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Thursday, February 14, 2019

A Valentine's Day Poem

Because -- shock! -- yes, sometimes I deign to write poetry. When the mood strikes.

And it has thusly struck!

Behold, it might not actually suck.

I think?


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The Moonrise Shine in Your Eyes
by David J. Batista




Lower your gaze,
should you need
a reprieve
from the dream,
shared,
of handheld walks
through sunripe’d fields
and sideways glances,
remembrances,
once upon that time
so long ago.

Embraces never shared;
a lingering touch
yearned for,
but never granted.

I saw it in your eyes,
that promise of ours,
when we were young
in the Spring of our lives,
drawn to the flame
of a beating heart
waiting to be heard.

Sweetheart, lift your gaze.
See the dream of me, the
man I might yet be,
in the shape of the shy boy
who saw you from afar,
for who you are,
and loved you
in the waking, sweet soft
whisper of dawn.

See sunset passions
settle like songbird wings
upon waiting boughs,
while we walk hand in hand
into the Twilight rising tall,
like a Hall
of endless discovery.
Exploring fingertips,
brushing,
touching bated lips, the
lingering scent of azure dreams
pressed in my arms
as I cradle
your sweet kiss.

Remember how we swung
from the tree, so full of glee,
the laughter of our friendship
wrapped in a cocoon
of love waiting
on butterfly wings
to burst free
like silken threads
of a past never realized?

Darling, I remember.
Linked hand in hand
in that Twilight gaze, the
moonrise shine in your eyes.
The need for you – oh,
how I needed you!
To drink in your sorrow,
and breathe into your soul,
the hope of what we were to be
when our one day should come.

See it before you, my love,
for the boy you knew,
who loved the girl you were,
is now the man who sees
the light in your eyes;
twin mirrors of the
promise our hearts made
once upon that time.



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