The Kinks and The Four Tops say (sing) it So Well! Enjoy the 3 new top linx! Love, ZL : )
"Milady love this day floats by with you in my mind's eye." -ZL 10.23.07
A reunion is imminent
finally
though it's been only two weeks (almost)
That is the sum of the time
that we'd already known one another before
and, my patience imploded
I'm longing for more
than a cheap cell-phone tinny-voiced
version of your Majesty
and our Magic, our Union
Reunion is, Finally, Imminent
I long for this Great Event
with my body (so eager) and soul (so inspired!)
I'm mired in time passing-by
oh-so-slowly
and lowly, I'm humbled
by how much you've Captured me
couldn't escape if I wanted
but don't
I can't wait
for you in my embrace
Just Two Days now
Hooray!
-ZL 11.1.07
I Dream of Being
So Happy
So Long
and I Dream
of You Being there, too
with me;
I Dream of Having
A Life as
A Song
and I Dream
of You Singing it, too
with me;
I Dream of Making
So Right what's
So Wrong
in this Crazy World
Dream of You Changing it, too with me;
I Dream of Love
and I Open my eyes
and You're There
unprepared for how much
The Reality of You
Exceeds my fantastical Dreams
of a Happiness;
I long to have You
with me for this lifetime, in happiness, Love.
(embarrassed : )
Love,
-ZL
*SHINY NEW LINK!!*
Over the weekend, I made mention of a wondrous movie I saw over the summer, called ONCE. I didn't get a chance to describe it, but take a look/ listen to the new link, "Falling Slowly"-- the singers are Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, who are the central actor/ musicians/ characters in the simple/ perfect love story that is the movie. : )
-ZL
It's so easy
Loving You
it'll get me through
all future tribulations
These sensations
though familiar
similar to past relationships
Such passing ships
have entered, left my harbor
I've felt ardor, been attracted
fantasized of lives of partnership
with others
one's become the Mother
of the sweetest child o' mine
and through my daughter
I've learned Love
can Quench, Fulfill like water
oh so Basic
So, my bar set high,
and watching ships dock-in
and sail by
Knowing Love when witnessed,
My Heart's Fitness honed
Prepared to sail Alone
until I'd found Her
I've Found You
and now I'm Through (WE'VE just Begun : )
-ZL 10.21.07
Eternal Love--
through Jesus?
from Above?
did Buddha speak of this?
is This the Purpose of Existence?
is Love All There Is?
(as Beatles said)
one day, we know, we'll All be dead
at least our current incarnations
What a strange, surreal situation
and such Fear can be inspired
a Terror, most too Horrified
to look directly into Death-- our guaranteed Companion
Just One Force
as I can see
can compensate
this Existential Dread
No Exit lost in thought, stuck in your head,
or lost in lust, or substance,
vast distraction--
Money certainly won't set you Free
but You and Me, Love
We Are Free
Eternity is in our glances
Suddenly, This Life a Dance
The Only Dance There Is (the Beatles had it Right-- I Love You Now, Forever, Dear Alexa) (I'm embarrassed: )
Yours,
ZL 10.21.07
Playing with children
These means without ends
Endless Flow of potential New Friends
and Adventures
in Lands made of Magic
and Imagination
so fertile, Creation
is constant, exuberant
No need to yell
No, nor even to teach
(in a formal sense)
only to tell
what you know if they ask
Not to Preach
for the Lessons, Essential
of Love
are so Vivid
to those with Eyes Open
allowed to Discover
its mysteries
Each of us, Genius
just try to get out of the way
and just Play
and enjoy
for a Girl, and a Boy
are Our Future-- please handle with
Loving and Care; Let's Teach Them Well.
ZL 10.21.07
"You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again."
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762
Stranger
Standing, Beauty
with a Brooklyn IPA in-hand
I dared approach and speak with you
of Peace Corps, Peace and War
and Permaculture, Tribal Lifestyles
as our glances danced
and intermingled
as your voice, and laugh
sent tingles through me
and I needed you
so suddenly
so badly
Magic interposed
among us mortals
something much like alchemy
occurred--
and then we kissed
so long and hard-- and public!
all our closest friends were there
and frantically excited for us!
soon in cab somehow together
(Spanish-speaking all around me;
Oh-So-Sexy!)
next you know, bride's brother' pad
we're making out-- and more (Much More!)
So glad I've met you, Dear Alexa!
-Two weeks hence, we're Mad In Love!
-ZL 10.21.07
Simile
The way you move me
like the joy of being Free
after caged so long
and muted Song
finds New Expression
So-much pain
So lessened
as to have become
inconsequential
New Birth, Whole
not partial
Though I've So Much, still
to Learn
of You,
of Us,
My Native Patience
Honed so fine by past years' drama,
Trauma
I can wait
the time it takes
to get to know your every crevasse,
Happiness in This Bliss
Got me lost in Present Tense
Not building fences
I will let You in, completely.
-ZL 10.19.07
I believe in True Things
as I've known Them
They speak to my
Vast Intuition
in Spirit, in Literature
when a Voice from the Past
has Grabbed Hold of me
I've stopped to Listen
the Pulse of the Ages
has shaken my Young Bones
with Resonance
and, yes, in
Love
I've been known to
Stop, Still
just to Listen
and soak in the Glory
for This Life's a Story
and All of Life's Characters
have some Deep Stories
to tell
I've been Grasping
these past few, hard years
I have shed some pained tears
and have faced many Fears
to prepare for this New Truth
I've met You-- and (I'll let you guess the last 3 words of the original, handwritten draft : )
-ZL 10.18.07
"I Do"
"We've come to the difficult, good-bye part,
so:
I Do
and I think that I
Still Will
a long time"
This Confidence
comes from a
still, quiet place
deep inside me
that Knows
and that Knew
from the moment You drew me in
into Your Orbit
my Planet is gratefully stuck
It's just Gravity, Natural
Nothing so structured
or man-made
minute calculation
or Machiavellian, brute machination
Just Souls
so well-balanced
together
as soon as we met
we were fused
I don't know if I used to believe in a thing such as
Love At First Sight
I Do,
now.
: )
-ZL 10.17.07
Porchside
It's a Happiness
Innocence,
Fits me like 5th birthday
Striding around in my cape
and a hat made of
pinata fragment
I knew MySelf then
and I never let go of the
Knowledge
but that kind of
Unfettered Happiness
hard to hold down
or hold onto
and You in my life
is like Bright Celebration
each day
and I know if I pray
I won't find any better
there's no need to play
any fields any more
(never much of a Player--
believe or not-- anyway)
Yes-- I'm prepared
for a rocking chair, porchside
My Happiness, This Life, Secure.
-ZL 10.17.07
And I'll write this new one, now:
I'm lost in this syrupy-sweet
situation
I can't say I see any
need to resist
or persist
as a skeptic
of Love
(for I've seen, in my 34 years
many reasons for cynical distance)
but gone my resistance
I'm totally open to this spring breeze
blowing, refreshing my whole constitution
in your eyes
I visualize
my entire existence
in happiness
sure, there'll be challenges
(surely, I haven't forGotten life's lessons!)
but partnership lessens the load
for along life's tough roads
a Supporter, a Lover
through all dramas
lighten, make bearable traumas
which, lonely, one treads through with heaviness,
barely alive
I've survived some-such difficult days
and through eyes slightly dazed
I perceived a Sweet Vision
you surfaced-- I'm pleased to receive
all your loving
and give
all of mine
for this lifetime
This captures both Beauty
and, earth-bound, Sublime.
-ZL 10.18.07
Originally written a few days back-- the following poom is less "romantic"-- about taking on the challenges of this world, together:
Let's Conquer Travesty together
Conquer Pain and Hate
with Love
Let's use this Power from Above
Bestowed upon Us by the Gods of Love
to neutralize the enmity
about us
Let's Shout Out About
the Import and Necessity
of Healing
in this Death-Obsessed Insanity
surrounding round about
Our Love
This Crazy World
Obsessed with Conquest
Let's elect the Best
among the Loving
and the Rational
"Our Kind" has trampled, "Conquered"
Nature
and the simpler states of HumanKind
now HumanUnKind "rules"
this planet
Gaia will not have it
Let's Resort to Love
to heal this split
or We will Lose It-- Sacred, Profound Priviledge-- Life.
-ZL 10.15.07
Most Perfect Day
I've had my life's
Most Perfect Day
(thus far)
Not marred by doubt
Not going without
No sign of insecurity
Just her (just You) and me
No plan, so free
To just enjoy each other
Joy exploding in my every cell
Each moment holding back a yell
of such exuberance and happiness
I couldn't tell you how it felt
except that I've a confidence
That you were there with me
in spirit
Oh!, as well as oh-so-fleshly
Never felt SO innocent
in deep embrace
and then some--
Depth of joy, organic sense of
oh-no-better
Time or Place to Be
but There with You
Wherever Our Day took us
Now the world is Ours
No longer marred
by doubt or waiting
Life's Most Fundamental Question (answered)
I've been waiting
and preparing (trial, many errors)
to be Absolutely Ready
to meet You
the Day has come
My Life's Begun.
-ZL 10.16.07 (Tuesday-- today! Just now! : )
Some brief notes on the linx at-right:
*"You're So Great" is a luvly song by the former guitar-player for Blur... it was on one of their albums, but in this vid is him, solo, singing of romance...
*"Slide Away", by the Britpop band Oasis (competed somewhat-directly with Blur during the '90's, more-popular in the US than Blur, generally... I like Blur more, but This Song in my opinion is one of the most Romantic-Feeling, ever! Just something about it, jangles me! Makes me think of you!
*On "I Need You Tonight": not a particularly-avid INXS fan or anything-- the song just popped into mi noggin recently... for some reason... ; )
*On the "South Britain" link, you'll see that it takes you through a cyber-portal into the world of GoogleMap. Once there, click on the tab labeled "Hybrid" in the upper-right corner of the map. You can use the "+" button on the zoom-in tool at the map's left side, and move the map around by clicking anywhere on the map itself and moving your mouse-- you'll see the "hand" of the cursor "grab" the map, and you can just move/slide it around, until you're just above your folx casa grande!!
*On the "Which Way, Por Favor?" link, you'll slide through cyberspace and land in Amazonia (.com)... a fun place to peruse in that territory is the 16 customer reviews of our cute li'l flick... it's fun that, among all the loving praise, there's one curmudgeon who HATED our movie... what a HATER! : ) -I may or may not've mentioned this to you-- but my character in the movie is a slapstick-comic wise-fool... fun to play, and watch! If you get NetFlix, you can RENT Which Way, Por Favor? there!
*On the "ZMoonDog" link... you'll get to know my main 'blog, my cyber-superego... I've been working on it, adding links, for years now... you'll learn a lot about my deep and varied commitments, concerns, esp. spiritual pursuits and environmental concern... HOWL!
...Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
it is as perennial as the grass.
-Max Ehrmann
A Rhyme For Zachary
My first love, come and gone,
Could not forsake his mother's song.
Although I loved him well, and long-
To me his heart would not belong.
A second love, amidst the fray,
Never a soothing word did say.
And while I ensteeled my heart to stay,
In other arms he came to lay.
A quiet man, found in Spain,
Caused me much enduring pain.
Neath' almond trees his love did rain,
Till vanished he on the craven's train.
I should have known, this recent one,
Would spit his darkness at the sun.
Enlisting the stars to dwell among,
Towards healing light I soon did run.
But wait! Another chance, you see-
He's wound around my limbless tree
To whisper prayers, entreating me,
That prisoned sap of roots I'll free.
Entwining vines and leaves will sing,
Unto this husk new life he'll bring.
We'll drink with vigor, our selves enring,
To live the flush of eternal spring.
Love,
Alexa Felice Bette
Zax 2 latest pooms:
The following was begun in the daze before our reunion Sunday-- completed Sunday after our Perfect Day:
Alexa
it's next to impossible
knowing
how this depth of feeling
got going so fast
Instantaneous Burst
now my Thirst
for your lips
and your essence
Momentum established
'twas zero to
Love
at first night
all night long
in your arms
now I long
to be back there, to
smell your hair
share glances
and deep into your eyes,
Staring into vast perfection
my Life's New Direction
is evident;
This Life was made for Us
Now that we've met
Can't be conquered; eternity beckons.
-ZL 10.13/14.07
(I must admit-- I'm appropriately embarrassed by that last couple of (few) lines... they'd sound so cheesy, hyperbolic to me-- but I'm including them despite because they Ring True for me, even as I blush : )
This 'un was written Sunday night, immediately after finishing-off the above-- I'd had the opening line ringing in my head before picking up the notebook and beginning to write:
I've caught a
shooting star
Know who you are
by name now
I can't tell you how
we've tamed each others' souls
so suddenly
For I'm a shooting star as well
or was
As far as I can tell
I'm frozen now
within your eyes and modest, sheepish smile
I love your soft, seductive style
Your lips send shivers to my core
My hunger begs for more
Eternity would do
with you,
with Us
The Drama dissipates, dissolves
All traumas of the past, all fuss
Resolves in moment
in your soft embrace
I'm ravenous
Yet satiated, constantly
I'm Yours, Forever
For This Life at least.
-ZL 10.14.07
(similar disclaimer on the last coupla lines-- with a similar explanation for their inclusion-despite-embarrassment... you inspire teenish hyperbolic cheesiness in my Adult, cynical soul : )
And now-- the earliest pooms of our still-short courtship. Time has not been a significant factor in this development-- mostly, only an intrusion and something to bear between being-together... : )
I feel slightly-sad and anxious
when we do not talk
and cannot see each other
When we speak
sometimes there's nothing much to say
(except to fill in every little blank our slates are full of)
I enjoy this mystery
am lost inside your eyes
I'd like to ride within this vision of
an unknown destiny
Your lips
they sing within my quivering,
I'm captured by your open soul
I'm bird-in-hand
I'd cross an ocean to reside in your fair land
and slay all dragons facing me
You crush my cages, now I'm free
and, whispering, you send me sailing
through these clouds
into an unknown territory--
Soul has met its Match.
-ZL
10.8.07
She's learning to heal
I'm learning to feel again
Someone besides my fair daughter
is touching my soul to its core
I can feel just how sore
My bruised love-limb had gotten
I'd almost forgotten
This soaring expanse
Yes, the Wedding had gotten me giddy
I'd started to dance
I was open to vigor, romance
I was loving existence
and-- lo, this oh-so-pristine Princess
was standing before me
I'd seen her above
oh-so-high
so unreachable
earlier-- lost in the daylight
but Night now had fallen
and I began falling
into her blue eyes
and our souls intermingled
the Magic intruded into my small self
and my small insecurity vanished
my previous world had been banished
the Magic had slain all my previous doubt
and, as we folded lanterns together
I couldn't resist her
I now want to be Us forever
My old self, whoever he was
is now gone
I don't miss him
But oh!
How I miss You, Alexa!
Lovingly,
-ZL 10.9.07
A third, newest poom:
A Beauty
So New
So Familiar
So One with my Soul
I'm bowled-over by bliss
I can recognize this
from a Previous Life
or the Depths of my Being
I'm seeing things
Always there, hidden
I feel Fate has given me
What I've deserved
but been missing
when kissing you
I've been reBorn
I've been Baptized
in your soft lips
Lost in your smile
I'm elated by your voice
My Being Rejoices!
I feel adolescent,
Revealing these feelings,
I'm shy, but Inspired!
So exuberance wins!
and these words that I spin
are From You,
not just For You,
Alexa
You've got me
I'm Trapped in you
totally Free!
-ZL 10.9.07
Poom #4: Skepticism Vanishing
Good, expressive, loving men
Have walked this earth
Their loved-ones given birth
and, here among us
some still lurk
We try to hide sometimes
for self-protection
Vulnerable, we've certainly been hurt
We seek-out others
of a loving sort
so hard to find sometimes,
it seems,
The Gentle have it hard
in this blunt, brutal, sometimes-cruel world
and, loving, I've been known to fall for
less-than-gentle sirens
and been hurt
I know your skepticism,
gentle beauty
I know you've been hurt
and wondered-- much like me-- if Love Ideal
eludes our hardened earth
but now
my heart
has witnessed a new birth
my Hope and Heart are reAwakened
Spring has dawned on me
this bright October
Wedding Sunset
Heralded your Entrance
into my existence
Oh, my Princess
I felt like the Prince
in Cinderella
Suddenly, completely
I had Found Her
after Kingdom-Wide my search
had almost given up
on Love
I was preparing
for a gentle life
Alone
(if need be)
Suddenly I see you
in my mind's eye
every passing moment
wake up happy
every morning
only sad
that we're apart
most days
(for now)
Suspicious
is a mind (a heart)
that wants to love,
to melt into another
but, so devastated
by a disappointing past
is nearly-willing
To give up on Hope of Love
rather than being hurt again
I know Suspicion too
Yet, now I've met You
Suddenly, my Hope, my Deeply-Loving Self
is reAwakened
feel like a Child again
so loving, trusting, vulnerable
and lacking fear
just want you near
like mother's long embrace
we longed in infancy
and with the confidence
of babe in arms of loving mother
I see You, my Other Half
already
I'm completely
lost in Us
and happy
lost there
maybe never lost again...
Suspicion
Melting
New Love Born
So New
and yet So Ancient
in my Oldest, Wisest Innocence
My Skepticism Vanishing.
-ZL
10.10.07
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