As I lie where your shadow

watches my deserted heart,

the jealous sky flows toward me,

blessing my divine desire,

enchanting me with those unapparent clouds

you painted when love

was the verb that caught fire.

Lost in my endless days,

I enter life again, uncertain of all,

dreaming and being destroyed

by the storms of July

as I see my withered flowers blooming

just for my eyes while sorrow does fall.

Love is beauty itself that lives,

it is a miracle I can't escape.

I am immaculate now

and something in my blood owns

the universe.

Here neither reason can be conceived

nor knowledge can explain why

I read the roses while I listen to

my heart's delight.

Here eternity holds the night.

I go by the windy street,

pushing back time, touching your soul

with my soft fingers, thinking about

what lies beyond you and me

as your presence crosses across my brain,

stealing my heart away, filling my empty body

with love and delicate air.

Here wolves and eagles sigh on my serene canvas.

Here stars and stones whisper

for love needs no words.

Karla Bardanza

Copyright©Karla Bardanza 2011

She likes what his hands do:
he opens up her sterile soil
and seeds it with beauty.

Her eyes feel the water and the Lotus Flowers
beneath her feet, longing for ponds
full of Kois and eternity, crying out for
those unspoken things she finds
in him, in his enchanted mandalas when
his gentleness makes her delicate mirrored soul
sleep and dream.
(She is safe with him)

His voice reverberates:
She hears the pensive petals, the crowns diving
in the cold wind, the starry night as
the black silence waits outside.

He is a soul so rare.

She opens the window
and he is there, sewing wings
on the heels of her shoes, inviting
her to follow his muse.


She likes what his hands do.


Karla Bardanza


Koi is a fish. The Japanese recognized these fish not just for their beauty, but for their ability to transform the observer into otherworldy states of perception. These altered states of perception ultimately lead to the attraction of high energy - and this manifests in the form of prosperity of all kinds in our lives.

They also represent perserverance in adversity and strength of purpose. In Japanese culture the strongest Koi swim upstream and leap into the mists to become Water Dragons. The Koi represents determination and not conforming to what society expects. Swimming against the current, courage and obtaining a higher goal.

Copyright©Karla Bardanza 2011

My grey soul invades my ultimate eternity,

scratching the walls built around poetry,

finding silent spaces of rainy memories

as I revenge myself against my asymmetry.

Rhymes get lost within as I swim across words

gone with the swift wind in my early darkness.

Poems of fire dissolving my elastic boundaries,

shores of disguised pain and some madness.

My blurred heart floats to the cruel clouds

until my blood emerges again in my tired veins.

Wounded hands cry for forgotten feelings and life

as I die writing parts of me bound with chains.

 

Karla Bardanza