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We Love Deeply

We Love Deeply

____ but tonight   my heart is too small to hold your absence.   We love deeply ____   Excerpt from the poem ‘We Love Deeply’ From the Book ‘Song of Desire’  (Limited Edition Prints) © Pete and Gesso

Secrets

Secrets

Secrets   Secrets   Do  you  want  to  know   how  this  feels?   Consequences of fire drips into  retribution   shellacking my  flesh_____   If I  Could   I  would   make  a  pledge with the furies   and for  just one moment   the tyrant could  be me…   in my  thoughts   your touch_____   (brilliant resurrection)   hand to mouth   in hushed eye___   veiled kiss…   Your passion pierces deep into   …unfurled soft parts   of my being______   Twisting and turning   I rise up   through the  mud   and stain the light…   You the  architect of this vista   mouth of my poetry   good of my evil…   here where my secrets drink   the gold of your sky______   toward where the echo of your  voice swallows   my curves   tasting   my openings…   in view of this: (where my syllables undulate   to the tone   of your vowels)   _____where the  velvet shadows bend    into the sacred trinity   birth is given….   Excerpt from 'Song of Desire'   © Gesso Cocteau Pete and Gesso 2017  

The Poets Say The Heart Is Never Full, The Poets Are Right ____

The Poets Say The Heart Is Never Full, The Poets Are Right ____

Can there be passion without conflict?   © 'The Journey' Gesso Cocteau Table Top Cast Bronze Limited Edition of 8

A Fable of Passion

A Fable of Passion

The water falling slowly sounded like the texture of adagio:  

Falling From Grace

Falling From Grace

The flower that grows up my spine reminds me that falling from grace is at the center of being human.

Beyond the Poem

Beyond the Poem

‘without mercy for ourselves we cannot love the world’.