Archive for 1984

1984-01-24

Tuesday, January 24th, 1984

Wisps of time … memories and music
eyes across the years … feelings.
Cool breezes in far away places
sunlight in photographs … traces.

It’s snowing in Vancouver.

Gallagher
24 Jan 84

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

1984-01-26 Kathy M. II

Thursday, January 26th, 1984

Kathy M. II

Don’t smile unless you’ll touch me,
I can’t bear to look away.
The feelings your smiles give me,
they just make me want to play.

Play in a dance of feelings
of skin and hands so warm
of sharing secret places
of stomachs glowing warm.

gallagher
01-26-84
Irvine

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

1984-01-30 Kathy M. III

Monday, January 30th, 1984

Kathy M. III

Come around again, heart in flames
going down again, before brown eyes.
empty response…you leave me no less

I risked, open and knowing,
and I cannot loose, doing this
I walked with elated anticipation and warmth
into her response
and the emptiness it gave me

Her compassion and friendship exchanged
for my passion
her reason and values arrayed
against my poetry

her brown eyes and warm skin
now so unreachable
In the warm and dappled sunlight
she told me how it was

Life,
life, press me as you will
my skin and my feelings and my heart
will stay open

I won’t turn away from you
or what you pass before me
These hands, this heart…
they will feel

I love, I hurt, I live
and I am real and I will be no less.

gallagher
30 jan 84
Irvine

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —