After Forever

After forever
when they sing our song

with timeless lyrics about eternal spirits

we will nod and think

they almost got it right.

There’ll be myths that summer solstice

was about the first time our souls kissed

as both the sun and time stood still

on a day that never wanted to end.

After forever

they will see it written in the stars

our own patterns of love, drawn

faithful reminders, from dusk to dawn

each twinkle a footprint where we danced.

Then they’ll say the moon made a vow

that we’ll always know how

to find one another again

with her breath on a breeze

she’d whisper “follow me”

and guide us through eternity.

After forever

when poets look to muses

and immortalize their own great loves

they’ll remember a song

that touched on our love

and think that we had forever

but they would be wrong

‘Forever’ was our prelude

our song has just begun.

© Dahlia Ramone, February 22, 2015

Blogophilia Week 1, Year 8:  After Forever

Bonus Points: 

(Hard, 2 pts) Include a rhyme in your blog

(Easy, 1 pt) Mention two celestial bodies

~ Manifestation of Love ~

~ Manifestation of Love ~

I used to know a hundred songs

about that place in love where pain belongs

no reconciliation was ever found

between heart and head, only strife came ‘round.

I wandered beneath a lonely moon

the music in my heart, adrift and out of tune

just the haunting strings of the mandolin

seeping through my veins to reside within.

I sought answers to questions I needn’t have asked

I didn’t know at the time, my die had been cast

gliding on moonbeams, soft whispers came through:

“You don’t find love…..love finds you.”

As such, it came unexpected

with an acceptance of Fate, unprecedented

our friendship suddenly became clear to me

to be your anything love, was meant to be.

An anything love, is just as it implies

unbiased and just, no conditions or why’s

to be what you need through life’s various stages

to remain your constant, throughout the ages.

It’s a love through action, as the words are unspoken

no need for return, sentiments can be broken

promises not uttered, for fear of breach

manifested from truth, with intent to reach.

I used to know a hundred songs

with verses tripping over rights and wrongs

it took the moon for me to see

Fate provides the lyrics, we are the melody.

***

© Dahlia Ramone, January 18, 2015

Written for Blogophilia:

Blogophilia week 48.7 Music In My Heart

Bonus Points: 

(Hard, 2 pts) Quote a Shinto teaching or Japanese proverb (I did not)

(Easy, 1 pt) Mention moonbeams and mandolins (included)

Midnight Moon

Midnight moon, an angel’s platform
serene, she conquers any storm
alluring vision on display
with my reflections to convey

Inviting dreams to come ashore
she beckons hearts – play and explore

silent wisdom, she leads the way
with my reflections to convey

My one request of her to do
is send a dove to follow you
(that peace and time not go astray)
with my reflections to convey

Midnight moon, an angel’s platform
with my reflections to convey.

© Dahlia Ramone, November 21, 2014

When you smile

With just one flicker of a smile
you make everything all worthwhile
surrendering the heart you stole
you make me lose all self-control

You are a gemstone in the rough
time with you is never enough
with the tenderness of your soul
you make me lose all self-control

Nothing on earth I wouldn’t do
for the delight of loving you
the pleasing ways we become whole
you make me lose all self-control

With just one flicker of a smile
you make me lose all self-control.

© Dahlia Ramone, November 8, 2014
(a Kyrielle Sonnet)

The poem that explains my heart to you

~ The poem that explains my heart to you ~

Five years ago, my path became clear:

to love you, through eternity

Even though unrequited

it’s still a love fulfilled

because I believe

it transcends time

and softly

touches

you.

You

remain

unaware

it comes from me

yet I still write these

words you may never see

so you remain bathed in love

My soul runs parallel to yours

my shadow, your breath, achingly close

chosen by love, my heart belongs to you.

***

© Dahlia Ramone, October 13, 2014

Midnight Dreams

You

live in

my midnight

where stars smile

and love is timeless;

it is where we belong.

Dreams melding beneath the moon

yours and mine, we ache to touch them

fervent hearts reach out across the seas

to recapture that summer we first met.

Stars twinkle in Morse code and Fate answers

lays her onyx cape over the seas

and we dance across the water

back into each other’s arms.

Fate smiles, falling back

in step with the moon

to shelter my

midnight dreams

where you

live.

© Dahlia Ramone, October 10, 2014

(a double Etheree)

~ Once upon a moon ~

Once upon a moon, my dreams were cast

mere whispers wafting through silken skies

entrusted to her for safekeeping

waiting on the moment you would arrive.

All that she holds, most sacred and true

dreams born of a yearning to unfold

blessed with moondust and kissed by stars

cradled in her embrace to wait out the years

Once upon a moon, you came to me

all that we had was all that we needed

and love was an earnest innocence

wrapped in crystalline dreams

In between breaths, time ebbs and flows

capturing brilliance while stealing moments

until it manages to fade away

and in its absence melancholy sings

Once upon a moon, I believed a truth

that dreams entrusted to the moon were eternal

spun in wistful drifts and carried on the wind

resolute, even though time is temperamental

That truth beckons, through valleys of change

where we lost what we had but not what we needed

celestial guidance brings me to dawn

where I am reminded that love is perpetual

Once upon a moon, my dreams were cast

on shimmering display through silken skies

entrusted to her for safekeeping

she holds them still for you.

©  Dahlia Ramone

     October 5, 2014