The One

Poem © 2013 by Joyce Mason
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You

me

summer sky

a million stars

Teenage chemistry beaker

boiling to our first kiss:

explosion!

I see stars, galaxies

the entire universe

in your eyes

the backdrop

 lake and fireworks sky.

I see God

in you.

No one else

no one thing

has ever been so powerful.

The years of pleasure

joy-laced pain

long estrangements

therapy

Nothing can erase

your mark.

Past middle-age

I see at last

it was God
All That Is
Oneness

cosmic unity

I fell in love with

I see now

why I never
completely

got over you.

Thank God.

~.~.~

Photo Credit: siluetas de enamorados en paisaje urbano © carlos castilla – fotolia.com

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Present Peace

Santa surprises

merry mischief

candy cane kisses

love eyes glitter

Italian lights

dark fades

for the light of the world

hearts beating

one loud rhythm

one song

Silent Night

holy

a nanosecond

of illusive calm

in children’s eyes

in adults’ eyes

the child

stacked presents

steps of love

climb to touch heaven

bring peace down to earth

in the silence

finding

no need

to reach.

© 2010 by Joyce Mason

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joycemason.com

Photo Credit: Christmas Love © Les3photo8 | Dreamstime.com

Feast

 We hugged every high hill
in San Francisco
tasting the world
in a fast stroll
climbing cement sidewalks
you eating eggs
at a breakfast
where I ate you with my eyes.

Later, we gobbled up
the radio waves in the car
chewing on California Girls
swallowing the bay
and planning our next meal
unbeknownst
to the Chinese check-out clerk
charging Safeway
with our bill of fare.

Not even
the museum
the Cannery
nor Ben Johnson’s
knew what we were going through
as we gluttonized
our particular piece
of the universe
in ravenous recourse
to the miserable malnutrition
we knew before Tiburon.

Not Bob, nor Victor,
nor the few human characters
dropping in for dinner
suspected this mad meal,
not even that crazy black cat.

Not even God Himself
noticed the teethmarks
we left on that week
or the empty cupboard
in the clouds.



© 2010 by Joyce Mason

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joycemason.com

Photo Credit: Contemplating a Beautiful City © Celsodiniz  Dreamstime.com

Arousal

Marriage aroused me

long before you leapt

into my life

knocked me down

with over-enthusiasm

panting

breathless
from all that commotion.

The intimacy:

two-across-the-table

watching two touch

tongues

fingers

thighs

At dinner

I watched us

like I’ve watched

so many couples before

high on connection

And even before the lobster melted
on my palate
so did I
in your eyes.

Later, when your lips
were cinnamon sugar,
I laced my legs through you
in order to keep my feet on.


© 2010 by Joyce Mason
All Rights Reserved
joycemason.com

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Photo credit: Intimate couple close-up © Alexandr Stepanov |Dreamstime.com