Nineteen With Nineteen Syllables (+1) Poem by rich soos

1
you fly over as I walk
into thought lifted
freely motionless alone

2
the knot never empties as
you entwine yourself
through and around memory

3
beneath your depths wounded
flesh and blood dwell lost
vainly seeking a quiet

4
the cord surrounding us slipped
with freedom singing
'the binds are so beautiful'

5
lives came storming through your thighs
began in simple
joining of two lonely worlds

6
love is not a true question
bright in a shadow
standing in windows of dreams

7
when you hear knocking in dreams
it is only I
seeking to know your deep pain

8
love is a sword not questioned
on a road of thorns
swiftly slashing sharply down

9
your soul allows me to dwell
near an open door
slightly open and singing

10
when you sink into the abyss
of holy anger
the remnants of existence

remain on the fearless heights
wounded yet open
to the lilac scents of youth

11
united pleasures manage
to recall deeper
denials and loosened knots

12
fly over the lonely world
alive and bursting
with inward recognition

13
adding me to your pained life
has not freed your steps
to lightly dance in the clouds

14
my hands are harsh on guitars
and soft on your skin
till I play your burning song

15
my dancing heart dreams with you
fighting and singing
with forgotten blood and fire

16
stumbling through wet caliche
weighing each footstep
you feel swallowed yet so free

17
you were released on the wind
when your roots were sliced
floating radiant with fire

18
when you look deep at the moon
you find in yourself
islands loving hearts with roots

19
the wind no longer passes
your window longing
for your breath to move the sky


from Bringing In The Sheets (2012)