Growing Up Isn't Easy

When I was a child
You hurled insults at me
Reviled me
You call me weak
Do you even remember my name?

When I was older
I knew why you you insulted me
The need to possess or control
Was an all-consuming hunger
You wanted my soul.
Now you don't even care for my attention

When you were in college
I was a distraction, a means to an end
The way to get what you needed
Do you even remember I exist?

Now I'm older
My scars no longer burn
The pain is still fresh though
It forms my whole being

For though I have been
Slander and abused and
Taken advantage of

I survived

I'm stronger

I will go on

'Twas the penultimate day before Christmas

'Twas penultimate day before Christmas
I sat with no Elf on my shelf
I licked cookie batter off of my fingers And smiled in spite of myself
I had no presents to wrap
No festive lights to hang
I really cannot lie
Amazon is a wonderful thing
The rain was falling down
And splattering on the panes
The children sat school
And wished they had candy canes
The vacuum cleaner was running
Picking up the dust on the floor
If I had to clean anymore s***
I'd scream till I cried no more
Visions of Santa would not come
I was busy crying in pain
If I had to wrap another present
I'd slowly go insane
Christmas has come to mean parties
Gifts and ribbons and strings
We no longer think of the joy
Of the peace the season should bring
So as we sit there on Christmas
And gather with friends and family
Take time to sit and remember
Those struck by war, illness and poverty.

Violent Kisses

Cover me with violent kisses
Rage against my body
Make me beg for you
Open and waiting
Hold me as I fall
Reaching out for what's within grasp
Lying in the dying light
Shelter me
As our souls merge

Bu/y Owner

Whole mostly complete person--

Not too short, just high enough to reach
I will wear sandals when not at the beach Including a heart that's mostly complete
The cracks give it charm, they make it look sweet

As for the brains, I have to be thinking
Of solid more ways to ever be linking
We're all connected, we should be aligned
One day I will find it- true peace of mind

Now to the almost, Which never will be-

I'll never act or model or professionally sing
Don't expect to hear wedding bells ring
Don't wait for my children, they never will be
I don't want your pity. Children are hard you see...

One day in the future, gone we'll all be
My personal Fortune is harder to see
Add in cancer, immune problems and more I'm amazed that I've lived to see 34

This isn't a message, it isn't a plea
It is who I am, a description of me
The outer surface is all that you see
When you reach the middle, my heart will be free

Waiting Room

I sit waiting
Time can drag you
Pull you along bloody
Into infinity
The clock beats in time to my heart
Can I make it March?
Moments can be counted
They are sitting in a tidy pile
Something is missing
Days are dealt in hands
Whose hands?
Dealers come and go
Luck of the draw turns a flush, a full house
My house is empty
Can I have a page, a book?
The writing is blank
All cards are wild
As I sit waiting

So a Contemplation...

I watched August: Osage County. One thing that always bothered me. Ivy and Little Charles. Admittedly, they never had a chance and the whole incest thing. But it seemed like quiet frankly, she gets screwed. Everything drops on them, as the least messed up of the whole crew. They should have had a happy ending. So I wrote a response from Ivy to Little Charles' song, if they could have been together. Forgive the odd meter and rhymes, I was sort of trying to follow the original. It does work if you sing along. It's streching here and there but c'est la vie!

Ivy's Answer

Well I always had the words you couldn't say
Get the feelings out so they don't get in the way
I'll sing to with you with all of my heart
For our feelings
We can't really  hide

I'll write a poem for you each and every day
And a special one each time you are away
I'll fill the world with all our desire
For our feelings
We can't really  hide

No our feeling we can't really hide.

Listen Here.

Another Giffy poem

Here

Intense Passion

The night is slowly growing dim
My eyes study you
I rest my head upon your shoulder
Lay still
Feel breath warm the back of your neck
We rise and fall together
In love
[         ]

Untitled # 462

Live with me and be my love
With hearts and hands entwined
As long as work is being done
I don't think friends would mind
The day is long and hard and bleak
It seems to never end
But when our eyes, loving meet
My broken heart will mend
Joined together in warm embrace
Two hearts will beat as one
Together there's nothing we cannot face
we will outlast the Sun

Chains

No memory of when this started
No thought of when it ends
I humbly beg your pardon
We were the best of friends

But now the sky's exploding
And stars, they fall to earth
I feel my world imploding
The pain of life, rebirth

When we stand together
We cannot be apart
These bonds will never sever
The chains upon our hearts

Shadows

We walk alone together
Shadows holding hands
Bands are breaking daily
No more base demands

I love you not in anger
I love you not in hate
Fate is a clever device
Making zeal abate

Tomorrow comes on sudden
The winds of time blow true
Through thick and thin together
I'm standing alone with you

Vested

Changing guard, changing times
Toys are put away
The hollow bells begin to chime
And numbly we obey

Place and time already set
Naught to do but wait
Hearts that fill with pain, regret
Fight the hand of fate

The time approaches quickly now
As turbulent feelings grow
Will this end in promised vow,
Or heartbreak pain and woe?

Supplication

If it were you...

Would you...
Still be waiting,
Still be hoping,
Still be longing?

Would...
Your brain think of me first,
Your body ache for me,
Your soul burn for me?

Could you...
Wait patiently,
Move on,
Find a new love,
Find a new life?

But what about the promise...
Not to betray or stray,
Not buy look or word,
Or thought or word,
Or by touch?

Would you...

For me?

The Dance

Eyes with penetrating gaze
Pierce the madness and confusion
Slowly meeting across the haze
In want of inevitable conclusion
Stranded there in captured fate
Lifeblood flows a new
Staying here is worth the wait
The need to see this through
Reaching through the Great Divide
The dance, a pax de deux
Coming forward side by side
My fate is tied to you

Love Formula

When time was old and we were young
The rosebuds blossomed blue
Throughout the land the Word was sung
Of Deeds both good and true

When time was Free and we were kept
The rosebuds blossomed black
The singing ceased, flowers wept
Our words for feelings, lacked

When time was young and we were old
The rosebuds blossomed grey
Time was stalled and dark and cold
The seconds passed away

When time was kept and we were free
The whole world blossomed new
We walked and laughed by sandy seas
The words we spoke were true

Pressed

I made it
I survived the day
On the morn
Who know or doth say?
The time passes by
None 'er asking why
And I've said all
I have to say

*title suggested by My father

He said/She said

Let them keep talking
The lights on when you're ready
They've done all the talking
So keep moving steady
The sweet sounds of reason
Will soon bright your way
He says/she says
Shall quick fly away
The time it will pass
As people will stay
Reason has shown
Will paves the way
And when it does come
The light will blinding
True love at its best
As hate is unwinding

Found this lying around

Mutual Destruction

The smell of you wreaths my every breath
As we lie embracing
Tomorrow is a heartbeat away
If it never came would you mind?
You hold my hand so tight
Yours engulfs mine
Your life is so grand
This is your sanctuary
Your refuge
Who would take that away?
When the sun rises you have to leave
I die a little each time
I die when you come
You die when I come
Mutual Destruction
A supernova in your eyes
Can we stay here?
I know better
But I can dream
Can’t I?

Lies

To think this on the lies we tell
To prove to the world all is well
I'm fine, It's mine,Your hair looks divine
You'd think it some bloody magical spell

One tries to be much more then cleaver
When putting words all together
We try to be good and do all we should
Sometimes there are storms we must weather

No lies, the Bible doth say
Keep the way of the Lord a'lway
Sometimes it is needed
Rules not to be heeded
The punishment later to pay

Change

I saw you today
Walking across the square
And when you looked at me
Your eyes weren't really there
I started to walk toward you
I started to go and stopped
You saw me and you turned around
My heart found fear and dropped
The weather had been bright
Sun shining, clear, serene
Out of nowhere clouds began to roll
Painting a dismal scene
Now I turn, I run from you
My panic, fear and pain
Have caught me deep with in my soul
As teardrops turn rain

Verdad

Verdad

Love means saying no

Turning away

So the tears don’t show

Walking away

With your head held high

Heart breaking

Knowing it’s for the best

Not for you

But for your beloved

For without you

They will soar to new heights

With you

All they will have

Is you

And you are not enough

For anyone

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To the Father of My future Children…

To the Father of My future Children…

Since I know you don’t exist

Can I compliment your hair?

Can I say your eyes are beautiful?

Or that they sparkle in the sun?

I feel I know your laughter

The way it touches my soul

When the wind blows a certain way

It feels like your breath on my neck

And since it doesn’t matter

I’ll say I love your lips

The way they touch mine gently

Then whisper I love you

Often

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Sonnet #222

Sonnet  #222

Our time is fast at hand

We must approach with care

The time we have to share

When we’ll walk hand in hand

Along the golden sand

We’ll make a lovely pair

Of only life were fair

But things don’t go as planned

Restraint must rule the day

We find our center space

To wait and rule our souls

We keep our love at bay

Till in the proper place

Till then pain takes its toll

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New Endings

New Endings

The lover’s quarrel is amended

Think not that this tale is ended

For unless a parting follows

Love in heartache and bitterness wallows

If only goodness lit the day

We know not night to keep it at bay

And without the loss and touch of pain

We wouldn’t know what we have gained

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Vows

Vows

We all need love

We live by Honor

We strive to obey

But we struggle to obey

We fail because we love

It stains our honor

How can we understand honor?

When we only try to obey?

The struggle comes from trying to love

Because with Love, we choose to honor and obey

#Vows, #love, #honor, #strive, #obey, #struggle, #fail, #stains, #understand, #trying, #poem, #poetry, #tritine

Entrapped

A wild wind whispers through the trees
It murmurs your name silently
Time is waiting on a half thought prayer
All of creation is full of anticipation
Your name is spoken
Time stops
The world starts spinning again
Only to come crashing
When your lips meet mine
Pleading, pulling my breath from my body
Slowly I surrender
Yours
Completely

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C=T+t(The Allen Equation)

C=T+t(The Allen Equation)

Lay your burdens down beside me

They’re too much for one to bear

We could sustain the weight of the world

If only you would share

The rain keeps falling sideways

Music all sounds flat

You’ve kept patient under pressure

No one finds fault with that

But the time has come for reckoning

To wash the sin away

One day you’ll look back fondly

Laughing the tears away

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No Fault

No Fault

Pardon me I did not see

The light that left your eye

Deliver me and set me free

I believed your tender lie

The world is made of grey and pale

Not just black and white

I saw your love exchange for sale

In fell and blackest night

Now you are just like the rest

Trying to make life seem stable

But that is not what you do best

You can only do what you’re able

Time to rest for the second act

Time to get yourself on track

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Meaning

Meaning

A certain amount of matter

And a little bit of mass

Have found themselves together

Just to process carbon gas

A transformation ever changing

But to the world, a different view

It passes in an instant

Unfettered and unskewed

The scars will heal so quickly

As is they had never been

The struggle to be heard

Above the maddening din

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My muse has left me…

My muse has left me…

My muse has left me

It thought itself free

It wonders the world

Having forsaken me

Carried away

On a wish and a prayer

Looking for answers

Found god know where

Bound but still separate

In heart and in mind

My muse will return

With love in good time

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Hourglass

Tired of playing ifs or ands
Watching the glass run out of sand
Time is foremost on my mind
Pages turn and years unwind
Tomorrow is gone, no more is the light
Anguish unbarring, the struggle, the fight
Decisions will come, time will seem brief
Taken away by the words of a thief

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Decisions

Decisions

A fleeting ball of gossamer

Floats precariously on the wind

My soul’s sanity is dependant

On sticking a needle in

I’m no tower of strength

Built so tall and compelling

I’m not a font of love

There is no joy over welling

The line will end with me

Not drift infinite into space

It will never be the right time

The right person or the right place

Hopes are dashed here daily

Don’t come here to have your tears quenched

Truth cleans brighter then cleanser

Lesser emotions must be benched

So gird your loins and enter

Don’t be surprised when I say

I will not lose my center

There, at least, you have no say.

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Within

Within

Passion ignited by lust

Burns quickly and brightly

But never lasts for long

To sustain love, you need more

You need intimacy

More than carnal knowledge

To know each other

Inside and out

Without a touch

Without a word

Within

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Questions

Questions

If I forgot your name…

       Would  the wind whisper it back to me?

       Would the stars light it in the skies?

       Would the seas spill your secrets?

If my heart forgot to beat…

       Would you breathe my breath for me?

       Would you cradle me in your arms?

       Would you share your life in my veins?

If the world were to end tomorrow…

       Would air still move through the land?

       Would fire still burn?

       Would our tears quench the parched earth?

#Questions, #forgot, #name, #wind, #whisper, #stars, #skies, #seas, #secrets, #heart, #beat, #breathe, #arms, #life, #veins, #world, #tomorrow, #air, #fire, #water, #land, #parched, #tears, #quenched, #poem, #poetry

Chronology

Chronology

This temple…

Will never be rebuilt

Its passages are permanently obstructed

There is no treasure to plunder

No wonders to explore

Leave it to crumble

To fall to ruin

One day…

It will be a wonder

The unpassaged temple

The unplundered treasure

But until that day

It is simply a building

A blight on the landscape

Perhaps we should

Demolish this temple

Give history…

A place to start

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Idiom

Idiom

When making folly in the name of art

Do you reveal your hidden heart?

Like every child has a toy

That brings to them a world of joy

There is one place where troubles start

Jealousy plays a major part

Without which wisdom we can impart

It all seems like a hidden ploy

When making folly in the name of art

The story needs a brand new start

Take heed and remember, play your part

It’s a life that most enjoy

No one wants to maim, destroy

But when making folly in the name of art

Repetition reveals the darker heart

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Don't Forget

There is no pleasure for the penitent

No savior for the just

A battered bag of bones

Lies beaten, bleeding and bruised

In shouting at the wicked

We oftimes forget the compassionate

Cooler heads cannot prevail

When ardent passion rules

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Façade

Façade

We choose the face we show the world

And lose our grace as truth is hurled

Flung far and wide as others take

All our lives we live as fake

The price of love is what you pay

As all your friends you will betray

So we give up goodness sake

As our lives we live as fake

In the end the lie is real

As we forget how others feel

Then another heart will break

As all our lives we live as fake

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mindless

I was going to write a poem today

But my brain did not want work that way

So I wrote these lines instead

To see where inspiration lead

And this is all I had to say

Cynical

Cynical

I think you think me a cynic

That I haven’t found the right man

But I’m not that much of a finick

He’s tall and handsome and tan

He’ll jolly but acquainted with fate

He’s eyes are grey, brown and blue

His hair is curly and straight

He’s skinny and fat and short too!

You can say I’m quite insane

It doesn’t matter to me

For when I met my twinflame

He looked anywhere but at me

So if, to you, I seem selfish

When you talk of fish in the sea

Remember that I HATE shellfish

And the mercury is poisoning me

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Deadly

Deadly

Tell me of the howling of winds

That blow the bleakest black

Whisper of your darkest sins

God and I will hear of your slack

Whisper to me of cleverness

Of great deeds, of battles foretold

Don’t try to make it seem less

Clever or brave or bold

Remind me of your virility

Of women, of wine, of song

Don’t bother with humility

Tragic tales are often too long

Shout of your numerous possessions

Of which you only want more

These are private confessions

Not added to legend of lore

Adding substance to the world though

Would require much effort, a coup

Forgive the truly low blow

But that seems too much effort for you

The world must seem like an oyster

One that you wish to eat

You feel as though you’ve been cloistered

And lacking of anything sweet

Forgive my troubled verses

I see the ire in your eyes

Little effect have your curses

The truth will outweigh the lies.

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The Revolution Will Be Live-Tweeted

The Revolution Will Be Live-Tweeted

While wiling away the lonesome hours

The fire dies away

The subtle form and plays for power

It makes you hang your head

And wonder at this hate filled world

A golden prince in a handsome tower

Keeping girls at bay

What’s the difference between defend and cower?

When words can wound like weapons

Children learn to wield them well

It’s amazing that women haven’t soured

Of lives lived certain ways

There must be a collective willpower

The revolution comes ahead of schedule

It has waited long enough

The time has come to overpower

The world as now it lays

We must o’erturn the bower

Precious things can be destroyed

Only time should be that precious

Once the world has been scoured

We will have our say

No longer will hate devour

And all the world will be empowered

#lonesome, #fire, #subtle, #power, #head, #wonder, #world, #price, #handsome, #tower, #girls, #bay, #defend, #cower, #words, #weapons, #children, #women, #willpower, #revolutions, #schedule, #overpower, #bower, #precious, #destroyed, #scoured, #hate, #empowered, #poem, #poetry, 

#untitled poem

Closing in, almost a win

Tomorrow seems so far away

A long night, a bitter fight

Keeping creeping nightmares at bay

The sun appears and as the end nears

The fear is gone and dying

Time is telling, Joy is welling

There can be no denying

Triquatrain form 

#win,#tomorrow, #night, #fight, #keeping, #creeping, #nightmares, #bay, #sun, #appears, #nears, #ends, #fear, #gone, #dying, #time, #telling, #joy, #welling, #denying, #poem, #poetry, #triquatraine

42

42

Season and reason pass away

Like feathers dancing in the wind

All time should hold a steady pace

Not join a race into the sun

The breakneck speed, intense, bucolic

As hearts and minds collide undone

The passing tide is rising fast

And waves approach full with intent

Then with a blow havoc rent

No life has truly ended

Time will soon make three from two

Creating love from hearts unbent

#LOVE, # REASON, #SEASON, #PASS, #FEATHERS, #DANCING, #WIND, #TIME, #STEADY, #PACE, #RACE, #SUN, #BREAKNECK, #SPEED, #INTENSE, #BUCOLIC, #HEARTS, #MIND, #COLLIDE, #PASSING, #TIDE, #RISING, #FAST, #WAVES, #INTENT, #BLOW,#HAVOC, #RENT, #LIFE, #SOON, #THREE, #TWO, #UNBENT, #POEM, #POETRY, #42

Burn ' s Night

The snow lay crisp as angel's hair.
As dawn awoke the world lay cold and bare
Was ever there a sight so rare?
What light! The sun! The glow!
Take flight and watch the path with care,
Or sit and watch the show!

Robert Burn is a celebrated Scottish poet. His poem are generally written in 6 line stanzas in an aaabab rhyme scheme, with the a lines written in tetrameter and the b lines in diameter. This was my little contribution today. I picked snow since the East Coast of the United States in currently Under Snowpoxalyse 2015.

#snow, #robbieburns, #angel, #dawn, #world, #cold, #bare, #sight, #rare, #light, #sun, #glow, #flight, #watch, #path, #care, #show, #poem, #poetry, #Scottland, #BobbieBurns, #BurnsNight

Thaw

Thaw

A noise that starts off slowly

Imperceptible in the background

Slowly

Building

A bit of a crack in the distance

Then suddenly a thunderous roar

The sounds of the thaw

Permeate

Invade

Time has come to move forward

Spread out from winter’s grip

Its hold gradually lessens

Then

With a snap

It is over

The silence is deafening

#noise, #background, #crack, #distance, #thunderous, #roar, #thaw, #permeate, #invade, #time, #forward, #spread, #winter, #grip, #lessens, #silence, #deafening, #poem, #poetry

Nightmare

Nightmare

The light is gone and hid from view

It disappeared one day

And took with it the sun and moon

‘Caused joy to pass away

A glimmer is all ‘twould take

To make the world okay

But now our life blood spills away

And we wait in nightless day

We’ll feast on the returning

Step once more, into the fray

Until that day, we shall march forth

Keeping the nightmares at bay

#nightmare, #light, #view, #disappear, #sun, #moon, #joy, #glimmer, #world, #life, #blood, #nightless, #day. #feast, #returning, #fray, #march, #forth, #poem, #poetry

Hidden Key

Hidden Key

While we see The floating gossamer dreams elude and move away

They keep at bay From fairy dreams and flying free they change the mood

I must conclude That night will stop the endless day and sand will stop the sea

I now can see By waking dreams we all are wooed then time will pass away

If we stay Our passion’s freedom is the key to life pursued

And being shrewd It lights the path to show the way and shows to us the key

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Power

Power

Keep calm and steady heads

Lest madness grow in our veins

For the world is free of reason

It infects the very soul

A swelling resonance erupts

It pounds and drums in time

Encroaching on everything

Our reason will set all free

They come now to topple us

With raised and steady arms

As we fall, together

Reason has swept the land

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Generations

Generations

They go where time does not expire

And wait for no new moon

Winter falls in summer’s swoon

The creeping vine begins to seed

A world explodes in endless fire

Mouths fill with the taste of mead

And liquor turns the stoutest liar

Some obstacles become a boon

If, of our lives, we do take head

We walk all day on tight rope wires

And end up with the greatest wound

So shall we soon change our tune?

We make ourselves fulfill our need

Our grandest wish becomes desire

More will come like endless weeds

Of everything you will tire

It will come full circle soon

And the look will be parent to the deed

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Defiance

Defiance

A brief blast of breeze

Crushes clay to dust

Daring Death to

Extend ennui

Forever

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A Conversation

A Conversation

Love conquers all

vincit ominia veritas

Love shall set you free

veritas leberabit vos

….

diligo in ventate, set ad vincere capta corda

 Love in Truth, Conquer to set captive hearts free

Link to A Conversation:Revisited 

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Complacency

Complacency

The visual evidence does not lie

There is no weeping and wailing

Perhaps there may be heaving of sighs

Don’t come to me later with hands wringing

Bemoaning what would or could have been

Most trouble is tricky and cloyingly clinging

Solutions come quickly when you open your eyes

Time is rapidly passing

Maintaining illusions might win the prize

But lies come home a-winging

The row is hard to hoe

It often sets heads to ringing

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Life

Life

Pretentious words with portentous meanings

Hurled through space

Repudiating what you hold dear

Stagnant vision clouds laggard minds

Invoking base responses that emolliate and percolate

Superior intellect forces quiet and calm

Emotional involvement would only concede the point

Conclusion comes with introspection over time

Modulation might be imperative

Necessity knows no measure

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Struggle

Struggle

She walks on haughty airs that give us pause

Flesh and bone run though us all

And base desire is a worthy cause

For pride goeth before the fall

The time has come to gather up flowers

And watch for stars are falling

Comets have come to grander towers

The results can be appalling

The ocean cannot meet the sky

Though forever they are striving

For one must surely fall and die

While the other is uprising

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