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Wasted Time

love you explode upon my demeanor in passions nova
make me hold to such a state, breath in gasping declarations
I've been a rover a rogue but you deviate my will in rapturous abandon
I am little more than a toy , go ahead play with the boy and the man awakens.
The shift profound and urgent as the servant becomes the master
Ministrations run ever faster the cherubic arrow finds its way
The heart of the matter encompasses
Heaven glimpsed Hell defined
Am I yours or are you mine?
Break the the faith in gleeful anticipation
Find another in the random progression
Oh how he shines, do you not see?
Yet heaven for you is hell for me
Conversation wears a sweater moth eaten and frayed
Delight in degradation if that is what you need.
Look no more for me to intercede
I've not the stomach for such deviation
I'll find a soul with normal needs
Not another to make me bleed.
Your sophistry of tapestry will not define me

(c) 2016 Michael Garland

If love is a phone then let me be the receiver
Let the font show elegant notion in a kaleidoscopic fever
Married juices flow around the heat in fucking sweat
Fall upon the madness in tandem fashion, no regrets
Forfeit tomorrow and the next
We are an Island of sex play we rock the best
Sordid nothing, all is open.

(c) 2017 MJG

So Far Away From You

The distance bites my heart like a wild thing at bay,
Languish my love half a world away.
In the lonley hours the wanting bites my soul,
Dawn finds me drained somewhat less than whole.
Sunrise , the beacon to another land,
My old world woman needs her new world man.
Heart hold fast, Soul make due,
The solitary heart shall soon be two.
To touch, to feel, to drown in loves sweet appeal,
Simply the only heart i want to feel.
Until then I will just make due,
I'm coming home to be with you.

(c) 2017 MJG

I found my reason
To celebrate the seasons
I found more time
to pen you a rhyme
Let me harvest what you've sown
A crop called "never alone"

Let the clowns exit the stage
Maestro hold down your rage
I have found my curtain call
She is love she is all
We are duets in summer rain
A song of love without the pain

Let Gods grace apportioned
Radiate a sweeter emotion
Beauty calls me to your arms
to bestow upon thee lovers charm
Let give and take of divine devotion
Find us one in a world of commotion

(c) 2017 MJG

Some little thing says everything
The secret word between you and me
A bend of the brow
The walk that waylays me
Find the font of love insane
resting warm on a winter pane
Some destiny of a notice of two
The thought that binds me to you
It is love ...love for you


(c) 2017 MJG

On This Day With You:

Let loves sweet insanity take hold me.
What need I for wits nor reason,
Let heart commit brain to most welcomed treason.

See sunlight's last kiss upon gentle blue sea.
In mocking recital taste deeply of you,
Let hearts meld in starlight for a moment or two.

Let loves emotion cascade vibrant and free
Entwined in limb and perfumed of heart
Glimpsing forever a joyous new start

Let hearts one desire light the way home to thee
Let love enshroud us in a silken divine
Be forever my love forever Valentine.

!!! Happy Valentines Day My Love !!!

Solace of Not
Soul twisted to envy Gordian knot
Her heart shan't find pen in you,
Break then tears oh fountain blue,
Yet melancholy rains with out absolution,
drown then in deserved dissolution ,
The only break is in revelry,
For it lives no longer in me,
Watch the death knell saunter,
See her not as she pens for another ,
Oh cruel is love,
The heart a heavy burden.

(c) 2017 Michael Garland

Love See Me

Love See Me

I've found a universe bright within you,
burden of suspicion laywayed in needless refuge,
Love needs no inquisition, where lay the crime?
give thought to wish and simply shine,
A smile has the power of definition in momentous giving,
Let me taste lips without design,
The rubbing of skin such a momentary bidding
The soul shines with a look and heartbreak falters,
Discourse mundane finding loves desired strain,
Fighting shadows within beloveds refrain,
Make me the bastion where love lives once again,
Where passions abandon is very far from sin,
Softly I coo my sweet dove,
Every moment has led to your love,
Every moment blessed design
Every moment passing makes you mine
Broken memories shall find no purchase for we are free
Give voice to moment so that I may touch thee,
Just an inch in giving and I would walk a happy mile,
Love see my smile,
Love feel my eyes,
Find in me no guile,
Once again find romance worth the while.

(c) 2017 Michael James Garland

I Thirst
Breath of Aphrodite
How sweet the aroma
when i taste you swoon to release
wrap your need around me
push the wanting inside
Exchange life in a fountain new
Let the essence bleed
In the heady periphery
Let me touch you
Petals of honey mead
Quench my thirst
Drive me wild inside you
Oh how we bleed

(c) 2017 MJG

Good night

I wonder if inside your mind you fly
Clouds of thought in a tapestry sky
Some see you with simple eyes
I see the love deep inside
The passion inside wanting to survive
A simple want of destiny unspoken
Tell me what are you hoping
I will bring it home for you

(c) 2017 MJG

The rose wraps locks perception
sweet smiles in perfumed intersession
I find the cape of sighs so sweetly encompassing
Look upon you and I shudder in passing
Think me your dower for my riches are bound in thee
The thoughts of beauty are wrapped in deep so effortlessly
I have found the perfect ecstasy
The words of your pen
and the love given to me.
Send me your smile for I abound in your symphony

(c) 2017 MJG

Sing me a symphony of love so inviting
The evermore is perfect timing
Find me in hopes beyond inviting
Something finds the soul defining
The perfect love of my sweet darling
Does the English moon shine as the Hawaiians do
Something wont let me live with out you
Find the thoughts that i do
because they belong to you
My Essex dream lives anew
Some thing shines for me from you
my sweet Essex moon

(c)2017 MJG

The Visage of a Man©

See you the scarring upon my skin....
knowest Thou that they are my courage.....
Look deep within the dark blueness of my eyes.....
to see the truth of my spirit's strength of will.....

For I am more than what you see....
I am an Eternity of Love,
for those who came before me...
I am a Warrior strong yet am a gentle heart
I do not fear to weep for those
long gone before their time
for in doing so, I retain my humanity

My truest sense of self....
in this am I.......

A Man........

©C.A.A. Nov. 2016
©image/Michael Garland 2016 (used with His permission)

Event to be:

Lets break the mold amid sweet calamity,
What a boon for you are everything,
Watch the women hate you while,
the men wish they were me,
My wings were bent now they are free,
Watch me bend the scope of possibility,
With an arrogant swagger and feigned humility
I will go down fighting if that's you then that is me
Heaven take a back seat notion ,
I'm ready to brew loves sweet potion,
Ferry cross the ports of comfortably,
Let no varnish touch the words we speak,
Let this world wish they were we,
Bring on the sweet epiphany,
Let me see everything ,
Let me see you with me .

(c) 2017 Michael Garland

No Worries:

Beloved have no fear of transgressions,
From others sweet suggestions,
Because you are here
and we are alive shine in radiant passion of our own dynamic hue,
What riotous joy greats my heart with every fervent beating,
for in truth you have been on my mind of late in every wishful thinking.
Every aching desire screams for the sweetest words that have become your name.
You have become love that is my deepest wanting.
Let me lay flowers on the paths you walk.
Let me cherish your eyes in moments of sweetest rapture.
Let me keep you happy and free,... free to love me as I do you.
I have never imagined such depths of selfless devotion.
The tangled strings of heartbreak have been braided anew.
Love has become so easy with you.
How to hurry the moments that have led me to your arms,
how could I have known what to do?
My winged joy of life is found in the perfectly imperfect love of we two.
So fear no momentary indiscretions with imperfect intentions.
For I give my heart to you.

(c) 2017 Michael James Garland

Kaleidoscopic essence of devotion.


Will you read me lost thoughts of poetry as twilight twinkles through open windows,warm water cascading across my body?
In silent vulnerabilities,
sensual knowing and deep intimacy borne of free souls,
will you whisper to me sonnets written of beauty of love of desire?
As Lunar breathes sparkled kisses on the nights breeze dancing through candle flames..
will you read to me tales of love, white knights and mans kiss upon his lady?
Will you whisper to me forgotten words of tragic love stifled by Pandora's locked box...
And will you kiss my falling tears?
Will you sprinkle petals of every color across the water and watch as they settle upon my porcelain skin.
Will you kiss me with the abandonment of a man lost to his soul?
Will your eyes devour the very essence of me in purity of innocence?

I will make of you a poem by a moonlight glimpse,
Love's ripple upon every sense as cascading waves burst in points of imploding desire.
Let my quill trace the grotto's of sweet revelation on the parchment of your soul in ways never imagined never to be told.
Let us dance in the snow light down of crystalline meandering battling elements in beloved embrace.
Rest upon the cognac blaze the want anew composing sonnets bared to the firelight's sultry glow
I will write of sunsets bright hues on wave so gentle awash upon the contours of your porcelain ambrosia
I will write of garden tryst in the evening mist of whispered passions of paramour fervor.
I will catch your tears and marry them inside me for all that your are is precious
I will bring fulfillment in the bedroom of your eyes amid sweet passion's kiss
I will surrender lost in the innocence of your virtues aflame.
I will read you love poems in an eternal moment of bliss.

Michael J, Garland & Karen Hayward © 2017
Image © Karen Hayward 2017

Private Party

I try to hide
a masquerade inside.
This other Michael fools me all the time.
As men dream dreams and think deep thoughts,
I work for what I want not what they've got.
Oh arrogant moth don't kiss the flame.
 I am burnt and battered, half insane,
but I won't hide from the vivid chapters,
yet to write, yet to rage,
 open your diary make me the newest page.
I've done things you wouldn't suggest.
There is a freedom for those who laugh at death.
What was once so deep now holds no depth.
I do it like i own it and avoid regrets
Keep the faith and avoid the pits of sin.
What I want is not pounds rubles or Benjamin's,
Give me truth with love that's real.
I'm sick to death of the mass appeal.
Throw down the contention for a fools quest.
Question the path of least resistance.
 beware the laughing  smile so insistent.
Cause I've been with Alice down the rabbit hole,
I've swam like a fish in the wild ocean home,
I've run like a deer in the forest primeval,
I've made love under a waterfall's shimmer.
I've bared my soul as the masses cheered.
I've done few things that have few peers.
I've seen nature rage and went for the ride,
I seen beauty so amazing  I simply dropped  and cried.
I've wrote my words I've shared my thoughts.
 I've seen darkness..I've seen a lot.
Souls so confused, lost and unkind.
Seen the eyes of despair with no mercy to find.
I've raged at the wrongs ,
I've received and given pain,
I've been lost and found to find,
What I want is living deep inside,
No longer can I run and hide,
I just want  true love at my side.
I try to hide the rogue inside,
It seems this other Michael
Fools me all the time.

(c) Image and poem Michael James Garland 2017