Art release:

Recess time

Play dates among 

Words

Flowers

Music

Fragrance

Jungle gyms

Freedom swings. 

Love laps at the shore of your soul,

tickles,

like waves licking bare toes,

you want to flee

from the fresh surprise

of frothy kisses

reviving your need;

Lace your fingers in mine,

intertwine,

hold my hand and wade

into the refreshing sea,

we'll test the waters again,

paddling far beyond the

dry sands of our broken hearts.

Beyond the shade of graceful pines,

within stone walls of old design,

flower beds, dormant still,

deny demands that purpose fill.

When Spring- no, Summer! comes,

breathing grass and blossoms,

yearning fades to perfumed joy and petal days,

while fragrant vines, enchanted, climb

upon the trellis of a gardener's mind.

Beware green clovers,

They'll steal you away,

Under neon lights,

Beyond sun's rays,

Betting on enchanted lands,

Miniature castles in starlit sand,

Sailing fortune's misty miles,

Leprechauns dancing, tricksters' smiles.

In steeping bath of bergamot and thyme,

Of love besot, in winter’s garden play,

With silken skin afresh in scents sublime,

With me, my love, afloat in fragrance, stay.

Into this pond of sacred water dive -

My body’s slick with precious oils’ film -

Seek out my breath and penetrate my hive,

In pools of sweat, my love, to drown or swim.

Dear Holy Ghost, as jasmine fountains spray,

In watr’y light absolve a virgin’s stains,

My heart shall bleed and on my knees I pray,

Have mercy, Lord, for passion floods my veins.

Disperse these healing herbs to cure and cleanse,

Allow us time for love and grace dispense.

As fog and mist occlude the branching tree,

As wisps of cloud and rain do vision blur,

So I shall pluck the roving eyes from thee

That cast your gaze and Cupid’s spells on her.

In ceremonious magician's cape,

I'll dismember your rotten, putrid corpse

And grant your loathsome heart no fair escape,

Deny it's woeful pleas for just recourse.

Of morbid end let cunning lovers fear,

Confess your lies, reveal your guts, my dear.

(Not sure if I'm doing this right, but tried to follow the rules.)

Alone, no breath upon my neck tonite,

Bereft, so cold, the heat of passion passed,

Lamenting life on wings in hasty flight

Away, away, so far from human grasp.

In fear I cringe yet by my side you rest,

In darkness dwell, in morbid time project,

What twist of mind, what mental game, what test?

Corrupted vow to honor and protect?

As blood still flows and lungs inhale the day,

Let souls unite, our hearts together twined

We’ll greet the sun and join it on its way,

No more, no more, in fearful tears drown time.

I prayed an angel rescue me from grief

Now dread he'll go and death be my relief.