Day 343 - Wishing Wall

If I could just click my heels together

And disappear off to a dream land

All the world would fade for this moment of forever

I could be the singer of every band

The painter of every canvas

Defenders of the great and small

The keeper of every kiss

So that is what I ask you for wishing wall

One day years later he came walking on by

And saw all wishes that I made once upon a time

He saw the ones painted as blue as the sky

The words that only came out in rhyme

He added to them and became the giver

Of the kisses I always hoped for, wishing wall

His smiles and rhymes make me happily shiver

Nowadays we show you to our children so small

And they each add pictures to you with wishes all their own

They will do the same with their children when they are grown

Day 337 - Falling

If it is we must fall forever

Let it be into another's soul

So as we delight in falling together

We notice wonders, as Alice did down the hole

We see at last how clocks can fly

On their wings they carry our time

We know in falling we can never die

So we talk for years in pleasant rhyme

Then we spend decades longer

Gazing into each other's eyes

And then with great length ponder

The ever changing black, pink, blue skies

Yes if we must fall eternally

We spend an age holding hands

In doing so we learn fully

Hoping that the common man understands

That in falling no injury comes to you

If in the love you discover another to be true

Day 290 - Best of Luck

Wrap me in a cocoon of contentment

That echoes the wisdom of the world

As folds of sweet darkness beckon

Light waves goodbye, fading into the horizon

I know no answer to why or how my darlin'

I only watch the wonder from your arms

I whisper to you, "So this is romance"

You spring to your feet and ask me dance

My heart races as together we spin

Across fields that are turning black

Tonight I bless the whole world over

For bringing you to me, my four leaf clover

Day 172 - Close Your Eyes

I see you, looking in for an answer

But I doubt you really need and crave it

You think if you find it things will be easier

Like if you can get the right light you could save it

Or rather me, from whatever plagues me into black

But darling you are traveling down the wrong track

I am locked in a world of dark corners and jokes

Where clowns taunt and tease me until I frown

And in that place there are pushes and pokes

And many other ways to bring you down

But I know a secret that keeps me calm

The way to keep going without any harm

I close my eyes shut and look at nothing

But the dreams where you hold me how you love me

There are no nightmares that they can bring

That can pull me away from all that swirls above me

A ballad of magic and true loves alliance

Makes me smile as together we dance

Day 149 - Too Quiet and Old

In a quiet old room, sit two quiet old chairs
Much too old and quiet to encourage more stares
But once upon a time long ago that pot
Was formed by hands so very well taught
The woman who made it fashioned that lace
With meticulous care and hands full of grace
Those chairs that you see where made by a man
One who ardently did all that one can
To build the perfect home for his one and only
So if he ever need leave she would not be lonely
By that bright window they held their first child
And many more who came after keeping life wild
Very little is the house old and quiet anymore
Rushing and bustle with grandchildren is in store
But every once in a while a great hush can be found
Then husband and wife sit old and quiet around
The table and chairs and soft worn old lace
Lovingly their hands make a sweet embrace
He whispers to her, "I know we are quiet and old
But ours is the best love story ever told."

Day 80 - I Spy

I Spy

Magnify your ultimate sight

Everything will be alright

Clarity will come soon

To an unfamiliar tune

Getting closer there is much more to say

And to hear on this too silent day

Hope glints in the band of forever

Binding two as one together

The circle turns forever on

Like a young and gentle fawn

Which grazes while barely standing

Welcomed into life so demanding

I spy much in this sad scene

As the long forgotten queen

Of altered sight and true hope

We learn together how to cope

Day 25 - Paris Was Not Meant to Be?

My darling you made promises to me

Years ago that we would visit that city

Where boulevards are made of the lovely and fine

Where we would find joie de vivre, yours and mine

The clock behind says it is not possible

The mighty ocean without you is uncross-able

So why did you leave me here so lonely

You will always be my one and only

This was your present, you said I was the gift

That in all the world, only I could lift

You, up and high into the skies above

Together we would discover the City of Love

But you have gone to the ground they say

And all my dreams have fallen away

Yet as I walk our quiet town and small places

There is nothing that is not yours in the faces

Our little flower shop where you bought the first bouquet

That is now the path leading me to places far away

That simple park bench where you caressed my hand

None in all the cities of the world could ever understand

Why that is the place I treasure more than all the rest

Anywhere we were, will forever be the best

But darling I do not know how with you gone

They swear the City of Love goes on

That the tower still pierces the night sky with light

That there are still dreams and hopes that are bright

It has gone away forever and ever

Now that we are not together

That is the fact that remains and lives on

The only one I think of, now that you are gone

So please come back and together we will be

The revivers of the joys of that beautiful city

It is unfair that a shot to your golden heart

Could be the last thing to tear us apart

Please my love, wake me from this nightmare

No one else knows just how you and I would care

Stop lying there and quickly come with me

To the place we always wanted, that beautiful city

Day 23 - Love

Love

Here I begin to bend, anything for my darling

It matters not what shape I might take on later

And though this may seem quite alarming

I would go through hell and back and still wait for her

She holds all that has ever meant anything at all

She creates light even when the hope is so small

You see when she holds me, I know nothing more

There is only now and having her by my side

Nothing matters about later or before

For with me she has chosen to truly confide

How can such an angel breathe next to me?

That I will be forever too blind to see

I have not felt this pure or right since my birth

And that was eons ago or so it seems

That only placed me here on this earth

But she has come straight out of my dreams

To enlighten every moment I exist and live

And for her there is nothing I would not give

Day 19 - Orb of Love

Orb of Love

I am trapped in the orb do you see?

The brilliant which will not set me free

So I gaze out lost to the earth

Long ago I forgot dreams of rebirth

Now I simply gaze as it all goes by

Love and loss give the living wings to fly

But at last they sit in comfort here once more

Keeping the moment quiet, with a closed door

They do not take a second glance

Just live lives of boredom, or romance

I do not make them think twice

That is how I pay the price

I loved my sorceress, heart and soul

But they turned her black as coal

The day they gazed into our life

Is the day I lost my wife

She spent hours with potions and smoke

I still loved her even when it made me choke

She had the right reasons after all

She was my angel, for whom I sit on the wall

She could not bear if I were to die

So I stay here, eternally I lie

I am immortal or so she can believe

I died the day her last breath did leave

But she had the glory of going above

I stayed right here for our love

I never begrudge her requesting this

Only her embrace and sweet face do I miss

My witch she was one who held everything

Now in my flat ears her voice can ring

But alone here I know, no one knew her

I am her final touch of her art and anger

Left to gaze upon the ceiling

No longer to the stars with feeling

All that remains is my painting

And the endless silent waiting

Day 18 - Cold Crow's Nest

Cold Crow's Nest

If you draw in closer, you can feel the love

But I am looking in from too far above

I have no invitation so I wait way up here

You need not see if upon my cheeks lay a tear

Why will you not bring me down from the sky?

I am so lonely on my perch way up high

He put me up here and left me a tired solo

But now I cannot find another place to go

It is cold and quiet I cannot hear you sing

In fact I am deaf to nearly everything

The growl of your engine as heat rises in clouds

I am wishing I could be spinning within those crowds

You could speak to my entire soul

All the pieces you could make whole

And yet I stand too far away to see

Are you ever going to search for me?

Day 6 - Beauty Believer

Dedicated to Simone

Beauty Believer

Messages burnt into parchment so old

With hidden secrets that whisper just right

Forgotten tales that wish to be told

Of the angry and long lasting fight

Fear grows like flames in the hearth

Begging for the redeeming birth

Poetic love letters remain unread

Holding the key to the resolution

They remain within the bark instead

As time grows around, a true infusion

Of the power that love possesses

And the memory of final caresses

The circle burnt just so is an ancient brand

Making the small town's legacy

They had owned the many acres of land

And built the endless shops and famous library

But at the edges burned in the lighter shade

Was a memory that few would not let fade

It was the mark of a small family farm

That catered to those of higher worth

They kept the legacy far from harm

But were naturally of inferior birth

So when the love was made between two

There was not much the families were willing to do

So this was the last mark the lovers dare leave

Within the tree that kept them so safely hid

In a better time they could not believe

So on their memories they closed the lid

And left no other visible traces

Except perhaps the lost looks on their faces

But such stories last long after we die

And even after our children fade away

They are stronger than the word of you and I

And have a great many more things to say

But twisted in tree trunks that out live us all

That is where the final one will begin to fall

It starts with a swift glance and sweet joy

And a dance with skirts just a-twirl

With the interested eye of a young boy

And the smile so kind on the clever girl

Then the young soul comes along all aglow

With nothing but a bright heart to show

And he is then ready to search for beauty

When in his world her light is shining

He finds a story that spurned from duty

Though the language has a way of reminding

Him of the love he holds for his darling

Something so pure, he found in falling