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]