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Permanent Imprint
Anticipation merely a dream
Caught in flowing tunes,
Formal beauty swallowing
All other sounds.
The love I felt for you
Acknowledged in song
Carries the energy of our union
To the end of spacetime.
Alive each moment listening
As art expresses joy and pain
In ever-flowing harmony:
While everything undergoes change
That constant purity remains
Flowing thru the music,
Permanent imprint on the brain.
MAKE THE ACTUAL GLEAM
Calling in the night the horn
Emotions vibrating in flowing song.
The beauty when we merged still here
Listening to the blending notes so clear,
The outline of A Love Supreme
Haunting all my dreams.
To contemplate possibilities
Simply chasing after fantasies
Tho the urge to touch the real
Just beneath the surface wails ---
The loss of union now just a dream.
Let's make the actual fusion gleam.
Nothing lost thru gestures
That feed an ancient need.
LIKE MOLTEN LAVA
Chasing thru my mind
Your love caught in tunes.
Thus every time listening
I remember how you filled
Playing aching beauty on the horn.
This alien from a distant galaxy
Taking form thru rich melodies
To describe the range of passions
We were willing to enchange
Sits now like molten lave
Waiting to explode.
Tho decades
Lie dormant, the embers glowing
Means it's still alive in concept,
Able to take form thru merged urges
Sneaking out, at dawn,
As I dream of our union
Flowing thru every song.
THAT ANCIENT BLENDING
Waves of fear wash over me:
The futility of fantasy
When I sense our bodies merging,
Haunting beauty in the horn,
But never an actual contact
That goes deeper than a smudge
While deep in the brain cells longings
Play tunes that warm the soul
Remembering that ancient blending.
The glory when love whole
Was captured in a harmony
That forever flows
As I sit here listening, dreaming
Of a love lost long ago
Which nonetheless still vibrates
With every song I know.
THE DREAM OF BLENDING
Forced to recognize the aging
As minor pain pulses thru the veins,
Periodically erupting
To remind me that these dreams
I indulge in whenever listening
To the beauty of the horn
Stem from memories of the glory
When we merged as one.
Now falling so far back in time
I've lost you in the aging
As I sit here listening to rich sounds
And I feel you as a living entity
Engulfing me with love's warmth.
Can't let go the dream of blending
So I push thru words' chords
To draw you as a magnet
Back to loving as of yore.
HEAT-WAVES HAZE US
In the heat-waves that haze us
I dream that you're near
As the music flows clear.
That trade-off still haunting
Dry tears as i listen
Remembering how we shared.
And the agony when pulled
To the other side of the ocean
Could be repaired, if you dared
Venture into a commitment
Made so long ago, yet still such energy
Caught in awesome tunes
Transfer into the actual
What I yearn to re-learn.
Knowing that the possibility
Has faded into lonely poems
Yet still the mind reaches out
Thru the passion of saxophone
For the warmth flooding my soul
Remembering how we'd merged.
REFLECTING CONNECTIONS
The lonely nights linger
In the haunting beauty of tunes
Knowing the memories
Glow under the moon
Reflecting connections
That live in my dreams.
The glory of holding you
Alive as memory's theme
Expressed in flowing harmony ---
And I feel you in my veins.
The taste of cosmic energy
Transferred thru mellow tunes
Constantly in motion
As love fills this room.
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