All Posts Tagged With: "Poetry"

You and I are the kind of lovers
Who like to push at the edge?
In the open?

I stand in wonder with you
Looking over the cliff
Wondering when
Wondering if
If we could kill this

And yet the abyss calls us
Me to submission
You to public ecstasy

All is fair in our bed
I would declare it is undefiled
In our lovers bed

What better way to heal
Than in our blankets
I find you safe and warm
Undefiled

I live to defy everything
The past the future
Gravity pulls me downward
But I wrestle
To move upward

Gravity gives peace no leave
I gaze up to you
Face to face
I defy what would tear us apart

I place my mouth next to yours
Breath in as you breath out
I can float content
Gravity will have no sway here

Only what we love
Only what we hope
Moves between us
More prevailing than gravity

Just as my divorce
became final
I was sure
all the doors
in my life
CLOSED

There came to me
In this land
New men
New life
New possibility
OPENING DOORS

Wild winds you blow hard
In my soul
Even when the distance
Separates
Severs
Us apart

My greatest fear
Is how I will long for you
When our time has passed

How dedicated you are
To turning
My life
Upside down
And inside out.

What if only time will tell?
And there is no time to be had
Seconds in stasis are tantamount to death

The consequences of every step
Forward, backward, inward
To feel you sleep between my legs

So quickly after loving me
Descending so deeply into the warmth
Of my mouth
Soft exhalation against my neck

I don’t even see your eyes flutter
As you rise to thrust me open again

Eons when your are inside of me
Are indistinguishable from one moment
To the next
Forward, backward, inward

Am I the same place to go?
To forget with a different face.

Or could I be like your perfect rain?
Simply complex like this home of ours
Wet welcoming city of green

Could you be my faultless tree?
Tall and true that protect the boundaries
Of this emerald on the coast

What if only time will tell?
Forward, backward, inward

Cheryl Diane Novak
Was here
And then she changed to
Cheryl Diane Dinkins
But Mr Dinkins loves Paula now
But before that
Cheryl Diane Dinkins
Changed to
Jumapili Alili Dikeledi Ikuseghan-Dinkins
But it didn’t matter because she was still
Cheryl Diane Novak
And then she became
Jumapili Alili Dikeledi Ikuseghan-Dinkins-Carroll
Then something like
Jumapili Alili Dikeledi Ikuseghan-Dinkins-Carroll-Davis
And on ward to
Jumapili Alili Dikeledi Ikuseghan-Dinkins-Carroll-Davis-Wiles
Though no matter what
She is
Cheryl Diane Novak
And
Today
She is back to Jumapili Alili Dikeledi Ikuseghan-Dinkins
But she doesn’t know how to fix
Cheryl Diane Novak

Jumapili

On the day we were forced to choose
I found myself remembering
The day you put me on the counter
Pushing up my dress
To take your bliss
Entering me
You must have been full of yourself
Pleased to be there
In the two things you loved most
An Army uniform
And entwined in me
I have never before
Nor since
Felt so close to you
So inside your love
Now at the time
When required to sever from you
An order I don’t know how to honor
I find myself groping for that moment

For my lover I have done this
And so much more
I have raised the sun in day
And Moon in night

I have laid down
Opening myself to him

MAMITA!

Why does she belong to someone else!

Never thought I would love you
My live and my body
Exposed for your pleasure

My longing and lonely soul
Under silver sliver of moon
And twinkling stars
Moving across the sky

I have done this for my lover
And much much more

You come to me like a new day
With no look of treachery in your eyes
Asking – me – to – show – you – the – way

Hell, I don’t even know it myself
But to search of innocence
On every new day

The slam swift and hard
Against a dresser drawer
Far from my face
But meant squarely for it

Yes, you wanted me
Having had it like a man
To curl up and live inside my womb
So reminiscent of your first days of life

MAMITA! I love her!
MAMITA! I want her!

Sure there is no room
But now here you are
Throwing a temper tantrum
Just under my skin

And yes, “I was wrong”