Sometimes longing sounds
like a crow that sharply caws,
a dog that barks
in the silence of the morning
it’s the sound when the wind
rustles through the bush
and you hear the roses sighing
how much they miss the sun today

©RoseGirl2021

There’s a poem
on the tip of my tongue
waiting to be remembered
and to be kissed out
by you

©RoseGirl2021

It’s raining on the longest day
of the year
The sun hides behind clouds
and shares his light, his power,
celebrates his solstice
high in the sky
in a private space with
the moon

©RoseGirl2021

You built a construct
of lies, excuses and
made up stories
to feel safe in
and to protect you from the world
but if that all falls apart
you’ll see that it’s naked truth
that is in fact, holding you

©RoseGirl2021

And if she would stop the fight
to be heard, to be understood
with people who only
want to hear themselves
maybe then, she would feel
she’s always heard by love

©RoseGirl2021

It got dark
as the sun dimmed
and clouded himself
with self-sabotaging thoughts
But she believed in him
She had seen his light
Her eyes had caught it
and had kept it burning
in her heart
along with her own light
Inside of her their flames
always danced and shined
together as one

And the sun, who watched her
from a distance
hiding behind clouds, wondered:
How come she shines so bright?
Until he truly dared to look into her
and saw his own reflection
he saw she was his moon

It was the moment that the sun
started to believe in himself
that the dark dissolved
and the light broke through

©RoseGirl2021

The past needs
our goodbyes
in order for us to see
our hello dawning
on the horizon

©RoseGirl2021

What if I were quiet
as quiet as you would be
If all words are dropped
our hearts would speak
louder than words can

©RoseGirl2021

The sea could never be silent
even if it wished to
even if it tried to
even if it pulled back
and smoothed its waves
it was always heard
within its depths

©RoseGirl2021

Sometimes when words
don’t land on paper
but keep floating
formless and free
in the air
between our hearts
they make the most
beautiful poetry
together

©RoseGirl2021

With every breath
I blow ‘I love you’s’ in the air
that spread like the clock
of the dandelion
and that fertilize the earth
to grow the most beautiful
flowers for you

©RoseGirl2021

The words I catch
in the ether
and with which
I write my poems
are but an extract
of what flows
constantly
between our hearts

©RoseGirl2021

We let the world be the world
with its drawn lines, drawn borders
its wide, blue painted seas,
its scale of distance,
separate countries
and we step into our own world
in which the only lines we draw
are those of poetry
we draw with our fingers
on each other
and the only distance we measure
is between two kisses

©RoseGirl2021

No matter how many times
the tree was hit by storms
how many seasons have passed
regardless of the scars,
it still stands tall
and keeps gracefully moving
in the wind
as it has its roots in deep love

©RoseGirl2021

Sometimes the fire
in the heart
burns so fiercely
for you
Flames that reach out
dance so wild
that they burn
the fireplace

©RoseGirl2021

Thoughts follow the dark
follow fears, pain
and stories
though the heart
that doesn’t think
but feels
– love
follows the sun

©RoseGirl2021

I feel your thoughts
run over my skin
like fingers
as they leave their mark
of tingling desire
and then enter me
to entwine with mine

©RoseGirl2021

When I think I have
a thousand things to do
to be better, to be loved
to be accepted
and I feel like
everything I wish for
is slipping
through my fingers,
then the only thing
I truly have to do
is to just breathe
and love you

©RoseGirl2021

In de morning birds
softly touch the ears
with songs
of a new dawn
like love touches
the heart
to wake up

©RoseGirl2021

Windows
are open at night
to look at stars
and moon
to look
from the heart
and see
you

©RoseGirl2021

At night when the world
has quiet down
and hearts are heard,
thoughts, oceans
and miles fade
until there’s nothing
between us but love

©RoseGirl2021

It isn’t about those
who make you feel
unwelcome
but it’s about
welcome yourself
in love

©RoseGirl2021

When you feel like
you cannot dance anymore
When you’re wounded
your heart heavy with ache
when it’s dark all around
and it rains,
then it’s the most important
to dance on

©RoseGirl2021

Close your eyes
and take flight
with me
to leave my heavy heart,
my heavy body
filled with pain
Like birds we soar
in endless skies
of possibilities
to see again
beyond the earth

And when my own skin
calls me back,
my beating heart
seeks its owner
and her beloved
and we land together
back in the home
of the body, of the heart
where you belong with me,
then please keep reminding me
of the birds that we are
and that whatever it is
it is safe to feel

©RoseGirl2021

Like the sun that sinks
in the sea when it sets
I fall in you
into your waters
where I merge, wave
and sway with you
calm and wild
to the tides of love
and as I rise again
your water in me
my light in you
mirror and reflection
become one
we climax together
on the horizon
in a fiery explosion
of colour and light

©RoseGirl2021

And it’s faith
that waters the seeds
of dreams
that are planted
in the fertile soil
of our love

©RoseGirl2021

Sometimes, I don’t have
a lot of words
but I hold you within
in tingling silence

©RoseGirl2021

No matter how deep
and vast the waters
of sadness are,
there’s always a bottom,
there’re banks of love
that hold it all

©RoseGirl2021

Desire burns fervently in eyes
that gaze at the glowing moon
knowing that eyes
on the other side of the world
will look and burn too

©RoseGirl2021

I tried to write
the most depressing,
heartbreaking, desperate,
bad scenario poems
but then my muse of love
takes over the pen
and writes it back
to hope

©RoseGirl2021