You Threw A Pebble Into The Stream, And The Ripple Sent A Shiver Of Delight Up My Spine

    
dandelion flowers hover,    
stem between fingers    
   
still attached    
roots singing songs    
   
luring minerals    
and nitrogen    
from the secret earth    
   
the palette    
of summer    
   
hopeful yellow,    
tickling azure    
and whispering white    
   
regenerating vibrations    
of sunshimmer    
   
blooming across    
exposed skin    
   
thundershine smile    
riding through the terrain    
like a dolphin leaping    
out of the river styx    
   
boundaries demolished    
by the purity of your laugh    
   
by the way your delicate eyebrows    
reach toward the heavens    
   
your eyes,    
coquettish sparklers    
stalking the entire arc    
of history    
   
space-time cooked    
patiently into ambrosial desserts    
which caress my tongue    
with orchestral flavor    
   
soaring higher    
and higher    
   
into the july    
atmosphere    
   
an explosion    
of contentment    
   
secure in the realization    
that this poet's journey    
   
focused wholly on discovering    
your untamed spirit    
   
was and will always be    
an astounding success    
   
a tribute to    
cosmic synchronicity    
   
twin flames flickering audaciously    
in the sultry calm of twilight    
   
your mellifluous voice    
eternally ripe upon the wind    
   
your heart flawlessly absorbing    
even the darkest wavelengths    
of my rambunctious    
and mercurial essence    
   
across the universe    
there are uncountable daytime skies    
with two, three, or more suns    
filling horizons with wonderment    
   
and a multiplicity of moons    
that speak to each other    
in between the huddles silence of night    
   
now that we bathe    
in the immaculate poetry    
of shared experience    
   
our pasts    
coaxed into unbitter    
alignment    
   
a fusillade    
of hope's innumerable bullets    
   
striking bullseye    
every time    
   
an archer    
splitting the arrow    
of the universe    
   
with the power    
of our connection    
   
and we grow    
with every second    
   
and words    
are never enough    
   
but focus    
for a moment    
   
on the flower    
in my hand    
   
unbroken,    
turning sunlight    
into delicate sensations    
   
a boy's hair    
blowing in the wind    
   
a girl's heart    
beating out a thunderous applause    
   
the cadence    
of true love    
   
gallivanting  
across the stars    
   
I am    
yours    
   
and you    
are mine    
   
and when I whisper    
in your ears    
   
that you are the most beautiful vista    
in the entire universe    
   
you understand    
what I mean    
   
and I savor the way you return    
every glint of starkiss    
   
from your eyes    
to mine    
   
and this poem    
is a flurry of snow    
   
blanketing an ocean consciousness    
   
and because of you    
I am simply letting it be    
what it is    
   
a dandelion bloom    
placed gently in your hair    
   
a gift    
for the only soulmate    
I shall ever know