Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Lose

Fingertips mourn, to speak of beauty, a nymph to breathe.
Every kernel screams, to touch joy, struck with soreness.
It’s ever a missile, to strike a heart, a woman’s glory. I
watch for sunbeams, a magnetic soul, parched for love.
Hear a concert, if only a snapshot, for this is love. It’s
something primal, an inner contraption, fully dazzled. I
brush a painting, ever to gaze, streaming through aches.
Is it righteous, the lot of a wolf, paining through a pulse?
I’m flung, to grip a keel, staring at bulbous diamonds.
I’ve lost to win, where a mermaid drifts upon a pony. It’s
more a grave, to love unrequited, starving for piety. Feel
a storm, electric gravity, a moving undulation. I sense a
star, lightsome with sorrow, to muse my very soul; but a
falcon soars, to jilt a star, unworthy of trust. How has it
lived? fully inflamed, a false reflection, enlove with images.
Let a night be gentle, august with lights, a flannel of wings.
Else we perish, strapped to pegs, mourning eruption. Is
this life, to flirt with grief, stranded to a page? 

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