Love and Eternity: XXIX

XXIX
“Carols most merry fill the winter air”

Carols most merry fill the winter air
Hail, hail the little angels subtly fair
Rouse the sleepyheads and ring the doorbells
In time to hear the jolly jingle bells
See! Running lights bright in the starry night
The lanterns dot the roads,an awesome sight
Merry prancing pedestrian hopping
Adults, children, cats, dogs, nothing stopping
Still the evening chill cools the advent days
Warming the people from summer ways
Inside, I feel the emptiness creep close
The rush of need that so suddenly rose
Heavy heart shouting solitude to me
Your presence away my eyes clearly see
Once again this Christmas I sorely miss
Until next time, I'm missing my sweet kiss

Love and Eternity: XXVIII

XXVIII
"The Canvas and the Moonbeam"

Fixed, the darkest canvas of night
Once parted these sickly grey clouds
Under them lie a thousand lights,
Radiant sparks on the mystic shroud

Then turns, that fairest body rise
Enters the dame with tame delight
Entrance with beams that daze the eyes
Now seen, her white glorious moonlight

Yes, that high lamp on evening lit
Once the sun withdraws to the sea
Until the dawn fixed above it sits
And stands foremost beacon to me

Never dying, nor ever fading
Deathless the moon rules the heavens
Most charming, forever lasting
Even now, I feel your presence

Escape the flaming gyre of life
That twists and turns my destiny
Escape the discord, endless strife
Riles my soul with obscenity

Now feel the moonbeams caress me
I rest upon my grassy bed
Then eyes closed I can clearly see
Your hand brush lightly on my head.

Love and Eternity: XXVII

XXVII
"If cliches be raised"

If countless cliches be raised then
Love is blind and lovers are blinder
Once smitten, finally fallen
Viciously snared by passion's tether
Even now, that collar has kept
Your thousand multitude of glories
On flowing crimson rivers swept
Unto my beating chest of stories
Divine my love, oh esteemed Seer!
Unite these visions by Pythian trance
Discern now truth that has no peer
Embodied in our intertwined hands.

Love and Eternity: XXVI

XXVI
"Inside plastic cases"

Locked inside plastic cases
Old tickets, antique events
Cherished things, previous places
Kept memories that we've spent
Every time together saved
Dinner receipts and loose change
Impossible odds we've braved
Now preserved for endless age
My case grows full and bulky
Yet memories bloom more so
Still growing red like cherry
On harvest bear fruitful bough
Under the coffeehouse shade
Locked in eternal embrace
Flowers age and petals fade
Only your touch in me stays
Rosy cheek may wither grey
Even gait may bend in time
Vision still keeps in display
Every charm possessed sublime
Roads we've walked and food we ate
Minced piecemeal in my old case
Your letters and our small dates
Living in so many ways
On jewelry, plastic bags
Very expensive gifts too
Even costly shopping tags
Enter plastic case for you
Eden barred from sinful men
Still lives in my plastic case
And still lives on even when
Hairs fade in my ending days.