Fairytale

You opened my heart
And read me like pages of a book
Your own private fairytale
Your eyes saw a dreamland, a fantasy
A world of color and light
A place of mystery
You turned the pages
Reading deeper
Until you saw the monster of every fairytale
My heart, my love, my soul
And fear took hold of you, possessed you
Closing the book, tossing it aside
Leaving chapters unread
A story unfinished
The eternal mystery
How did it end...

The sun sets slowly
Bringing on the shadows of Night
Cool air and crisp breeze
The musky scent of the Earth
You and I kiss
Lovingly, passionately
We come together, embrace
Skin to skin, flesh to flesh
Our bodies melt together
Unleashing unrestrained gasps and moans
With hearts pounding as drums
The rhythm of our sensual dance seizes us
Ecstasy consumes us, ignites a fire within us
And we dance until
Euphoria overcomes us

Waves

Your neck, delicate and fair,
lay open and exposed,
awaiting and inviting.
I brush your neck with
the softness of my lips
the warmth of my tongue
adorning you with gentle kisses.
I drink from the hollow of your throat,
so fragile, yet so nourishing.
My kisses descend down,
linger,
descend further,
linger yet again,
to ascend,
to make love to you.
My body rises over you
like a soft wave.
With a rhythmic ebb and flow,
our bodies move together in
a mystic, magical dance of
an unstoppable force,
the clash of wave upon wave.
We hold on to each other
and make love
until we are submerged and subdued
and engulfed beneath the force of the waves.

Tender Night

Tender Night walks the Earth with a gentle step
As lovers toil and exert in their beds
Bodies writhing
Hips locked, pushing hard against each other
Skin moist with sweat
A passionate fragrance fills the air
And a charged rustling, rolling like thunder,
Shakes beneath the sheets
Bodies rise and fall heavily
Minds lay clouded by sensual drunkenness
You and I roll over and sleep
Exhausted by Eros' merciless game

The Dance

We move to a sensual beat and rhythm
And dance this erotic dance of love
One hand clenched
Arms wrapped in a tight embrace
With hips pressed tightly to each other
Curve molding to curve
Two bodies moving together and becoming one
We Dance--
Leading, Following
Pushing, Pulling
The blood burns like fire in our veins
Igniting the flames in our hearts and souls
As we move in blinding ecstasy
To the deafening beat and rhythm
Of this magical dance

Eros Smiles

Eros smiles
Delighting in his winning shot
Gold tipped arrow straight to my heart
Loosening my limbs
Destroying my mind
Sweet poison filling me with desire
Fueled by carnal fire
Insatiable hunger
Wasting away under cruel torture
Consumed by passion
Longing for you, yearning for you
Needing you
Wanting to make love to you

Holy Grail

In my dream I had a vision of you--
    Pure
    Divine
    Immortal
You descended from above--
    Slowly
    Heavenly
    Cloaked in a radiant glow
I felt your power as you came to me--
    Warming me
    Soothing me
    Caressing me
I saw all that you had to offer--
    Eternal Life
    Eternal Hope
    Eternal Love
I extended my hands to you--
    Needing you
    Desiring you
    Wanting to possess you
As quickly as you appeared, you vanished--
    Teasing me
    Seducing me
    Not wanting to be possessed so easily
I set out on my quest--
    Day and night I ride
    Searching for you
    Praying for you
Where are you, my Holy Grail--
    Let me be worthy of you
    Let me possess you
    Let me drink from you

Cursed Words

Eros
Childish god
Impish devil
Stringing your bow with your silken thread
Steadying two golden arrows
Thrust through my heart
Torn
Bleeding
Tormenting God
As the tears well in my eyes
The yearning, the passion, the love
The fear...
All silenced within
Strangling my voice
Cursed words
"I love you"
Hate me, Love me
Feel whatever you will
Simply,
Silently,
I say,
I love you...

Furies

Tortured and tormented
Blinded and silenced
Overcome by these dark clouds and shades
These Erinyes...these Furies
Born from blood
Surrounding me
Hounding me
Retribution, Revenge, Vengeance
Iron claws tearing at my flesh
Clenched around my neck
Dragging me to such depths
Past the river Styx
Past Acheron and Charon with his rotten boat and old coins
Deep into dark-walled Hades
Robbing me of my mind
Robbing me of my soul...

--work in progress with a mythological twist...

Ensnared

Night falls like a blanket
And Gaia sleeps
By moonlight and shadows we meet
Falling upon a carnal bed
Starving, we feed this hunger
Ravenous, gluttonous
Insatiable...
Hephaestus casts his net
Ensnared, entangled
We are locked together
Mocked by Olympus
Let the gods and goddesses laugh
Or rather
Let them look on with envy
For we are one

Etched with Love

Hot thunder throws peace into chaos
Shaking the shadowed earth
Hypnos takes flight upon black wings
Morpheus descends
Cyprian-born goddess, golden Aphrodite, rises
The winged boy flits and flies behind
With a wry and mischievous smile
I stir and wake
Opening eyes, seeing
A beautiful face, shining,
Etched with love
Your eyes that scatter grace upon me
The gentlest touch sets fire beneath my skin
Rushing, coursing through my blood
Eros, loosener of limbs, irrepressible,
Steals my sight
Deafens my ears with a mad pounding beneath my breast
My mind, awash in a storm...
Rose-fingered Dawn waits
As Athena holds back the hours
And steadies the Night

--just a little poem with a nod to Sappho and Homer

Night descends
Spring showers
Cold, icy rain
The flash of lightning
The rumble of thunder
The perfect marriage of sight and sound
I dream in shades of red tonight
Hypnotized by candlelight
Possessed by Eros
Unsympathetic, unrelenting god
Fingering golden arrows with a smile
Igniting a flame
Insatiable hunger
Unquenchable thirst
Tangled in this web of delight
Envy of Golden Aphrodite
We plunge into unimagined depths
An endless, bottomless pool of desire
Diving, drowning, gasping for breath
Reaching, grasping, embracing
Rising, falling, breathing
Drifting slowly
Blanketed by gentle Hypnos

Spring

White-armed Persephone
Queen of the Dead
Stirs and rises
Ascending from dark-walled Hades
Returning to the light
Joyful tears fill her mother's eyes and fall to the land below
Winter sleeps and Spring is reborn
A gentle breeze, the sweet, musky breath of Spring, stirs new leaves
A cold rain, tears of Demeter, falls and nourishes the thirsty earth
While the earth blossoms
I lie inside, feasting on your lips
Still fresh and sweet and red with wine
I grow drunk and intoxicated
As I lose myself in your flesh
Sweet ambrosia
Succulent nectar
I am one with the gods and goddess on high

Ithaca

Some call me great
Some call me a hero
I won great glory
I heard the Siren song
I kissed the lips of a Goddess
The Fates at the loom wove a new thread
The horror of the Underworld
The fierceness of Scylla
Swallowed by Charybdis
All that I had
All that I lost
You call me a hero?
Hopeless and helpless
Weak and feeble
I cling to this wreck of a ship
Poseidon, my enemy
Torturing me, tormenting me
Burned by the sun
Engulfed by the waves
Battered and broken
My strength fades
I am no hero
Greatness does not lie within me
I am nothing more but mortal flesh
Weeping for a distant shore
Longing for what I do not have