love poem – Queen of Elves

Reflections

I saw the face of god today I simply could not look away It came in waves From your shining eyes Ancient wisdom Sweet surprise It’s something that cannot be said But the heart sings here I am again You watched yourself see me see you We held and swirled in endless loop And touched… Continue reading Reflections

Whole Heart

I want you to stay Yet when you leave there is pleasure There is memory to sift Like sparkles in sand A thousand little gems in my hands This contrast is a defining quality Of loving you To bow my head before its beauty Only able to weep in awe And to be broken from… Continue reading Whole Heart

Worthy

Your hand in my hair Does not feel the way The hands of other men have felt Absent from your touch Is the building aggression The palpable vibration of subjugation Which I had known before And which had mingled Stickily With shame To coat my heart and confirm Love holds pain Your hand instead conveys… Continue reading Worthy

Reciprocity

To Sit with You on the Ground With my body facing yours and some part of us touching Perhaps our knees Is like sitting by a fire at night Energy radiating in the form of Heat and Light Coming over me as an irrepressible smile I bask in your joy I bathe in your sadness… Continue reading Reciprocity

My Love is a Planet

fingers sinking feeling squishing I gather the springy coils of your curls and my palm remembers moss damp organic spongy thick yielding softly sapling sighing smushing my face into yours breathing you in my nose remembers the wholeness of your body and your vines are twining round me so now my branches grow in spirals… Continue reading My Love is a Planet

Ghost Love

It’s long now since I breathed my last And saw my life go flashing past No body now in which to play I sigh, I drift, I fade away It’s quite alright, just floating here Compared to Earth, this is more real While humans wonder what they are I simply have become the stars As… Continue reading Ghost Love

Fly Away Home

From the very beginning Your eyes told me the old story Alive with a fire That drew me in I knew it would burn But I leisured in you Like a summer day So warm on my skin To blister later For the bliss of now So I can’t be angry That you burnt my… Continue reading Fly Away Home

My Bed has Become an Island

My bed has become an island We are washed ashore there Ragged and drenched The pounding surf recedes In our ears birdsong reminds us We are alive In ecstasy we clutch the ground The blanket folds Wrinkled sand Kissing your mouth I kiss Earth And she is here Divine mother gathering us In arms of… Continue reading My Bed has Become an Island