by Melissa Walker
12/27/12

Unpretentious
simple beauty -
clean lines,
brilliant

The old stone breakwater
Proudly juts from Portugal
Almost to Brazil.

Alone, our legs dangle

Does the rose,
at the touch of light
give to this world
its pure beauty

Yes, the stars shine

Sparks jettisoning into the crisp blackness,
A vivid orange against the backdrop of ebony

if ever you felt jailed in life,
just call Mandela: he is now,he always was,
part of you, of

"Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow,
bloom and grow forever" -Edelweiss

Be brave, my

I saw something really beautiful this morning. As
I was driving towards work, the full moon was

Got myself a spark today
Brighter than the light of day
To wash out my life's dismay
To lift it

Where did it go?
The time I mean
Seems an entire evening passed without us looking from each

The trees, they wave their naked fingers,
black against the velvet black,
and in the distance,

I am the gardener and I am the flower.
For this prisoner it's dark day and night
in the world's

A
light
burns
bright
in
the
night
right?
Burns
down

Some people ask of the wind/
The demise of the call/
A moments laps between/
Why the bird had to

I walked the thorny primrose path/
Through the meandering maze/
Here I come upon the stone/
Of a

Perhaps I am not the model candle,
Smooth flame burning brightly and dependably
at the window,

Cosmic Changes.

Mother Earth calls
to raise our spirit
a great change is afoot
it won't be

It is pure

The release of expectations

The beauty of it brings thoughts

Beautiful thoughts

Protection

Can you protect yourself while enjoying yourself

While protecting yourself from

Rain falls, washing away my tears...
Rain falls, briefly calming my fears...
Rolling thunder in

Every song is a love song

Every moment I hear your name

Your face haunts my dreams

Our

My heart pounds
Everytime I see you
My heart pounds against my chest
It threatens my rib

You invaded my mind

I couldn't concentrate

Work is impossible

I just wanted to hear your

Star
light
twinkling
in gloved black
velvet arms of night
crystal at heart a geode beams

Searching
Searching in the dark
For the mark of my soul

The dark
Is
Consuming

I can hear

I light a candle and I clearly see
the world doesn't revolve round me.

I light a candle to shed

It's been some weeks now
That I've had these bottled emotions reeking through my pores
Coping

If I wonder darkness and silence, is it a peek into my own poetry? Making stanzas need light and

No sunrise or sunset to admire
only colour is gray in abundance
Hunting for light in open fire,

The wound is the place where the Light enters you. ~Rumi

the wound
either gaping
or a tiny

i like to dress for an imaginary girl
(we will meet each other soon) by putting on
a silk tie with

I have seen the crystal lakes
turn frozen with the night
I've been blinded by the sun
with its

Rose dawn's full breath felt warm upon the nape of Madeleine 
She stirred, her golden fingers

Blessèd light 
Stay a moment longer ‘neath the cloud
Why take such sycophantic flight
To please

You are my sunshine,
my one and only light
in this world
full of darkness

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the flower has no beauty
nor purpose
in the dark
it wilts to make it so
to lose its

There’s something magical,
when the soft sunlight
filters through the slits in your window,
the

I turn my head to the left
And glimpse mythology
Those birds are saying something
Warning or

Starry, starry night
I only see the stars above tonight.

Darkness
embraces the night
I am

Ah you are here, not a moment too soon.
That's how I feel when you walk in the room.
You have no

Night slunk in the summer door
While I was reading.
A watery, half-arsed dark
Still trailing its

There's an infinite difference between those
That are good and bad; for eternity
Separates them

The moon is not as far as we are told;
The universe is not so very old.
The stars are not suns; –

There was once a foaming sea
Facing near eternity.
On it, a woman and child
With hair blowing in