Unveil

Image: Oleg Kosirev
verse: Syn Onym

It has taken me
a life time
to unveil myself
to
myself
in my fullness
to acknowledge
life
that runs through
my flesh and
to celebrate
the spirit
that throbs
in my veins:
ripe n fresh
like the fruit about to drop off.

Inside out

Image by Coult
Verse by Syn Onym

The light outside asks
of this life
ordered in pleasure:
is there any escape
from waiting
endlessly
and then
fantasizing the elusive
peak of emotion?
The peaks are always
snow-capped.
The light outside
peeps inside
to invite
the present moment
to take wings.

Gaze

Image: dendrixus.photosight.ru
Verse: colin lascale

Oh those moments
when we floated
in a world of our own
and time stood still
every pore alive
with the joy of merging
into each other.
I am waiting
with all my fruits
of patient toil
you would float
in to harvest it
and create
that motionless time
the time of our life.

Alone

Image: bagnino.photosight.ru

Verse: Syn Onym

You sculpted me
leaving not an ounce
extra.
I live
in this heartless world
with the burden
of your gift of
beauty.
My soul cries
out
to the
earth, the sky and
the wind
to give me their expanse.
Only they have
the wisdom
to listen and to give.

Life mortal

Image by Iskander
Verse by Syn Onym

I need the rock

To hold on to

And not get washed

Away by the current of life

And I need the current

That keeps me alive...

And burning.

There are many worlds

waiting inside me

to be born

anew;

for this body

is blessed

to play out

the turns and twists

of life mortal

as it tests the flesh

by fire.

you caught...

You caught me
revealing my secret...

Not that I live by my
passions,
nor that I rejoice
in God's gift
of this body,
nor even that
I offer all of me
at the altar;

but that the fire
that burns deep inside
me seals my lips
and speaks through
my eyes.

Verse by Aliashesh Image by J Andrieu

aftermath

I am lonely but not alone

you love to chase, I'm no game

my heart is not made of stone

I am not a bait nor am I so lame

i never did believe your vows

you did fool me a lot as usual

I opened my soul to yours

and you did hurt me still


Verse by Ravprinderya

Image from coult.photosight.ru

Fire

my heat to burn in your loin

your lust to keep me simmering

my love to invigorate you

embalm you and enchant you

your ecstasy to rush us through

my need of you to want me

we both seek it too

when the gods have blessed us

can mere man fight that too?


Verse: Ravprinderya
Image: Ludovic Goubet

Thinker Tinker

What could we do
but admire
Nature's beauty
expressed
in the sculpture
of your body?
Yes, centuries later
we realise
you Think
with your whole body
and when you do
that
you discover the power
to rule
the world of men
and ideas.
You are the thinker
who can tinker.

Vast

The world of men
is too small
to offer
my vastness.
I offer them
only
my reflection
to play with.
My clay was sculpted
in distant lands
where
they live by
the fire of passions.

Look into my eyes

Look into my eyes

see my angst

I allowed myself

to be a victim of my body

Nature's gifts

adorn me

but I fell in love

with myself

got trapped

by admiration

They put me in

murky waters

to project

my beauty.
Look into my eyes
when you look at
my body.

Never betray

the bountiful Nature

any more.

Verse: Syn Onym

Unfailingly

this unabashed freedom is my own
A life of suffering blown to shards
I am free yes so completely

I am not letting my hair down

but unleashing years of slavery
Life, my unfailing love.

Verse by Ravprinderya

Seeking

as i sat and waited seeking justice

i felt a rush of shame so full so vivid

i looked down and winced in pain

how could i let so much happen with me

the years of humiliation filled me

engulfing me with a rage unknown to me

never will it happen again

text by ravprinderya

Carnal

your instincts
animals... overpowering

your breath
pins me down

your eyes
engulf me

I feel upon me
your power

I am in a hypnotic trance

what is it that we share?

I see it vividly in your glare

I am so full of shame
for what I ask of you
unspoken

you hold me firm in your grip

I am charmed,
alarmed

I cannot even breathe

when you come near

you just sweep me away

from the worldly stares

no one can even dare

to desire me unaware

Verse: Ravprinderya
Image: Zagarev, photodom.com

Passions

I cannot contain passions
that keep rising inside
but my spirit is choked
by the walls built over centuries of rigidity -
"A woman attracts..and so is the attacker...
of men's fragile control of their bodies"
But I will break free
and let loose all my desires,
and seek my release
in this body and through it.

Verse Colin Lascale
Image snail000

Pause

A pause in the movement
of life,
on planks of deadness
near the flow.
Light fills in
every pore and crevice.
I open up courage
and with it my mind
and body.
No desire to see
what hope holds out
for me.
It's time to float on life.