MY SOUL WILL NOT REST I have loved none Greater than thee With my whole heart I do so decree A love bounding Resounding Inside of my chest I toss and I turn For my soul will not rest ‘Til I see you again In this life or the next Some may say My soul…

IN THE ETHEREAL While he lay in slumber I listened With my ear to his chest To the beating of his heart Tranquil But never at rest It beat with a rhythm So soothing It lulled me into a trance And I drifted to the place Where souls meet by chance It was there in…

MESMERIZED She’d told me Time and time again Not to lean back In my chair But I didn’t listen I hadn’t a care Until that fateful day I leaned back and looked And what I saw shook Me to the core Her breasts sat upon her thighs I was dazed and mesmerized At their size…

GRANDMA’S HOUSE Summer vacation My destination Grandma’s house Where if it thundered and lightened I sat quiet as a mouse With my cousins A minimum of a half dozen Of us at a time But it was always Me, Lisa and Sam Cookie, Sack and Pam Others would come and go Like Mup and Shannon…

SUDDEN & SWEET I have never been struck before With a love so sudden and sweet I question its validity And I fear I may retreat To the comfort of My safety zone Of solitude Alone at home Just me Myself and I Eating ice cream And blueberry pie But I am stricken With a…

LULLABY I have not heard My love’s voice In two days Maybe three His voice is low And deep It flutters like the reed Of a baritone Saxophone When he speaks It reverberates in my chest From north to south And east to west It is as soothing as Brahms Lullaby Simona A. Brinson Photo…

Between us lies a stillness Its implications deep I lie here contemplating While he is fast asleep Here in the silence My thoughts drift away Wandering back To that not so distant day When to breathe was to love him And to love him was to breathe And we danced in the place Where love…

UPON THE SHELF I have made this solemn vow No more will I allow You to berate me Or take away my glee Because I found myself Upon the shelf Where I laid my soul Many years ago For safe keeping Until I got full of your heaping Pile of excrement And your rotten temperament…

MELANCHOLY What do I wish to be? I wish to be free Of these loathsome blues I really do To be in a state of perpetual melancholy Stoic, hiding from light and folly It is wearisome, this state of discontent And wondering where happiness went I hope she is on the other side of night…