Love Poem: Angel
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Written by: Susan Ashley

Angel

In a state of half a dream and half awake
  I await 

tantra trinkets shine in pieces across night skies  
scattered stars the litter of our synchronized wishes 
broken symbols of our disenchanted rune  

cosmic poets cursed the lutestring verse rhymed for us
I’m lost  astray like a pearl loosed from a fractured string
lost in ashes of embers   our fire that fed the sun
will you search a cosmos of starving stars
their shimmer growing dimmer til light withers
will you search a famished universe to find me
a spec of earthly widow dust settled  stilled

sweet Venus  intercede before dark recedes
listen   a nightingale’s sonnet song rides the air
melody’s flame melts ice-blonde moonbeams
a buttery pool the singer’s smitten spotlight
his rhapsody brims his beloved to swoon
 
oh Venus  let lyric desire be my angel’s glide path

in a state of half a dream and half awake
  sensual my soulmate

an invite for my griever skin to tingle  to thaw
touch me warm  my angel  touch me warm
billow tender breeze through window’s yawn
pale cheeks brushed  lips shushed    a lover’s rush
light as a scarf’s silk slide  I tremble
soft breaths move the curtains and swell my sighs 
wind spirit purrs my name   I close my eyes
ethereal presence  your physical absence
how poetic this ache throbbing the same space
inside a pearl  weary and weeping  for you