Naked

The only truth there is

Is this moment

No time stands before or behind,

No words come between,

There is only you and I.

 

Copyright © Lynn Tetro 2013

When The Light Falls by Stanley Kunitz (July 29, 1905 – May 14, 2006)

When the light falls, it falls on her

In whose rose-gilded chamber

A music strained through mind

Turns everything to measure.

 

The light that seeks her out

Finds answering light within,

And the two join hands and dance

On either side of her skin.

 

The lily and the swan

Attend her whiter pride,

While the courtly laurel kneels

To kiss his mantling bride.

 

Under each cherry-bough

She spreads her silken cloths

At the rumor of a wind,

To gather up her deaths,

 

For the petals of her heart

Are shaken in a night,

Whose ceremonial art

Is dying into light.

Human

Split me open wide,

I can’t hide

The uncertainty,

In the gravity -
The cause and hesitation of what will be –

Let it fly,

From strong clenched hands, and stand

Wrong –

All on its own to breathe.

Evaporate in the air

With all the care, that

You’ve never shown for me.

 

Copyright © Lynn Tetro 2013

Fragile – Jesse Cook featuring Holly Cole

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQGSKrRrz0M&list=PL0D4C02F7DBBAA5D8

This song was written by Sting and covered by Jesse Cook with Holly Cole

Scorpio

I fill my days with emptiness

Of moments in between; below, above,

The thought of you.

No sense in trying to deny it -

It’s just no good.

You’ve stung me through and through.

 

Copyright © Lynn Tetro 2013

Rapturous

The feeling, of never wanting to part from you

Ties me to you

Like a tiny invisible thread

-          That if unraveled

Would consume my entire being.

 

Copyright © Lynn Tetro 2013

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