by Mani | Jul 22, 2014 | Love, Poems Unrequited
My useless love roams over you
From another life again
In nights sleepless, moonscarred,
Scrawled by the blood of pens then
I have seen the dawns come crowded
In mountain mists and city shards
Sunsets have they wailing gone
As wine my moanings under stars
Lone I sip by sip by sip
Till drunk I am by all that’s not
In distances of love bred far
Where I’ll wander useless still
In all I am you ever are
July 24, 1998
(desmond)
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by Mani | Jul 21, 2014 | Love, Poems Unrequited, Uncategorized
If my name you might recall
Take this into dreams with you
Lightweight made, small but true
Nothing to intrude on you
From the distances of days
Lifetimes shed and ones to make
Take this to your heart unseen
Gentle shred that it might be
Of my heart given once to thee,
Take it with you as you go
Wisp of my love given free
For all your love I did not know
To spite the God that made it so
July 24, 1998
(desmond)
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by Mani | Jul 19, 2014 | Love, Poems Unrequited, Uncategorized
If a beauty comes with claim of me
Tangle it in silver threads I will
Of lights of moons that rose and fell
The soft of every petal touched
Strands of silken Summer blush
The damp of grape wet by the dews
For wines the love crushed love of you,
So if Beauty comes to me
Declaring a propriety
For gifts of earth Earth’s given me
I’ll admit my slavery.
But go with Beauty will I not
Unless Beauty hears my plea
For I will tell her of my braids
I twined in my you new made
In this world stark made for graves
Beauty weaved I long ago
Knotted to my breath’s own soul
Heart of your love that I knew
Of beauty was enough for me
If Beauty comes with claim you see
I’ll say of Beauty I’ve no need
But for the beauty that is thee,
And of Beauty I’ll eschew
For all that I find Beautiful
Is beautiful the beauty that is you
July 27, 1998
(desmond)
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by Mani | Jul 18, 2014 | Love, Poems Unrequited, Uncategorized
In Buddha’s Pure Land
All the lovers will return
Virgins again unscarred by
Flames the tears and kisses
The children lost too
Will return on sweet breath
Only morning can grow
From bones become the grasses
In Buddha’s Pure Land
Wholehearted once again
I will love you each my lassies
When His finger is amused
To stir His bright ashes
July 24, 1998
(desmond)
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by Mani | Jul 13, 2014 | Poems Unrequited, Uncategorized
The nights
Longer and longer
Spark from the gallop of day
Too soon come
Underfoot the endless trail
I take to dawning
Bells ring for eventide
Match flares in the dark
Bring the memories of filled hands
Heavy and wet with the lotions of love
In the dark I wave them
Featherweight before my eyes
Two wilted petals
I keep hidden from the wind
Or they will be flung
Off in the midnight breath
Slowly the wafting
The night’s breeze
Of love’s death
Written January 27, 1995
(desmond)
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by Mani | Mar 12, 2013 | Poems Unrequited, Uncategorized
Fare thee well now
One midnight horn calls
So I shall travel after
Following the smoke on the tracks
Down dark’s ribcage
Into the starglow
Remember me when the mist burns
When heat of day afloat goes
Trembling over the wild hay
I too passed along this way
Embraced and embracing
I roamed in the wind’s kiss
In day’s dews bathed
I was young when grief came
Too when love I claimed
My share of the fruit partook
Returned to me was all of this
I gave away, not craved
To bed of wheat
To silk of dream my weave
I got to the moonwash spilled
Plucking tears so to be filled
My hands of nectars soothed and stilled
Goodbye, goodbye
I will know you by your eyes
My luring breeze now flies
So to sleep bow I my sighs
Written November 15, 1995
(desmond)
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