Letters in Sequence

Collaboration between Michael Garland and Alizeh Aziz

Letters in Sequence

Some words die in muddy surrender

Ink won’t take in cloudy drink

Some thoughts are said with random thunders

Some strangeness revealed upon the brink

Let shine words with the greatest of care

Emotions in motion run everywhere 

Let shine words in the very best meaning

My promise to you is to not be deceiving

What are words? 
Letters few, 
But carries forth the emotions, 
Betwixt me and you, 
Whatever be the thunder, 
That envelopes these letters, 
These would still remain, 
Feelings, artistically scattered, 
No promises are needed, 
But just the truth, 
That would define the indefinable....

© Michael James Garland and Alizeh Aziz

© Image MJG

Knock Knock

Knock Knock

Mirror shows me twisted lies

Who I am deep in my mind

So little shown so much inside

Parts of me I can’t abide

Steam the mirror before it’s clear.

I still look good …don’t I dear?

Sudden gasp look in my eyes,

I spy the look of another’s guise,

Angry wanting, secret, closed

Trying hard to stay composed

I am a rogue with gentle blues

Sweet as pie with attitude

Fall down from the bitter tree

Castigate the man in me

Wake upon the tiled floor

Don’t worry guys been here before

 © 2016 Michael J Garland

Dark Thoughts

Dark Thoughts

Show me some color  I see only gray

Living deep in between is really nowhere to stay

Naively seeing life through a poets colored glasses

I think I will close them now and hide from the masses

Goodnight sweet dreamer

I’ve nothing more to dream 

I don’t want to see

I don’t want to feel

I don’t want to play

I don’t want to want anymore

Victim of romantic notions

Flailing about in a fool’s stormy ocean

I’ve been in love with love but no more I think

I’ll think no more I think, that is what I think

© 2016 Michael Garland

In Between

In Between
We will see the sky painted in oceans blue
Because in between there is only me and you
We will breathe deeply and not be repelled
At the elusive line between heaven and hell
Sometimes I hide in shadows and I sing alone
Feral and hungry I growl and I moan
I imagine you singing, our voices meld
My beast then slumbers once more repelled
Awaken human let my guitar sing
Of gentler climes and lovely things
Can’t see in the dark or stare at the sun
We meet in the twilight like mustangs we run
Bite the fruit of Eden lick the juice on my chin
Goodbye regrets we’ve bought our sin.
Cast off the past, play our favorite tune
Secret dancers under light of the moon

©2016 Image and words Michael James Garland

Familiar Hello’s

Familiar Hello’s

You called my soul

You!!

Yes!

 I see you

Long lost dream

Comfort my present as thou hast caressed my past?

In slumbers gentle past thou hast been home perpetual

Mine own lover’s grail and I drink thee deeply

Beloved thou art truly mine in myriad knowing of what was and what is.

Why else would your words caress like a thousand fireflies

Revealing you to me once again

Leaving me shaking and breathless

You’ve revealed love’s gossamer thread

Binding the millennial resonance of you and I

The song of We

For I have slept this sleep with thee in a thousand forms

I have dreamt this dream of beloved and the eyes that lead to you

I see you

The eyes

The hint of greater beauty

The familiar beckoning

The tender reconciliation

My one heart

My sweet repose of love

© Michael Garland 09/27/2016

C Me C U

C Me C U

I see shadows dance within your eyes

Whispered outrage for parts that have died

Diminished to control by little minds

Let me cradle the woman\child inside

My poor broken one

Look to me

See the better man before you

Stronger arms with untapped devotion

I have the kiss to waken sweeter emotion

Give me a smile if you’ve taken a notion

My beautiful woman

Look to me

I hear you scream without a sound

Yet still your light warmly surrounds

I never knew; how could I know?

What’s shining inside you could nourish my soul  

A man that was broken suddenly whole

My soft and lovely one

Look to me

We have loved and lost in mist of time

I’m with you now and yes! it feels right

I won’t regress, while your is heart mine

Point the compass to true loves light

My sweetest love

Look to me

Form with me a sweeter dance

Forget cold hearts and empty hands

I will write my love upon your body

Poet and Poetess feeling so naughty

My shining one 

Look to me

Then look again

© Michael James Garland

Ivory Tower

Ivory Tower

Upon the cliff top Rapunzel she perched

Renting her gown in the final purge

I spied her intent calling “ fight the urge”

Rapunzel’s despaired “ I haven’t the nerve”

Reprieve I would take

Would my true love allayed

The one who’s forsaken has kept me waylaid

Cast in an ivory tower is no life you know

Her jailor muted to only worship below

Blinded by progressions haste

Words of poison and rape

Why does he deceive and bereave

I’ve no more horizon

no more to achieve

I’ve rented my tresses for the final ropes weave

Once to often my hearts been deceived

Hence craft of my own making I have achieved

Aiding the soliquial curtains taking

A parachute to oblivion from a life of senseless hating

Rapunzel don’t go for I am he

I am the one who would marry thee

I’ve been waylaid and shorn and  shown great refuse

I tarried the night away with the devils own muse

I’ve acted the rogue in rebellious deluge

I see now my fortune is cast with thee

 Rapunzal don’t go have discourse with me

one moment in time to look in my eyes

Yes you could jump or you could be mine

Rapunzel Rapunzel let me change your mind

© Michael J. Garland 9/18/2016