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

Fly Away

Fly Away

I caught a feather of Icarus bane
Singed and worn with a magical shame
I thought flying high wasn’t really the sin
Never landing must have been it then?
Linear progression
Tunneled obsession
Failed succession
Solarial desperation
I blame him not for failed flight
Like a moth to flame he wanted light
My sun rises caressing my cheek
When she whispers my name
I thrill as she speaks
Back off brothers she is mine
I’m keeping this sun for all time
I am hers and she mine
I gift you this feather
Fly for another to find 

© Michael Garland …9/18/2016

My Venus

Where is my morning star?
Thy garden calls attendance
How odd is thy absence from favored bloom
Why must thy flame ride the edge of night?
Hast thou traveled the far shore?
Oh the bitter miles separate beloved
Venusian dreams in dulcet tones pulls my beloved to infant reawakening
Dark one stay thy scythe,  hold thy ancient labor
Languish a dark and dreary moment
I would see the light in her eyes for a few breaths meter
Let me blanket my love in eternal claimance
I beseech a dark boon heedless of cost
If not….
Wait for me love.
Wait between dawn and dusk
Tarry between heaven and hell
I will attend thee in due course
We will sail through oceans of time
No goodbyes
No regrets
Aloha oe
Until we meet again.

© Michael James Garland 2016

So·lil·o·quy by Michael Garland and Shilpa Sandish

Let the world stop and die
Not so my beloved and I
Like the dawn of all contentment
we have forever in each other
where loves light is perpetual
Every glance of you is like the first
Look in my eyes my love is there

I would rather choose to halt with thee,
And let the world run past in glee,
And like the immortal elements of the universe,
I would plead the time to reverse,
To return where the existence had begun,
When there was love, in Adam and Eve,
Gleaming beneath,
The same glistening stars.
The same luminescent moon,
And the same blazing Sun....
© Michael James Garland
© Shilpa Sandesh

Dreams of the Druid

Lilting cadence 
Misted and serene
Song of the wood 
Verdant dreams
Sylvan awareness lullaby me
Ere before slumbers breach 
Show me that, which I can’t see
Arboreal memories just out of reach 
Ancient 
Patient
Wise
Serene 
Collective whispers bid me sleep 
neath oaken guardian 
On bed of leaves
To the tree how odd I must seem 
I am the meteors momentary dream
Spending life as if no tomorrow
We shine short and bright 
Mans blessing and our sorrow 
Oh tolerant tree
When you dream with me
Show me my love across the sea
Let us dance neath crystal seas
I would touch her soul 
Ever 
So 
Gently 
Pity the lovelorn need
Would you
Could you
Dear, ancient tree?


© poem, image Michael Garland 2016

Poeta y Poetisa

Poeta y  Poetisa

There is no crimson signature

Escritor  

You’re beholden to thine self-alone 

The parchment is empty unbound

So fill it

Bleed for the words

Love for the memories

Laugh for the pain

Should you stumble?

Rise from the dust

Do it again

Embrace yourself and all who need love

Did I mention laugh for the pain?

I did?

Then laugh again

Take every chance you dare

Run don’t walk

Life is good but hardly fair

Set blot to parchment

Ignore those who think you a pox

We are the shakers

Thinkers outside the box

Let your spirit learn

Forget luke warm

Better to burn

See the love and the glory

See the hidden story

Watch the rage

Make the world turn

Fill the page!!!

© Michael James Garland 09/06/2016

A Soul to kill

I have madness not of mind but of soul
A Malady born in the recognition
I author pain
I shelter it
A calamitous embryonic node
Swaddled in the ethereal soul
I’ve learned to love its receival
Mocked by the mirrior in the lonely hours
My nemesis bids me fruition of infant madness
Should I grasp the molding straw that is my past?
The cloying scent of decay and fungal resolution
Shall I hold it like a shaking a lover giving power to darker conceptions?
Warrior? Come out and plaaay.
Womanizer don your formals there is mischief to embrace
Drunkard goad the bad ass lets walk the walk
Crazy damn poet, there are extremes to embrace
There is a world to grieve
There are loves to hold.
Bartender another double of abuse please
I have madness not of mind but of soul


(c) Michael Garland 09/02/2016

Dawns light smiles and love awakens

Dawns light smiles and love awakens

I look thru eyes that see only you

This unbidden joy impossible to ignore 

A wave of of emotion tingles every pore

Every waking moment centers around you

How can you be so far away yet live inside of me

A secret world inside my heart I’m touching all of you

Please thoughts behave!! I’ve so much more to do

Still I hold your hand on sunset beach

We cuddle close near the bonfires reach

Talk and laugh for hours on end

We’re dancing close over and again

We play around as lovers do

We share the looks just made for two

Making plans for a lifetime

In this world that’s in my mind

Copyright Michael Garland  8/2015