Love in the Eternal Now

a poem by Harlon Rivers

Lightning cracks 

with the thunder’s clap

Is the moment love overcomes

so vivid and poignant?

The blink of an eye

is an exact moment

Is the beginning of love so definite?

Would it be impossible to disguise?

The veils are opened

behind the curtain

Reveling a moment of awakening

Emotional conception transforms life

Will love have a beginning

that never ends?

Unconditional oneness

Sharing the eternal now…

Rain drops splash quietly one by one

filling the empty fountain to its rim

There will be a precise moment

when the final trickle overflows boundaries’ lip

Let this heart be that fountain

where birds sing, frolicking in new found bliss

Rain down on me

with your breathless tears of joy

Covet that final drop

that spills over the brim

The fountain of joyfulness

 is nearly filled

The wait has been long and exhausting..

Indulge in the awakening of intimate tenderness

Embrace the realization here

Now love is all…

A Quiet Demure

I won’t be a burden

Baggage stacked to the sky

I don’t need to be your world

You’d sense the reasons why

I don’t need to touch you

Just want to feel the motion of your twirl

I just want to sense your love

keeping real world hope alive 

Would I wish to want you?

You know the reasons why

Could I be your whole world?

Should I shyly run and hide?

Could I wait forever?

Even if I tried?

Just as a casual observer

Seen from the corner of your eyes

Won’t you come and wipe away

the many tears I’ve cried?

Must my heart stay broken?

Now that most of the fears have died?

Can’t you hear my heart beat?

Feel the rhythms of my love’s flow

I will wait forever here

just to feel your heart and soul…

© 2012 Harlon Rivers 

"Climbing Mountains"

walk with me as we climb towards the sky...

take my breath away

breath no longer mine to waste

breathless impatience

now paralyzes this heart’s

unspoken silent reverie

your seductive allure

tantalizes my humble being

stillness exhales a oneness of heart and soul

mind and body assending hope

releasing a gasp of arousing breath

yearning for the passionate

brush of your sensual essence

timidly blushing from the very

thought of your intimate touch

a longing thirst from deep within

is undeniably ignited

a euphoric tenderness warms my skin

like an unconditional embrace

freely surrendering

to the object of it’s affections

loving submission to ardent desires…


© Harlon Rivers...2012

Oasis...

Our precious moments together are an oasis

A place where new beginnings evolve into vivid life...

...a poem by Harlon Rivers

Oasis

Our moments together are an oasis

Respite from this journey’s rocky mile

Alone together in a deserted desert island’s secret garden

Where adoring affections

paint the depth of a picturesque

warmth of tenderness to behold

Hearts and minds impassioned harmony’s opus

Surrendering to love’s enchanting flows

Enlightened by conscious oneness

Yielding to the repose of a silent starlit bay’s twilight halo

Swirling Moon beams dance around like the falling stars ballet

As effervescent currents eddiy in a radiant sky’s afterglow

The blending of connected souls

kindle love’s shimmering light

Love’s tower of strength is euphoric refuge

Shelter from life’s perfect storms

Intimacy surrendered slowly is a soothing sanctuary

Unchained healing in two minds

Happenstance is not an illusion

Turning dark memories’ shadows into light

Illuminating compassionate understanding

Solitude’s allure can leave stars in one’s eyes

Our precious moments together are an oasis

A place were new beginnings evolve into vivid life...

© 2012 Harlon Rivers 

Enchanting Wilderness

Moonlight moves across the shadows of love born beneath the trees.
Two shadows emerge as one...

Wandering silently

though the wilderness wood ,

far and away from the potholes

of well beaten pathways

The soft breeze slowly moves

the shadows of the moonlit night

past the thorny stems of time.

Wildlife paths illuminated by starlight

adorn the alluring wooded trail

Secluded pathways foraged by natural instinct,

Ancestral prudence and intuition

Each shadow drawn willingly

into a deeper enlightening journey

As if synchronicity united hearts

learning to speak minds

The depths of undaunting transparency

are rendezvous with awakening breath

Looking back at life withdrawn in discontent

Exhaling newly found freedom without regret

Lost in perpetual motion, found in heart

Separate souls illuminated by the moon

stood alone yearning for healing connection

Ardor of hope shines an inward light

as moonlight slumbers while passion blushes

The night has a thousand eyes

Shining on practical mysticism

The laughing owls of midnight

Echo illusions of  crystal clear reverie

Moved by swirling tempest breezes

showering down from high endeavors

Wisps of the sleeping sky unfurl

teardrops drunk by earth’s sod

Nocturnal Cricket’s rhythmus acoustical wings

are very quietly chirping a bashful courting song

Laughter rings out blissfully

like the joy of a heavenly child

Nature sways with gentle motion

Her leafy arms groan and moan the silent toil

She holds up the weight of the celestial light

Moonlight moves across the shadows

of love born beneath the trees.

Two shadows emerge as one

from the wilderness of sleep

Reborn as naked children

enlightened by the enchanting forest...

© 2012 

"It’s Hard to Take"...

In the world of social media, the stranger in the screen can be unfriended or deleted in the guiltless click of the delete prompt.  New multipal identities and new pseudonym accounts are a dime a dozen .   Words like friend and love still mean something to me but in today's world

    I am obsolete...

"Its hard to take"

Willingly stepping into the circle of trust
With a free spirit inspiring the dawn
When the going got rough… in a moment
Blow up the circle and leave it all in the virtual dust

 It’s too easy to say goodbye

Without looking into real eyes

In the blink of an unseen teary eye and a keyboard click

Traces of unrequited love vanished from the screen

Slamming open doors closed

Are nothing new to see

But a virtual day dream’s door

Seems like so much more than an illusion              

The candles were blown out the instant

 The motion of walking away stirred the passing breeze 

When the music stopped playing

Only the love song was over

Please pull that plug from life support

Before turning to walk away

Throw away the entrance key

I’m so tired of living this way

Even as the aching memory now tugs at my soul

I’d do it again in a heartbeat...chasing that impossible dream.

When you play with virtual fire, there’s always a possibility

To get virtually burned literally spinning out of control

One hundred years from today

There won’t be a trace of this smitten memory

Or a hint of that day when you cut and ran

As if I never even mattered to thee…