@IpsaHerself a new constellation
was born in the night
when moonlight caressed
I was held by his sight

and gravity formed us of
dust and desire
we burned by our yearning
as bright as sunfire

stars may quiver by twilight
and fade in the dawn
but mapped by his eyes
I am galaxies, drawn

I ache for the relief of happiness to inhabit me: to permeate my skin like sunlight, and bury itself in my bones.

ever since the ever-since

a hammer heart haunting
in the depths of my chest

tremble-laden chitin chimes
in a mothen-made nest

you stir me; I unravel down
the breadcrumb trails you drop

connect us at our borders, love
and linger, but

don't
stop

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his words
ripple me tender
he's skipping stones;
my heart is a lake

and I hunger for
future found splendor
the torment of longing
for my favorite ache

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in his hands, I am molten
I melt to be molded
a paraffin puddle
fluent in wax

while I beckon December
I'm ripe for his embers
alight to ignite, to be
tethered with flax

he fallows my earth
in tallow I'm formed

'til he sets me aflame
and untamed
I'm reborn

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Teardrop of #wax
rolling down the
burning hours
it's the way we
form in the darkness of
a fragile embrace
warm cotton clouds
drifting in silence
no silver rains
or pains in the etchings
of our dimensions
only the secret steps
into aspiring
lunar kissed forests
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the tendermost thrills
trembling my depths as my
hummingbird heart unfolds

when he writes me, his rose,
in the richest of reds
and blushes all of my golds

how gently he crows for
my needs, and kneads
in his palms, I melt and I mold

I imagine him in rainstorms

sluices of water
sliding his limbs
I deeply inhale
petrichor of his skin

I'm wrapped in his boughs
of moss laden yew
I strip soft his bark
I love him in dew

& two become one
become sun parting clouds
in my eyes, he is felled
in his arms, I am found

it's in moments of tender
when I'm warm resin-rendered
and carved in the heartwood
he lays in my hands

that I pine for the memories
curated by centuries
of our evergreen love
beyond hourglass sands

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How can I say words
if you are not in my bloodstream
I have lived and perished
all that were ever tears
but I am here in your kiss
its a serenade of breathing

Poetry was born under
your beautiful skin
I just recite it

And I was mountain
till you touched me
with your eyes
and I became the
snowdrifts that melted
into a man

Let's walk through the
dark forests of the unforgiving
and pick up the leaves of light

I was the chrysalis waiting
to be born upon
the stem of your nectar

take this dusk-woven husk
of hollowed out need
& water my earth
tears laden with seed

and heed my soft sorrows
till morrow's sun blooms
clear webs from their chasms
scare phantoms from wombs

entomb me in marble
'til marveled in gold
& rest me in endless love

let me
u n f o l d

I'm a garden half bloomed
in the low morning hours
longing to nourish at
the lip of your cup

to sip and be supped
by your sun-swollen dawn
as a foal-legged fawn
of wobble-kneed wild

field me as a question
mark me as a book
lay me low in flower beds
and yield me with
one look

his body is a wild landscape

crisscrossed in trails
and geoglyph lines
that whisper his stories
and wrap him in vines

he's harvest-ripe fields
of an unmapped terrain
and I trek him by fingertips
vestal, untamed

paint me
in the syrup-sweet #jam
of your elder's tree

knead me 'neath your
your pliant palms
I'm currants carved in need

mellow me in merlot
till I'm pressed
port wine and blush

I'm lush de-vined desires
in your sultry
orchard hush

#vss365

give me a life that's rife with soul-stirring #laughter , infinite possibilities, and pathways sown by starlight, ready to be roamed

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