Pearls
©1999 Michael David Coffey

Pearls flowing
cascading fans
Fine, furious
in a frenzy
of ivory
finesse
Flying, fluttering
delicate butterflies
dangling
in poised agility
red, blue, orange
prismatic fragments
In a parody
of life
Ribbons of pearls
pure thrust
of dazzling water
Descending
dreamy, lustrous
balls of pure
intent
Down, down
among the
green velvet
moss
dark granite
Silvery splashes
of pearls
Butterflies
red, blue, orange
Poised
And pearls, pure
scattered
in the green

Quartz
©1999 Michael David Coffey

Facets, clear, opaque
Clustering colors in
a light white
tower
Complexions, concave,
convex, flat
A multitude of angles
and pure light
Life in a microcosm
enmeshed in surfaces
of clear light
Exposed, composed
nuances of memory
And paths in angles
of a stone
Clear, opaque and
complex

Lapis Lazuli
©1999 Michael David Coffey

Lapis, creamy blue
pearls in gold
A first, a gift
of the ocean
Waves surly motion
and wailing gulls
And lapis, small
blue, deep
Mysterious stones
youthful joy
It was lapis
you wanted
And they adorned
your soft lobes
Lapis lazuli
and the ocean's
surly motion
And gull's crying

Mica Schists
©1999 Michael David Coffey

Mica fragments in
the silky sands
Surf, swish sounds
on a stark shore
Surly ocean waves
against the white
Craggy rocks jutting
ecstatically
to a blue void
Hot sun on my back
burning
Turning I see the
reflection
of my life
In the reflecting mica
mirrors
Fragments of magic
in wild mad
moments of earth's play
Dancing, turning,
caught in the
swirl of the surf
Moments of ecstasy,
despair, love,
hate, birth,
death
Mica schists caught
in the tide
turning
Ebbing, flowing
always
vital, alive
Fragments of mica
reflecting a
dozen lives
in one

Black Nights
©1999 Michael David Coffey

Black sweetness
embraces the shadows
A candle flickers
in ecstatic greeting
You lying there
in anticipation
My heart imbued
with passionate
design
My fingers gently
softly
sensuously
Caressing your back
In long sweeps
of endearing
exploration
Nights
and you
In my embrace

Black sweetness, dull
pain in my heart
The candlelight
casting figurines
strange images of
dancing demons
You lying there
in alabaster splendor
Glistening jewels
Your brown eyes
Sweetly searching
and my return
A deep desire
to stay within
your soul
Through all the nights
exploring
your deepest
parts
In my embrace

Blue Butterflies
©1999 Michael David Coffey

Dance to my
desires
In silks of blue
and diamonds
Adorning your
ivory
Dance, dance
to my
beckoning
Enter in my
pleasure palace
and
Dance

Blue butterflies
alighting
on your flowing
silks
And sensuous waves
of caresses
Taking you
in desire's
deep chasms
Echoing in
the ecstasy
of
love

Dance my
silken princess
Dance the
devil's tune
for me
Entwining your
limbs
around me
We'll sail
the stormy seas
of
deep desire

Blue butterflies
alighting on
your ivory
breasts
And lips enticingly
driving me
crazy with
needs
Unraveling the
blue silks
We'll dive deep
deep down
Among the coral
and warm
waters

Dance my ivory
princess
Dance with me
in the azure
seas
Entangled, floating
in ecstatic union
We'll dream our
days in
a melody of kisses
And float away
on the tide
of rapture
Dance, blue butterflies
Rejoice in our union

Circle Time
©1999 Michael David Coffey

Time in a tango
dancing around
memories
Dreams of passion,
dreams of destiny
in a whirlpool
of kisses

Time in a tangle
entwined in the
cravings
Life's illusions
caught in a path
leading to a
sorrowful glade
and lost...

Time in a reason
caught in a river
of relentless waves
Onward, furious
sweeping aside
life's dreams
And flowing on -
to a false
destiny

Time in confusion
caught in an agony
Calamity, pain
The heart's dull
reverberations
Dull beating of
a sullen day
And life's crisis
caught in a
thundercloud

Time in reflection
in a poet's place
among lyrical imagery
and sultry landscapes
Oranges, browns
and burning scarlet
A sunset of a
sorrowful day

Time in regeneration
returning to the old
anew
The past, the present
and time
to kiss the dew
Awakening in the
morning's return
yes time has
an endless theme
And life - infinity

A Loving Whisper
©1999 Michael David Coffey

In the moonglow of
earth's candleflame
A glancing smile,
a sultry whisper
"I Love you" "I Love you"
in the echoing vapors
of an ethereal
ochre light

Prisms of a rainbow's prance
Dewy remembrances
and a soft repeat
"I Love you" "I Love you"
lost in the soulscape
of scattered dreams
And always, always
a whispered repeat
"I Love you" "I Love you"
in the flickering
of a moon's
dying flame