Love's Secret Dreams
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Time's Playground
When we talked
I felt at home
Secrets more open
Dreams more real
Love more honest
Time was our playground
We were its master, until it broke free and
Trapped us in life’s quick freeze
Silent
Gazing out
Waiting for the thaw of spring
To breathe again
The scent of flowers
To breathe again
Love’s secret dreams
When we talked
©Winsome Publishing 2010
Veterans
You pegged me right
From the beginning
I tried to protest…
Talking too much
Pretending you were wrong
But you knew
You wouldn’t let me get away with it
And I, laughing,
Yielded, delighted you knew
Two veterans
Taken with each other’s reticence
Quiet assurance with the other’s craft
Both disarmed by the
Discovery of innocence
Children under the armor
©Winsome Publishing 2010
The Gallery
Such promise, such impossibility
Together in a smile as beautiful as the day
Tiptoeing through my thoughts
Washing over my heart
Wandering in the side streets of my memory
I turn away
The sound of you is a soft caress on my shoulders
Your face is framed in the
Images of my mind
Long after you’d gone
Your smile lingered and
I, alone in the gallery
Admiring each trace,
Redrawing as the light fades
Again and again
You smile
©Winsome Publishing 2010
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You are so kind Sage. I'm delighted to be sharing them with you.
I love the metaphoric descriptions Winsome! Really clever and fluent - the meaning comes right home.
Thank you BE, I never metaphor I didn't like. =:)
Absolutely beautiful poem. I think you are very talented, not that I'm an expert but that poem has such depth of feeling.
I'm so glad you liked it Pamela. I'm not an expert either, but as Forrest Gump says: I know what love is. =:)
Great job Winsome!
Thank you Michael. I appreciate your friendship.
Winsome, truley wonderful poems. Thank you so much for sharing.
Thank you GH, such is the path of love. May we all survive. =:)
Great poems here! Thank you! Encore!
There's a laid-back kind of atmosphere in your poems that I relish. Thanks for sharing :D
Thank you Micky. One of these days I will open up and let it all hang out. Glad you liked these.
Chris, I am happy you enjoyed them--I held back for a while, some things you only show the closest of friends. I'm starting to feel that way about this great community. Thanks for your part in the welcome.
Beautiful. Your words paint images and the descriptions you use capture each situation so very well. A joy to read and savour.
Hey Frieda, thank you. I feel like a kid at recess pulling out my marble pouch sharing my new "cat eyes" with my friends. I've enjoyed your "marbles" and want to read more. =:)
beautiful. it's so nice to see a man express these feelings.
and any man with a pre-raphaelite image on his hub page has my attention. thanks for sharing with us. I know the feeling of sharing such an intimate part of you, but it's a wonderful gift to share.
Rebekah, you are, as always gracious and intuitive. I bounced around the pages a while in complete anonymity and finally let a few things out. Thank you for your kind words.
anything i add would just be an understatement and not nearly enough, so i'll just tell you that these poems made my heart full of quiet feeling, like maybe if kittens could walk across it and you could feel it, and when words arranged on a page can do that to a reader, that means they are spectacular. rating UP but i didn't need to say that either.
Maybe not but it feels good when you do. Thank you Cos, you always know the right thing to say about the things we say...kittens walking across my heart..yeah, I like that. =:)
well, that was the most heart-warmingest thing i could think of at the time :)
These poems are beautiful and shows what LOVE is and should be. The feelings you put into these reflect a man with a very romantic and passionate heart. I felt your soul was let loose when you penned these. You are a poet an artist with wonder. Thanks for the share my friend.
Thank you Bud, it takes a romantic to spot one and I'm very happy you liked them. One thing about the world--it changes you and if you can express it, it's a kind of forgiveness like "the fragrance left on the heel that crushes the rose."
=:)
Beautiful! Thank you Winsome!
You are so welcome Micky, I'm glad you liked them. =:)
Winsome, I clicked on this hub like it was a box of chocolates, not knowing what I would get.
I was rewarded by 3 lovely sweet pieces with warm creamy centers, and I say "Bon, bon".
You do know what love is...it's apparent you've been there and lived to tell the tale.
These poems were welcome and well done.
CP
Hey Chris, thanks for opening the box and for the kind words. I owe much to the journey I have taken and still am on. Love makes poets of us all and if love doesn't kill us we plunge right back in for more. =:)
Super poetry, and wonderful words. I enjoyed your writing and see a breathless gasp of joy and pleasure in your beautiful prose. My favorite is The Gallery. :) A stunning piece of imagery put into verse.
Voting up for your lovely poems.
Blessings,
Laurie
I love 'Veterans'! It is so beautiful -- I might have to 'steal' a copy of it. :)
Good day Lady Ivorwen, so glad you liked it. I think that it is interesting that we grow so mature and business like and yet underneath we try so hard to preserve the innocence. May we all succeed. =:)
Sage Williams Level 2 Commenter 2 years ago
OMG Winsome these poems are just lovely. Truly amazing choice of words. I am bookmarking this one for sure.
I'm relishing in the words, "to breathe again, and from you other poem,
"Discovery of innocence
Children under the armor"
Just beautiful!
Sage