designer togs

heady perfume

Smoldering

with allure

enflaming

Hooked

Don Juan

Hovered

fluttering

Crooning

swansong

swaggering

Fatal finale

Sensuous, slow

dance of death

at love’s altar

Immolating self

in complete surrender

Kindled, crumbles

Purified spirit

fire tested

takes wing

picture from internet 

From time to time

To not bite back words

All the time 

Freedom to sleep at will

No more usual drill

Freedom to be just “me”

Inside out sans referee

A bit of tug of war, strife

To keep things humming, nice 

Free as a soaring kite on frail string

To keep things in proper perspective 

Freedom with responsibility

To own, eschew at will

Freedom sweet freedom

Tart, bitter sweet- if you will

Heartfelt hug, heart to heart,

Eyes to eyes, emotionally moistened

Breakthrough achieved, finally

Morals like ear- rings hugged the sun burnt neck

Sun kissed boats jostled playfully on love’s shore,

Nudging, moored firmly by love’s anchor once more

Riding highs and lows on waves of passion’s furor

Tenderly carrying precious bundle
Carving memory keepsakes.

Reliving moments extracted
Out of own memory’s purse

Another tall loving chest
Cozy comfort of being held

Past present crisscross, a train
Arrives whistling, as one departs

Morning hours do a quick getaway
Afternoon hours purchase headway

Life zigzags forwards, backwards
Forward move leaving footprints backwards

Wolf At The Door

 To keep the wolf from door 

Dragged self daily out of door

Moist eyes, heavy heart, leaden feet

Led me away from you, my baby

Piteous cries filled snowy mornings

Drowning car radio bearing me away

Maternal love died many deaths

Withering flowering between hope, despair

Regrets, few, abiding grievance one

Precious time savoring you lost forever

Left you daily to keep wolf from door

Dragged self daily out of the door

Loss and price was too dear to bear

Eyes still well up for times not there

Maternal love did suffer a great blow

You and I are not close any more

note: for both working parents:)) 

Fire And Water

Fire

With togetherness remains in heart
I consigned his remains to flames
Amidst holy chants, stoic, tearless

Returning betwixt early dawn, night remains
We gathered purified remains-bones, ashes
Retrieving from dying embers’ slow burn to urn

**
Water

Journey through revolving door had begun
For final release of fire purified soul, bones
Immersing them reverently into holy waters

Fire

Shooting for a passage with no return
I consign myself daily to flames, chanting
Let true self remain, rest cinder a slow burn

Water

Immersing my being in bliss of his being
I drown daily in throes of forgetfulness binge
Connections lost, made, keeping me centered 

Born to be upwardly mobile

Head down to horizontal state

Vertically settled to parent’s elate 

~~ 

Do you know god she said

Lurking in the street corner

Jumping out of her talon reach

I thought we are thus headed 

~~ 

Ruing our trespasses reiterating

Promises meant to be broken

Until we break back of vices

To reclaim spot upwards falling 

~~ 

Life by nature veers towards source

Ever hurrying towards its life force

Ironically we dive, relive reinvented

Striving to achieve bliss, falling upended

Are

Yearnings
Salutations
Gratitude

Expelled
Expressed
Scrolled

Origami

Hands
Flags
Beads

Hung high

Pennants
Wheels
Poles

Covey of prayers
Winging upward
Buoyant blissfully

Candles

lit
Bliss
Bless

Om Mani Padme Hum

picture of Mt Everest Summit is from internet

As sea song escaped from a sudden conch

Reminiscing of wonders gone

Possibilities of those to come

Heeding to be seeded

Decibels from back beyond

Power of mind

Mind power

Empowered

If will

Willing

Self

To

Perform

Mermaid

Possibilities

Evolving almost

Animated stuffed

Toys inanimate

Stories of travels

Time and beyond

All in the realm of

Possibilities, bud flowering

In tandem with eyes widening

Wonderment, small miracles

Flowering inscrutably, all the time

Tickling keen mind on eternal quest  

~~

picture from internet