Speak nothing of the shadows

While we trundle in the sun

For summer beams blow scarlet leaves

Through fall and winter's love.

Forget the wrinkles skewed across

The earthly freckled past

And simmer in the solace

Of a soul made free at last

-Victor Tinsdale

trapped within love's walls?

i can find no better fate

chain me to the wall

Doc

The doctor is dead

Who now will fix the fingers

He forgot to fix?

Unfair

Oh how can one man

So much wretched tiredness feel

When life is so short?

Hearts

Clinging tight to love

Our hearts in synchrony beat

Till one heart murmurs

Dependency

Fix me good and right

As if my life depended

On dependency

Fears

Fear of lightning bolts

Volts and volts of frightening bolts

Meter all your fears

HSO

Humiliation

Superficiality

Opportunity

Belief

Belief is madness

If a leaf you aim to be

Please don't be a leaf

Separation

Separation hurts

Just ask my left hand's cousin

Left hand once removed

Bodysome

Some body you are

Are you somebody's body?

Nobody's some body

Cooled joystick

Burns like peppered pins

All the moves come at a price

Wish my hands were cool

as time passes by

beauty forms between wrinkles

our love has survived

forgive my manners

i haven't eaten in days

please pass the ketchup

i shifted slightly

and it squeezed right out of me

what an awful smell

Bread

Before I had bread

I had a loaf for a head

Now I feel toasty

Leverage

I hardly knew it

But I was losing leverage

As someone lost me

forgive me my dear

my lips are far to dusty

to taste this lost love

As morning breaks I am alone

Steaming and beaming a mid-morning toll

The dew befell me and the sun was shone

My heart now empty, soul forlorn.

The breath of the blossoms besought to console

"With thee we will be" the songbirds sweetly sang

Yet as I search skyward all things seem askew

And harrowed my marrow with memories of June.

Flashes of blue and gold panged upon my mind

With wonders and visions of most every kind

While deep in the bowels I was burning with whim

And bursting with sizzle in each of my limbs.

"Take heed" said the flowers whilst slowly the bloomed

"The moon is unearthing, so wisp while we croon"

So I unearthed my knees and left the land well

While I stumbled through heaven

While searching for hell.

-Victor Tinsdale

My dear,

What in the world would the universe do

If you woke up and realized

It's not about you.

You are not at the center

Of all that I do.

Oh please, when

Will you realize

It's not about you.

But oh how you struggle

And tell yourself lies

And boil and bubble

And make yourself cry

And rally your friends

Just as if this were war

And never once settle

And always want more

Making mountains of molehills

Please dear

Get a clue

That my universe

Simply

Is not about you.

-Victor Tinsdale

a fool i was to ever think

that time would tell no tales

for time has slipped like sediment

blows through my traveled trails.

a gem within the eye of friends,

with charm to melt the soul

had frolicked through my inner wheel

and captured me in whole.

now all the while

that i fancied

living day by day

i should have reckoned,

knowing that i

best just keep astray.

for just as my heart flutters

as it thinks of you today

i just should have truly listened

when you begged i stay away.

-victor tinsdale

Nameless

She is a friend to dark places.

She greets them all in,

Their dim, hollow faces



She knows their wary walls well,

Assembled perfect halls of hell



She feels their deep, vacant spaces.

Her lonesome friends who submerge

In all dark places.



There is one, she meets

Upon lifted and mellow streets.

where gentle winds they sweep,

And her mind is able sleep.



“Oh I didn’t mean to find you here,” she’ll say

But the “Lonely”, in his selfish, sulking

Sort of way;



Will kiss, her petty little head,

And return her to,

Those vacant roads instead



Sunken. Again.



She’ll lay to rest inside,

Where only dark faced, places hide.

-Leonine Westburry

Remember Sweet Dotty, Covered in Dew

Remember sweet Dotty, Covered in dew

Remember the deeds she once made us do?

Look at her now, ripe on the vine

How she once starved us when she was alive

And think of her now as you taste what she grew

The pain that she caused us, though nobody knew

And feel her petitions in the leaves now exerting

Her hands never knew how to touch without hurting

And wherever you go, let caution confine you

Lest she and her seed should in solitude find you

For that which you tasted shall serve you too true

To remember sweet Dotty, now coming for you

-J Thadeus Richie

while doorsteps creek,
our shadows meet,
and time stands deathly still
for all the while
you wait there
our spirits slowly fill
the chipping paint
and dusty halls
which once housed
all our love
and left behind
a piece of mind
which cursed the skies above.

-victor tinsdale

Lost Love Archive 2

Hold my hand and take it strong,

Please ease my troubled slumber

Together dear, we'll break this storm

You save me from all thunder

I never knew what it was like

To have my soul completed

And now with you so far away

My life seems so depleted

You make my insides jump for joy

While lighting all once dim, and if

My life were an untrodden path

With you my trail begins.

-Victor Tinsdale

Lost Love Archive 16

Strange, a telephone alone,

When connected to you,

Can make my insides soar.

As I close my eyes

The world fades

And in the darkness

We have only each other

Though our sight blinded,

And out of touch's reach

We guide, lead, laugh and cuddle

Through words alone.

As I talk you to sleep

My face is warmed with love's tender smile

I know tonight that I

Have gently rocked you to sleep

With a fraction of the joys

Which fill my my hopefully heart.

I will love you always.

-Victor Tinsdale

Lost Love Archive 15

I love you so

Oh don't you know

You light up all my days

And you love me

Oh can't you see

There is no other way

I feel inside,

I can't deny

I need you as my wife

For you and I

When side by side

Can make the most of life.

-Victor Tinsdale

Lost Love Archive 14

As you sleep,

Far out of my reach,

My arms still feel

For you.

My heart still races

As I search through faces

With the hope of finding

You.

Gentle tears warm my cheeks

As I dwell on the weeks

When there was no me

Without you.

And my evenings all crawl

When not graced by your call

Oh my love, it's so hard

Missing you.

-Victor Tinsdale

Lost Love Archive 13

An angel once came down to me,

And stayed along my side

Her wings she'd long forgotten

But light still shined inside her eyes.

A grace within my world was found

Our paths had crossed each other

And though I feared her visit brief

Her love for me was soon uncovered.

And so a simple me was matched

With heaven's kindest gift

Who gleamed within a world of stone

And picked me to help and lift...

...To lift above a world of pain

And trails of broken hearts

And prove to me there lies much more

Than all the other parts...

...The other parts of love I once

Had thought to be complete

And show me there was so much more

No others could compete!

And day by day I deeper

Ever deeper fall inlove

As I praise the heavens daily

For my sweet gift from God above.

-Victor Tinsdale

Lost Love Archive 12

As you continue to grow

And as your wings strengthen

I know full well that you,

In all your beauty and wisdom,

Could easily and effortlessly

Spread your wings

And fly high and away.

To find someone far more qualified

To hold the princess and angel

That you are.

And yet you stay,

And fill my eyes with hope

And my heart with strength,

Day by day knowing full well what is at stake.

And knowing full well that you are worth the wait,

That my hope must succeed

And that I must be all, and by far

The best that I can be,

With the hope of the possibility of someday,

Knowing full well

That you know full well,

That I am the one for you.

-Victor Tinsdale

Lost Love Archive 11

As I write these words

You are the author of my smile

And if I had to walk to you

You'd be worth every mile.

And as I get to wait for you

Each minute my love grows

And when I think you've given all

Your love still onward flows.

-Victor Tinsdale

Lost Love Archive 10

Within the sea of people

My eyes always searched for you

For there are no others in my eyes

There's me and then there's you.

For I am fully incomplete

When you are not around

And when our hearts are far apart

They hardly make a sound.

But when our eyes connect

My heart will soar and blood will boil

And there's something that I've learned from you

True love will never spoil

-Victor Tinsdale

Lost Love Archive 9

Within your eyes

I hope to find

Myself being reflected

And with all my heart

I'll prove to you

That you are so respected

As the apple of my eye and so

I pray you'll never flee

And fall like sand between my hands

I need you close to me.

-Victor Tinsdale

Lost Love Archive 8

I love the stars

And I love the moon

But not as much as

I love you

I love the waves

And I love the sea

But they fade when I think

About you and me

I love the birds

And I love all their feathers

But I'd much rather dream

Of us being together

And I love the seasons

And I love the weather

But not as much as I love

Our love lasting forever.

-Victor Tinsdale