• Windswept

  Beneath the open autumn sky
  where hope extends beyond the furthest cloud,

  50 lines, 13 comments, on Sep 23 11:49 PM 2008
• Gravity

  vast space was measured
  by faulty instrument,

  35 lines, 11 comments, on Dec 4 10:48 PM 2008
• Cavern

  Delve into my deeper caverns
  Indentured servant, trade your bondage

  53 lines, 10 comments, on Dec 6 11:29 PM 2008
• Flight

  The loveliest treasures
  escape

  12 lines, 13 comments, on Dec 18 8:48 PM 2008
• Birches

  If I should finger ivory strokes
  along this birch,

  45 lines, 41 comments, on Jan 23 2:29 AM
• Black Hole

  Clouds repent
  of coy withholding

  25 lines, 15 comments, on Jun 25 11:56 PM
• Song of the Treetops

  her song / of weeping moon forlorn / --rests in starlit treetops10 / his serenade / by sunlight, heated, / --blazes there to meet / but moo

  13 lines, 20 comments, on Jul 10 9:09 PM 2007
• Dancers

  I can tell when you have wandered
  your mountains

  39 lines, 20 comments, on Jul 31 10:10 AM

• By me, right now

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