Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Purgatory

She wears him like a badge
An honor to be boasted
A feather in her crown
For a queen she surely is
Never a hair out of place
Or a word that is misspoken
She never does anything
To make a person frown
I can’t find fault with her
And trust me I’ve been looking
I understand her pain
He’s always on my mind
But who can compete
With runway gods and models
I’ll have to look for love
Down here in purgatory
Us sinners in the real world
Must keep among ourselves


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Occupying Space

What would we do
If we obtained our hearts desire?
Would we stop striving
Live in complacency?
For without our dreams
We are simply carbon atoms
Occupying space
Till we return to sand
Perhaps the worst thing
Is to obtain perfection
For in gaining what we seek
We destroy all that we are

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Saturday, September 27, 2014

Why

Why
Why do you go where I cannot follow?
This path is not one I trod lightly
I promised to go where you lead
But the behavior you choose is quite unsightly
I feel lied to remembering the things you said

Time will pass people will forget
I’m an elephant though, I never will
The scars you’ve left will heal so slowly
It’s amazing how raw a cut can feel
Reduce me to feeling so incredibly lowly

Mayhap one day I’ll smile and laugh
Remembering a look or a glance or a grin
Right now the scars are too fresh, too raw
To notice anything ready to begin
I must wait for my heart to thaw


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Catch Me

Catch Me
If I stumble, if I fall
Who will be there to catch me?
My internal support is crumbling
No one can see the braces
How much I take?
Just to hold me up
I need another hand
Someone to lend support
Cause maybe I’ll still fall
But I won’t fall as far


#catchme, #stumble, #internal, #support, #crumble, #brace, #hold, #hand, #lend, #fall, #far, #poem, #poetry,

Eternal Struggle

Eternal Struggle
Eternal struggle
Between beloved and friend
Who wins out in the end?
Should there be a winner?
Why is it a contest?
Can we love equally?
When friend becomes beloved
There is the perfect solution
Since that only happens
In fairy tales and books
We must always expect
To be second place
And if we are moved higher
We should be gracious


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Thursday, September 25, 2014

Bound

Hands fast bound
Binding two hearts
Circles unending
Entwined evermore
Words exchanged
Merely placeholders
Carved on hearts
Promises made
The spell is disbursed
But never forgotten
All present are witness
To a singular miracle
Two joined as one


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The Universal Truths

The universal truths
The points on which we all agree
Is there a higher power,
Something bigger than us all?
We have all felt the sting of loss
The flutter of the heart
That comes with love
The sting and pang
The bittersweet taste of regret
The bubbling up wellspring of joy
The burst of laughter
At inappropriate times
Some things belong to the world
We share them together
No matter who we are
We have the same
Essential Humanness


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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Life

Life
Lost ground and lost way
Footing insecure
Broken and defeated
We must brace ourselves
To rise again
For no matter how often we fall
We must rise to the challenge
To the day
To face our enemies
Because that is the meaning of life
The rise and fall
The give and take
Without which
We cannot live


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Lies

Lies
Do promises made at midnight
Mean nothing in the light of day?
Did you not swear by look and by deed?
I believed you when you said
You would be faithful
Was it all lies?
The moonlight was so beautiful
It cast a spell over us
Made me a romantic
Took me for a fool
I think we need to take time
To reassess this relationship
Maybe we were never meant to be


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INTJ

INTJ
Striding in measured steps
Cold cool calculating
The look in the eyes
That goes right through you
A sarcastic comment
Taken out of context
An offcolor joke
Taken to heart
Hard to reach that heart
Or even know it’s there
A side effect of life
A chemical reaction
We all have them
Just some choose not to flaunt them
Hiding in plain sight
If no one can see it
No one gets hurt
Protection always has a cost

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Sunday, September 21, 2014

Love means...

Love means …
Knowing all your secrets
Reaching out and never doubting
That a hand will be there
That feeling in the pit of your stomach
Is only from nerves,
Never your love
Love is as steady as
The ground beneath my feet
The first flush of lust
Grows into a beautiful rose of romance
Constant as the North Star
A shelter in any storm
Our love will hold fast
Together we can conquer the world


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Saturday, September 20, 2014

Entertainer’s Widow

Entertainer’s Widow
I have no reason to write
I need only to say
When you are out of my sight
I think of you every day
When you are with me the whole world seems in tune
When we are apart nothing seems to matter
I hope we are together soon
I couldn’t begin to feel sadder
I know your work is needed
The world must know of you
But while your work is feted
I sit at home feeling blue
But someday soon you’ll come home to me
Then all the world will see that you belong to me


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Descant

Descant
A counterpoint in harmony
A rhythm of the heart
You can’t pair a bass with a soprano
Or a contralto with a tenor
The harmonies must match
Then soar together to new heights
So too must souls match
Their jagged edges must meet
They fit together perfectly
But sometimes what is needed
Is a descant
That perfect little melody
That runs overtop of the song
Turns it inside out
But makes it so much better
Changes it all around
But the combination
Is beautiful

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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Deadline

Deadline
Call me on the first of May
That celebrated day
When flowers bloom and birds sing
And lovers lead the way

I’ll be ready for you at that time
When all the right words seem to rhyme
So come to me on Beltane Day
As the world resounds with chimes

But if you come on Easter Eve
I won’t ask for you to leave
I won’t be ready for you at that time
But I still could bear for you to leave

If you don’t come for me by fall
I’ll assume you won’t come for me at all
And that would be the biggest blow of all
If you were never to come at all


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It Was Never Better

It Was Never Better
Times long gone are better forgotten
Those long encumbered woes
Stales smells and dead horses
And pretty maids all in a row
Bowers of women who never dance
Waiting for men to pick them
Hoping for a match to further their houses
And children to be the next victim
On and on the cycle goes
Never ceasing never halting
When will right the world?
When will stop this faulting?
Women everywhere be proud of who you are
Stand, be brave and bold
One day you will be counted
Make sure you break the mold


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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Decision

Decision
So warm and comforting
Your hand on my cheek
Just a little thing
To show how you care
How you hold my hair back
While I worship the porcelain god
When you bring me weak tea
And dry toast
There’s still love in your eyes
How long before you resent me?
Before you regret
The choice you have made?
I love you enough
To tell you to go
But I’m selfish enough
To ask you to stay
It’s your
Decision

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Harpie

Harpie
Along a darkened road
By a glistening brook
A lonely maid sat waiting
For a love to come along
She waited very patiently
She could not comprehend
Why no one ever came looking?
What caused her heart to rend?
Eventually no one remembered
The poor maid waiting there
Till all that was left of her
Was her long luxurious hair
Then there came a minstrel
Lacking proper resources
He used the hair for strings
And the bones for harp pieces
When he brought it to town
The hair played its own tale
The lesson learned by all?
Sometimes even the good fail

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Monday, September 15, 2014

Sing

Weep not when angels fall
They do so every day
Cheer when men gain wings
And rise above the fray
Banish fears and sorrows
For they drag us down to earth
Search for knowledge and enlightenment
Value your own self worth
Other’s opinions are pointless
And vengeance is a wasteful thing
Giving up and letting go
Can make your conscience sing
So sing me songs of sleeping spirits
Those things that go bump in the night
And call me when your conscience soars
To new and unlimited heights

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Friday, September 12, 2014

Hope Chest

A hope chest standing empty
By the foot of the bed
Brings to mind
Times long ago
Loves of yesteryear
Forgotten
But not completely lost
We collect trinkets
To start a new life
But what if we never start over?
Never begin anew?
Is hope lost forever?
Or is it left sitting
In an empty chest
At the foot of the bed?


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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Alteration

Alteration
If alteration alters
What is left behind?
Is it something new?
What is there to find?
There is something in the changing
Something to be said
Never left to notice
What happens in your head
Tomorrow’s troubles find you
No matter how you hide
If you tell the truth as oft’ as able
You never regret having lied


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Replete

Replete
My pillow lies empty
It bears the impression
I catch a scent
Of your dulcet fragrance
And it moves me to tears
The absence of you
Crushes me
My dust settles here
As a tribute to your memory
Born on the wind
It will seek you out
Settle in your deepest recesses
Become part of you
As we will join
Once More
No longer divided
But
Replete


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Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Plea Bargain

Plea Bargain
Call me back to a brighter day
When time was a number not a sentence
Flowers still bloomed under a blistering sun
Children ran carefree through the streets
What happened to happier times?
To heartier laughter and friends?
Hedonistic summers wasted
Lounging in the twilight
Soft notes lost on the breeze
As we sat strumming guitars in the sunset
Can you remember those long gone hours?
If I close my eyes I can taste the charcoal
I am there with you
That’s all that matters

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Blank Page

Blank Page
The light of your smile
Of faded kisses
Brings memories of long ago days
When time had stopped for just one moment
And only we two lived
The air was heavy with potential
I breathed in time with you
Suddenly with a snap
All was gone
Left with a memory
Like a faded photograph
Slowly leaking ink
One day all it will be
Is a blank page



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Monday, September 8, 2014

Broken Glass

Shattered reflections
In broken glass
Just can’t bear to see
What is real, what is false?
Face lined with pain
Sorrow and heartache
Borrowing trouble
Or the smiling visage
Presenting to the world
Carefree and Nar-do-well
The truth is in the middle somewhere
But could true medium exist
When joy and sorrow war?
Perhaps Viviane meant the sword
To destroy this world of seeming
Feint copies, automatons
Merely wound up, marching along


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Ultimatum

Ultimatum

Things written in stone
Stand down the ages
But I like erasers
What if you change your mind?
Vacillating is a daily occurrence
A bit of a smudge here and there
Makes us human
No one should be perfect
Flaws are something to love
No one wants someone
Who they have to worship
And stand in awe of
I want an equal
Even if that means
Always being alone


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Justified

Justified

Whatever I was thinking
Believing I was worthy
You wouldn’t even look my way
Now I know why you won’t
Return my calls
You could not even justify
Spending the dime
I admit the rate of return
Is appreciably bad
What is there to keep me
In this barren, fruitless life?
No love, no reason for being
Would the world suffer my lack?


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Saturday, September 6, 2014

Wondering

Wondering
I’ve lost my footing along the way
I no longer hold my head up high
Would anyone wonder why?
Whether at work or at play
No longer able to throw cares away
Ever wondering why
This has to be the way
Life is lived in brief spans
Mine seem to be mainly tired
Longing for holding of hands
Filled with a burning desire
But eminently lacking in plans
Ending in a gulf of fire


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Sexual Politics

Sexual Politics
Endless potential in motion
A chance, perpetually begun
The world is your oyster my friend
Joining the battle is half the fun

Call out the trumpets of glory
Time to start a new story
We begin by tilting at blades
Where are the giants to slay?
We must rescue the honorable maids!

But the maids no longer need rescuing
In fact, they’re the ones raining fire!
Fairy Tales are hopelessly outdated
But without them you never feel sated

So we’re left with an unknown system
It’s very hard to assist them
To help slay the dragons, it’s hard to know
When people don’t behave as they should
Who’s to remember which side is good?

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Distance

Distance
Missing only begins to describes
The thought of being without you
As daylight creeps up my window
What’s missing from my view is you
And it burns more it each day
It’s getting more painful to say
How much I love you and in every way

The distance grows farther
And more silent every day
Without your smiling face
I wade into the daily fray
Certain that I’ve lost you
Determined to come for you
But missing you and loving you

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Friday, September 5, 2014

Turnstiles of Time

Will you miss me when I’m gone?
When the dust clears
And the smoke settles
Will the memories fade?
As the lights dime
And the curtains close
The people pass through
The turnstiles of time
I want to leave my mark

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Thursday, September 4, 2014

Human Nature

Human Nature

The burning of desire
The banishment of grace
The fall from heights so lofty
That it tangles with men’s fates
Aestheticism becomes you
And chastity is best
It’s hard to get in trouble
When you simply want to rest
But now to take it further
And heavenward and more
To be pleasured by the punishment
Attracted by blood and gore
We always take it too far
Can’t stop at satisfied
Heaven forbid we stay at even keel
Though it’s been a lovely ride


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Morrigan/Hecate

Morrigan/Hecate

Daughter of the moon and skies
A trickster born and bred
Mother of angels, Queen of lies
Poisoning her own lovers bed
Foretelling the toll of the dead

But necromancy is where she is strongest
She excels in the hearth and the soul
Who loves the most lasts the longest
But can she survive it whole?
Three tasks can take their toll

He comes begging assistance
When presented with her shadowy debut
He shows a world of resistance
Which will cause him, his decision to rue
If only he had learned some virtue

Now at a crossroad she stands
And becomes a new face, a new being
She crosses into many new lands
Trying to feel like its intentional not fleeing


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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Wild Winds

Wild is the wind that whips the shore
And Beats the beach and sand
Rolling the riptide rises
The seas ever steady lure
It calls us to leave the land
Forces us to make compromises
Then returns us nary a favor
No matter how we command
We always know where the truth lies
Although the ocean is ours to savor
We fathom what it symbolizes


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Allure

Look but never touch
See the unknowing
Things that are unavailable
Are the most desirable
Is it the unattainability
That makes them so desirable?
Are objects aware
Of their allure?
When thousands clamor
For one thing only?
If it were me,
I would quake in fear.


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Prisoner

I feel the prison closing in
More caged day by day
Pacing the same track over and over
My confinement has yet to begin
But that word to me implies children
The one cage of which I am free
Just imprisoned by my own body
Not really enough to cause fuss
Frustrated and flustered always
Tired, in pain and alone
My prison is not my own making
I still hope to one day be free
Even though I know it’s impossible
I can always hope eternally


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Precipice

A burgeoning glory is coming
The victory soon will commence
Only powerful enter here
Precipice

Company is few and exalted
Accolades too numerous to count
Valued and Precious
Precipice

Now is the time to delight in it
To relish the favor you found
Time waits for no man
Precipice


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Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Mud Doesn't Become you...

Never meant to be
For fiction fails us now
There are no fairy tale princes
No midnight rides
No pumpkin carriages
All there is
The here and now
Crashing notes of reality
Burdens of normality
Pain and regret
Tempered by the fact
That at least
I’m not dragging you
Down with me
For as much as you
Would raise me higher than I’ve ever been
I come from the gutters
People tend to get trapped here
I wouldn’t want you caught
Mud doesn’t become you

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Lost

Lost
A paused conversation
Taken out of context
It draws conclusions to the strangest places
They think they see insight
A brief glimpse
Never a full picture
How could you make a picture
Out of a thousand
A million
Scattered pieces?

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Content

Flying high so close to the sun
The flames are burning higher
Enjoy your time of fun

The passion of a burning fire
Burns brightly and fervid in the mind
As long as pleasure never tires

Providing nourishment for the mind
Can counteract any ennui
Give partners time to unwind

No question about it, patience is key
We’ve heard it time and again
The love we share will keep us free

If this is not your ideal plan, call me friend
I’ll content myself with just that
I’ll rather be wanted then hated again

But once we were a lot of fun
We walked on tightrope wires
But as the years unwind
We’ve learned just to be
Even if our hearts will rend
I’ll content myself with that


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Suits You

Deepest and Darkest, the most intense hue
Calls to mind violence, death and sorrow
Strange as it seems, it always suits you
But never was I, one troubles to borrow
Let’s save all the pondering stuff for tomorrow
Concentrate only on the needs of the day
Party and play while the time bleeds away
You only have reason to question your life
If you don’t like where the possibilities lay
You have no one to blame for your strife

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Monday, September 1, 2014

Cento Part Two

Cento Part Two
We are screaming inside but we can’t be heard
Long silence followed then again her voice was stagnant midnight stirred
Pain so extreme as to cause writhing I’m confused by the agony.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite terror of their reality.
And a pill won’t take the pain away. But it makes you feel good in a different way.
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.


Line 1 Sarah McLachlan I Will Remember You Line 2 Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Line 3 Imperanon Rhythm of Pain Line 4 Edgar Allan Poe The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket Line 5 Jackal Locked and Loaded Line 6 T. S. Elliot Little Gidding



Masque

Fake smiles on put upon faces
No genuine laughs to lighten the day
Nary a hope of knowing what one’s place is
Only the masque, a mere children’s play
We cavort and politic, Sell our secrets for fame
Keeping the bigger ones close to our chest
Legions of fans screaming a name
Never willing to take five minutes rest
When one of them falls another will rise
A sad state of affairs, a hard thing to see
A short focus on the cause of demise
Never willing to place the blame where it should be
We worship too hard and plot our way
But sometimes it’s taken way too far
There’s a line that’s crossed, very easy to stray
To be near the rising star
Leave them time for their lives, it will be good
Their work will gain for it too
Think if it was your life you know you would
Dislike being stalked, True?


Somehow the rhyme scheme got away from me here.  The sentiment is there though.
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Extinguished

Kiss me a thousand times
Let me feel your lips against mine
Hold me gently
Brush my hair back
With your elegant fingers
Light my way into the night
Spiraling even higher
Soaring on gossamer wings
Pulled into ecstasy
Burning with passion
Then
Extinguished


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Grey Skies

Grey Skies
The dark clouds are heavy in the sky
They brim with the tears of heaven
It falls with desperate longing
I look out my window
The drops fall faster
A heavy heart
When it stops
Skies clear
Calm

I’d forgotten about these weird little forms of poems.  This is a Nonet.  It starts with nine syllable then each line has a decrease if one syllable until the last line which has one.  Interesting.  But I needed a form tonight. Lacking inspiration.


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