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Lessons (with audio)

Lessons after dark seeking lessons after darka tutorial for my hands instruction for my mouth and coaching for my body I need a teacher someone to get me out of my head show me how to let go lose controland feel it all instead Lessons I’m so eager for lessonsWith curiosity expanding educate, set me freewith a healthy dose of exploration and newContinueContinue reading “Lessons (with audio)”

Weeping Silver Princess

Eucalyptus Caesia (Silver Princess) O, my Weeping Tree I know why you cry for I too know what it’s like  to live in the harshness of this world You survive in the barren places perfectly adapted to thriving there –  yet, your tears still fall O, Silver Princess I look at you and feel comforted knowing you understand my journey In our youth  we bothContinueContinue reading “Weeping Silver Princess”

Together

Life isn’t easy – we have travelled a bumpy road Yet through the highs and lowswe continue together We have faced all the usual problemshealthjobsfamilylosseach other and we have done it alltogether There have been late nights of uncertaintyand early mornings full of hope Many of life’s first and lastshave occurredwhilst holding hands or shedding tears together All thatContinueContinue reading “Together”

Have You

I would like to read your words in the evening –  have you lift my skirt with ink-stained fingers while I unbuckle your belt I would like to memorise your lines –  have you slide inside me with filthy words as I lock my legs around you I would like to understand your prose –  have you speak with yourContinueContinue reading “Have You”

Broken With Blue

It’s been three years since we’ve spoken and I still think of youDid you plug the hole in your heart? Did you get rid of your blue?  So much around me has changed I have grown, old ways are gonebut my question remains (as ever) – are you still hiding your pain in song? Bewitched with curiosity you created incredibleContinueContinue reading “Broken With Blue”

Antipodes

We’re opposites attracting with much distance between usand so many things to misunderstand when you’re hot, I’m cold when you’re awake, I’m asleepwhen you’re quiet, I must speak Yet, we know what lies between usis fire and heat and flame so we grab our shovels and dig through all the muck through all the debris of our livesuntil we’re reunited againContinueContinue reading “Antipodes”

My Peace (with audio)

as you reach for me and I reach for you, through oceans and timezones, we are held and beheld by each other and in these moments when we connect, everything goes still and I find peace… and that peace is you Another poem pulled from the poetry vault from September 2020. I wrote this oneContinueContinue reading “My Peace (with audio)”