LOVE NEVER RIDES ALONE by ALAN GOODIN
Loves Never Rides Alone
Galloping thoughts of
Just you and me
Shoot though the mist
Of rivers and trees.
Riding on stallions
Across the great landscapes
Of embracing figures
Where tree’s kiss the sky
Seen from snow covered peaks
And valleys awash in
Warm tender moments
In places so intimate
Shared only by lovers
Of times, so precious,
Boiled in the red blood
Of hearts holding hands,
And hearts with the eyes
Of minds, reaching out,
For just that right word,
A glance saying yes
A yes meaning now,
And Now
Being life’s clock
Ticking the times
Of passions and sighs
Performing great tricks
On landscapes of gold
Only to duplicate again
On the horizons of
Warm azure nights
Under silver moon spotlights
Lighting the dreams
Two people have made.
Warms days in meadows embracing
Green leaves of spring in
Laces of swirling passions
Licked by the sun’s tongue and
The moon of warm nights
Built by the embers
Of steaming fires
Aglow with our heat
Welding together the arms
Of giving and taking
And words set to music
In songs born of joy,
In dews of sweet sounds,
Speaking so soft and
Dancing to the orgasmic
Tones,
Of red and blue scenes.
Sweet days of summer
Exploding in honey,
The hives of our lives
Shaking our souls
With the buzz of excitement.
Sweet labor of love,
All placed at its door
Opening, inviting to taste,
Capturing burning tongues
Melt with the sweet dews
Of long days and nights
Under bright stars of molten metal
Forming goblets of manna
Of the naked table of land.
The mustangs of ecstasy,
Leaping out of corrals that
Imprison fast-racing hearts on
Escaping hoofs-beats on winds
Whistling through canyons of dreams
Past mountains of love,
The mountains of life
Through trees turning gold.
Riding through pastures
Long dried by summers’ hot sun
And roaming the ranges of time
Where gray herds have past,
Slowing, to smell the old scents that
Others have left, faded tracks,
Blown away in yesterday’s wind
Over the now gold meadow lands,
and
Over old streambeds of thoughts,
Now dry and alone
When
One rider has left.
Alan Goodin [re: Mar 05]