Dreams Unseen
Sonnet 1
The
waking world may leave me ne’r content
My love if
there’s no place for you and I
To find
ourselves to love and ne’r repent
To live, to
love, to dream, and then to die
Beneath the
sky above this dreamful sleep
I’ll find you
there in hope or passions eye
And pray you
seek me well and find me deep
Your heart
content to love one such as I
But if you
find me not in slumbers womb
And passions
flame has not the chance to light
Forget me not
or to my early tomb
This heart
will surely break and rend the night
Yet, sleep you
well, my love my timeless muse
And wait anon
’til morrow’s dreams pursue
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Fair Memory
Sonnet 2
I see you fair in memory’s sweet
abode
‘tis truly there with you I long to
be
To touch again ‘fore daydream walls
erode
Thy lips of red, o passion, mine to
thee
In passion do I feel the tempest rise
Rise to meet the moonlight’s sweet
caress
To see myself in love there in your
eyes
And in thy garden dare to find me
rest
O damn the world that holds this
body bound
N’er content, my spirit yearns to
search the wind
‘tis there in sweet repose my love
is found
And there I long to be with you
again
For in fair memory’s eye no care
there be
And to thy heart, mine own, I’d give
to thee
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First Embrace
Oh lover, fair with moonlit eyes
For you my heart does ache
With depths of passion yet untapped
By mortals, love to make
Your silken hair of fire gold
Your eyes of twilight blue
Have put to shame the star-lit night
In beauty next to you
Oh lover of my waking thoughts and
Dreams that come by eve
Come to me now my love, my soul and
Grant this heart reprieve
These gentle lips do for you wait
These hands to show you grace
Will cause us never to forget
This night, our first embrace
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My Love, My Soul
Shadows lengthen slowly
o'er
The place our hearts did
meet
Where are thee moon,
light of my soul?
Where is thy watchful
gaze?
These eyes are sorely
blinded, for
They long for blissful
sleep
Yet, still I wait.
Be still my soul
Wait 'til the end of
day.
For in the gentle
gloaming hour
When sun meets western
deep
The moon shall light
unto my soul
And light her beckoned
way.
Oh, maiden fairly blessed,
our
Two hearts do run in
league
For love, I risk eternal
soul
For love, here I remain.
Above
the Blue Twilight
Chance the night, oh fragrant wind
Beckon to its drowsy calling
For ‘tis there she rises high
And in the morn’s seen falling.
Two different worlds on blanket lay
Before creations dawning
T’was there, her glory first espied
Began her lover’s fawning.
The gentle glow upon her face
Her light of azure gloaming
A reflection of the love he feels
With warmth of heart e’er showing.
So, chase the wind. Disrupt the tides
My lover, oh my soul
And to thy darkened bed abide
In part or by the whole.
Though mortal eyes rare find us here
Embracing in their sight
Ever shall we meet and dance
Above the blue twilight.
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By Your Side
Late morning rays feel
their way up the bedroom wall
A reminder that the day
had just begun
Cool sheets hug your
contour and on me also fall
As I, first to wake, do
loathe the sun.
Still, I lay there awed
by your face in morning light
Your look of sweet repose
calls out to me
A sigh escapes your
parted lips in memory of the night
With a playful smile,
brief though it may be.
When at last my love,
your eyes they opened wide
Into my own they found me
deep in wonder
From dream to waking
dream there I lay still by your side
And from your side I
nevermore will wander.
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