Right now You’re a small bunch of cellsCan’t believe one day you may be Giving us hellHanging out with friends we don’t like Coming home way past midnight Right now You’re an ultrasound shape You’ve got a heartbeat, eyes, and limbs And even a weight I’m trying to keep my fears at bay Praying thatContinue reading “Keepers of Your Flame”
Category Archives: Keepers of the Flame
To Steward a New Soul With You (A Proposal)
To steward a new soul with youIs to shape love into life Kindle a sacred sparkTurn dust into diamondsLeave an eternal mark To steward a new soul with you Is to dream with the divine Soar above the sun Mold a magic, golden key Brave bristling wilds as one There are trials to consider, comfortsContinue reading “To Steward a New Soul With You (A Proposal)”
Autumn Arrives
Honeyed scent of jasmine nights Full moon at our fingertips November spring in fairy lights Tea and kisses warm our lips Fresh-baked bread, fresh-picked plants Toddler soccer all day long Sunlight sifts in softened slants Beeps compete with sparrow song It’s the burst of life before winter hitsFrantic bees fill up their hivesThere’s no oneContinue reading “Autumn Arrives”
What I Want You to Know
I want you to know what you do to meBut I don’t know how to say it Some otherworldly alchemyCan’t measure, map, or weigh it I want you to know my valleysThe jagged stones and streams withinWhere do I begin? I want you to know how I think of you But I don’t want toContinue reading “What I Want You to Know”
Linger
I’m wading in the memory of the magic of last night When our bodies, slow and tender, came together and took flight It’s not a flashback, it’s time becoming space The path along your back that my fingers softly trace You say you hear the ocean when you rest against my chest You’re the moonContinue reading “Linger”
Here Comes the Sun
An overflowing cupAn ever-blooming roseA love that never wilts That only grows and grows and grows A gravity that liftsTime that blinks and yawnsNo end, no beginningSimply spinning dawn to dawn A beauty that doesn’t boast But knocks you off your feet Can’t stem the flow, in it’s glow Hypnotized in its heat A prettyContinue reading “Here Comes the Sun”
A Painting on our Wall
You say I’m biasedBut that’s not trueI’m just blessed with The very best view Yes I can see you as you truly areWhen you’re in my arms When I’m in your arms When I tell youWhat it is I seeYou sometimes tell meThat you disagree Well you really should believe me Cause I’m in communionContinue reading “A Painting on our Wall”
You’re a Momma Now
You were everything beforeNow somehow you’re even more You’re a momma now Cause we spoke those sacred lines The moon and stars alignedAnd Tamar came down Cub and momma bear It’s a primal bond you shareIt’s my job job to make sure nothing interferes As we build our home with blood and sweat and tearsContinue reading “You’re a Momma Now”
Perfectly Shlomit
You told me horror films help you relaxSet off a flood of questions I was too afraid to ask So I held my tongue, you tiptoed then plunged Through childhood memories Moved from Jung to love to artA miracle, a mystery And when you speak of mysticism Those slippery words ring true It’s the onlyContinue reading “Perfectly Shlomit”
Tamar
You sparked a heat wave That snapped when you came homeEvery time I held youI was petrified I’d break your bones Your momma moved the earth and seasTo bring you hereAnd with the greatest loveCome the deepest shades of fear The labor lastedAn eternity, maybe more But ‘eternity’, ‘infinity’Those words just don’t mean what theyContinue reading “Tamar”
Jeremy Koloski 