A Game of Hide and Seek (poem)

Could you find me among the red brick
homes nestled in a quiet part of the city
with still roads waiting for Christmas magic
on a night like this when only poetry lights the way?

Let your heart and soul spill out
in fragmented
                                    lines and phrases
imagery that paints the world in a soft hue
breathing color back into me (how long has it been?)

Then you may discover the secret streets
as if your brush had caused the houses to move
revealing the magic world children inhabit
existing between then and now – between you and me.

Your footsteps will fill the empty beat
a tempo of impending adventure –
                             impending joy –
loose the melody from your mouth
call me
                            and I will answer.

 -Zero

push me by surprise so i can take the dive (poem)

I'm not great at seeing infinity in a wildflower
but I can hear forever in your laughter
though I know I probably shouldn't.
Your eyes have eternity written in them
leaving me to wonder how many millions of years
built up to this very moment: your smile
a fragment of the heavens I shouldn't see.
The romantic in me wants this
a surging river to pull me out to a sea
so vast I can do nothing but submit
to embrace the boundless even if I drown.
The cynic (or realist) wants to stay on land
where everything has a beginning – and an end –
including you and I, now approaching goodbye
off into the night you go and I watch
wishing I had taken a dive.

 

-Zero