February Poetry by BJ Neblett

 February Poetry by BJ Neblett

Said Spring To Winter

 BJ Neblett

© 2013, 2014

 

Said Spring to Winter:            Said Winter to Spring:

 

In silence we meet                  Don’t ask me my name

Specter of my dreams             I am just a man

The future in your eyes           Don’t seek tomorrow

Uncertain but true                   And it will be yours

How am I to know                  Ask me no questions

What truths will I find            I’ll tell you no lies

In your gift to me                    Take all I offer

Afraid to open                         As long as it lasts

The longings inside                 Don’t question your heart

Untouched and frozen            And love will be ours

The Gift by BJ Neblett

The Gift

BJ Neblett

© 2014

Once I was a lover

Through youthful eyes I saw

The world a brightly wrapped package

Each dawn Christmas day

My heart I sent before me

Its glow lit my path

The girls who did abide me

I loved them everyone

With poems wise and tender

With songs both sweet and sad

My love boxed gay and brightly

A gift of the pilgrim soul

Many a heart would tarry

Many a breast would sing

Each gentle touch a promise

And every kiss a lie

Each moon would enrapture

Each sun revealed the truth

The package prized and desired

The gift inside ignored

And so my soul did wander

Cold years marked my path

Unopened and unwanted

My gift inside to die

Love’s song but a memory

Heart’s glow a flickering light

Through dimming eyes I saw you

A rose against the snow

My gift all but forgotten

The wrappings torn and brown

You took the love within me

Unquestioned for your own