How to say it


​With words that
dwell in my eyes.
​A burning desire.
To feel your arms
around me.
And taste your lips
once again.
Not the stillness
of a dying river.
But of the fireflies
freed in a nightime
love garden.
What do you see
in the poets eyes?

Jazz at Starbucks


​John Coltrane,
​Stockholm I think.
​With Miles Davis.
​My mind travels to
​charted places.
​The scent of vanilla
​snow in the air.
​All those notes
​lazily flowing.
​And everything past
​is now displayed.

Zen In Hangzhou

Today, I pass by
the fly-overs and noisy traffic.
Moving beyond the drama of history
and dramatic depressions.
I just walk.
Allowing myself to sink
deep into an ocean of oblivion.
Listening beyond the nights of youth
and nights of old age.
And everything is abandoned.
Except you.

Stepping into water


​On cold nights
​I drift off.
​To those
​phosphorescent fires.
​Waiting for me
​on our island paradise.
​The closer I get
​the more lust.
​Wild roses from
​an English garden.
​And I will say
​’Well here it is –
​my final home.

The first coffee


​We met through kisses.
​Masking a hint of jasmine.
​You preferred tea,
​a mother’s wisdom.
​I preferred coffee,
​a poets choice.
​Regular or organic,
​we tried them both.
​But we preferred the kisses.
​Over and over again.