You Melt the Rain

Your colors consume me,
glow my cheeks and
drink my senses
like cinnamon sticks
spicing empty hours
as stars glimmer
tiny lights through velvet.

You cannot see
your shine spread
wild flowers against
Alaskan ridges

or how they
sink turtle shells
in blue Caribbean water.

Our love-making bows
tomorrow's prism
opening hidden passages
when caressed limbs 
reveal your hues

and you melt your rain
into my pores.










Pamela A. Lamppa
Copyright © 2012
all rights reserved

origami pigeons

you pulled an origami pigeon from behind your back

          eyes alive with the night sky
          anticipation, your energy electric

and I had to laugh at the exhilaration breathing within me 

paper wings fluttered white
as light fell and swirled within
the meteor shower of your heart

and I knew you were the one

who could find magic
on the edge of a dime
if you looked at it
from just the right angle



Pamela A. Lamppa
Copyright © 2012
all rights reserved