Cheating Today... Cleaning out my Facebook Notes...

Freedom
I can disagree with your ideas
Without disagreeing with you.
I can agrue about religion
Without questioning your faith.
I can live my life in liberty
Without violating your privacy.
I can offer you freedom
Without forcing it on you
I can live in peace with you
Because of freedom, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.


Battle Worn
Missing faces in the crowd
Would you even see me?
I forgive you all your trespasses
If only to be free
The loss of you is without measure
A price too high to pay
Amazing that my heart beats soundly
Battle worn from the fray
They say that time can heal all wounds
But time is infinite
My heart, I fear won’t last as long
Missing it’s perfect fit

Golden Boy

Where have you gone my Golden Boy?
Have your blue eyes faded grey?
Your loving precence is missing
I need your light to guide my way
I call on all the angels
To find this missing trove
For he is surely a treasure
The best magic God has wove
If you're ready to come home now
My heart is open wide
For there's nothing we can't accomplish
Standing side by side



Blue and Grey
A symphony of blue and grey
A fairy that bleeds true red
The colors of a broken heart
The fairy tale that’s at its end
Rapunzel has cut her hair
Cinderella has moved out
Snow White is sleeping with the huntsmen
And Red takes a new route
We cling to childhood dreams
They keeps us from the dark
But Fairy Tales never last
They end in broken hearts


Mystic Bargain
Nights are spent long and sleepless
I wake screaming from a silent nightmare
I reach for your hand to hold close
My grasp finds only empty air

Were you really ever here?
Did my imagination create you from dreams?
My life is fading into stardust
Nothing appears to be what it seems

The green is so vibrant
That words almost fail me
The potential to grow
Bursts forth almost daily

Tiny white flowers nurture and devolve
Blossoming fruit, first bitter then tart
By fortifying the body
We then nourish the heart

Heart being crushed slowly
The pain mounts as blood begins to pool
Was I ever your love
I feel a total and complete fool

My breathing starts to fade
I no longer seem to care
Waiting between heartbeats
The light leave my stare

The words won’t come as quickly
With my heart bleeding on the floor
I wish you could have told me
How I could give you any more

Tell me what I didn’t see
Or anything I could have done
What mistake I might have made
Did I walk where I should have run?

You taken away the sun
My soul starts to wilt in the shade
The landscape turns grey and bleak
Without you love my whole world fades

The mystic bargain has been made
You’ve found the love you claim to seek
I hope you’ve found your heart’s desire
Beware of the havoc that you’ve wreaked




Towers
We sat and watched
As towers fell
As rains raged
As waves surged
As earth shook
We waited for the world to crumble
We took no action, 

As if we could..
We were the generation lost
To cyberspace
To texting
To tweeting
To Facebook
We were unable to communicate 

Because we felt it all had been said.

Chiaroscuro
Hear the crust of the world cracking
Black clouds cover all the sky
An endless pattern now repeats
People see and sigh
We stop and echo what we see above
Pose in mutual osmosis
Arte and Science break peace of mind
Gifts that they bestow us


Snowfall
Soft and fluffy
Puppy tracks obscured
Dazzling whiteness
Blinding the mind
Drifting through fingers
Melting in a heartbeat
There and then gone
Temporary only


Starseeker
An empty dent in the pillow next to me
The way your hair curls behind your ears
How you fit just so into the curve of my back
Your slightest touch sends me reeling
When are you coming home?
I need my soulmate, my flying companion
Starseeker, return to me
We’ll seek the skies together

Night Love
Being haunted by a painful memory
Blinded by a past that too far away to see
As soon as night as fallen he comes to my side
The pull he has on me is as strong as any tide
Two hearts together baying at the moon
Concentric circles staying in perfect tune
The mists concealing the painful reality
During the daylight our love could never be

Freedom's Cost
Speak no more of fleshy grief

Sigh no more longing sighs
Honor me not with the gnashing of teeth
Sever not all earthly ties

Gather up the troop and trumpet
To protect the flower and bee
For lest we number our earth as home
We never count ourselves free

Freedom is the highest cost
It's price is without measure or number
The cost of living is harmony with our home
Or humanity will forever slumber

Some of these are a bit trite.  But I've grown as a writer... I think.  I hope.

Baffle

Baffle

Listen carefully on a quiet day

Turn toward the sound

You can hear the refrain

As angels echo the joyous song

But all we hear

Is the silence of forests

The singing of birds

Immeasurable bliss has been hushed

As we create

Our own cacophony

Covering creation

With our meaningless noise

Attempting to transcend

The apogee of the universe

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Divinity

Divinity

Dancing along the head of a pin
Crowded out, pushed way too thin
Too many people, still not enough
Arguing for sanity is dangerous stuff
Trolling for power the rush to be beat
Rivals will mark you, steal a hasty retreat
Never forget Paris, The bouillonnant vibe
Feel what it’s like to be truly alive
Tomorrow will come without much applause
Making it easy to dessert the cause
Listen for footsteps, the tiniest patter
The simplest way to make sure you matter
It’s easy to forget childhood goals
When glory and fame make life seem whole
Time hasn’t finished, there’s a new story arc
Now is the moment; We must leave our mark
Take what is offered, a well deserved prize
You know what is needed, where divinity lies

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Ghostlight

Ghostlight

When the curtains close

And the lights all dim

There’s only me

Standing there without him

The lights all fade

To the darkest of blacks

So deep that it burns

Inner demons attack

Swarming and seething

Eating mind and spirit

An all consuming power

No wonder I fear it

That empty stage

That lights on old ghosts

Brings light to the darkness

To what we fear most

So don’t leave me here

In the dark and alone

Give me thunderous cheers

I’ll truly be home

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Misericorde

Misericorde

The cord stretches tightly and binds us

Across the oceans and plains

No matter how far the distance finds us

The truth quite humbly remains

Like a song written just out of tempo

Echoing with a crazy beat

I carry your soul as a memento

Of times when loving was sweet

Sometimes I lay and reminisce

Of days when gentlemen called

Being courted and feted and kissed

It can’t be as good as recalled

So return, wayfaring stranger

Show compassion by staying your hand

Relieve me of my danger

I beg of you, answer my command

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Simply Stories

I’d like to believe in fairy tales

But I’m not that naive

Fairy tales are simply stories

Something little girls like to believe

And if you look closely at them

Cinderella is only a maid

Being tortured by stepsisters

Abused by relatives, overworked and underpaid

Everyone’s favorite Snow White

Is the marvelous fluke

A glorified servant

Who marries a Duke!

The best one by far

Is the stone cold fish

Who by choosing her love, loses her voice

How’s that for a wish?

So why must we choose these

Over glamorous tales

I’d rather have something else

Even if that something else fails

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Unraveling

Now it has begun

The unraveling

The unmaking of time

When we call back

What was last said

Until the last thread

Is unwoven and re-spooled

The tapestry’s gone

Only a memory now

Strange but it seems

That I recall how it almost

Was impossibly larger than most

It wasn’t though

It couldn’t be

It was only

You and me

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Stars

Love requires what love hath lost

We must face the coming day

The goal is replacing the ultimate cost

Learning the pacing and way

Time to join the fray

Not wanting to give your heart

That’s not where excuses lay

I’ve given up on foolish starts

 Is it time to break into parts?

 I’ve barely begun to begin

They call my trollop or tart

I don’t intend the start to sin

But allow me this to plea

The stars are only for thee

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More Perfect Union

I can never be the better person

Remember that, love

When you are in your cups

In your grey hair

Hating me

As men grow to hate their wives

Time can’t stand

Something to last

Longer than it

Heaven forbade it

This more perfect union

A joining of souls

Better left asunder

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Everyday Things

That little joy and laughter

It helps to make it better

It’s the simple things

That help give love wings

Sharing in the break of day

Watching you quietly lay

The peaceful hum of the daily grind

Watching you as you unwind

Living life together is bliss

Without you I’d surely miss

The little everyday things

That make my heart sing

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Simply

Cozy up and Cuddle

Run your hands through my hair

Nothing more

Relaxing by the cackling fire

You with your whisky

My, my tea

Each of us our books

Noses buried

Simply being together

That’s enough

Sharing each other’s space

Our hearts

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Bread Alone

The bread at the feast

Never gets the credit

Always there, warm and ready

Slightly soft, crusty on the outside

Ready to mop up the leftovers

No one ever sits down

For a meal of bread alone

Ripped open

Hot, steaming

Torn, it’s never the same

Shared, it’s always better

But it never

Stands

On its own

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Supernova

Pressure

Not quick, fleeting

Long, steady, building

More than half again

What anyone should bear

Position of surrender

Means anything but

Tables turn

Power switches hands

Giver becomes taker

Shared power

Becomes more potent

And then eventually

Supernova

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No Escape

Unanswered here I sit

With my heart in my hands

No longer willing

To wait for you

But unable to give up

It will come crashing down

On my head

Sooner or later

I suppose

The flood gates will open

And the heavens

Will rain down

I will be soaked

Drenched

There is no escape

From you

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Taste

A taste is all you receive

Too much turns sour

Only a brief tease

Never enough

Only a shining moment

Burning so hot

Fire volcanic

Then burned out

Go before it is begun

Oh Candle,

Flame brightly!

But never seem

As though you

Have been lit

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Every Day

There’s beauty in decay

There’s life in death

For by fighting for our lives

We fight for every breath

We cling to the everyday

We want for so much more

When in reality

We’re looking for the next score

Looking for the easy answers

When we need to find our hearts

There’s never easy answers

We all need brand new starts

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Priorities

When with friends we smile and say

Forget the work and cease the day

We need love to guide the way

So call in sick or stay away

Before, with stress, you fade away

So with friends we smile and stay

Tomorrow’s work will go away

If you doubt it, then look away

You need a love to guide your way

Can you question what I say,

That priorities have gone to hay?

When with friends we smile say,

We no longer need love to guide the way!

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Countdown (168)

If I start a countdown now

That doesn’t make me horrible

It just makes me tired

Sick of the pain and heartbreak

It’s a purposeless fight

Burning through energy

I could use so much more

Time better spent elsewhere

If there is a reason

I can’t find it

Like a vestigial organ

No longer needed

Why should I suffer

If I will never

Bare a mother’s fate?

I don’t need to suffer

To be a woman

If I will never be a mother

As Lady MacBeth said

Unsex me here

Please?

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Simple Touch

Sometimes a simple touch

Goes further than the

The best kiss

A good massage

Is worth its weight in gold

Gentle fingers

Not too pressing

Long and strong

Caressing, Stroking

Nimbly kneading

Pressing love

Into my heart

Through your hands

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Review Deep Breath Doctor Who

So if you have never read my reviews before be warned, I don’t do a standard blow-by blow review.  I’m more about what does it all mean, Easter eggs and predictions.  And cursing *shakes fist* MOFFAT!

First things first. “Girl in the fireplace” didn’t impress me.  There I said it.  I liked Tennant.  I liked Rose.  It just didn’t overwhelm me. Was it Mickey?  In fact when everybody was gushing over it, I went back and gave it a second go round.  Still no.  For period pieces, give me Liz I (Tooth and Claw)(Torchwood!!) or Shakespeare(The Shakespeare Code)(57 academics just punched the air). Maybe it was the bummer ending.  Maybe it was because Tennant was supposed to be in love with Rose and it was against character, I don’t know.  I just never sat well with me.  But oh well, we have a new baddie and I will have to go back and watch it AGAIN. –SIGH-

Can I pause here to say, THREE CHEERS for the PaterNostor gang?  I love these guys! This is how to handle multi-companion storylines without over doing it.  (Ahem, Peter Davidson era I’m looking at you!) The TARDIS seemed crowded when they had all those companions and since the TARDIS is infinite that’s pretty hard.  And here is where we shake our fists at MOFFAT! We heard more of Strax and Vastra’s back stories today. But what do we know about Jenny’s back story?  And then it hit me.  Jenny.  JENNY! Moffat always said he was going to bring her back but he never said he was going to bring Georgia Moffat back!   She could have regenerated!  She might not want The Doctor to know who she is.  And working for the PaterNostor gang would seem to fit in perfectly with the budding personally that Jenny (the Doctor’s Daughter) had. MIND BLOWN!

So, back to the regeneration of The Doctor.  I see a lot of Colin Baker’s regeneration in this regeneration, at least for now.  When Peter Davidson changed into Colin Baker there was much chaos and confusion.  In fact, the Doctor tried to kill his companion.  All in all, Peter Capaldi’s Doctor has adjusted slightly better to being doctor, I think.  But he is darker.  I don’t remember another Doctor advocating genocide. In fact in Genesis of the Daleks, he argues strongly against it! This darkness calls to mind the Valeyard.  I think that The Doctor is now the Valeyard! This accounts for the Timelords interference at Trenzalore and maybe even that last scene.  I’m betting that that is the Matrix.  But if that is the Matrix is this all a dream?  How far back?  I know everyone hated the tacked on ending at the end of Trial of a TimeLord, but series do that all the time now.  It wouldn’t be farfetched for Moffat to pull from old episodes.  And who is the mysterious woman at the end of the episode?  I heard lot of theories from Mary Poppins to Madame de Pompadour.  My personal theory?  The Rani! If that truly is the Matrix than the Time Lords could have put her there for punishment or is she in the Doctor’s imagination for some reason.

So those are my thoughts, at least for now.  I’m sure we’ll have many more clips and spoilers before next week’s episode.  Knowing MOFFAT, purposely misleading! Allons-y

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Hopeless

Leave me, I beg you

I can’t stand this pain

You are low hanging fruit

Just there, but not quite ready

Everyone’s but never mine

A light of love, a will-o-the-wisp

Never seriously anything at all

One day you will be

But it won’t be with me

I’m not worthy of attention

I lack more then I possess

So one day they’ll come to take me

Many loving fans, I guess

Not really, nobody cares

I’ve been told that often enough

And if you hear it often enough

You begin to believe it

Maybe I worship the ground that you walk on

Because the one I walk on is tainted

Black as sin and just as gritty

You walk on air and you know it

I falling through cracks in the pavements

Wrecked and hopeless am I

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No Words

Someday never comes

Tomorrow waits for none

If you can hear me, answer

Cause my darkness screams in the night

My throat is raw, I’ve screamed so much

My tears burn fire down my cheeks

This is the hardest thing I’ve ever ended

My terror frightens me

I have no words

Anguish is a lesson in patience

Sorrow is a tale written in woe

There is no longer a hiding place

Time is all that’s left

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Make Believe

I live in a world of make believe

Where the rally cry is thus

It will never be! It will never be!

But in our land of make believe

All things are possible

Fantasy is the only rule

It will never be! It will never be!

We call ourselves the best of friends

Our words are swords in our hands

There is travel to faraway lands

We make loud protesting stands

It will never be! It will never be!

Painted wings fall apart eventually

There is no more Honalee

No one will ever truly be free

As long as it will never be, never be!

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Rambling

Straining, reaching, just out of grasp

Looking around but never to touch

The silver shadows stalk my mind

As I lay here, wanting you so much

My mind’s distracted and confused

All my thoughts center on my one true love

I only hope to change my mind

And I will find peace from above

No longer do I seem to care

As the hours while away

Filling time better left alone

With no companions to spend the day

Only stories end happily

Full of love and moon and rhyme

Real life never turns out so well

It simply runs out of rhyme

And all our actions catch up to us

What we live and how we dreamed

Unworthy of paradise

Life was better than what it seemed

Punishment awaits me now

For sins of thought and heart and mind

I should have known to let it go

An earthly heaven I’ve yet to find

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Wishing

Wishing

Never wanting, always wishing

There will come a day

When there will be nothing left to say

The heart only has so much blood

And can only break so many times

So if there was ever a way

Time could be written for me

Today the last chance to flee

Before the world comes crashing down

Until there is no cure

There is only so much you can do

It’s not your problem to solve

There’s no reason to get involved

Strangers make the best of friends

As long as no one ever cares

Beg, Borrow, or Steal our way

To money, fortune and fame

Anything we can do to further our names

As long as we promote our cause

If we get our fifteen minutes

I’ll leave the fame, thank you very much

I’m content to just be me

I just wish everyone could see

What I was wishing for

I could never buy in any store

Because no one sells replacement hearts

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Dagger's Edge

Dagger’s Edge

Sometimes my feet get bloody

My balance is not quite level

But the ground below is muddy

I’d end up completely disheveled

It’s harder then walking on eggshells

At least, on that you know the score

For eggshells crush rather easy

They are simply the spoils of war

But balancing on the dagger’s edge

Playing both sides at once

You never know which bet to hedge

Relying on luck and impudence

There’s always a side to favor

Someone who wants to win

Never taking time to savor

Only looking for the next sin

The only winners are failures

The only triumph is loss

Truth is no longer my savior

To bear this is my cross

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The Dog Days of Summer

The Dog Days of Summer

The heat is gone

 But now it’s back

August is dragging on

Laying out on the lawn

But only if, an umbrella you pack

And August is dragging on

I know that time still marches on

Although sometime it seem to go forth and not back

And August keeps dragging on

I don’t understand the game in which I’m a pawn

As the Dog Days of Summer at your heels, will bark

And, still, uninterruptedly, August drags on and on…

When will it end? It keeps plowing on

Telling me, waiting, knowing they can keep a mark

Down they say,

                            One more day!

                            One more day!

              And August no more will drag on

              Although we long will be gone

              Free to hide and fight on

              Or walk and write on

              Our battle will be ceased

              Because we know

How August always drags on!

#August, #dogdaysofsummer, #heels, #bark, #umbrella, #heat, #dragon, #pack, #lawn, #time, #marches, #game, #pawn, #plowing, #waiting, #end, #knowing, #mark, #say, #onemoreday, #long, #gone, #hide, #free, #fight, #write, #walk, #battles, #ceased, #know 

My memory is going...

I can no longer remember both of the parts of Handel's Hallelujah chorus.  I originally learned it in tenor, then I switched a year later to soprano.  After the teacher actually listened to me.  I could hit the tenor notes mind you, but I could hit the soprano easier. LOL  I think I could qualified as a true tenor now, after my thyroid issues.  I was playing around with recording some stuff and I said I know, I'll record both parts of the Hallelujah chorus.  Only to find I can't remember them.  I just love my mind, not! This is not acceptable.  I wish there was something to do about it.  Unfortunately, there is no real problem, hence no solution.  I've had a headache since 1994, that's probably part of it.  Or at least one of the medications I'm on.  I used to remember everything.  And I do mean everything.  Exact conversations.  Now, I have trouble with names.  It sucks.  I'm fighting the best I can.  It makes you feel like you can't win when you're thirty three and you feel like you're fifty.  I understand that there are people that are worse then I am.  I just get frustrated sometimes.  Zebras get lonely sometimes.  It's hard to find someone who understands exactly what it feels like to have stripes. They stick out but at the same time you blend in the jungle. Camouflage isn't always a good thing.  It may stop the person who could help you the most from noticing you. 

Non- Lymericks

I once thought my love walked on air

But our relationship was going nowhere

Our flame burned much higher

When fueled by desire

We couldn’t stand our souls laid bare

Sorrow is grief born on wings

Like an arrow, it pierces and stings,

But time soon will heal

You’ll begin to feel

Your heart will begin to sing

#love, #relationship, #going, #nowhere, #flame, #burned, #higher, #fueled, #desire, #souls, #bare, #sorrow, #grief, #wings, #arrow, #pierces, #stings, #time, #heal, #feel, #heart, #sing

One True Love

When I was a freshman in high school (about fifteen) I went to the United Kingdom on a family trip.  We were staying in a hotel in London at the same time as a group that was performing. Thinking back with what I know now (it was August, near Edinburgh), it must have been a school group or a fringe fest group.  There was one person practicing violin at about 1 am.  Loudly.  In the hallway.  Here I was a stranger in a strange land and there was this violin music.  I wrote a poem about it.  Over the years, it has become lost but I still remember the opening two lines because I had read it to my parents and was told, "that's creepy."  It is the same three lines used here.  I decided to use the lines and try to recreate the feeling of the lonely young man, practicing the fiddle, at the wee hours of the morning, desperately seeking...

One True Love

A man and his instrument are one

One constantly craving

The company of the other

The haunting melodies

Rise down the darkened corridors

Calling to mind

Gypsy ghosts of yesteryear

The student studies with strings

Crafting compositions for classes

Making nightly worship

At the altar of Apollo

He sweats and bleeds notation

Knowing this is life blood

Music is his mistress

He will never truly love another

Beyond his first

One true love

Books

I can’t conceive

Of a way

To bring us together

Oh, I knew its but a dream

But a fantasy has built worlds

Who wouldn’t want to live

In such a vivid illusion?

The pages of my real life

Have been torn away

Lost in contemplation

Burned in desire

Beyond retrieval

A new chapter must be written

A cast of characters

Expertly drawn out

Time is coming for big decisions

Most authors worth their salt

Chop heads for verisimilitude

If I can’t have you

In my imagination

Then

I must imagine you gone

And move on

#conceive, #together, #dream, #fantasy, #built, #worlds, #live, #illusion, #pages, #reallife, #torn, #contemplation, #burned, #desire, #beyond, #retrieval,  #written, #cast, #chapter,  #expertly, #drawn, #time, #bigdecisions, #authors, #chopheads, #verisimilitude, #imagination, #moveon, 

The Words

So many ways to say

One simple little thing

Do we fear the words themselves?

Is it the intimacy?

Or do we not really mean it

When we use other phrases?

We’ve become so close,

Our world so small

But we’re miles apart in our heads,

In our hearts

When we can communicate so well

Translate a thousand tongues

Why is it so hard

To say three little words?

No matter the language

We must learn

We must try

#say, #simple, #fear, #words, #themselves, #intimacy, #mean, #phrases, #close, #world, #small, #miles, #apart, #heads, #hearts, #communicates, #translate, #thousand, #tongues, #hard, #threelittlewords, #language, #learn, #try

The Quest

Never ceasing

Always seeking

Never giving up

No matter what

Never standing still

No, not until

The quest

Is resolve

Should never get involved

With you whole heart

Time to start

Heading for home

Not far to roam

Lead astray

For a year and a day

#ceasing, #seeking, #givingup, #matter, #standing, #quest, #resolve, #involved, #whole, #heart, #start, #home, #roam, #astray, #year, #day

Dead Men

Trailing tongues of fire

Teasing, tantalizing, taunting

Taking me to soaring towers

Teach me your theories

I’ve had a taste

And it’s toxic

My traitorous tongue

Will tell tales

I’m tumbling on a tenuous thread

The tiniest tremor

Would topple me

This tryst

Is transcendent

#Trailing, #tongues, #fire, #teasing, #taunting, #soaring, #theories, #taste, #toxic, #traitorous, #tales, #tenuous, #thread, #tremor, #tryst, #transcendent, #poem, #poetry, #deadmen, 

The Spectre at the Feast

That one person no one notices

The one you care about the least

Haven’t you always noticed

There’s always a spectre at the feast

The one with the saddest eyes

The one hidden in plain sight

Casually greeting everyone

Seeming ready to flee at first fright

Can’t you just picture it?

The growing terror and dread

No one else knowing the panic

That exists only inside your head

Never knowing the right words

Hoping only it ends

Never knowing if you’re talking

To family, enemies or friends

This may all seem dramatic

I’m often called out for flair

But did you ever stop and wonder

If I know because I’ve been there?

#person, #notices, #care, #least, #haven’t, #always, #spectre, #feast, #saddest, #hidden, #plainsight, #casually, #greeting, #ready, #flee, #fright, #picture, #terror, #dread, #panic, #exists, #head, #knowing, #rightwords, #hoping, #ends, #talking, #family, #enemies, #friends, #dramatic, #flair, #stop, #wonder, #beenthere, #poem, #poetry

Accept

There’s a whore in all of us

There’s a sin in him

We are all made up of lust

But we rarely go out on a limb

We take care to guard the exits

We dance to protocol’s whim

Sometimes someone comes along

That says to hell with prim

It’s not even good to be proper

‘Cause those people never win

You have to fight dirty to prosper

We lived in world rotting in sin

We have to stop rejecting our nature

Learn to accept where we’ve been

Accepting ourselves for who we are

Is the greatest way we can win

#whore, #sin, #lust, #rarely, #limb, #guard, #limb, #exits, #dance, #protocol, #whim, #along, #hell, #prim, #proper, #prosper, #fightdirty, #rotting, #rejecting, #nature, #accept, #win, #poem, #poetry

B. A. E.

Broken, bleeding, and bruised

I raise a battered hand

To have it brushed aside

Would you have me beg?

Is this betrayal?

Bittersweet and blue

My feelings were not to be borrowed

But you could not be bothered

Barging forward

Without a backward glance

We should break it off

Before Anyone Else

Burns

#broken, #bleeding, #bruised, #raise, #battered, #hand, #brushed, #aside, #beg, #betrayal, #bittersweet, #blue, #feelings, #borrowed, #bothered, #barging, #forward, #backwardsglance, #breakitoff, #beforeanyoneelse, #bae, #burns, #poem, #poetry

Famished

Is there any polite way

To say goodbye?

To ask someone to leave

Not your heart but your head?

I’m quicksilver

Pretty to think about

But deadly poisonous

I wish my own reactions were as quick

I certainly recoil as fast

My compass will always

Point true north

Willing to lead me home

Sooner or later I must plant roots

We may share DNA with vegetables

And be fundamentally similar

But I see myself as more of a carnivore

And lately I feel

Simply famished

#polite, #goodbye, #ask, #leave, #heart, #mind, #quicksilver, #pretty, #deadly, #poisonous, #reactions, #recoil, #compass, #truenorth, #home, #plantroots, #vegetables, #fundamentally, #similar, #carnivore, #simply, #famished  

Blank Canvas

I might be in over my head

This boulder is rolling down the cliffside

I only wanted to share my joy

But I might lose what I find most precious

The harsh light causes me to shut my eyes

But its warmth still causes me to smile

And reaching up, pull the shutters closed

I wonder if there is a way to have

Both the light and darkness

My indecision has cost me in the past

There are ghost that whisper my name

Hard drives can never be truly erased

Everyone has files that can’t be deleted

Sometimes it’s easier to just share space

If you don’t share all your secrets

What you don’t know can’t be held against you

I’m afraid I don’t know anything at all

I’m a student of the universe

Teach me, for I’m a blank canvas

#overmyhead, #boulder, #cliffside, #share, #joy, #lose, #precious, #harsh, #light, #shut, #eyes, #warmth, #smile, #reaching, #shutters, #closed, #wonder, #light, #darkness, #indescions, #cost, #past, #ghosts, #whisper, #name, #harddrives, #erased, #deleted, #easier, #space, #secrets, #heldagainst, #afraid, #know, #anything, #student, #universe, #teachme, #blank, #canvas

Confession

If I start speaking Latin

Don’t think that I’m possessed

I’m only conversing in tongues

Confessing how much I’m blessed

Angels might echo my actions

But I’d hardly count myself one

I’m not really suited for harping

I’d like to have a little more fun

But saints and sinners are people

They all had ordinary lives once

Till a catalyst hastened a spark

Making giants out of runts

My pedestal stands at the ready

I’ll have so far to climb

You put me so far above you

Gives me farther to fall, I find

You’ve no notion of being so blessed

Blessings have no meaning of self

It’s not that you can’t ever love me

It’s the value, the cost, the price

#latin, #speaking, #possessed, #conversing, #tongues, #confessing, #blessed, #angels, #echo, #actions, #count, #one, #fun, #saints, #sinners, #people, #ordinary, #lives, #catalyst, #spark, #giants, #runts, #pedestal, #stands, #ready, #climb, #farther, #fall, #notion, #meaning, #self, #love, #value, #cost, #price, 

I used to like the rain...

I used to like the rain

Its gentle pattern

The nice cozy feeling

Even the thunder and the lightning

Splitting the sky and sending shivers

Then a rainbow, a promise to all

But the promise is just words

As my body screams

Some mumbo jumbo about pressure and moisture

Sure as the rainfall

Has a different meaning now

A thousand phrases

Have added colors

Unfortunately they all seem to be

Black and blue

#rain, #gentle, #cozy, #feeling, #thunder, #lightning, #splitting, #sending, #shivers, #rainbow, #promise, #words, #body, #screams, #mumbo, #jumbo, #pressure, #moisture, #rainfall, #different, #meaning, #thousand, #phrases, #color, #unfortunately, #black, #blu

Out of This World

Touch me softly

Delicately love

Wind your way up my thigh

Your presence anchors me to this world

Sometimes urgency outweighs

Valor or reticence

So much more is needed now

Your kisses keep me in this world

Trailing primal fire

Barest grazes

Stroking in time to heartbeats

You draw me back into this world

Pursing higher heights

Titillating, taunting, teasing

The time for subtlety has passed

I’m no longer of this world

#touch, #softly, #delicately, #love, #thigh, #presence, #anchor, #world, #urgency, #valor, #reticence, #needed, #kisses, #trailing, #primal, #fire, #grazes, #stroking, #heartbeat, #pursing, #heights, #titillating, #taunting, #teasing, #subtlety, #poem, #poetry

Stable

Call me dangerous, call me unstable

I’m tired of being called unable

I’ve always been a little bit crazy

Is this some happy ending like in a fable?

But I’m no longer letting it phase me

So what if no one thinks I’m ready

Are you looking for other reasons?

They’re not calling the shots here

It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to

I’ll die if I want to

I don’t have anything left to fear

It’s the end of the season

I’m holding steady

I’m rocking like a baby in a cradle

I’m starting to feel more stable

I don’t know why things were so hazy

You make me feel so able

After all crazy is just a label

There’s nothing left but to love me baby

#dangerous, #unstable, #unable, #tired, #crazy, #happyending, #fable, #phase, #ready, #reasons, #shots, #itsmyparty, #cry, #fear, #end, #season, #steady, #holding, #baby, #cradle, #stable, #hazy, #label, #love, #poem, #poetry

A Very Giffy Poem

I tried to hate you. I really want to. But I cant.I can’t lose you. I won’t survive and that’s your fault, I know that. You made me love you, you made me let you in.I feel like I should stop think about it, you know but I can’t.We don’t always lose, but when we do, we win. 

That last gif is not quite what I wanted but it's last at night and I will revisit this again.  Someone had remarked on our language being replaced with emoji's and gifs.  This would be a language similar to egyptian heiroglyphics.  I thought I would experiment with what a poem would look like in those terms.  I'll give it another wack later.

Reaching Toward The Stars

Time is short

Let’s seize what we can

Some people’s tomorrow never come

It’s enough to live now

Have what we may

When the starlight reaches us

It may already be gone

It lives on through our memories

Infinity and divinity

Touches our small souls

Brief glimpses on the immortal

We beg and borrow

Never knowing where it will be snatched

If you wait

Tomorrow’s dream may disappear

Bring them love

Let them grow

Hand reaching toward the stars

#Time, #short, #seize, #people, #tomorrow, #live, #now, #starlight, #gone, #memories, #infinity, #divinity, #souls, #immortal, #beg, #borrow, #knowing, #snatched, #dream, #disappear, #reaching, #stars, #reaching 

Neverwere

Calling on powers to appease them

Wish on things can’t be that be

If you won’t be there to save me

I’ll have to rely on me

Now that’s a scary proposition

Having self-reliance like that

I’m not sure I’m up to the challenge

Call me out, I’ll fold like a mat

Weak willed, and lily livered

Just call me a yellow bellied cur

I’m too tired to keep on fighting

Believing in thing that never were

If happiness exists here

Of if true love is around the bend

I believe that it is not for me

But someone should win in the end

#calling, #powers, #appease, #wish, #things, #save, #rely, #scary, #proposition, #self-reliance, #challenge, #fold, #mat, #weakwilled, #lily-livered, #yellow-belliedcur, #fighting, #believeing, #neverwere, #happiness, #truelove, #bend, #someone, #win

I Need My Pain

Can you calm my fears?

I’m drowning in neuroses

You settle them all with a wave and a smile

When I look up again

Did I blink too long?

You’ve disappeared while my eyes were closed

If I wish hard enough

Can I blink you back?

Will you come if I promise to be well be behaved?

The light creeps over the horizon

The sun begins to rise

I have wished away the lonely nighttime

The light is too bright

It burns away the darkness

But sometimes we need the pain to make us who we are

So come to me quickly

Or come after the New Year

But come to me eventually or I will never get over this fear

#calm, #fears, #drowning, #neuroses, #settle, #wave, #smile, #look, #blink, #long, #disappeared, #eyes, #closed, #wish, #promise, #behaved, #light, #creeps, #horizon, #sun, #rise, #lonely, #nighttime, #bright, #burns, #darkness, #pain, #sometimes, #make, #quickly, #NewYear, #eventually, #getover

Twenty Four Hours of Passion

Moonlight plays across your cheeks

It makes you seem surreal

The barest touch of yours is electric

A little shock is all I need

It pulls me back to this plane

Where you didn’t really exist

A touch of fairy is needed

To bring me out of this funk

One whole day and one whole night

Twenty four hours of passion

That’s all I’m asking for

Proof positive that you exist

I believe you know the score

Unless I find my own two feet

A band of gold would be too much

But would be appreciated nonetheless

#moonlight, #plays, #cheek, #surreal, #barest, #touch, #electric, #shock, #plane, #exist, #fairy, #funk, #day, #night, #24hours, #passion, #proof, #positive, #score, #twofeet, #bandofgold, #appreciated, #nontheless,

Meaningful wonders

Meaningful wonders in endless rhyme

Time is an expressionless pit

So partner-less here I sit

And blinking clear my mind

I only wish I had some wit

Meaningful wonders in endless rhyme

Time is an expressionless pit

Don’t worry about me, I will be fine

I only wish I could quit

Or at least get incredibly lit

Meaningful wonders in endless rhyme

Time is an expressionless pit

So partner-less here I sit

#meaningless, #wonders, #endless, #rhyme, #time, #expressionless, #pit, #partnerless, #sit, #blinking, #clear, #mind, #wit, #dontworry, #fine, #quit, #least, #incredibly, #lit, 

When Gardens Spring and Flowers Bloom

When gardens spring and flowers bloom

No one feels impending doom

The birds that fly and butterflies loom

And earth expels nutrients from her womb

No one feels impending doom

The door that shuts on the bright hot room

When gardens spring and flowers bloom

No one feels impending doom

For flowers die and the sense of gloom

Martyr’d wisdom is a sweet perfume

For all must die to make more room

Swept clean, with fall, like nature’s broom

When gardens spring and flowers bloom

#gardens, #spring, #flowers, #bloom, #impending, #doom, #birds, #fly, #butterlies, #loom, #earth, #expels, #nutrients, #womb, #door, #shuts, #bright, #hot, #room, #sense, #gloom, #martyr’d, #wisdom, #sweet, #perfume, #Swept, #clean, #fall, #nature, #broom, 

An Ember Burns Higher Then Flames Prodded Higher

A spark lights the way

It glows like a fay

It burns higher and faster

Leading quickly to disaster

You must prove who is the master

Or else you will pay

So as the fire you lay

Remember that they they say

As the fire blows past her

An ember burns longer then flames prodded higher

Keep this mindful, don’t delay

Whatever else you say

It must be held fast or

It spells true disaster

Because it’s true what they say

An ember burns longer then flames prodded higher

#spark, #lights, #glows, #fay, #higher, #faster, #leading, #quickly, #disaster, #prove, #master, #pay, #fire, #past, #ember, #longer, #flames, #prodded, #mindful, #delay, #whatever, #spells

Cento Poem- Unnamed

This is a variation on a Cento poem.  The word comes from cloak of patches.  It is generally a poem made of lines of other poems or lines from stories.  I used lyrics from songs.  It was harder than I thought so there was no real rhyme scheme or meter to it.  I save that for the next time! LOL
Song credits are at the bottom and listed by line. 

Where have you been my darling young one?

‘Cause lately I’ve been waking up alone

Just call out my name

Anywhere you go I’ll follow you down, I’ll follow you down but not that far…

When I met you in the summer

Maybe you were right but baby I was lonely

And then I said hey what going on

Will you follow and know, know me more than you do?

You turned to me and all at once

Tell me why you’re looking so confused

I won’t let nobody hurt you, won’t let nobody break your heart

That’s my job, that’s what I do

So if I lay here, If I just lay here

Could you, could you come back?

I’d rather die young than grow old without you

Don’t ask me to choose honey, cause either way we stand to lose.

1. Bob Dylan- A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall 2. Ed Sheernan-  Give Me Love 3. James Taylor/Carole King- You’ve Got a Friend 4. Gin Blossoms- Follow You Down

5. Calvin Harris- Summer 6. ENRIQUE IGLESIAS- Tired of Being Sorry 7. 4 Non Blonde- Hey What’s Going On 8. Kelly Clarkson- Mr. Know It All

9. Conway Twitty-All at Once 10. Talyor Swift- Never Grow Up  11. JoJo-Leave(Get Out) 12. Elvis Costello-That’ My Job

13. Snow Patrol-Chasing Cars 14. Pat McGee-Come Back Home 15. George Jones- Grow Old Without You 16. FYC- We Stand to Lose

Beyond The Rainbow's End

‘Cause it’s time to stop running

I’ll just stand my ground

These circles I’m spinning in

Make me lose what I’ve found

Without my balance

I’ll just keep losing my way

My numerous talents

Get brushed simply away

A steady hand reaches out

The frantic spinning stops

My balance is restored now

The right side is back on top

Problems cease to exist now

My journey is at an end

Time’s rightful march continue on

Beyond the rainbow’s bend

#time, #stop, #running, #stand, #ground, #circles, #spinning, #lose, #found, #balance, #way, #numerous, #talents, #brushed, #simply, #away, #steady, #hand, #reaches,  #out, #frantic, #rightside, #restored, #problems, #cease, #exist, #journey, #rightful, #march, #continue, #beyond, #rainbow, #end

In Perfect Love and Perfect Trust

In perfect love and perfect trust

We go where feelings stray

The antithesis of love is lust

Our love is built on cosmic dust

We fade not all away

In perfect love and perfect trust

Our fading love is on the cusp

In plain sight our feelings lay

The antithesis of love is lust

But martyr’d men and women must

For the good of each other say

The antithesis of love is lust

In perfect love and perfect trust

#perfectlove, #perfecttrust, #feelings, #stray, #antithesis, #love, #lust, #built, #cosmic, #dust, #fade, #cusp, #plainsight, #lay, #martyr’d, #men, #women, #good, #eachother, #say, #poem, #poetry

Isolation

There’s a place up on a mountain

Or a cabin by the sea

When the time comes to stop running

Come there to look for me

I might not be the best companion

By the time you come for me

By then we will both be grey

But at least we will be free

A focused mind amasses much skill

To doubt it would be unwise

Some say it is impossible

To be free from spying eyes

This is proper motivation

All one really needs to be

With constant love and devotion

One wholly becomes free

But that’s another story

For today we’re miles apart

Take a deep breath and remember

You’ve been written on my heart

#place, #mountain, #cabin, #sea, #look, #me, #companion, #grey, #free, #focused, #mind, #amasses, #skill, #doubt, #unwise, #impossible, #spying, #eyes, #motivation, #needs, #constant, #love, #devotion, #wholly, #story, #milesapart, #deepbreath, #remember, #written, #heart, #poem, #poetry

A Long Hard Lonely Way

What have I to offer?

I have no skills to bring

Were I to beg or borrow love,

I could refuse it at no price!

My abilities suffer compared to others

I’m not able to sew or mend

My words are that of a school child

I’m not glib by any ken

My riding skills are paltry

My cooking skills are parse

I’m not good with children

My etiquette is farce

If my diction here is faulty

Forgive me if I stray

But my voice is somewhat Country

To the City, it will not stay

So when I leave your side

It’s not for lack of love

It’s simply fear for embarrassment

I’m not the best of company

Who would ever want me

When half the time I cannot speak

The rest remember my own name

Or trip over my own two feet

No one wants the sick girl

The books make it seem glamorous

But if it’s boring everyday crap

It’s just a lot of fuss

So every day I take my medicine

And every day is just the same

One day I’ll finally wake up

And there won’t be any more pain

So what is there to offer?

But a long hard lonely way

It’s mine alone to travel

I think I’ve surpassed my stay

#offer, #skills, #beg, #borrow, #love, #price, #abilities, #suffer, #compared, #sew, #mend, #words, #school, #glib, #ken, #riding, #paltry, #cooking, #parse, #children, #etiquette, #diction, #faulty, #forgive, #stray, #voice, #country, #city, #embarrassment, #company, #speak, #remember, #name, #feet, #sick, #books, #glamorous, #boring, #crap, #fuss, #medicine, #pain, #long, #hard, #lonely, #travel, #surpassed, #stray

Antonio's Struggle

Hiding in plain sight

With no spies to fell me

Who would ever suspect

This pathetic shell

Not good enough

For anyone to notice

Antonio’s Struggle

Is mine as well

Not that I’m smart

Or pretty or talented

Or any such qualifier

That marks me as great

When everyone notices

Actions that get taken

But never the person

That’s making the waves

Calms seas are coming

The skies will grow blue

After the storm comes

The rainbow shows through

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Nothingness

No matter how much… I want

How much… I can feel

How… I can almost taste

It doesn’t matter

It is immaterial

A passing sensation

A momentary distraction

We all pass into nothingness

Should we try to overcome?

Try to surpass?

Try to better ourselves?

Whether we want to or not

We desire

We can feel

We do taste

We return to matter

We improve the material

Enjoy the sensations

Prolong the distractions

Before we become the nothingness 

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The Spoils

There are two sides to every story

Only one is generally heard

To the victor go the spoils

To the loser not a word

Who cares what happens later

If the losing is the cost

When the time has come for counting

The die has to be tossed

A decision must be made

An answer must be given

Time cannot be stretched

And history cannot rewritten

When the battle’s over

When the dust has cleared

No one ever really wins

It’s always worse than feared

This parable is not about

A war torn battleground

But the battles faced everyday

Time to face another round

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My Own Two Eyes

Sink into the warmth

Of pleasured company

Toss a log onto the fire

Wrap a cozy blanket around us

Take a drawn out sip

Out of your tumbler full of whiskey

Pull me closer to you

I need comforting

Will you be here when I wake?

Are you even here now?

Is this only a dream

Brought on by too much reading?

You do seem to resemble

My favorite hero

Tall mysterious shy

Too wonderful to notice

That everyone adores them

But maybe I am dreaming

Cause no way could someone love me

I would only believe it

When I see it

With my own two eyes

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Simple Wanderer

All my tomorrows

Bleed into yesterdays

When the burden of proof

Lies in the beholder

Truth flies on the wings

On a snow white dove

When you can’t believe

What you your eyes tell you

Bring to me you fears

I’ll lend you my sorrows

Together we will be

The saddest of companions

But maybe together

We can conquer the world

I’ll lend you my hand

But I must see where to place it

Without a direction

I’m simply a wanderer

Groping in the dark

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