If You Are A Dreamer

“If you are a dreamer come in

If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar

A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer

If you're a pretender come sit by my fire

For we have some flax golden tales to spin

Come in!

Come in!”

~ Shel Silverstein

What Is That

“What is that you express in your eyes? 

It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”

~ Walt Whitman

I Crave Your Mouth

“I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.

Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.

Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day

I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.

I hunger for your sleek laugh,

your hands the color of a savage harvest,

hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,

I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.

I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body,

the sovereign nose of your arrogant face,

I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,

and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,

hunting for you, for your hot heart,

Like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.”

~ Pablo Neruda

I Shut My Eyes

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;

I lift my eyes and all is born again.”

~ Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar