![]() Written in 2019 Bedrock crumbles neath the weight Of ages rolling steadily Ancient giants all dissolved To grains of sand in every sea Nothing dares to make a stand No pow'r known could see it through The steel of ships burns orange in death While leather thins and tears in two Memories once hot and bright Wane down to ash devoid of spark And minds that once shone luminous Lay still and silent in the dark Civilizations raise high towers To sneer and mock the slow decay As silent laughter jeers them back And wears them out in subtle ways But beauty, that shapeshifter she Doth change her many forms To rage against relentless age In flower, mount and storm To press the veil of nothingness With her relentless spark And dull the fangs of ever night Whose bite precedes its bark The balancing of life and death Of emptiness and sound Creates the void where minds may play And meaning may be found
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![]() Written in 2017 When I gaze into her eyes I see the rise and fall Of kingdoms in all ages, And the lineage of sages Born as ancient flames in this dark night. I sense the tide and feel the ocean, The planets in their motion, The life and death of stars now waning Dwell within the endless depths, Like secrets in her aspect kept By nothing more than varied shades of light. I see the goings on of earth, The miracle of birth, The strange and quiet trust Of each in turn surrendering to dust, As the wings of birds all taking flight. I feel the seasons and their turnings, The never ending yearnings And memories of youth, The wisdom held in every book, The stones in every brook, The pull of forces infinite or slight. When I gaze into her eyes My soul both smiles and cries, Existence has a meaning With presence supervening, Each time I catch the look of her delight. ![]() Written in 2016 The soul at last sought to awaken Strong, resolved, adept, unshaken Anchors loosed, my bonds forsaken Nought remains that can be taken For I was searching, never seeing Humanness had lost its being But when comforts started fleeing Nakedness was deeply freeing Seldom sought out, often labeled Stories grew, the truth was fabled Emptiness had now enabled Hopes and dreams I'd long since tabled I seize that now for which I've waited At the cost of being hated Though my name is oft debated Minds and mouths are left unsated Still I go, though now alone My heart, my soul, my blood, my bone All churning as a tumbling stone My destination yet unknown ![]() Written in 2012 How lovely is thy form Thy flesh, thy blood, thy bone What soft, what gentle ways By which thy heart is known Thy beauty ever washes over me What night cannot be lit By love's eternal flare? Her light dwells in thine eyes Her autumn in thy hair Her longing ever draws my gaze to thee Upon thy tender touch My heart, my soul eclipse Pure nectar of thy words On blossom of thy lips Doth savor sweetly of thy inner grace As sailors long for sea And dreamers beg for sleep So doth my soul desire For thy eternal keep To hold mine ardent love in thy embrace When lightning runs the sky And summer speaks unrest I hear thy vital tide Through gently heaving breast And then awake to find it is but rain How lovely is thy form How gentle are thy ways How marvelous thy love In swift and fleeting days The end of which hath cleft my heart in twain ![]() Written in 2014 I once met a girl With porcelain skin Who hated the life she was in Her bones cast the shadows Of youth and of night And glowed with the best shades of light Her blood was the color Of crimson and tears Her memories, shaded with fears But the look in her eyes Was unbridled and free With a hue just as blue as the sea With a hue just as blue as the sea ![]() Written in 2001 A bed of grass has chosen there to go Beside the home where you would watch me play And every year I come to watch it grow And in the garden where you used to sow The seeds of fruit have all since seen decay A bed of grass has chosen there to go Yet through your tree the winds still often blow Though apples on its limbs would wish to stay And every year I come to watch it grow Beyond the yard the trail weaved to and fro Remember when we walked it every day? A bed of grass has chosen there to go Oh grandmother, what happened to the glow? There’s longing in my heart for all those days And every year I come to watch it grow But mourning will not bring them back, I know So I shall place these flowers on your grave A bed of grass has chosen there to go And every year I come to watch it grow ![]() Written in 2011 My nostrils are filled with life With the fresh young scent of the dawn Sailing on a sea of mist Each breath heaving as the waves Constant as the sound of the evening tide A symphony of bone and sinew Of flesh and blood The dance of feet on pavement Each step taught as a wind driven sail Adrift on a sea of glass Lost in silence and solitude Hidden away from the noisy clamor of life From the listless disquietude of berth My body throbs with a longing for the sea With a thirst for all that is she.... Careening o'er the waters with the momentum of my heart ![]() Written in 2001 Ill repaired and tether cut I drifted with the wind Blue eyes the sea that took me there Hello so soon, I fell for her Like a busted satellite And that month became like rain on the Sahara Forgotten all that first was told Wrought out in seasons past Affection’s clock ticked its last Rewound, it started over Stories of old, stories of love Wheeling me in on a gurney My wings she gently mended And summer’s beard was gray and long Wealth did lose its value The street still warm beneath me I stood there in the dark A king without a castle; a cloud without a sky Goodbye, the coldest word of all My one regret: goodbye ![]() Written In 2009 There is a place I keep within A place that only I have been Where dreams are born and hopes begin And twilight is unending Yes all is well within this room Where latent thoughts like roses bloom And absence keeps a ready tomb For fears or doubts impending Anew I taste eternity So still beneath our willow tree That night, your kiss, a gift to me The bounds of time transcending The hue of moonlight on your skin Each perfect curve like porcelain A thousand times I've lived again A thousand times pretending And so love's seed began to grow Enraptured wholly in its glow Our lives silently held in tow Our hearts were for the lending Yet for the joy such dreaming brings There's tragedy in all these things For love, it seems, has sprouted wings And scarred me with its rending And so alas I must awake To start again, to dull the ache To light a match for memory's sake Its haunted shadows bending There is a place I keep within A place that only I have been Where dreams are born and hopes begin And twilight is unending ![]() Written In 2001 I'd like to watch the intrigue in your eyes Set off to flight and pirouette with grace, And resurrect the truth behind the lies. To lift my face toward heaven when it cries, And as I pass a glance across your face, I'd like to watch the intrigue in your eyes. To mourn for the last daisy when it dies, To search out all the gray within this place, And resurrect the truth behind the lies. From on the rooftops watch the sun arise, And when simplicity gives all disgrace, I'd like to watch the intrigue in your eyes. To learn the keenest phrases of the wise, To randomly pull you into embrace, And resurrect the truth behind the lies. To coax you from the safety of your guise, And prove that even beauty you abase. I'd like to watch the intrigue in your eyes, And resurrect the truth behind the lies. ![]() Written in 1999 A tear of us grew in my eye and rolled onto my cheek A whispered sigh through lullaby and words I could not speak It traveled like a shooting star on seas without a ship Whose waters sing my sorrows and find death upon my lips Tomorrow came and said goodbye, it found us far apart But I still taste the saline and the stains still paint my heart Wiped clean my eyes to see you off, I hope to find you well And thank you for our moment, this tear of us that fell ![]() Written in 2001 The night, much longer than I could have guessed Does all to taunt and jeer me ere I go Cold hands would rob the peace that gives me rest As through this glass reality I row Beyond the last of blue I'll reach the shore Still not before my fears should sit this deck And I must go to face the truth and lore Though fate would favor waves that bid me wreck But fate does not command my vessel's wake Nor has the wind the hands to guide me home Tis I that force the oars upon this lake And I alone shall chart what course to roam So search I shall beyond horizon lines Again, the will to reach the shore is mine ![]() Written in 2001 “A poem is a way of capturing a moment.” Nikki Giovanni The darkness fought with a thousand city lights With a deep, mystic regality the horizon cut into them Like great swells of ink Dipping low to kiss the earth I watch each lamp bleed out into darkening waters Stretching toward a gray western skyline - The last breath of a dying sun And the cool, having been banished by day, Awakens once more to wander the earth: Through these rails Across this deck Pushing all warmth beyond my reach Here am I Reclined and sighing Chasing after elusive time with jots and tittles Stringing up a bed of stars To wander through To rest within To help me remember where I am ![]() Written in 2001 In the blackened folds of darkening night, The skies unfurl their dreamy lights, That sing to all an unheard song, In perfect joy, from dusk ‘til dawn. The cool, crisp air, so smooth and still, In hues of dew, shall stay until The scent of daylight held aloft Will ride a breeze both sweet and soft. All sounds of night my ears to greet, As crickets sing the dreamer’s suite, ‘Til dark shall gray in the sight of morn, Another day will soon be born. Light now paints horizon lines, And every dip and hill defines As all at rest begin to wake; A chance to rise, a chance to take. ![]() Written in 1998 I dreamed the perfect world for you The perfect room to stay for you And let the windows change so I Might spend another day with you I lost the perfect night for you Fought off the bitter cold for you Beyond the chaliced heart to find The strings that pull me near to you Rode off on flailing steeds for you And sailed a thousand seas for you Drowned deep in tears, the most of mine While living on my knees for you Flew high the marble kite for you Drained out my soul to write for you That hope through scattered chandeliers Reflects upon the trite for you Misplaced the question “Why?” for you Slowed comets in the sky for you If joy the crimson in my veins Then I would bleed them dry for you ![]() Written in 2012 The day is passing on Its aged countenance dimmed Careening toward sweet death To the yawning light of a fiery horizon Her gates open wide Her arms outstretched Starving to receive a wandering sun There is magic in such embrace And so night awakens Roaming earth and sky Hungry to be known by all So mysterious the deep The sullen darkness that swallows up the mountainside A white moon rises This humble fire is comforting Its golden heart bearing forth light Lifting a train of pale fog to the stars There is something hidden in this solitude... A strange transcendence So I wait here alone Washed in the warmth of these glowing embers Bathed in the love of this dancing flame ![]() Written in 2012 My love is fire wild and free Sweeping o'er the plains Her eyes a tempest on the seas Her passion as the rain Her feet awash with earthen stains Her garment hem with tares With sunlight beaming through each vein That parts her wind whipped hair My love is a river fierce and strong Rushing toward the sea A banquet hall alive with song That sweetly covers me Her face aglow with twilight's flame The moonlight on her skin Like desert stallions - free, untamed The heart she bears within My love is a song bird lost in flight Floating on the breeze Her melody the sounds of night of water, grass and trees She runs among the dandelions In dreams bereft of fear As I give chase, ne'er far behind My life, my love, my dear ![]() Written in 2008 Now is here and then is lost Still somewhere in my heart And everything that ever was Is pulling me apart For I have seen the future - The life that could have been I play it over in my mind And I have seen the end Where you and I are ambling By the sea, upon the sand My wrinkled fingers folded In the creases of your hand Our love told like a story Each chapter wrought with age The fading sun a harbinger Before our final page Yet chapters left unwritten Form a space so bitter cold And leaves still left unopened Crave the story left untold My love for you has never died Nor will it ever feign Like roses grown inside of me That thrive on memory's rain But thorns that stem each flower Press the walls within my heart The scars they leave are beautiful They take me to the start To a place that never ended In a story without lies In a book that lovers long to read: The tale of you and I ![]() Written in 2012 As the solemn street lamp blazes in the night So my heart burns within me Flame bent, raging against the dark I have been slain by beauty and by love Pierced through by the rushing of its torrid arrows Lain bleeding in the streets with none to mend my wounds For who can know my sorrow? I have watched the sunlight glisten upon Aphrodite's cheek I have kissed the lips of a goddess And touched the skin of an angel I have trodden the sacred paths of the dawn And beheld the glory of her rising I have held the summer lightning in my hands And felt its thunders rumble through my soul I have ridden upon the wings of the wind Drawn by her beckoning Hearkening to the whispers of her lips I have been both smitten and bitten And I yet feel the rush of love's sweet poison in my veins I have parted the meadows on a midsummer's eve And lay silently, breathlessly - Sweetly entangled by her grace I have been met with a love as deep as the ocean As powerful as the sea As enduring as the surf upon the shores My tears are the envy of men Both young and old My heartache, the longing of seraphs For memory brings no more beautiful sorrow Than to love, and be loved by she ![]() Written in 2014 There's a light that's falling softly just like embers With the night in tow and finding me too soon Inside these golden flames I watch the faces Of memories once born in autumn's moon Still I wander like a child among the waters Swept away in all the colors held by June Tonight the chilling bones that dwell inside me Feel the aching of a heart that's left in ruin And I'm wishing for a lover or a stranger To awake me from my silent reverie As shadows chase away into the forest Like ghosts of better days escaping me In the distance I can hear you softly calling I would give my life to hear you speak my name The midnight wind transforms into your whisper For begging ears whose hunger won't be tamed And I wonder who it is that stands beside you And I wonder if he loves you just as deep While the willows and the pines are wrapping round me And these heavy eyes are drawing me to sleep Still the river in the meadow carries onward Toward the canyon that will guide it to the sea With a constancy outlasting any rivals Save the love for you that's buried deep in me |
AuthorEric Peltz is a poet, musician, Archives
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