When there’s water
all around me
and ‘I miss you’s’ flow
from my eyes
I sometimes forget
that I’m not the sea
but I’m the lighthouse
that shines us home
©RoseGirl2021
Poetic Art From The Heart ~ Finding Beauty In Truth
When there’s water
all around me
and ‘I miss you’s’ flow
from my eyes
I sometimes forget
that I’m not the sea
but I’m the lighthouse
that shines us home
©RoseGirl2021
I’ve fallen into a free verse with you
where untamed words
are kissed on lips,
their meaning tasted
Lines are drawn with fingers on skin
that hunger to write and be written
Ink becomes fluid
Then poetry is made
when bodies rhyme
and find a rhythm
and when outside the form
they climax
©RoseGirl2021
The mind keeps busy
thoughts run and hop
in all directions
out of tune
with the self
luckily, the heart continues
to set the steady rhythm
of our love
©RoseGirl2021
I watch the sunset
and blow a last kiss
knowing that
on your end
the sun now rises
And if you look east
as I look west
with our hearts
that can look farther
than our eyes
you’ll see me
somewhere
on the horizon
where my west
and your east meet
©RoseGirl2021
When headaches attack
so badly,
I seek cover with you
behind a shield of love
in the heart
©RoseGirl2021
Wherever my feet are,
my heart is always with you
©RoseGirl2021
Whatever obstacles
I encounter
Whether the sun shines
or it rains
Gracefully I move
through the day
because my thoughts
dance with you
©RoseGirl2021
Close your eyes
and dive with me
into the black
behind our eyelids
within,
into the depths
of the soul
to find all the colours
of us
©RoseGirl2021
A maze of city streets
with curves and corners
in front of me
And I look up and see
the vastness of the night sky
like a dome above me
And I’ll take
the milky way tonight
to cross worlds
and to cycle to you
I’ll take
the highway home
©RoseGirl2021
What was once
deeply felt in the eyes
can never be unseen
in the heart
©RoseGirl2021
Clouds gather
in the night sky
and try to hide
stars and moon
though they keep shining
and my eyes don’t
give up on them
like my heart,
even with an ocean
in the way, doesn’t
give up on you
©RoseGirl2021
Do you hear me too
in the silence
when the outside world
and thoughts
are muted
when no words are spoken
even if shores lie
thousands of miles apart,
as I respond to you
as I speak love
©RoseGirl2021
Words can’t find
a grip in the mind
and free fall
between the headaches
Luckily the heart
catches them
and writes
with longing beat
our love poem
©RoseGirl2021
The morning in April
is still so cold
I hide in my winter coat
as I cycle
Pained heart, pained head
Tears that almost freeze
on my cheeks
And yet,
the sun is shining
New buds in the trees
Birds sing animatedly
And despite, still
and through all of this
the feel of you
©RoseGirl2021
When the night consists of pain
migraines that cut like knives
in the head
and make it hard to breathe
as the whole body contracts
Alone on a violent sea
The shore of the morning
yet far away
then you’re that star in the firmament
that my heart stays focused on
©RoseGirl2021
Once adults lied
They betrayed
and fooled a boy
into taking
a big, metallic bird
overseas
to a foreign land
He left his heart behind
on the other side
of the ocean
Oh boy, oh boy
there was no going back
he was lost
for so many years
Searching for a place
that he could call home
He dreamed of a girl
he had never met
But he knew,
she was out there
somewhere on the other side
her fate closely tied to his
In the years that passed
he sang his songs
and let the wind
carry them far
hoping that
she would hear his call
She heard the melody
within her soul
She sent love
Love, one day,
found him
and built a ship
to take him
once again across
the ocean
and to reunite him
with his heart
And it was the girl
he had longed for
that, all those years,
had kept it safe
for him
within her own chest
©RoseGirl2021
In the middle of the night
when our hearts connect
straight over thousands
of miles of sea and land,
straight over time,
over whatever
is going on
in the outside world,
it turns on the light
©RoseGirl2021
No matter how ugly
and dark the world
I find the purity
I find the beauty
in the pearl
of our love
©RoseGirl2021
As I’m waking up slowly
I still keep my thoughts outside,
block the ‘I miss you’s’
the past, the pain, the day
from coming in
and only feel here in this moment
how close you are within
©RoseGirl2021
Sometimes missing you
is so deadly
that my words drown in it
and leave the page empty
©RoseGirl2021
When it snows and storms
in April
and I battle with the wind
battle with myself
and I cannot even get words out
will you hold me tightly
as I cry and scream my pain
in hurricanes and waterfalls
and will you remind me
with your strong arms,
your soft voice
of the inevitability of Spring
©RoseGirl2021
It’s not a journey far
of crossing the globe
of miles
of airplanes and footsteps
but it’s a journey deep
within
from heartbeat to heartbeat
to reach you
and find you here with me
©RoseGirl2021
As I brush my teeth
before I go to sleep
I look into the mirror
I look at myself,
into eyes that once
caught you
and took you deep
inside of me
And if I stare long enough,
in them I can still find you
©RoseGirl2021
She looks at the night sky,
at all the stars that shine
so brightly and asks:
What should I do
to make my wishes come true?
And the Universe replies:
The seeds of your wishes
burn like stars in the sky
Now there’s nothing more
for you to do than
to look at them,
hold them before your eyes
and water them with belief
©RoseGirl2021
You’re my
Californian sun
that burns
tirelessly
within me
©RoseGirl2021
I wish I was the Californian sun
you walk under
so I could always
unabashedly
touch and caress you
with fingers of loving rays
©RoseGirl2021
When there’s nothing
in the outside world to hold on to
and it seems all hopeless,
you see your dreams collapsing
right before your eyes,
your so desired future broken,
then you feel him,
you feel the love in your heart
and you know,
where there is such love,
there’s always hope
©RoseGirl2021
Even though her heart hurts,
she keeps it uncovered
and open
so the light,
so love can come in
for that’s the only thing
that can heal
an open wound
©RoseGirl2021
And if she doubts her own worth,
she only needs to look into her heart
and see all that precious love
to know her value
©RoseGirl2021
Two birds stand both in their own land
with an ocean between them
Both longing for the other side,
for each other
They may have thought it was all
those miles of water, of sky, of land,
the wind, the weather forecast or any restriction
but in fact it is their own fears, their own thoughts
that keep them chained to their shores and apart
And trusting the wings of their heart
will be the only way to break free and to cross
©RoseGirl2021
When I get lost
in the screaming silence
I Iisten deeper
to be found
by the calming sound
of us
©RoseGirl2021
Her words can be unwanted
silenced, erased
ignored, blocked, suppressed
But her heart never can
So many truths locked up inside her
Her voice, her sound stuck
in her own ears, her small self,
her own head
But then the wind, the moon,
the stars, the sea,
the whole universe
will voice and echo her heart
©RoseGirl2021
With you in every molecule
I flow with the day,
flow with my tears,
my fears, my thoughts
Like a river
that holds on to nothing
but has its source in love
©RoseGirl2021
I’m like the moon
shining light
on all the darkness
uncovering lies,
illusions and shadows
And as I light up the night
I find the truth of our love
in even the darkest corners
of the universe
©RoseGirl2021
When the outside world
gets too harsh
and suffocating
I always have my world
of honey bees and flowers
of fairy tales and rose gardens
I have my poetry,
music to dance to,
floating clouds to look at
I always have that wide world
of me and you
©RoseGirl2021
When the heart
overflows with sadness
and I’m about to drown
I grab a dream of us
to float on
©RoseGirl2021
The head burns
fiercely with ache
though the heart burns
even stronger
with love
©RoseGirl2021
And tonight
there’s just me,
the thought of you,
my poetry
and the moon
that makes the heart,
the night sky,
the paper full
©RoseGirl2021
If I don’t think in time
in space, in distance
if I don’t think in years
in you and me,
in pain, in miles
But if I think in love
then there’s only us
here in this moment
©RoseGirl2021
The air is cleared again
After a rain shower,
the sun breaks through
I listen to the wind
as I walk in the woods
And high above treetops
I see a buzzard soaring
I search the sky for another one
and search my heart for you
for like buzzards
that always have a counterpart
to fly with
I never walk the earth alone
but always walk with you
©RoseGirl2021
In the morning
a dove coos
a crow caws
a magpie calls
and my heart sings
a fado song
so much it longs
to fly out to you
©RoseGirl2021
I draw a line with my finger
on the map
from where you are,
your continent to mine
And then I cross the ocean,
cross the world
with a bridge of kisses
I connect the dots
fill up the space
and I see, I feel
how close you are, my love
for you’re only
a few kisses away
©RoseGirl2021
As I love your heart,
your soul, your true essence,
nothing that happens
on the surface,
no movement, no wave
nothing that you do or say
can effect the deep waters
of my love for you
©RoseGirl2021
The last time
I saw you eye to eye,
sensed you body to body
What if in fact, our arms
have never let go of each other
but you’re still holding me
I’m still holding you
heart to heart
somewhere outside of time
©RoseGirl2021
Even my dreams at night
don’t seem to entertain me no more
they cannot soothe or fool
for I walk around lucidly in my dream
and only wonder, where are you
Dreams are just not real
when you’re not in them
©RoseGirl2021