bird    roses

Love Stills the Dreams



Our love, stills the dreams, stops the chase.
We linger now with sweet and sweaty kisses.
All the world is love when we’re together.
In this sunny green world bursting with flowers
in this moment of nature’s timeless flow, our love blooms .
A chorus of morning birds cheer us with their songs.
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Our love, sets the beat, sings these songs
Melodies so sweet outside the chase.
Sunlight brightens flowers as they bloom.
Our heartbeats accentuate our kisses
In this moment with clouds, blue sky, and the flowers
Careless of time when we are together.
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We spend all the night together
We join in nature’s chorus singing songs
breezes carry sweet scents of flowers
trickling brooks drown out the noise of the chase
Hearts neither true nor betraying, send out many kisses
Sunshine and love spread out among the blooms
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Cold breeze blow petals from the blooms
Empty arms reach out to be together.
Children growing, running, blowing kisses
All the soft summer winds carry bird songs
In this beauty unseen by eyes locked to the chase
Summer winds blowing dried flowers
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dark night, without light, close the flowers
odd loneliness that makes the anger bloom
faces are distracted by the chase
All alone even when we’re together
Mis-interpreting always the coyote’s songs
Every moment we’re missing kisses
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Our love, stilled the dreams with kisses
From those days we load the shelf with flowers
Sunny days remembered hearing old songs
In late summer we see autumn buds bloom
In moments of lost time, we are always together.
Love lasts forever outside the chase
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A bright summer bird singing songs
The day is filled with kisses

Let others run to the chase
We stay here with our flowers

Timeless, here in these blooms
We will always be together


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SESTINA*


*From Ezra Pound and his troubadors, the pop singers of their day.
Called a poem form, but these troubadors were singers so call it a love song.


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