de rerum natura

awake or asleep
like planets circling a star
hearts focused on love
we’re always in passion’s throes
on course till the very end

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the suitor

like a planet circling the sun
around you I move   a planet
among planets I never tire
your attractions impel me onward
your radiance is my only light
but in your order which planet am I
Mercury the closest
or the farthest Pluto –
if Mercury  let me live
forever in your flames
if Pluto  ice-bound I die
far removed from your loving fire

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paradox

midnight sky glinting
with cool white sparks   planets  stars
so close yet so far

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tanka – wonderment

by day   by night go
sun   moon   planets   stars charging
into the future
yet seasons run their own race
life   death keep their quirky pace

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© Gregory V Driscoll  2014

Science of Endearment

I see you naked and become
hard as earth’s mantle – save my heart,
the very magma of desire.
Our touching – the discharge of love’s sweet lightning,
that leaps from the dark wonder of silent longing
to that frenzied shimmer of our bare sweating,
our untrammeled grasping, one of the other.  Love!
Your mouth is a universe that howls my name,
a singularity of incandescent kissing,
a spiral nebula that moves
ever endlessly about me.
My tongue is a fiery comet
caught in the orbit of your thighs,
falling, ever falling to your pleasure’s core,
that starburst of nerves, juices, waves.
Farther and further, outward and inward,
we expand in our desire, our love, our feeling.
We become the very essence of light and life
moving toward the cosmos’ zenith,
enclosing within ourselves all that is.
Oh, dearest love!  In our ardor
we become planets, comets, stars,
the very heart of life and light and love.

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(c) Gregory V Driscoll  2012