http://gather1313.gather.com Recent Articles on Gather by Richard Melendez en-us Copyright Gather Inc 2009 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 02:51:38 GMT 2010-01-01T02:51:38Z en-us Copyright Gather Inc 2009 http://www.gather.com/images/header/logo_gather.gif http://www.gather.com/ http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977430605                     SEETHING The breath uplifted, rising, falling I belonging there among our . . . Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:06:25 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977430605 Richard Melendez 2008-09-03T11:06:25Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977392948                                          . . . Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:06:03 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977392948 Richard Melendez 2008-07-15T11:06:03Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977382006                                 AS A WOMAN'S . . . Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:00:42 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977382006 Richard Melendez 2008-06-25T11:00:42Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977376256                                           . . . Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:08:33 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977376256 Richard Melendez 2008-06-18T11:08:33Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977371795                HONED FOR HOLLOW PLACES I believe all my life has been honed for hollow places. I've lived too far . . . Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:39:44 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977371795 Richard Melendez 2008-06-13T12:39:44Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977363014             A YOUNG FEMALE ACQUAINTANCE    I will forever maintain an intimate space in my mind for a young female acquaintance. . . . Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:20:15 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977363014 Richard Melendez 2008-06-06T10:20:15Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977360134              AS HERMIT IN THE CHEST Callie liked the man the first time she laid eyes on him. He seemed comfortable with the world . . . Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:00:13 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977360134 Richard Melendez 2008-06-03T11:00:13Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977348529            ROSE FRECKLED There along the nose and shoulders Your freckled expanse rose up in tones Rising like tiny rebel roses blooming . . . Mon, 19 May 2008 10:11:32 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977348529 Richard Melendez 2008-05-19T10:11:32Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977321949   A DUET IN A GARDEN PLACE The stem, the leaf, the head of rose Does it crave what gentle lover's kisses bring? Can it feel the handle of my fingertips? May I roam throughout as . . . Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:59:09 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977321949 Richard Melendez 2008-04-15T09:59:09Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977297832   PALPITATIONS Her eyes haven't slept for sleep has been a runaway She comes young, forlorn and haunted for in her sadness sleeps the glories that have as yet to awaken the . . . Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:30:19 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977297832 Richard Melendez 2008-03-31T11:30:19Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977287142 SHE IS SO SCANT She is so scant and low of love As when the stars, no longer starry, Lay in their dim and their dark She once was of heavenly body A body all full of flesh and fire . . . Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:48:15 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977287142 Richard Melendez 2008-03-19T10:48:15Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977271614 A MERE SPARK FROM BLAZING In the lips unfolding, molding to mine In the crimson and cries of little bites I forge these finger flows of passion My words have been a futile few But . . . Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:04:00 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977271614 Richard Melendez 2008-02-29T10:04:00Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977258381   THE LOVE OF A LOVER I was he, of lonely light, to whom she came She was firmly lit and did extend a fertile blaze She did roam the expansion of my heated hopes Oh, what kindling must . . . Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:30:28 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977258381 Richard Melendez 2008-02-14T13:30:28Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977245307               PARSED BY A PAUSE I remember... In the yellow and shadow of summer season Our thoughts can lift soft to the sun . . . Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:30:21 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977245307 Richard Melendez 2008-01-31T11:30:21Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977129467   OUR FINAL BREATHS TWIN SPEARS The eyes come unfearing, as bold as desert sun But held in the soft shading of eyelids and lashes Lips are shown as sunbeams, parting the clouds, my lips . . . Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:10:51 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977129467 Richard Melendez 2007-10-19T10:10:51Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977122617   A FAILURE TO YOUR COMPASS You imagine me a failure to your compass For I am nowhere near where I should be In weeds I find a rogue devotion to ill defined ground I struggle and toil forward in . . . Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:13:39 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977122617 Richard Melendez 2007-09-20T11:13:39Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977113469   YOUR PRESENCE INTRUDES ON YOUR ABSENCE Even my heart pulse has lost touch of its clever emotion... direction My breath like a breeze in low vacuum ... dissolving soft, sweet and slow Numb as an . . . Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:05:25 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977113469 Richard Melendez 2007-09-11T11:05:25Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977099544    A FRAGRANT TEA OF BEAUTY BREWING Here she sits, a fragrant tea of beauty brewing Liquid lips must spill the drips of unfiltered kisses I feel the steam trace of embrace as she coils near . . . Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:45:09 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977099544 Richard Melendez 2007-08-28T11:45:09Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977093554    CRADLED IN HER CRESCENT EYES If there were just more ways to touch you For close is not near enough If there were just more ways to kiss you More ways to take away your breath If there . . . Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:00:30 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977093554 Richard Melendez 2007-08-22T11:00:30Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977074753    LOVE’S ROSETTA STONE To decipher Love’s Rosetta Stone I have a way to go Shall I engage my heart in calamity, spit on it from the start? Or shall I hope for a carousel, to swing . . . Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:47:56 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977074753 Richard Melendez 2007-08-15T11:47:56Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977042820                  THE TWIN SUNS OF NIRVANA Your eyelids open above the mounds that rise from your hidden valleys Like the glowing . . . Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:00:37 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977042820 Richard Melendez 2007-06-29T11:00:37Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977006875   THE THICKNESS OF THE NIGHT The thickness of the night will drape the sunset down Will take her vivid colors low to have a way and wish She lay there in full repose in the thickness of the night . . . Wed, 23 May 2007 11:14:10 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977006875 Richard Melendez 2007-05-23T11:14:10Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976975981   THE HENCHMEN OF LOVE'S IRE  I say it all comes like a birth My deepest moments within you So why do you find yourself disbelieving As I come to dip into your baptismal well Anoint me, . . . Fri, 04 May 2007 17:54:21 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976975981 Richard Melendez 2007-05-04T17:54:21Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976950626   KISS #5 / A CRYSTALLINE KISS / ENCORE Her most crystalline kiss Like a jewel to transport and transfix The brilliance once more mounted to my lips    Thu, 05 Apr 2007 13:03:32 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976950626 Richard Melendez 2007-04-05T13:03:32Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976950621   KISS #4 / A WISHFUL KISS / FINALE Her lips upturn to a smile The slightest up motion of brow Both come to work in a seed To churn in bits of affection She like a flower, Cultivates a wishful . . . Thu, 05 Apr 2007 13:02:10 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976950621 Richard Melendez 2007-04-05T13:02:10Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976950618   KISS #3 / KISS THRICE A kiss held at a quiver when denied Like dangling fingers before the fall Waterfalling lips long for the fray To splash into tones of piano keys    Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:59:29 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976950618 Richard Melendez 2007-04-05T12:59:29Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976950613   KISS #2 / KISS TWICE Each kiss... A vibration of notes run down the spine Quivering within the fleshy harmonics Of an extraordinary spine    Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:55:55 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976950613 Richard Melendez 2007-04-05T12:55:55Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976950610   KISS #1 /  KISS ONCE Each kiss... In a continual mist of moisture Insisting on its bathing qualia Lips imbued with a misty nature    Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:52:58 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976950610 Richard Melendez 2007-04-05T12:52:58Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976943937   LONGING LIPS We engage a kiss in mid flight Wings commingle, feathers tight Lips grip but slip in delight     Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:30:34 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976943937 Richard Melendez 2007-03-28T11:30:34Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976938445   THE MIST OF OUR MOISTURE When a lover’s many efforts come storming Tossing the sweat beyond body and brow When lips like clouds bring on raindropping kisses Falling into the mouths of rivers . . . Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:00:29 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976938445 Richard Melendez 2007-03-22T13:00:29Z