I sense you

Here’s one for Valentine’s Day. It’s from a sequence of love poems in my second poetry collection, due out Autumn 2019 with Indigo Dreams Publishing.

I sense you

when we make breakfast in the morning blue

in aromas of bread and coffee, I taste you

when we swim in the rising sea

salt waves swell over us, I taste you

as we walk through the pollen-full meadow

showered with flavours of spring, I sense you

on far mountains where we ramble

among the tang of ancient peat, I sense you

when the dark red wine swirls around

and ageing oak rises from the glass, I taste you

when there is dessert with sweet apple

and sharp redcurrants, I savour you

when the fire burns slow late into the night

woodsmoke weaves around us, I taste you

as we mingle our limbs and fall into sleep

between the midnight sheets,  I taste you

when water silvers in the vase and

rose perfume rises in early sun, I sense you