! chocolate!

tender brown eyes
smiling softly
liquid memory
begins to entice

swirling thickness
saucy sweetness
captivating
mortal senses

rich aroma & flavor
creamy sensation
embracing
fragile emotion

total seduction
thawing cold feeling
giving in complete abandon
mesmerized
in dreaming
. . . and desiring

lone wolf

out of shadows
into sunlight

not part of
neither whole

harken to a
bomber's moon

interloper
wanderer
.alone.

in pursuit
of twilight

fearlessly
relentlessly

g i v e

cupped in your palms
is destiny
your quiet eyes
mirror visions
of eternity

for all that it
hopes to be
your heart
yearns for
what it cannot see

uncertainty
is your
shepherd's staff
simplicity
is the ultimate path

hold still
to your purity

and come
give life to me

-- rivulets --

formless patterns
swirl
circling
each other

icy chill
by the window
sill
disturbing

threadbare
wonderings
with no
common beginnings

the distant shore
of hope
came twinkling
into view
perhaps
converging
into tomorrow

-water-

liquid emotions
freely moving
joining a larger whole
or all its own

fluid intentions
encompassing life
embracing and
redeeming what
it interacts

a myriad linking
of existence
nurturing
nourishing
human substance

flowing through veins
of consciousness
at times turbulent
sometimes simply lucid
always reflective

with purity and intensity
quenching [me]

christmas sunrise

to see a world, down under, awakening with the robes of dawn swirling in crimson. then, pink. then, salmon. then, orange, yellow, yellow green, torquiose green, powder blue, sky blue, indigo then up above a carpet of midnight blue. it's like watching a horizontal version of an aurora borealis. it's a christmas gift like no other. i affirm and confirm that no two sunrises are ever the same. how God must enjoy his masterpieces and we mortals are captive in awe! can't wait for light to unravel to me this new place; can't wait to open my gift wrapped in possibilities, wonder, delight, excitement! als, i am a little girl again. fields of clouds lay stretched in rows. midnight blue sky reflects midnight blue ocean. wow! it feels great to be alive! it feels good to feel it again and again and again.