I SLEEP ON A SMILE

Quietly

Softly

Like a foxy thief

Stealing into my unwary heart

That sweet seductive visitor

Carrying in its wake

A fuzzy crazy warmth….

I let my eyes droop shut

Ofttimes

For behind my heavy lids

I see it dancing  

The perfect ballet

To the sound of my euphoric rhymes

Sometimes tenderly

Sometimes in absolute delight

It twines with those of mine

Hey gorgeous!

It’s an upended world

When mine is drunk on thine!

Like the last lucid dream

As I slip into slumber

It charms me with endearing wiles

I’m besotted

Twitterpated

Utterly beguiled

By this....

Your beautiful, beautiful smile!

MS

WRITING DESTINIES…

An year is a long time

A lot can change

Yet,

The more things change

The more they remain the same.

Like You!

Your footsteps

Still tread quietly

Softly marking the fringes

Of my horizon

Unseen.

Unheard.

Yet keenly felt.

I know what is in the heart

Is the closest

But….                                   

Can you come still closer?

Just a little more, perhaps!

MS

TO BE, OR NOT TO BE

Touches….skin deep
A grazing of your fingertips
Like a barely there whisper
Lingering
As if asking permission
“Can I touch you there
Soul deep?
And in those hidden places
Where your heart is?”

I can smell the aroma
Of fresh brewed coffee
And the fast falling dusk
Like a veil between us
Tempting
Begging to be swept aside…
The goose bumps are still fresh
Along my arms
Where your nails traced a path
Ever so gently
Tantalizingly

Promises....Promises....
My soul, my heart
They're still watching
The night change shades
The wandering shadows, lost
Among the shooting stars
The coffee growing cold.... 

MS

I SPEAK TO YOU

Incessant conversations
Often without words
In locked gazes
Tangled thoughts
Soft gossamer whorls
But sometimes I write
And every heartbeat
Becomes a verse
An etching upon souls
Of time worn whispers
I wonder...if you'll ever know
How all your breaths
Brushing my lips
Become poems, unfurled!

MS

I DREAM ANOTHER DAY

One by one
The leaves fall on me softly
With a silent music, all their own
And I recede unknowingly
From this world
This path, meandering into mysteries
The autumn hugging me close
In notes
Wrung from reluctant strings
Some painful, some euphoric
I walk on
Each step an unravelling memory
Of a summer night
Hung beautifully between us
Holding us together
In a gossamer web
With the musky fragrance of the stars
And we called it love….

MS

SONGS OF LIFE

His breath was like notes
Of a musical symphony
Painted upon the wind
By the shadows
Hidden in his being
Each gentle gust
Another page
In the tome that beckoned me
To read
The sounds, waiting quietly
Between the lines
To be found, in simple moments
Spanning eternity. 

MS

CROWNING

Your words

I often liken them

To a profusion of bougainvillea

A riot of red, falling fluid

A love, proud and free

Intense…Powerful…Lively…

And then

Like eventide, giving way

To the sultry, tropical night

They change

Fluently

Almost like an alter ego

And flow over me

Oh! So softly

In a warm embrace

Of a heady sillage

Captivating… alluring… enticing

Ah! How they please!

Deepening slowly

Like the night sky

A tender cozy blanket

On which I lie

I ponder, which way

I like them best

But there’s no answer to that

For, to me

Every way they are

Is simply perfect!

MS