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Poems by Arthor Journer Messages in the Sand Traced my footsteps to the point where my heart fell Waves eat my imprints on the saturated sand It still is easy to love you but hard to love you well Yet where the water takes my paths is hard to understand The rising sun glistened like freshly polished gold The message in the bottle tells the story of you and me But sometimes the ocean can be so callous and cold Revealing that I am only a slave convinced he is free Every crest brings faint memories of us But like a sand castle that the waters have drowned The fine borders that separate states of love and lust Have gently in the sand been written down Each crashing wave jumbles the scripted words The picture becomes less and less clear Phrases like the grains of sand are mixed and stirred Yet the past can not be convinced to reappear Phantoms of Delight Skin shivers with the whispers of the coming night Behind trees and shadows emerge phantoms of delight They sing the pleasures of touch and taste The rhythm and smells of love so chaste Clouds dance to the charm of the waves Ideas take flight for hearts to misbehave Stars explode like fireworks filling the heavens with light The atmosphere is pregnant from the phantoms of delight There are no distractions of space or time Only a sweet melody that saturates the mind Veins beat a dramatic intense chorus Even the wind can not help but to adore us Entranced by our touch mesmerized by our plight We waltz through the air with these phantoms of delight Snug in our cocoon that we have made The two of us celebrating the foundations we have laid Secured by anchors and rudders that keep us on course Naturally swaying and drunk from love’s force Our feet on the ground yet our souls take flight Here enjoying the company of these phantoms of delight Arthor Journer says that the paths he has traveled have taken him far from his birthplace of He loves to experience different people and different cultures. Arthor began writing stories and poems from 5th grade but didn’t share them with others. He won first prize in a writing competition in high school for his short story and from that point on looked at writing not only as a self expression of his thoughts and feelings but also as a means of connecting and communicating with people. Journer joined the military after high school and eighteen years and many foreign trips later is more and more focused on writing. His first book The Knees the Needs the Kneads of a Natural Man was published a few months ago and his second book Emotional Mosaic is likely to be published by the fall. Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in these columns are solely those of the writers and do not necessarily represent those of the editor/publish Archives:
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