Until the moment
Your heart is beating again
My heart remains still
~ kei
17 October 2018
Until the moment
Your heart is beating again
My heart remains still
~ kei
17 October 2018
As if words might be too little for everything that this is and everything that you are. Easier to keep it all inside, cherished and nurtured. What it is though, this thing we are making, this phoenix rising, my head wants to give words to everything that’s in my heart and mending my soul. I sit with pen poised and lose myself in the thoughts. Thinking, thinking… kisses, such sweet kisses… like Aurora, I’m awakened, and the kiss is the first, of course it was the first, and also the now and my thoughts are spinning away. Pen forgotten, swept up in memories; I marvel at this, at how Life can in a heartbeat, give you back every cherished thing you thought wasn’t to be, couldn’t be… Puppy love, broken hearts, soul mates, lessons that needed learning, lessons yet to be learned. My self cracks open and the words all spill out, written on to your skin these cursive kisses and copperplate caresses… whispered in your ears and finally exhausted because there will never be enough to make up for those unspoken in that space in between.
Those words left over are limitless “I love you’s” and the rhyme is always your name and if I never wrote anything again except for these… I would be content with this body of work.
~ kei
26 January 2017
No words can possibly convey
This depth of union
This sweet abandon
This ordained reunion
Sharing every inch of our souls
~ kei
06 January 2016
Since I first heard it, this song by one of my idols – Chrissy Hynde – has been a favourite. This Yule it feels even more en pointe; 2000 miles, 9000 days, one kiss…
I wrap myself in a simple garment of cotton
One that holds in its threads the essence of you
Slipping in and out of my self and my soul
Catching stitches of the past and the present
Gently pulling my heart-strings closer together
Weaving what I once was into who I am now
Tiny healing stitches of you and me
What I am and who you see
Carried in each inhalation
Something both electrifying and benediction
Talisman or lodestone, I can’t be sure
Knowing only that mornings of late
I come awake more fully who I am
More completely my own woman
Wrapped in the scent of a man
~ kei
26 November 2016
Here I am heart in hand
Sharp pain streaked memories rush in
An imminent squall warning
The red flags waving on a stormy beach
All the fear rises like a tide
Enveloping
My heart in a surge of protection
Shielding and yet yielding
A mist so airy
You could reach right through it
Dispersing
If only you were here
~ kei
14 March 2016
I’m not asking for much
Certainly, not more than what you could so easily give
Just this
A kiss
That piece of me that you hold in your memory
Because I have lost myself
My world is off its axis
And just once
I’d like to feel whole again
Complete
Loved
Beautiful
The way I did when I could see me
Reflected, refracted
Every facet diamond cut and perfect
In the depths of umber
That are your eyes
~ kei
21 September 2015
Up with the birds again
Coffee in hand
Garden flowers filling my view
Still wrapped in bemusement
And dreams of you
My former boyfriend
Morphed by time
Into a friend indeed
Though by circumstance
Never a friend in need
From the fire of our teens
To a soul mate
A flame ever renewable
We forged a bond
Apart but inseparable
Sometimes I’m left lonely
By staying in touch
Words aloud and words unsaid
But you bring me to life
When I feel half dead
The world calls me back
From ancient reveries
Life’s too short for regrets
And I am so glad Dear One
That we choose not to forget
~ kei
16 July 2015
Friendships are Life’s best gifts to us
When kindred spirits intertwine
Soul mates newer and the older
No matter the vintage of the wine
So did I think of you my friend
Such kinship offered was thine
How sad that barely savoured
It was blighted on the vine
~ kei
9 July 2015
Restore in me what I’m craving
Echoes and dreams don’t satisfy
Paths diverging and converging
Life moves we two just like the tide
Ever drawn back to your shore
Now as then, I’m craving more
Invoking your memory of my charms
Save my heart from this arid wasteland
Home is waiting for you in my arms
~ kei
4 June 2015
Definition of Acrostic form sourced from: Shadow Poetry:
“Acrostic Poetry is where the first letter of each line spells a word, usually using the same words as in the title.”