Metaphors for Joy I was told while feeling sad, “tur My heart ponders metaphors, for jo It reaches towards Mother Nature My heart becomes the germinating s My soul is merely a locked door wa 7 6
Cotton Tree I beheld a million wishes floating Reveling in thrushes and blushing Oh, God’s color is brilliance of Kissing my cheek, my nose, the bac I love loving those lightning-vibr 2 1
Old Tree Seasons are endless passages of ti With each waking, golden visage re ’Tis pure decadence to an eye’s pl We long to snatch each glowing mom In millenniums of space holding us 8 2
Lily, Grace A lily folds in upon dusk til a br Her grace tilts towards brightest Gracefully tipping, her milky tide Lily, grace Fair; drunkin in sun hues and morn 6 1
Desert Rose You grow on sandy blankets, like s You dip toward a sky’s dotted and You soak beneath heaven’s lampligh Stars bow to your gaze and a dry, You are an oasis of pungently swee 6 3
Yonder Tree Look! Yonder tree, disillusioned, and perplexing in her masked beauty Her, plight mangled by dotty roads ’Tis an expanding snare, growing s 5 3
Stand Still I reach for gold in a billion stra Tears long for my soul’s rapture a Treading stronger waves I go—they I reach for a sun’s unreachable hu A spirit whispers, ‘STAND STI 2 2
Beneath Ash and Beeches Antiquitas form—possessor of great A venerable, viridescent growth A bow towards venus’s anticipation An equilibrium of harmony A bearer of nurturing fruit—Apple 1 2
Mother Goddess Celestial body composing an orb of A blue globe encircling brightest To which we become, as one with he Tasting her clear waters As flowers sway with sun and moon, 2 2
Lady of the Sea Enchantments of a mystic deep Fabled creature of sea A veritable truth she keeps ’Tis a voice of larks’ glee In rippling shoals of wavy blue 9 3
My Bonnet A song, not sought, intruding Robbing my fairy dust–my happy tho A song, stomping loud and robust u She hovers over me, a dancing bonn What a blue, warm haven she is upo 2 2
Golden Tears Tears, golden tears Do not dread the world Release your embers of fear Rinse away thick silt and behold j Hard mystic mountains never bend 2
Edges Pain traces bleeding edges frozen Prowling ravens turn to coal dust Inevitably, somber moons of night Prevailing light travels behind th It was meant to be, the madness an 2
Owl Seeing true an otherworldly Watchful eyes—peering oracle An unblinking methodical Nigh—dusk awakens night’s kingly Tending ruler of eventide 10 5
Consumed A mid-summer day presents it’s fir June bugs hum a sultry sound, as p Awakened are bold and ignite-ly co A summer’s green brightened by a n Turned burgundy wine, with hot ref 2 2
The Ballena Azul There was a vermilion sky kissing We sat on ebony sands in search of We baked beneath a sun’s valiant f Our skins bronzed a light, tropica For several moons we met with morn 2 3
BIRTH Spring was our birth A season of airy hycinths and viol Summer produced a jungle A juncture, wild and spellbound by Autumn relinquished a solemn breez 7 1
Orchestrate An orchestrated dream of symohonic Gliding feather flanked pens, like A mind’s generating seeds of color Stamping notes on pale paper; the We are wordsmiths, beating life in 4 1
My Garden, My Metaphor Classic are darling vines—strong, Catching mine eyes’ deepest inquis Crowned leaves heavy by a fruit’s Relinquishing delectable, sweet ge She seeks inside for wide, whisper 5 2
Black Forest She is a Black Forest hiding bene Her veins transform into ink-like 'Tis a smoky template of color ris Admired are perching ravens residi An obsidian musk enshrouds her dou 6 5
Aphotic Dance On the Bedouin of soul fire I wri Therein lays my heart, my mind, my Like dipping lilacs on brimming la The page, a blank-blackness above, A pen’s aphotic dance dwells on wi 6 1
Goðafoss Falling water of Gods, sculpted o A swirl of turquoise glacier carvi A sense for clarity of thought A continuous being A hopeful vision 7 3
Pain Addict Sometimes I'm a bellowing slump—I Addicted to tears as I grapple my I paint myself as an addict to dar How my heart quickens with my tear I feel my breath hastening, runnin 8 4
Crown Shyness In woods blown by a wind’s unharne On those higher, mightier planes o Such is cracked mud drinking reple Liana climbs the art strewn canopy Liana touches each tree-being, dra 6 1
Death Hills The death hills rolled in clay Silvery, sheen and sunken stones They seem to whisper amongst a dar As night lights lushly soak earth’ There is history written upon the 3 1
LOVE’S PATH Love is a mangled, dotty road with Crooked is her path at times, surr Love travels far, through her path In patience, love finds heaven wit Because, wherever darkness goes th 1 3
She Haunts Us She hangs on my wall—a maiden of To death she sailed away whilst wr her hair, like spindled gold spun She sings her mournful song with m Her touchless dalliances rest insi 3 3
My, Orchid Blue Many an Orchid ’tis fair and choi Many anew, florid with rosy, blush Betimes, simply bearing brightness She is efflorescent and oft gently We walk jungle cliffs overlooking 11 5
Pearl Gates Whilst traveling to gates adorned I’d like to be greeted by faces ki I’d like to hear enchanting choirs I’d like to feel prints in his han I’d like to know of his transformi 7 3
A King’s Night Songs of merriment croon upon a wh ’Tis bells golden, singing an allu A sacred catalyst and Yule whimsy A stiring of evergreens’ fulfillme Sustenance rises on love’s delicat 8 5
Pink Lagoon Fairy-rose lagoon A prim blush of sweetest pith Innocence in heart Pink, calming lagoon A crux of gentility 4 4
The Lion and the Rose (He), a CORE Brightly spinning golden—summoning An eternal destiny Harnessing strength in sacred nobi Wisdom 1
My Darker Shades of Blue Bring ropes, hang me on a gallows STRING ME UP! For within a feeble prison I am e I am being forced downwards, by a 8 6
Transfiguration Hope is a design of expanding, uto Hope is a genteel medicine of fair ’Tis magick An emblem of authentic truth in wh By and by, vibrantly cherished joy 8 3
