night light

The light you leave on 

in your closet

shines brightest

just under the door

it fans out ever softer 

casting  shadows

across the floor

shedding just 

enough light 

on your dreams          

I'll find my way 

somehow there

gently sneaking up

near your head and 

reach out ever softly

to stroke your hair, 

and hear you breath

-dp-

11-27-13

The light you leave on 
in your closet
shines brightest
just under the door
it fans out ever softer 
casting  shadows
across the floor
         
shedding just 
enough light 
for your dreams         

I'll find my way there
somehow gently
sneaking up
near your head and 
reach out ever softly
stroke your hair,
and feel you breath


-dp-
11-27-13

and touch you

I want to come 

and touch you
in your dreamy 
sleep 

adore your walls
stroke your hair  
be your dreams 
then 

somehow 

innocently 
crawl in
with 
you
 
-dp-
11-27-13 gNg

Daggers

secrets 

we share
daggers
at our hearts

hilt holding palms
thrust
side to side
at the inevitable 

lies
we resist and bare 
in fear of our 
downfall

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10-24-13

not mine...

found a flattened box

of Trojan Magnum's
in the recycling bin
with the chip board.

not mine.
my wife's?
my daughter's?

Hmmm...

Some one in this house
is having way more
fun than me... 

-dp-
9-22-13

words

words
only words
we have
for now
but not 
forever

from 
first word
to final touch 
through 
everything 
we do
  
before
between
and after 
we speak 
we are
love.


-dp- 
8-7-13

Red Rover

Some Saturday morning
when I knock at your door
will you come out
and play with the gang...

If we call you over
while playing red rover,
will you crash through
the line by my side?

And if we play tag
when I chase after you,
will you know why
I want you as it?

Then at hide and seek
when I find you at last
will you run off

if I try for a kiss? 

Once away and alone

when you tackle me down

to roll in the grass

could play turn to wonder? 

That time we played house
but played doctor instead,
some ways that we touched
mean as much now as then.


 -dp-  
 5-16-13

 R5-11-14/Rattle-flintridge

if (like vows)

if I had you
to hold you
forever
like vows

would I have you
to hold you
forever
like now

every thought
every word
just kindness
towards you

can I have you
just hold you
forever
us two?  

-dp-
  4-29-13 

savage snore

when passion fails
and you begin 
your savage snore.  
I will slip away
to your sisters room
and comfort her  
again and again

-dp-  

4-22-13

suitcase

If I knocked at your door
homeless, jobless, penniless,
would you ask me in,
open your heart, 
offer your couch?
might we talk until dawn
then sleep through the day,
awake to something near hope? 

-dp-
4-15-13 

heartfelt

spooning afterglow   
holding soft
your warm tummy 

my fingers
move slowly
between your breasts,

creeping further
to rest just below
your collarbone

where forefinger
and thumb surround
that tender spot

where they mended
your broken heart
to leave in my care.


-dp-
  4-4-13    

To Talk (the backside of love)

I want to talk.
I want to be home
when your not,
listening to the rain, 
from the phone outside.

I want to hear
I want to hear you,
I want to hear you when you cry.

I want to hear you when you cry
outside in the rain,
hear you sob.

I want to look out and see you
break down in the street
and sob in the rain
when I call to say
good-bye.

-dp-
3-31-13