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Your Love
Not the avalanche of twilight
Nor the moonbeam mist
Or the rain-wrapped clouds above
But a poetic movement
A mythical magical dream
A first and only
Some high and higher
Some better and best
Some always and never
Your love has no lows
No descents, no plateaus
No warnings, no dangers
That should be said another way
(Or in endless ways, really)
So let’s try it again
Your love has no phases
No halves, no slivers, no waning
It’s just full, complete, swoony … like when the sky supports the whole of the moon
Only Want What I Have
don’t want the money
of the richest man
the looks
of the handsomest actor
the heart of
the Dalai Lama
nor the connections
of the Pope
only want what I have
since I’m the only one
who has YOU.
It’s Not Enough
If I’ve only told you
That you’re beautiful
A million times then
I haven’t told you nearly enough.
The Word
I spread the word of love
Whichever way I go
Its message just three syllables:
Your name (_ _ _ _ _ _).
Heaven Lent
Every earthly thing
you (……….) eclipse
and even near stars
shine dark in comparison.
How To Do Just About Anything
I’ve figured out
how to focus on
one thing at a time effortlessly
and also how to go weeks
without the need of food or sleep.
So, too, I’ve discovered
how to feel the winter
on a humid summer day
and even how to turn an hour
into one hundred thousand years.
It’s actually very simple—
very much free, as well:
just miss someone you love.
Words in the Snow
Lost power
Still had to say
If your love
Was a flower
It would grow
In all seasons
All climates
Night and day
My Inspiration
It’s leaving me
Or already left
Little by little
And day by day
Words no longer come
One after another
Only form in scattered staccatos
All appears lost, m i s p l a c e d,
reversed, underdeveloped:
.sentence proper a write to how remember even can’t I, Now
Forbidden
After Little Charmer
If only I could
If only you would
But we both know it couldn’t
Come to any good
Yet you still have some may
And I still have some might
So what if our wish on the stars
Could make something so forbidden lawful tonight?
Second verse added with permission of Little Charmer. Read and like the original here. And make sure you check out the rest of Little Charmer’s wonderful blog and, if you haven’t already, follow and like from there.
Benjamin Grossman 