Radiant Rose

radiant rose
tangling sweet nectar over seas
into hearts
forever changed

a flowering light
effervescent
fresh over years
unalterable bloom

into the halo of benevolence
she blossomed
an eternal youth

leaving her legacy intertwined in
Radiance


RIP
Radiant Rose Pollock-Schlegel
9/4/81 - 6/5/12

in love

you make me swoon with overflowing love and adoration
until my limbs feel numb and weightless
a tingling swell pumping my veins
radiating my body so that your spirit seems to be at every delicious breath of my consciousness

this is the reality of knowing you
this reality is wonderful
simply, sweetly, spasmodically
wonderful

rock a bye

ebb and flow
rock a bye
baby green eyes know
away down
find the way
down to the ginger
bread house he may
and kiss her
pink apple lips
rise sleeping beauty
rise, to the tips
to taste sweet love
at life's top
in every drip
every drop
take my hand
take your hand
to the moon
a brand new land
in a bucket
of moonbeams and starshines
bursting the seams
with your love
rockin me bye
each moonlit night
on a whispered sigh

11/23/10

writing to write. on trees and love.

i'm saying this just to say it
if you'd care to listen, then this is me. here. and now.  for you for me for them and no one.
i don't even know where to begin but here.  so take it or leave it because baby it's all there is.
i love you. 

i love you.

i love you.
thank you for being here. when i think about loving you, i breath deeply, more deeply. pausing.  inhaling/exhaling you in, your movements, your sounds, your spirit. breathing in and out.
i love you.

arcing, the tree will bend. and arcing too far, it will break.  standing too tall, too firm, it will snap.  When our tree ebbs and flows, its life is long; and for many years its changing leaves will bring you joy, and it's spring blossoms will remind you to love, it's shade will bring you comfort in Summer's heat, and when it winters, barren and stark and carrying a burden of snow - you may remember that life is precious - it wanes - it will not last forever.  nothing does.
no matter the years our fruitful tree graces our lives - a great messenger - it too will break.  Earth's landscape, forever changed from it. 
I believe as people, because we our so mobile - not rooted and noble like the magnificent oak - we do not see our impact as clearly.  Decades are not spent dedicated to the small circumference of our little plot in the world.  No, we move, we spread, we continually transplant.  But, when we go, our impact IS felt, it is noticed.
What will the remnants we leave behind look like?
You are noticed.  You matter, your every movement is felt.  And loved.

8 Sundays

It's been 8 Sundays. And I can't pick a favorite.
i was speechless for the first month we dated
completely overwhelmed with falling for you more each day
lost in the way my heart pounded at the thought of you
and the dizzy haze your touch would bring
swaying in your embrace
loving you is easy, unavoidable and fun.
pulsing deep within spinning round my chest pulsing down and up my length
tingling through each finger and wiggling in my toes
every bit's wrapped up with you
and reaching towards the moon

11/22/10

what it's like

there you are
tipping my cup
to the love in your eyes

may we never
and may we always
may we forever

forever may our eyes meet
always with the memory of our last embrace
never without love's longing

at the tip of every moment
you are on each breath
in the corners of every thought

the solace of your arms
the caressing comfort of your voice
the tender honesty in your words

and there you are again
tipping my cup
with overflowing joy

sorrow and joy

And the years trickle on
bustling brooks of moments gone and time washing by and the missing you wells in my eyes and swells in my heart and i wander a wondering path of grief and sorrow, loss and love. with joyful comfort in remembering
and today
more than other days
you become my hearbeating
your laugh and smile engraved in the forefront of every thought
all the things i want to tell you
all the things i wish i could have shared with you