sunrise
For a moment
The silence had roots
And clung to me like
A light cloak
With a bed of stars
Gleaming in its velvet folds
Black, purple, light
Settling in for
A deep night.
And I breathed,
Again,
Deeply.
For A Moment
26 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in poetry Tags: breathe, clarity, light, night, photography, purple, roots, silence
Loving You
22 Jun 2013 3 Comments
in poetry Tags: heartbreak, love, purple
loving you is a hard thing to do…
to keep you free
to let you go
to not be attached
to not be consumed
but to love,
to love the way I feel when you laugh,
to feel the way my heart beats when you walk
….even walking away…
the words you say well up in my waiting,
and lodge in my throat,
and when you say “good-bye”,
my lips will simply say “okay”…
Apex of Destiny
29 May 2013 Leave a comment
I could have been anywhere,
Where sky and ocean melt together,
Where place billows with texture, and color, and infinity,
I could have been anywhere,
But I was with you.
Our paths converging in the stories of our existence,
Feet stepping lightly in the synthesis of our terrain,
Enraptured by you—
Once a wild child of the south,
Cigarette and alcohol in hand at ten,
riding horses through tall grasses,
galloping at full speed,
leaping over barriers that could not hold you down.
Your voice now a part of the landscape
Of THIS place, of MY heart,
marked by ahu stones stacked
in the four directions of
where we have been, Where we are,
Where we meet,
Finally here,
Present, in the apex of destiny.
(c) Karen K.L. Espaniola 2013, All Rights Reserved
Denial
29 May 2013 4 Comments
You say that even if you did,
Though you wondered once,
You’re not, could never be,
Wanting me, it seems, behind dark glasses,
Hiding a sure-footed swagger, and softened face
You are looking at me,
Drawing you near in my dreams, lips numb
With fragrant fruit,
And your hands cupped in denial
Around my heart.
(c) Karen K.L. Espaniola 2013, All Rights Reserved
Aching Harvest
28 May 2013 Leave a comment
In wanting to be loved,
You’ve allowed his storm to pellet you,
To pull you into harsher rain’s constant hammering,
Jolting, stealing pride
you look away,
Your fugitive eyes clinched
In a far-away dream
Of her summer light,
her fragrant petals opening and soft days
aching harvest beauty
Of lips, and tears, and tongue
And heart, too cowardly,
to come out
of the dark, and open your eyes.
(c) Karen K.L. Espaniola 2013, All Rights Reserved
To Be The One
26 May 2013 2 Comments
in poetry Tags: love, nature, purple
I step carefully into predawn,
Blades of grass damp with night,
Blossoms still soft with sleep, parting,
Horizon blushing with pale color, breaking
free of darkness,
Every blade, every leaf turns toward you waiting,
Silhouettes of nature fluttering
in anticipation of you
And I, Seeking that still moment more than anything
Knowing that every second the sun rises,
Every moment purple shadows recede,
Every feather, stone, or discolored flower from the day before,
Every thought unheard, or unseen, waits to be experienced by you,
And I want to be the one,
The one there in that moment,
When every fragrance, every sound,
Every fluttering leaf and whispering wind
Calls your name and shines for you.
I want to be that gift-giver of beauty,
To hold you with a beauty you have never felt before,
Want to capture your sapphire eyes,
Draw you to me, passionately, and achingly,
To be the one,
The one awake,
The one beside you when your eyes open to all that awaits you,
I want to gather all that has been, all that will be, all that can be
Into a timeless dance of unbelievable light, for you,
But I have only my words to make your heart pulsate in soft rhythms,
And sometimes words aren’t good enough,
For I am but an observer of your light, a reflection of your beauty,
And you are the one who must come to me,
When you want,
In that still moment,
And rise together.
KKLE May 25, 2013
(c) Karen K.L. Espaniola 2013, All Rights Reserved
Crescent Moon
14 May 2013 2 Comments
in poetry Tags: love, nature, purple
A crescent moon hangs low
As I wait for my tea.
A slip of light
On a dark canvas
Dissolves
The clamor of the day,
And I think of you…
As the night hums
To the drum of the universe,
Your voice softening,
Ambrosia-like,
Immortal nectar
In my mind.
(c) Karen K.L. Espaniola 2013, All Rights Reserved
Blue Sky
05 May 2013 Leave a comment
in poetry Tags: poetry, purple
Free Falling into your blue sky,
an adrenaline hoax,
a giddy infusion,
knowing your denial,
denying my knowing,
an addictive attachment aching,
at the curvature of your voice,
I surrender my feet to your reality,
and touch the ground.
(c) Karen K.L. Espaniola 2013, All Rights Reserved
Star Gazer
01 May 2013 2 Comments
in poetry Tags: journey, poetry, purple
Those stars,
Seeking for your eyes to see,
Have been seen before
In this night sky
By thousands who have gone before,
Who have gazed
At beauty, lobes ripe with mystery
and amazing magnitude
juxtaposed to our own smallness.
KKLE May 1, 2013
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