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Christmas Music In Other Words…

My Dad was an English teacher for nigh unto 35 years. He used to use many tricks to try the class involved and attentive. One that he pulled out around this time of year was a quiz called “Are our Auditory Perceptions Similar?” He would have a list of phrases and then the students would have to “translate” them.  Sounds similar in a lot of ways to hashtag wars to me! If I was using it like that I would call it #Christmasmusicinotherwords The first one BTW is “Do you hear what I hear?”

Are Our Auditory Perceptions Similar?

Cobalt Noel

Unto Others A Joyous Yuletide Aspiration

Bring Forth the Frozen Precipitation

Hail Petite Hamlet on the West Bank

Hail Revered Eventide

Kris Kringle Approaches the Municipality

Muteness Falls From Dusk Till Dawn

Argentate Tintinnabulums

Achromatic Twenty Fourth Day of December*(only so many ways you can say it you know)

Caribou of a Specific Name with Crimson Color Proboscis

Apart

Apart

I tried to fall in love today

And went to give my heart away

But I found a note that read

You stole my heart I’ve taken yours in stead

I thought about it long and hard

Who could be such a callow card?

To take my heart with nary a word?

Not even by a look inferred

Only one name came to mind

The tangled knot, it did unwind

I followed the path where it did lead

To retrieve my heart with utmost speed

But when I reached to bring it back

You grabbed my hand for a change of tack

We fell in to soulful bliss

As we slowly began to kiss

Now I know I have no heart

It has always been apart

With my love it will stay

Until the night becomes the day

#fall, #love, #heart, #stole, #callow, #word, #look, #tangled, #knot, #path, #lead, #retrieve, #hand, #tack, #soulful, #bliss, #kiss, #apart, #night, #day, #poem, #poetry, 

Cento Three: I Don't Know How to Love Him...

I would walk 500 miles

Hide your love away

I’ll give you shelter from the storm

I’ll do anything

Just to be where you are

When the time is right

Call me

No matter what

I’ll be there

I’ll be waiting

Fool that I am

#cento, #TheProclaimers, #AnthemLights, #BobDylan, #JasonMraz, #Lifehouse, #GriffinHouse, #Blondie, #boyZone, #TheFourtops, #Adele, #poem, #poetry #experimental

Bubble

Bubble

Frozen moments in time

Reach liquid form combusting

They explode into the present

With scents and senses reeling

A thread is ripped from time and space

It pulls the pattern out of weave

The slightest breeze untangles it all

And forces us to believe

In higher powers that control our lives

In fates and presence foreboding

To doubt is to no longer be alive

The past is fast eroding

#frozen, #moments, #time, #bubbles, #liquid, #combusting, #explode, #present, #scents, #senses, #reeling, #thread, #ripped, #space, #pattern, #weave, #slightest, #breeze, #untangles, #forces, #believe, #higherpower, #control, #alive, #past, #fast, #eroding, #poetry, #poem 

Beauty

Beauty

Beauty is not ephemeral.

Beauty is permanence, passion,

Fleeting moments do just that,

They fly away.

What matters is what stays.

The fire that burns,

Way down deep in your soul,

Too far down to be quieted or quenched

By an uncaring gaze.

In your memory, it will reside

Forever.

It lives in the collective unconscious.

Like a heartbeat;

Steady, Solid,

Undeniable,

It waits upon it’s time.

To question beauty,

Is to question one’s own self.

If you doubt what is real

Know only this,

The truth in beauty lies,

In knowing oneself.

If you do not take the time now

To know and love yourself,

You can never know love,

Or Beauty

#beauty, #ephemeral, #permance, #passion, #fleeting, #moments, #fly , #away, #matter, #stays, #fire, #burns, #deep, #soul, #quieted, #quenched, #uncaring, #gaze, #memory, #reside, #forever, #collectiveunconscious, #heartbeat, #steady, #solid, #undeniable, #waits, #time, #question, #self, #doubt, #real, #truthinbeautylies, #knowingonesself, #doubt, #real, #take, #time, #loveyourself, #poem, #Poetry

Crux

Crux

Call out just once and I’ll be there

No matter how far away

Time will not alter or change me

My love is here to stay

Take time to make some revisions

I know it worries you so

But remember I will be here waiting

When you’ve reached your lowest low

The world does its best to break you

To put you down in your place

But I’ll be here to protect you

Wipe the shadows that darken your face

So call on me when the time comes

Lean on me, I’m steady as the Earth

But the hour is coming when questions will rise

Time to prove your mettle and worth

#call, #once, #there, #matter, #far, #time, #alter, #change, #love, #here, #stay, #revisions, #worries, #remember, #waiting, #reached, #lowest, #low, #world, #break, #place, #shadows, #darken, #face, #lean, #steady, #earth, #hour, #questions, #rise, #mettle, #worth, #poem, #poetry

TOILM

TOILM

The crisp cold scent of morning,

As the steam rises from my mug.

My hands embracing

The one I love most.

No longer interested in coffee

My strength comes from somewhere new,

We rise and fall,

To the beat of our hearts,

Gently,

Then more rapidly,

Stars explode,

And a cup of coffee

Sits,

Cooling on a windowsill,

Forgotten

#crisp, #cold, #scent, #morning, #steam, #mug, #hands, #embracing, #love, #most, #interested, #coffee, #strength, #new, #rise, #fall, #beat, #hearts, #gently, #rapidly, #stars, #explode, #cooling, #windowsill, #forgotten, #poem, #poetry, #toilm

Sad Eyes

Sad Eyes

The sad eyes sat in the corner so pale

Their soul, their sorrow showed

Remembering days of suns without fail

When they soared and feasted and savored

The knowledge showed in great detail

Falls from grace are meted

Hubris is a twice told tale

That often is repeated

Careful heroes never fail

But rarely are they feted

When inner demons rage and wail

Sad eyes will be entreated

#pale, #soul, #sorrow, #showed, #remembering, #suns, #fail, #soared, #feasted, #savored, #knowledge, #detail, #falls, #grace, #meted, #hubris, #twice, #told, #tale, #repeated, #heroes, #feted, #inner, #demons, #rage, #wail, #entreated, #poem, #poetry

Instructions

Instructions

While patience sits in the kindest hearts

Deeper feelings flower

If left unaltered vengeances blooms

For time inevitably alters

So watch your heart and gird your loins

For children need strict raising

If needs come first, then needs outweigh

And children don’t need praising

Keep them close, don’t spoil the flower

If time has taught us naught,

‘Tis that we must the rod employ

Or pain will soon be wrought

#patience, #kindest, #hearts, #feelings, #flower, #vengeance, #blooms, #time, #alters, #watch, #gird, #loins, #children, #raising, #needs, #outweigh, #praising, #spoil, #naught, #rod, #employ, #pain, #wrought, #poem, #poetry

The End of TIme

The End of Time

So hold me till I break

I’m made of sterner stuff

The universe will crumble first

Before it gets to rough

You have the best of hearts, love

When intentions mean it all

But watch your step when walking

Pride goeth before the fall

Children often don’t think

And taunt before they listen

But you and I will laugh till dawn

As they feed their own ambition

What matters at the end of time?

Who waits when daylight breaks?

The moon will only laugh at them

Who really knows the price, the stakes?

#hold, #break, #sterner, #stuff, #crumble, #rough,# best, #hearts, #intentions, #step, #love, #walking, #pride, #fall, #children, #think, #taunt, #listen, #laugh, #dawn, #feed, #ambition, #matters, #end, #time, #waits, #daylight, #moon, #price, #stakes, #poem, #poetry

Three Days

Three Days

Shaking hands

Shaking legs

Shaking hearts

Three days can change your world

Breaking minds

Breaking hearts

Breaking worlds

Three words can mean everything

Taking hearts

Taking lives

Taking time

Just. Three. Little. Days.

#hands, #legs, #hearts, #days, #three, #change, #world, #minds, #words, #everything, #lives, #time, #poem, #Poetry, #existential 

Public Policy

Freedom
I can disagree with your ideas
Without disagreeing with you.
I can disagree 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.

I've posted this before but I feel this is necessary once again.  Sometimes people feel like there are only two choices.  They feel they are only the extreme ends of the spectrum.  But there is also a middle ground. 

In regards to a certain public figures and their ability to maintain a private life, yes, they have a right to maintain privacy.  They also have a right to share their life with the world (see Keeping up with The Kardashians).  There is also a middle ground.  What and how much is decided by them.  

But, if they choose to share something with the public then that information is going to be analyzed, scrutinized and altogether abused by some people.  That is the way the world works.  Also not everyone is going to agree with you and your choices.  I don't have to agree with you to live with you!  The two are not mutually exclusive.  I, personally, did not like a certain musician who is no longer with us because of their personal habits.  However, one or two of their songs are very good.  Their habits did not affect the quality of their music.  

The current uproar is not with the public figure themselves but with a person they associate with.  I have associated with people whose reputations may not be the greatest.  That do not make anything I do less valid. It is not a requirement of liking an public figure, to like everyone they associate with.  This goes for actors, musicians, painters, writers, etc.  I would have thought this was discussed at length when Ender's Game came out but obviously not.  

There are people insisting that it is required that everyone smile and "be thrilled" that this association is being made.  That is not their job, to tell someone else what to think or say.  What someone else likes or dislikes, is none or your business, unless they are trying to stop you from expressing your opinion.

 "I can disagree with your ideas, without disagreeing with you." 

My nature is that of a sceptic and will continue to be.  If I see something that looks unusual, I will question it. 

Hollow Rings

Hollow Rings

Inspired by The Hollow Crowns Trilogy.  All those loveless marriages before Henry the VII “invented” divorce.  The Kings may have gotten some side “something-something” but the women would have been watched oh so carefully.  Sucks.  Queen Anne may have lost her head but it created a great stride in saving people who are in bad marriages.  As Shakespeare said, “Many a good hangings prevents a bad marriage.”

The Autumn leaves begin to fall now

The time has come for honor’d vow

As on her head you place the crown

Think on what you have cast down

Time will past in measured stride

Will thirst no longer be denied?

A hunger for the missing link

If only you had time to think

But honor must ‘fore pleasure come

Hail the day with wine and rum

Later, regret on stilted wings

Will be borne down on silv’red rings

Naught to do but hold heads high

Live together alone until you die

#Autumn,  #marriage, #Hollowcrown, #loveless, #love, #king, #queen, #crown, #rings, #honor, #time, #head, #cast, #think, #measured,#stride, #thirst, #link, #pleasure, #wine, #rum, #wings, #together, #alone, #poem, #poetry#die, #shakespeare, 

iStorage Bait and Switch

Today I had an experience, and I will try to be brief and concise. My Dad is an auctioneer who has, in the past, made use of public storage because of excess materials.  I live at home due to disabilities.  We also have a joint checking account so that in an emergency I have access to funds as I do not work.  My Dad does not believe in electronic fund transfers, commonly called EFTs, or online bill pay because of the large amount of fraud currently happening, and I don’t really blame him.  He began a business relationship with iStorage in Burlington last year.  He signed a lease, a legal document.  People should always read the documents they sign.  Last month he was informed that he would now have to pay an insurance fee.  This fee could be waived if he provided proof of homeowners insurance. His bill was due today, November 5, 2014.  I have a treatment that requires that I stay four hours in the hospital today.  He told me on the way home that he had forgotten that it was due.  He suggested we stop and pay the bill for the storage unit and bring the insurance information the next day.  I thought it would be an acceptable agreement.  It was late in the day and we would not be able to get back and our insurance agency closes early.  When I went in to the office, I suggested this option.  I was told that I could pay the full amount (with insurance) or I could come back the next day and pay the late fee for the rental of the storage unit.  I was standing there, with a check in hand, waiting to write a check.  I was essentially told that my money was not good.  Both managers were there a well.  I questioned the new policy.  I said that other storage rentals had never asked for proof of homeowner’s insurance or asked for a fee for insurance coverage and when was this policy instituted?  I said that this was not part of the original lease.  I suggested that a lawyer might have problems with instituting a change to a lease midyear without proper notice.  I was told 30 days was proper notice.  Then the story changed to the fact that homeowner’s insurance was required initially by the lease.  I said that if it was required when we signed the lease, I made sure it was provided.  I asked to see the lease that was signed.  I was showed two pages tacked to the end of the original signed lease.  I insisted that if I was asked to provide paperwork I would have.  I suggested that perhaps through no one’s fault it was lost as they said we change storage units (we did no such thing).  I was informed that in NO WAY SHAPE OR FORM could paperwork EVER be lost.  Since some of the items in the unit are consignments for my Dad’s auction and we need access to the unit, I paid the D@m^ fee but made my feelings extremely clear.  I was not pleased.  I informed them that I would be bringing the insurance information tomorrow and I would be making this story know tonight on as many social media platforms as I was able.  I also plan to go to the county as on further contemplation I feel that this constitutes bait and switch, in that they change the terms of the lease which also altered the price.  I also would like to make it known that they were arguing over less than $10. Which I also made abundant clear, many times that I felt was a stupid amount to argue over.  My Dad is in business.  If the situation was reversed, he would have waived the fee.  I was told that the managers couldn’t do that because it was the company policy.  In that case, I have had people take the money out of pocket rather that have an irate costumer, take to the internet and their friends and tell the world what happened.  Rule No. 1: The Customer is always right!  Rule 2: If is Customer is wrong see Rule no. 1! So If you use this company tell them what you think, here is there website http://istorage.com/ or at the very least check your lease and terms of agreement. 

String Theory

String Theory

Reaching out to touch

Hands across the emptiness

Interlacing brings stability

A brief spell to stay the whispers

There is no force on Heaven or earth

That could halt the flood at the harbor

Warmness spread throughout

Tensions run high

Don’t want to cut it

Keep stringing it along

I’ll hang with you forever

#reaching, #touch, #hands, #emptiness, #interlacing, #stability, #brief, #spell, #stay, #whispers, #force, #heaven, #earth, #halt, #flood, #harbor, #warmness, #spread, #tensions, #high, #cut, #stringing, #hang, #forever, #poem, #poetry, 

A Midnight Wish

A Midnight Wish

Beautiful dreams that elude and evade

Haunted eyes that burn so bright

Pray that good times never fade

I feel I am measured and weighed

Should my soul be heavy or light?

Beautiful dreams that elude and evade

The sun is so bright there is no sign of shade

No color at all, only white

Pray that good times never fade

A seeming then, A home that’s made

A happy family, feeling so right

Beautiful dreams that elude and fade

When the time comes to end the charade

Will it be easy to give up the fight?

Pray that good times never fade

So I’ll not be moved or swayed

To my true feelings I’ll hold tight

Beautiful dreams that elude and fade

Pray that good times never fade

#beautiful, #dreams, #elude, #fade, #haunted, #eyes, #burn, #bright, #pray, #goodtimes, #evade, #sun, #bright, #sign, #shade, #color, #white, #seeming, #home, #made, #happy, #family, #feeling, #right, #end, #charade, #easy, #fight, #moved, #swayed, #true, #feelings, #poem, #poetry

Mercury's Vow

Mercury’s Vow

And all my sorrows turn to joys in times unlikely number’d

But quickly end with willful sighs to turn smiles e’now

A joyful look, I quickly took as e’re I turn my head

By Mercury, I pledged my vow

I wish only to live in the here and now

Never have meanings wrongly misread

But what will come of this sacred vow?

In public I will not one glistening teardrop shed

Only happy or pleasant face allow

Not to belie or fool, ‘tis that I dread

Br Mercury, I pledge this vow!

#mercury, #vow, #sorrows, #joys, #unlikely, #numbered, #quickly, #willful, #sighs, #enow, #joyful, #look, #ere, #head, #pledged, #wish, #live, #meanings, #wrongly, #misread, #sacred, #public, #glistening, #teardrop, #shed, #happy, #pleasant, #face, #allow, #belie, #fool, #dread, #poem, #poetry, #roundel

What Men Really Want...

What Men Really Want…

Why must men insist and say

Care not for dress, throw wiles away

Who put it about, who heard it said

A man cares for the looks inside our heads?

But do they mean it, what they say?

Or is it an attempt to gain our bed?

They try to stay two steps ahead

Why must men persist and say…

A loving wife they wish to wed

To laugh and smile all the day

Intelligence should fill their head

Care not for dress, throw wiles away

It’s enough to make a girl see red

To find the original protégée.

Who thought enough to think of a way?

Who put it about, who made it said?

A girl is beautiful for skills she conveys

Not bosoms big, shining hair or lips of red

When that is true, I’ll seize the day

When a man cares for the looks inside our heads!

#feminism, #men, #women, #insist, #care, #dress, #wiles, #looks, #head, #attempt, #bed, #twostepsahead, #persist, #loving, #wife, #wed, #laugh, #smile, #intelligence, #girl, #red, #original, #protégée, #beautiful, #skills, #convey, #bosoms, #big, #shining, #hair, #lips, #red, #true, #seize, #day, #poem, #poetry

Our Song

Our Song

I think our song is ending love

When tragedies are mentioned think on us

There was a great run for a while

When times were bright and gay

We laughed on golden shores

The hours whiled away without remark

Just sitting hand in hand, heart in heart

But now we must head into the sunset

Our lives to live again

It’s not alone I fear

It’s “without you” I dread

#song, #ending, #love, #tragedies, #mentioned, #think, #us, #run, #times, #bright, #laughed, #golden, #shores, #hours, #remark, #handinhand, #heartinheart, #sunset, #lives, #alone, #fear, #without, #dread, #poem, #poetry

DO YOU EVER????

Do you ever?...

Do you ever feel like taking everything you’ve ever written, drawn, typed, sewn, composed, sung, played, recorded, or just in general created chucking it in a huge bonfire and lighting the match?  I really feel like I am identifying with Salieri lately, except he was a PUBLISHED composer and had fans and was BRILLANT.  Me?  I’m just a mouthy, nobody with a blog, a twitter, and lots of opinions.  That’s why I try to create new forms of poetry, like my gif poem, or the internet concrete poem.  I figure if no one ELSE has done them I can’t be shown up right? 

Sooner or later though, someone will come around with the wits to improve my paltry ideas.  After all, there are more things in heaven and earth, right? They say there are only seven stories after all.  I wonder if they have adjusted that saying to have more gender inclusive romantic storylines.  I say romance is romance, no matter who is giving and who is receiving, or how many!  The drama of a story comes from the angst.  The tenor and tone of the story can change depending on the mores and morals of society but the basis of the story stays the same.  That is true whether you change the settings or the characters or the sex!  Romeo and Juliet could be Romeo and Caesar and it would be the same story, maybe even easier to understand! 

But I, personally, have been having writer’s block lately.  Call it the 3 M’s. Migraines, Megrimes, and Monthlies. LSIDC I do love how every time a woman is in a bad mood a man everyone blames it on her period.  I was writing that men do this but I realized women do it just as much.  We may do it in a sticky sweet, back biting, condescending way, but we do.  Men may not realize the amount of cat calling and sniping that goes on between women because a lot of it is subtext.  Thing are said that are call backs to past conversations, or said between clenched teeth, or with baited breath. Women are never going to get anything from men until we stop GIVING IT to each other!

Well, I started this post trying to clear my head so that my writer’s block.  I’m not sure if that worked.  I still feel like setting all my stuff on fire.  I don’t think I’ll do it.  It’d take too long to gather it together.  But if you see a blaze lighting up half of North America…

#DYE, #Sewing, #Writing, #Drawing, #composing, #sing, #playing, #recording, #instruments, #lighting, #match, #Salieri, #brilliant, #blog, #twitter, #opinions, #poetry, #wits, #paltry, #heaven, #earth, #sevenstories, #RomeoandJuliet, #RomeoandCaesar, #migraines, #megrimes, #mothlies, #LSIDC, #women, #men, #feminism, #period, #backbiting, #condescending, #sniping, #subtext, #callback, #past, #conversation, #baitedbreath, #writersblock, #post, #fire, #girl, #blaze, #gathertogether

Writer's Block

The creative process slows to a crawl

My pen is limp in my hand

And…

Now…

I...

Wait…

And now with each word I scrawl

My brain starts to expand

The words begin to flow

Expanding at a faster pace

I allow as that my rest is done

It’s broken its terrible brace

I have lifted the veil and seen

#creative, #process, #slows, #crawl, #pen, #limp, #hand, #word, #scrawl, #brain, #expand, #flow, #faster, #pace, #allow, #rest, #done, #broken, #terrible, #brace, #lifted, #veil, #seen, #Poem, #poetry

Revelations

So terrified of what it means

What calls in the dark of night

You are the brightest of light

Keeping me from losing my cool

Coming apart at the seams

My battered knight in armor

No longer shiny and new

It’s not anyone’s place to judge

Intolerable what people think they can do

To figures on paper-mache

Used for money or power

Not important for what they portray

Kings no longer have power

Should they?

#terrified, #means, #calls, #dark, #night, #brightest, #light, #keeping, #keeping, #losing, #cool, #apart, #seams, #battered, #knight, #armor, #shiny, #new, #place, #judge, #intolerable, #people, #figures, #papermache, #money, #power, #important, #portray, #kings, #power, #poem, #poetry,

Solution

One step ahead and two behind

Getting the pacing just right

If the world falls away could we walk hand in hand?

And finally step into the light?

Does it matter who is in the front now?

Does it matter who brings up the rear?

If one of us follows the other,

We will end up together, my dear.

My solution in the end is simple,

We stop this running around.

Find a spot that we can settle down now,

And we will have nothing to fear.

#step, #behind, #pacing, #right, #world, #falls, #hand, #light, #matter, #front, #row, #rear, #follows, #together, #dear, #solution, #simple, #running, #spot, #settle, #fear, #love, #poem, #poetry 

Tether

It's a plain dreary rain
I watch from my window pane
It's time for moving on
But I'm stuck here with the pain
Time is fleetly flying
And patience has me sighing
I've waited here so long
Just knowing this and crying
You left me here forever
My heart about to sever
My life is barren, I withdrawal
I've lost my only tether

#plain, #dreary, #rain, #window, #time, #moveon, #stuck, #pain, #fleetly, #flying, #patience, #sighing, #waiting, #long, #knowing, #crying, #left, #forever, #heart, #sever, #life, #barren, #withdrawal, #lost, #tether, #poem, #poetry

Some Scraps of Poems

From now on I need to steel myself from the darkness,
My hard choices need to come swiftly now
One follow another in rapid succession
Time has come to rise to the action and make bold statements
Not always the popular decisions to bear the burdens
A life of single blessedness is a cursed choice
What is necessary is right in God's eye and mine

Staring through crisscrossed eyelashes

Looking for courage in diminutive frames

Time will come soon enough

When light explodes through shattered seconds

Experience the feeling of fractured repose

#steel, #darkness, #hard, #choices, #swiftly, #rapid, #succession, #time, #rise, #action, #bold, #popular, #decisions, #bear, #burdens, #life, #single, #blessedness, #cursed, #necessary, #staring, #crisscrossed, #eyelashes, #looking, #courage, #diminutive, #frames, #light, #explodes, #shattered, #seconds, #experience, #feeling, #fractured, #repose, #poem, #poetry

My Past

My past

A dark corridor

Is where eternity lies

Wrought with sorrow

Pain and Sighs,

You bright up my life in

Like the sun in mid June

Like the sky fills the moon

An illusion of an oasis

You go and disappear

The sorrow in my ribs

Again begins to sear

I guess I’ll never know

The treasure I have found

Until it disappears,

Without trace or sound

The light up ahead

Will guide me home

Never again shall I forget

Where I‘ve come from

#dark, #corridor, #eternity, #lies, #pain, #sorrow, #sighs, #brighten, #life, #sun, #sky, #moon, #illusion, #oasis, #disappear, #sear, #treasure, #found, #trace, #sound, #light, #ahead, #guide, #home, #never, #forget, #come, #poem, #poetry

A disorganized house is the sign of an organized mind: WARNING SOME SPOILERS SWEETIE NEW DOCTOR WHO REVIE...

A disorganized house is the sign of an organized mind: WARNING SOME SPOILERS SWEETIE NEW DOCTOR WHO REVIE...: So Far- Clara (Oswin) Oswald- Born Nov 23,1989/Nov 23, 1886 –Dec 24,1892 Makes her 24 in modern era same age as when Who was first c...

Vows

Vows

All anyone can ask

Is to give you all can,

To try not lie,

And to love with all your heart and soul.

To vow to be faithful

Is a large part of what is wrong with this world

We expect too much

Then are upset when it falls apart

Just don’t flaunt them in front of me.

Don’t get trapped.

Be careful.

I don’t want a fixer up model.

Anyone who goes into a relationship

Intending to change someone

Ends up

With disappointments and heartaches

The only person you can count on changing

Is you.

So go into love with your eyes open,

And never end up

With your heart in pieces on the floor.

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Comet

Oh my bright and burning star

Some would stay you’re falling

It’s just that you blaze so radiantly

The Earth has turned her back on you

You have a path, a steady course

Returning to give us bliss

Never altering your initial trail

Although we may not see its plan

Some may see a heart of ice

Some may see a trail of fire

I see a journey half completed

And the future yet to come

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Inquiry

Inquiry

Would you know me by my rapier wit?

By my overwhelming personality?

Is it my physicality that draws you?

My hands running up the nape of your neck?

Do you love the way I love you?

The way I am drawn to you?

Could you tell me from others at a distance?

Is my smile the sun in your sky?

Or is it the fact that my heart

No longer beats in my chest

It is in your possession

Care for it well

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Broken

Caught out again like a bug on a web

You reel me in to your trap

Not even noticing what you have done

Breaking my heart with a sudden snap

Dangling there on a string

Waiting for the axe to fall

The world suddenly seems so small

It only exists for you and me

But you are made of clouds and dreams

If I touch you, you would cease to be

Giving way to my plans and schemes

So look I can but never touch

A delicate balance is struck

Until another comes into your life

Even in dreams I have no luck

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Instincts

Instincts

Sometimes we all need to bay at the moon

To give into to our animal instincts

We need to fall to our knees and roll in the dirt

Feel the pounding of blood in our veins

Because it’s not always about the meter and rhyme

Sometimes we have to throw caution to the wind

For when we can’t be perfect

You may as well make as big a mess as possible

A little dirt under your nails

Only shows how hard you’ve toiled

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Missing

Missing

Phantom fingers in my hair

Gently sliding down

A slight touch

Deftly caressing

Longing for what cannot be had

The barriers are too high

The cost, too much

Could the world suffer your loss?

Mine would be no heartbreak

Not even a blip on the radar

Separation is good for the soul

Or at least

That is what everyone

Seems convinced I need to hear

What is your opinion, love?

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Race

Race

This breakneck speed, it never stops

A frantic, hectic pace

The crashing, clanking sound of the world

There’s a reason it’s called the human race

Where do we go when just need a break

When you need to just get away

Sometimes we all need a new look on life

A new prospective on the day

So we head for mountain, sand and shore

To relax and recharge and rest

But maybe we don’t know how to slow ourselves down

What methods really work the best

A change is coming carried on currents

Which way they blow no one knows

Just try to keep your head on straight

This world keeps you on your toes

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Scales

Scales

Surrendering is easier when flesh is not rent

Hearts are harder to bargain

Pain is a price that’s harder to set

 Though it is a fairly active market

Time is valued as losses accrued

Wishes will be stored away

Scales are tipped to the side of the wooed

Love is saved for a rainy day

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Bonded

Bonded

That feeling deep down in your soul

Which makes your life complete

The heart that makes your own heart whole

The taste that makes life so sweet

It rises up from deep within

To fill you up with light

No matter where you have been

It makes the whole world right

When you find the perfect thing

Grab it with both hands

Tie it up with golden strings

Give in to its demands

For you have found the perfect life

 There will be no more sorrow or strife

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Braggart

Braggart

Haranguing tongues wag everyday

Harpies hardly stop nagging

It’s a cross between lying and bragging

To assume yours is the only way

New things happen everyday

Wouldn’t want to be the one lagging

Who set new tongues to wagging

It’s better to stay out of the fray

Step to the beat of a different drum

Be careful in all that you say

Eventually the good things will come

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Carpe Diem

Carpe Diem

Just everyday normal, humdrum things

Coming and going about the day

Recalling faces and songs that we sing

Moving about and going away

Because people do that in their everyday lives

They pack up and move at the drop of a hat

What everyone longs for, everyone strives

Not to fall down, land flat on their back

For goals are important, as far as they go

To chart your own path and guide your own way

But not achievable in one's own life, so

Take time out to seize the day!

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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