Cosmic Radiance by Jeff Flesch

I walk along the forest floor, watching as the mysteries pour forth blooming evergreen weeds, struggling up through the ground looking to see if anyone’s around they always wink at me relating a resilience and a broad-spectrum playfulness hidden inside the stars heavens, a mirror takes two seconds more to notice in the dew lingering…

Fiery Lake by Jeff Flesch

love lives in each heartbeat and breath we take, regardless of past mistakes and the pain we rake like mist that takes me on a trip down memory lane and into the fiery lake I transpire. lingering on the petal of a flower and, within an hour? clarity becomes truth just like the love, I…

Empty Nest by Jeff Flesch

the pain comes to me in the afternoon as I sit in front of the tree meant for you and me I cannot hide from the tears inside they well up and finally, come forth in my heart and on my cheeks, they do intone a lingering in the midst of our tryst, as I…

Helios of Pain by Jeff Flesch

birds fly through the sky as in my heart our love always resides flittering and mistaking a beat or two for a remedy made of oranges that are blue in an afternoon of love-making combined with two souls partaking in each other, hand in hand and as I gasp, before the rendering is complete a…

Night Tide by Jeff Flesch

I alight on a star it’s farther than I’ve ever been before a thousand miles away from you I transfix my eyes on all the galaxies next door while knowing they are reminiscent of a time before our love was larger than the sun in the sky within my heart you always did shine like…

Moon’s Dust by Jeff Flesch

drips drop from the top of a stopwatch as the minutes until we meet cascade over my heart watching the fear depart say you’ll love me until the last act of the art leaves forever and may we impart and imprint upon our collective souls the deep need for a fire so bold continuing to…

Cloudless Drifter by Jeff Flesch

oranges and limes fill the sky a scent reminiscent of another time when love was like a drop of candy in the winter and the fields were dusty a cloudless drifter was I looking for another relation the wonder filling my mind while birds chirped on the trees broken limbs and I continued to swim…

Blue Shoes by Jeff Flesch

shadows trace my fingers, a space of wonder filled with lace as other contexts make haste sending to my heart delicate fabrics, my mind’s eye, reminds me of times fire the nostalgia burns in bright colors, amber hues, and blue shoes filled will pebbles from our past, each one a memory — wispy-thin, and filled…

Earth Our Home by Jeff Flesch

I sit atop the stairs, reminiscing on times fair, and difficult beyond repair. As the pain continues to arise, and the memories flood my mind, my heart continues to wage a war with love at the center of despair. I pick myself up, dust off the self, and realize what love is all about —…

Running Through the Flowers by Jeff Flesch

the road unfolds along a dirt abode, where travelers come together seeking shelter from the storm rising with the sun, learning more in the afternoon glow, hints of colors so vivid, we are off and on the run towards the sunset, looking to the love within the window we’ve called forth on this conquest, we…

A Love, Emboldened by Jeff Flesch

books with broken spines, reminds me of a time, when pain was deeper, a love inclined towards the heavens, farther than can be seen, it’s as if, we’ve always believed in something grander, smiling in the face of adversity, we did not find our posterity, more a glimmer of uniformity, a gentle touch, skin bared…

Love is All There Ever is… by Jeff Flesch

gathering up the reminiscence lost, I travel the world, wide and far, searching and dreaming of the nature within…I stop, watch, and listen to the heart, beating steady, just so, and like you always told me it would go, down further, deeper into despair, reeling about the timeliness of each moment… they stretch out to…

Ravens Flying On Wings by Jeff Flesch

the curtains, pulled tight, made of silk, and reminiscent of the night, reminds me of a time, before transgression, and possessions of body and mind, the duality of all, a kind, and gentle love… rich as the heavens are deep, broad, and glistening, ravens flying on wings of courage seep into time fleeting, yet still…

I Gently Wish Upon a Star by Jeff Flesch

heart aches, reminding me of earthquakes, experienced in between the lines, moving past mistakes of a life, this life, lived in moments unsure, and in others, grown taller than the applewood trees flowers… beauty lives, at times, in the splendor of the exquisite pain beneath our reach as we teach, and transpose to, and for…

May this Song be Sung by Jeff Flesch

tears are like open wounds that never lie, on that we can rely and, try as we might we are never truly sure, only ever, may we relish in the fervor of yesterday’s delight, pushing us further… and, as time expands our heart-center’s beingness, we live in this moment, transcending the calling card of tomorrow’s…

Dance Away the Day by Jeff Flesch

as a tear escapes my eye, I resist even more, not wanting to face the deluge needing to pour forth gritting my teeth, searing pain in my chest, with a stomach that won’t last through the infinitudes of plentiful feelings bubbling up, and brewing straight to the top so fast no stopping them now, as…