The Greatest Of All Anniversaries

It was exactly forty-six years ago today
That Mary Alma Queen of Ducks exchanged
Nuptial vows with Edward True Confessor
The Judge who became the devoted father
To wondrous sister Sara and conceived a
Crown Princess in Elizabeth who created
A family of her own as our parents made
Themselves into Smidge and Smed when
We found happiness despite problems in
The process of reaching maturity during
The mad time when we five fought demons
Until we found salvation in God's Grace
For which our family is always grateful
As we navigate loving days of existence
In which we adore each other eternally.

                 Dale(7)/22/26-18:DUCK2474--06/14/2011

When I Consider The Sublime

Love is a spiral that grows from an infinitesmal point
Into a circle that encompasses the boundary of Universe
Held together by the omnipresent weight of a black hole
Even as every rhapsody to your beauty is one projection
Of desire among the near-infinite projections of humans
Since before the creation of the Cosmos where we try
To solve the mysteries of life and death while children
In ignorance of higher powers learn to read and write
And parents test the frontiers of consummation with mad
Intensity unable to overcome limitations of their heart
Soul and body held to this world by irrevocable gravity
Until we are released from this prison to freedom given
To those who find themselves dealt a hand of mortality.

                       "Genius"(5)/41/26-18:DUCK2412--04/13/2011

Tomorrow Is So Far Away

Tomorrow always look forward:
After the last "I love you" every night
The seconds accumulate into minutes
Culminating in hours spent listening
To music awaiting the chance to reconnect
After the dreamscapes of sleep pulling us
To mutual fields of desire where we lose
Ourselves to the blind oblivion of kisses
We've never experienced in daylight reality--
Tomorrow has no guarantees:
Every morning is an adventure of starting over
As we awaken to the sweet sunlight of clear skies
Or the clouds that block the orb bringing rain
While trying to decipher unknowable events
That entice us with the blessed gift of life
To feel the soft rainbow of love in our souls
Desirous of a consummation we will never know--
Tomorrow is yesterday today:
When the succulent breeze of longing blows across
The temperate river of passion in which we swim
Like loons afraid to surface in the sight of humans
Only then can we realize the potential for bliss
Denied us since the Fall of our first parents
From the Paradise in which we search to lose ourselves
To the spiritual fulfillment of embraced lovers
Walking hand-in-hand along the shore of the surfed ocean
Where there is no escape from the mortal undertow--
Tomorrow is the time for words we cannot speak:
Love tosses its mane like a proud stallion unridden
By cowboys anxious to prove their equine prowess
On a bronc as strong and wilful as the mountains
That refuse to budge from the majesty of their position
On which climbers plant their boots seeking a foothold
On the sheer cliffs growing from the precipice of lust--
Tomorrow is a mystery we can never predict.

                             Dialina(9)/06/25-17:DUCK2174--08/18/2010

Reflection On An Essential Obsession

Females are hot springs of geyser emotions
Erupting with a periodic regularity of mad
Kinetic energy creating desires for unions
Of lust and love devotion and passion want
And fulfillment as the planet continues to
Sustain both deep and petty feelings while
People wrestle with the whims of a reality
Of longing for the divine bliss of a Grace
Granted by a benevolent Lord hidden by
Illusions of time and space unfolding sure
Of amorous consummations pulling lovers
To sweet satisfaction of unending kisses.

              STEALTH(4)/02/24-16:DUCK1603--01/24/09

The Jewels Of Your Totality

You mesmerized me with the ruby of your personality
You stunned me with the emerald of your generosity
You hypnotized me with the sapphire of your intellect
You overwhelmed me with the amythyst of your humor
You wooed me with the opal of your body
You pleased me with the pearl of your smile
And you conquered me with the diamond of your heart
Too hard to crack with the hammer of my intentions
Refracting the crystal light of the glow of your aura
Blinding me with the intensity of the rainbow prism
I perceived on the dark night when we embraced
Making me wonder how long can last memory of a kiss
As I look back past the thirty years of our union
Into the pinhole of Eternity through which shines light
Of the possibility of what might have happened to us
Without the noisy intercession of other people's reality
Which kept us apart and distant through this lifetime
Even as our longings led us into the arms of others
For whom neither of us should have really cared.