love

Nowhere

~ hiraethphoenix

I always think there was a moment,
The one that changed our fate,
And it passed without us noticing,
Left us deserted
Somewhere
Between love and hate.
Had we seen it, caught it in our hands,
We may have
Stopped
There, re-aligned our plans.
But here we are and I don’t see,
How we continue,
Day
By
Day
Just letting life be
(if I could, I would retrace,
every
single
moment
that led us to this
god-forsaken place.)

Copyright Hiraeth 2015
PAD Challenge 2015 Day 7:
Write a love poem. Yeah, I said a love poem, or, if you don’t like that option…
Write an anti-love poem. I know there are some haters out there; go ahead and hate on love and/or love poems if that’s your thing.
So if this is your first rodeo, here’s how the “Two for Tuesday” prompt works. You can choose one of the two options; choose both options; and/or blend the two together in some way. Just be sure to write a poem.

Marvelous machine

~ hiraethphoenix

Here is the heart
a marvelous machine,
it feeds on love and fairytale dream,
it always has childlike trust
things will be as they must.
It is reckless in embrace
always possibility in every face,
it breaks and comes to a halt,
but regenerates without fault.
Yes, here is the heart
a truly marvelous machine
(and your darkness unforeseen
broke every cog, wheel, circuit,
dream).

Copyright Hiraeth 2015
PAD challenge 2015 Day 3:
For today’s prompt, write a machine poem. A machine could be a car or a robot, obviously, but simple machines include levers, pulleys, and screws. There’s also “machine learning” and “deus ex machina.” But there are many other ways to come at this prompt as well.

Calm in his embrace

~ hiraethphoenix

There is this place we use to go
and for a long time I believed,
ached for only you would know,
the cobbled pathway there to find,
stairways, secrets, cobwebs
of a busy mind.
But time has passed and
now I know
that life begins anew,
each day,
it screams “grow”
(And he?
He loves me in that place,
for him a foreign destination, new
but he calms me in embrace.)

Copyright Hiraeth 2015
PAD Challenge Day 2:
For today’s prompt, write a secret poem. The poem itself could be a secret, or it could be about keeping secrets or, I suppose, not keeping them. Or maybe it’s about a top secret project, or the poem is a riddle with some sort of secret meaning. Or, well, I’ll let you figure out how best to poem secretively.

Different languages (and no translation)

~ hiraethphoenix

“I love you and maybe I didn’t say it or show it the way you wanted. I’ll give you that. But at least I never lied to you, pretended to be something I am not. I couldn’t bring myself to fake it, to buy flowers and write cards on cue. I tried to show you in other ways, bringing you a cup of Earl Grey tea when you were studying and cooking on nights you were tired.”

Excerpt From: Hiraeth. “Hiraeth Phoenix.” 

Heart set free

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“For such a long time I blamed you for not fighting for me, for us, for not giving me the movie ending where you rush to meet me on the beach at sunset and poetically declare your undying love in sonnet form (or burst into ballad with your guitar). Except today, today while I watered my Frangupanis and looked at the mountain and smelt the sea air, I realised your actions may have spoken of a much deeper love: the kind that sets a restless soul free to find its wings (and soar).” – copyright HiraethPhoenix 2015

Coffee, always coffee

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Put down your defences,
Your arrogant armour and
Turn the kettle on
Let the steam fill the space
And the sound of water boiling
The argument
I’ll just sit here
And you there
In silence
Whilst we hold ourselves
And empty anger into a mug
Until it evaporates and my heart
Softens for your surfer eyes;
Until it evaporates and my heart
Remembers:
With you it flies.

Copyright Hiraeth 2015

Circles of love

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I will draw you
Concentric circles, equal in diameter
With radius of regret,
And in it, grain for grain, our story
Stored from the moment we met
And here in the sand lies true
Every instance I stood empty,
Wanting, waiting on you.
I will draw you
Concentric circles, equal in diameter
With radius of love,
Fly now free, fly from this,
Until you’ve risen above
And can see my circles
A portrait, a tribute to love.

Copyright Hiraeth 2014

We both know

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In my next life
I will run to you,
I will find you
And hold you dear
And in this my intentions
Sincere:
There will be no will or way
And before I end this do not
Say
A word
I want you to know.
In my next life
I will run to you,
I will find you
And hold you dear
And in your declaration without
Fear:
There will be no will or way
And before you end I will
Say
Three words:
We both knew
We both know.

Then there was you

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Then there was you,
You with your ragged smile
And sun and surf and youth
You with your live in the moment
All there is is now:
You let me in, you carved a home
Of love and earth and sky
Of summer skin and nights within
A home beneath the stars.
Then there was you,
You with your ocean eyes
And wind and waves and dare
You have my heart,
My truth in this:
Of love and earth and sky
Your childlike faith,
Your morning kiss of
All there is is this;
All that matters is here;
All I want is now with you
Of love and earth and sky
Forever blessed,
I turn to rest, grateful that
Then
There was you.

Copyright © 2014 by Hiraeth

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