Rick Elpers

Rick Elpers Poems

Coyotes yelping in the distance
Crickets chorusing in the yard
Silent is the air, stilled by
The warm summer evening
...

To spend time
Pondering the vastness
Of the universe.
Then instantly returning,
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Life devoid of touch
Clamors for relief
A hug a gentle kiss
The knowing glances
...

So now death succumbs
To my thoughts wrapped
In loneliness
Not that time doesn't own me
...

We see each other often
Through the window of language 
Different tongues speaking
Together one story 
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I once believed that love 
however lasting
Brought into the light
was true
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7.

Saying good bye always leaves
A piece behind from the heart
Wether it's just a day or forever
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Her turning away has left me
Wordless and empty

Floating in a dense fog
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A meaningless existence
Wether fulfilled or not
Does not give rise to happiness
To be put on this earth
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The trouble it seems
Is that two people who open their
Hearts also open the closet 
The hidden sensitivities underneath
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When I look into your
amazing blue eyes
You swallow me into your soul

A soft electricity emits heartfelt
...

I give up...
No more shall I desire
The company of companionship
No more shall I pine for the lost ones
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God help me find my true path
That you have created for me
In spite of my desires or sin
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Will there ever be a time
That I understand
the deep recesses
Inside the female heart?
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Meeting words to words
Strolling through a garden of 
Pleasantries, we explore
Heartful exchanges
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Pulling together the pieces
That separated momentarily 
A different picture emerges
Evolving mysteriously
...

Evenings blend into days
While the night steals away
Quietly my life.
In the dark  I grope through
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Kisses through the air
Travel at light speed
To find my heart
Waiting,
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19.

She offers herself
As my friend
Who am I to receive
Such a gift
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Through breath is entered
Life and death
Soft tissues take it all in
While the necessary gases
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The Best Poem Of Rick Elpers

While She Slept

Coyotes yelping in the distance
Crickets chorusing in the yard
Silent is the air, stilled by
The warm summer evening
Listening to this out of the
 Open window
At rest hoping to sleep
And dream of our conversation 
To envelope us completely 
Like smoke rising from ashes 
Of the past where all that was
Burned up is useless
Leaving only the virtue of love
To whisp around circling our bodies
Drawing closer mingling flesh 
With emotion seen expressing
Both realities the ethereal and
The physical
Only to be awakened by the cat
Startling me to my world
And finding you still here 
Happy to smile your love
In my poems

Rick Elpers Comments

Tiffany Baldwin 15 December 2012

Your words are amazing and your vocabulary is ever going. I love the passion in your words and I feel the emotion behind it. I will continue to read, learn from, and support your love of poetry.

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Poetheart Morgan 03 September 2012

Eu reconheço um certo som doce, macio, redondo que sempre permeia os seus poemas. Como uma música romântica italiana cantada e nítida. Um certo amargor sometimes, well subtil. Sorry but i don't get put it in english i simple don't know how translate that! ! ! Beautiful Poet! ! !

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Shelley Jones 18 July 2012

I like reading your poems, great atmosphere and truth. Thank you

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