Ah but to steal a genuine moment And immerse in it With your succulent mixture of fine wine and daring apparition of sunlight After dark when the city sleeps And our love comes alive This is present and futuristic you And I love that it’s mine too
Category: Inspiration
In exchange for a rose
I’ve got you under my watchful gaze Dear salacious culinarian Whose tender cake rises in the oven of my heart You’ve entered my garden sweetly My heart awakens when you come Held under scrutiny by love’s caressing eye Bring your desserts In exchange for a rose
The romantic dance of words
The Romantic Dance of Words The sonnets string together as pearls The words create a melody Each line a touch upon her lips Each stanza a kiss They sway in this slow dance, the poet and his muse From the heart flows forth the words Into her lungs, she inhales their sweetness Slowly she lets…
Love from the heart
Love from the heart Love cannot be forced or cajoled The use of skulduggery or trickery to win the heart Never results in returned love of the soul We abuse, we lose; But like the dew on the lawn That gathers at dawn Under a rising sun’s mischievous grin If we love from the heart,…
Infinite love
Infinite love Gaze in the distance Among clouds of cotton candy To a love where sweetness Grows ever sweeter Where like the blush of your cheeks Perennial asters bloom ever lovelier And to our chrono sensitive hearts Time is still time, Finite But to hearts in love Darling, Infinite
The hope even in goodbyes
The hope even in goodbyes A cool night of gentle breezes teases your hair And you fix your hair shyly And you stare back into my eyes And tears are held back Knowing I must go I hold you There on Platform 2 Steam from the train sprays under the wheelset Like a tired sigh…
The morning everything changed
The Morning Everything Changed An Easter poem by Dave A. Gardener And suddenly In one glorious morn A stone was rolled away Ice yielded to warmth Winter to spring Love’s freedom ring Death flipped to life And everything That is everything Changed Forever. Awakened in the morning, Everything brand new; It was love that won…
Once and only once
Once and only once – lyrics by Vic Damone Once and only once I’ll walk through this troubled world So if a good deed I may do Some tearful face bring laughter to I will be contented then For I’ll not walk this way again Once and only once I’ll live with my fellow man…
Our dearest significance
Our dearest significance Eyes like a smile narrow, soften like fur She stares at him, and he at her Love becomes a tangible thing When to each other we cling; For what heart ever linked with love Could be mere acquaintance? This year let love ever be Our closest dearest significance
Who holds the heart of the moon
Who holds the heart of the moon Depth, deeper than ocean’s deep Love deeper still You were to me The heart of the glowing moon Light in my night to fill. A man awakens from sleep And squints from the glare For this love his heart may even weep When he is hardly aware. But…
The Romantic Gardener 