Dryad

photo by Rosie Hardy

Come to the forest

Come when your heart is as full as the moon

and your desire blazes like a shooting star

Do not fear the sentries;

 they observe your entry

but ignore trespass

when intent is pure

Search out the message that I have written for you

in the trivialities of veins in the leaves

Read its significance

with your fingertips

You have always touched wood

wishing

I am waiting 

with your answer.

submitted for Poets United, Vice Versa #6

and Poetry Jam, Daydream Believers

Sometimes We Must

Sometimes we must destroy to build

Let go of the common to find the rare

Old structures upturned and new soil tilled

Though we may not believe we are skilled

We haven't the strength and do not dare

Sometimes we must destroy to build

So difficult to be strong willed

But inertia is too much to bear

Old structures upturned and new soil tilled

Though we breathe, the heart is stilled

We can not grow in stagnant air

Sometimes we must destroy to build

Create a place to feel fulfilled

Where one finds joy beyond compare

Old structures upturned and new soil tilled

Too many spirits silenced and killed

Find that thing for which you care

Sometimes we must destroy to build

Old structures upturned and new soil tilled.

submitted for Poetic Bloomings, In Form Poet, Villanelle 

and  Poets United, Vice Versa #4

Walk On the Ocean

Lavallette beach, NJ

Slate grey sea, wet sand

Footprints beside seagull tracks

Jagged shells, smooth stones

My soul holds abundant calm

Hand in hand, lacking nothing.

submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Ella's Edge

and Poets United, Vice Versa #3

Tempt Me

source

Tempt me

You never know

the things I will

do

the places I will

go

if you tempt me

just so

Paint ice hot flames

around our bed

Dare me 

to enter

with a silent stare

and a guilty smile

Play me

slow smoky jazz sounds

with your eyes

Write me poems

with your tongue

down my neck 

to the small of my back

and dot the 'i' s 

with frost covered cherry blossoms

Tempt me

Master all of my senses

Take them from me

I confess 

I am no innocent

Use me

I am your canvas

I am your book

Bind me well

Keep me

tempted.

submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Fireblossom Fridays, Temptation
Poetry Jam, Hot and Cold
Poets United, Vice Versa, Midnight Snack #5 (Sound/Silence; Guilt/Innocence)
dVerse Poets Pub, dVerse Poetics, Meeting the Bar, A Martian Sharpens His Knife

Hearteater

Love Itself by Tracey Mac

Young hearts you love to collect

Consume them and leave them wrecked

And you have not one regret

Is your own heart content yet?

submitted for Poets United, Midnight Snack, Vice Versa (Consume/Collect  Regret/Content)

Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Tanaga