Tag: poetry

Grey and Blue

I lied:

I'm never done with you

Never finished, 
Never lost, 
Never not yours

Did I lie,
Or tell the truth,
A truth beyond my comprehension?

Because
We've changed

I'm never not yours,
Yet, I belong to myself alone

You're never not mine,
Yet, you do as you wish, too

The complexity of truth is maddening:
Worlds beyond "true" and beyond "lies"

Paired mirrors, we are, 
Face-to-face:

Ever-ongoing,
Ever-lost,
Ever-abandoned

Ever grey
And
Ever blue

The Beast in Me

Come to me, you wild beast,
You whirling storm of beauty
Battered, scarred, bruised and teased
You grew beyond majesty

Wide, cold skies weep for you
In pain, relief and sorrow
Rage rumbles, deep and true
No gods will reign tomorrow

Nor hold you trapped in caves
Where man’s faithless, dank pride grips
Where the ceaseless lie staves
Off a small apocalypse

Come, fly free, fly stronger
You’ve broken stone and cruel fate
Breed your courage longer
Your kind, for you, yet await


Quarter Crazy Marathon
Quarter 3 - 2020
Prompt 6 - 2pm EST

Prompt #6: Picture Prompt

Blue-and-Red


Blue sand underfoot
Chilled children’s drinks drain away
Boiling crabs blush bright red


Quarter Crazy Marathon
Quarter 3 - 2020
Prompt 4 - 12pm EST

Prompt #4: Write a poem about blue sand and red crabs
**This prompt came from Writerswrite.com

Silver Linings

There were so many moments shared with you
Long walks through Montreal, Toronto, too
Night drives on cobbled streets in Buffalo
And never, then, did others know of you

I shirk to show the bruises, faded, old
And gone from view; so much I never told
‘A silver lining,’ ‘True Love Conquers’ - so
I lived, trusted your eyes of em’rald-gold

I trusted in your reason and your mind,
Expected love - but never love maligned
The whirlwind I became to remain free
Upheld, punished - still, through all, I was blind

A silver lining brightened every day
But not from you and that tumult’ous play
The brightness, love existed but in me
Your bitter words spawned with me dark affray

We should have parted, been no more than friends
If but we wished to find harmon’ous ends
Yet, all I have now is a memory
Devoid of hopes to, one day, make amends

With no way back, with truth, I move ahead
Peek back proves I, that silver lining led
And I, my own responsibility
Free from the man I wish I’d never wed


Quarter Crazy Marathon
Quarter 3 - 2020
Prompt 3 - 11am EST
Music Prompt - Response to 
My Silver Lining by First Aid Kit

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Rush

Yes,

It came and went so quickly:

A storm that passed between,

Swept us up in a dream —

And, in a climactic scream,

Emptied

Us

Both.

Beautiful perfection existed for a moment,

Faltered into an abyss.

What a pity.

There’s a mirror somewhere around,

When you want to look into it.

Rush

Yes,
It came and went so quickly:

A storm that passed between,
Swept us up in a dream --
And, in a climactic scream,

Emptied
Us
Both.

Beautiful perfection
Existed for a moment,
Faltered into an abyss.

What a pity.

There's a mirror somewhere around,
When you want to look into it.

Daydreams

And the world is blue without your arms
And grey, without your mind;
It’s red, without your kisses, fine,
Refined by stalwart art

My mind creates a land of charms
With vibrant greens and gold
Despite the chill of winter’s cold,
Brown swallows dash and dart

Amidst white clouds and shining things,
A rainbow hangs above;
And sing a bird’s song, bright, of love,
Into this brand-new start

Come hither, where the church bell rings
With every passing hour
And bring to me a springtime flower,
And in my life, take part

And the world is blue without your arms
And grey, without your mind;
It’s red, without your kisses, fine,
Refined by stalwart art

My mind creates a land of charms
With vibrant greens and gold
Despite the chill of winter’s cold,
Brown swallows dash and dart

Amidst white clouds and shining things,
A rainbow hangs above;
And sing a bird’s song, bright, of love,
Into this brand-new start

Come hither, where the church bell rings
With every passing hour
And bring to me a springtime flower,
And in my life, take part

Into My World, A Shadow Falls

Into my world, anew, a darkness drew —
Fell, near burning fires, a shadow’s gaze
Upon my weary count'nance; and I knew:
This shadow's grip would claim me, all my days

And stole into my mind and heart, it's true;
Gave up to me the secrets of its ways;
And promised shining things: the morning's dew
Could never shine so bright, nor yield such praise

And still, my mind and heart were warmed anew,
A wav'ring shadow wandered in its plays
Until a darker threat ran its soul through:
Pure jealousy chilled the shadow to such craze

And madness, took the shadow's mind and blew
A word of banishment to me, did itself faze
When love eternal, promised I to you;
Retreated beyond life, into its haze —

But, what, pray tell, are gentle souls to do
When anger only turns a soul to blaze,
For shadows grow in strength and number too...
Obscure, oblique... This life is but a maze...

And I am lost, and all the shadows, too
Should I find on my skin thine sharpened blades
And I would find my skin turn tanned to blue
'Fore I would e'er journey to dark malaise

...Though shadow distantly, coldly withdrew,
Though shining heart is mine, my soul ablaze,
I find neither shadow nor I can yet undo
What binding tied our souls, those fateful days

Mine Is the Life and the Love

You all know it.

You all fear it.

You all want it.

You all can have it

In a moment
In a madness
In a sadness

Stilled by memories
Stilled by thoughts
Stilled by dreams

Yours is the life and the love of things
Lost to all but love of dreams
Realizing dreams of dreams of things

Open up your hands and see
Open up your hearts and dreams
Open up to everything

Fingers chilled on autumn nights
Deer and stars stand, silent, by
Life, intensity lives in mine

Ode to White

Tucked into nearly-nothingness
The fall of snow, I must profess -
Aside from chill that does repress
My eager heart and mind -

May be of Nature's best success
The purity does quite impress
With wafting swirls in great excess
Despite those quarantined

The color, fine, in evening dress
Is perfect as love's faithfulness,
Blended light made to coalesce
As none others less refined

For white, alone, cannot oppress
A canvas on which to express
Each step of life's minute progress -
With white, I am aligned.

Cascades of My Heart

Why ache, my heart
when love is come so quick?
Why fever's pitch?
Or are we both homesick?

And yet, the fire's heat melts
all this pain to shades
Of rainbowed beauty flooding
o'er the world, cascades

Of my heart, pulsing
with the long passage of time
And all I hope is:
I am yours, and you forever mine

All

It has been said that
Cigarettes
Are a way to hold
Fire
In a human's hand

It has been said that
Wine
Is the source of
Life

I say that
You
And I
Are yet the depth of
Love

And love
Is
Life
Is
Fire
Is all of
Faith
Is
Truth
Is
All

Is
All

Is
All

Kindness Brings What Kindness Does

Within a measured caste, am I,
yet treasured by the skies above
or so it seems, when, like a dove,
my soul has wings, has learned to fly

And freedom is a treasured thing
I find in dusky days and nights
alit by stars and firelights,
though open heart is all I bring

And I, though humble cast-away,
am rescued by an unknown Queen,
removed from all the pain that’s been,
may find a home where I may stay

So, for the kindness She bestows
upon my weary heart and mind,
I, too, must give my heart in kind
and treasure my life, highs and lows

No longer dirty, beaten-down;
no longer tiresome, parched and faint,
I lend my soul without complaint
to She, the bearer of that Crown

For kindness brings what kindness does,
as proven throughout history,
as proven, yet, if but by me
in all I am, and all that was

written for the doll, Sofya, in the Skotos world of Castle Marrach, in honor of Queen Vivienne

So-and-So

So,
you don't want the words I spill,
pouring from this surging swell,
cresting lips you've known so well
from depths of me you've helped to fill

'Why bother with men,' an old man said
one chilly night, when the leaves were dead,
after up his walk my feet did tread;
and, quickened, my mind and my heart then sped

"I love because I must," said I,
and gazed into that darkened sky
remembering how many had said 'Goodbye,'
loving each one anew to verify

So,
you don't want words uttered now, do you?
Don't want my heart, though undoubtedly true.
Don't want to delve into all we've been through,
Can't walk away to a fresh morning dew

And that's still your trouble, my favorite dear:
That the past remains:  insurmountable fear,
You'd sooner look on us with distasteful sneer,
Sooner leave your past lonely and shed not a tear

I'll cry for us both, as I've cried times before
And I'll keep true to us, as I've kept true our lore
While you hold yourself stifled, and life, you ignore -
But I'll not forsake you; you're one I adore

Speaking in the Face of Fear

Say it to me again, yet again
Those words that drip with firey ice
Squawk, tear at me due to hidden pain
Tell me calm words are not so nice

Tell me, you who would teach me again
Tell me, again, that I speak too much
When I speak my heart, though perfectly plain
When I utter no nonsense, but reason-and-such

Say it to me, heart’s love, just one more time
Those words no one can stand to hear
Those cruel words of your stain’ed mind
Whispering echoes of your darkest fear

Loose on me your deep regrets
Charged heavily with your father’s voice
Sing to me pained refrain, don’t forget
When I speak with truth, my heart’s deepest choice

But ‘t’were coddling words you wanted to hear
Since speaking true words is your greatest fear
And hearing truths unbidden a dastardly crime
Though untruths claim your life time after time

I learned: Strangling my voice was my only vice
From the one who enacted my crime-not-so-nice
We don’t get to choose truths or to cut grafts and splice
Else you’d be as that one was, a true accomplice

So, don’t tell me, aged one
Words of honey sweet
Can undo what one has done
While I stand on my feet

And please grasp: I’m not uncouth
Nor you, I chastise
If I can’t shut my mouth
I just don’t compromise

Still lauded as smart
I stand up for myself
I am true to my heart
Don’t put it on a shelf

So please, don’t slap me down like the child you feel
When I’m offering words, if you’d take, that might heal
But your ego is great and your fear overtakes
And we both lose our tempers, make horrid mistakes

Do you think, for a second, if I’d listened to you
If I’d shut my mouth tight, as you demand that I do
That I’d not be so brandished in life as I’ve been?
I promise you, I did; felt their fists time again

So, you beg that I stop
But I promise, I shan’t
It’s a choice that I make
Even if love is scant

Understanding takes all but a moment, my dear
Understanding that love sometimes mixes with fear
Understanding that truth is truth, despite what you take
Understand vocalizing is a choice we each make
Understanding comes whether we like it or not
But choose not understanding, all chances are shot

PROLOGUE

And now, you have but a memory close
And I shan't give you lectures
We've each had our last dose
All through fissions and fractures
We lose love and time
And you're not even likely
To read this last rhyme

Don’t You Know?

Don't you know it?

I long to feel the skin upon your face,
The brush of whiskers nettled on your chin
And when I reach to touch, you to embrace
I find that I am forced to reach within

For - don't you know?

I tremble all the day and all night long
My body eager, vibrating as you strum
The heartstrings of such a familiar song
Fingers not yet on flesh, yet I you thrum

The depths between us bide in another place,
Entwined and dancing lovers, 'round we spin,
In happy dreams and love, ethereally encased,
Far from the heat and noise of this life's din

And I cannot foresee another way
Than dancing deeply in a world unknown
So I will live and love another day
That one day, maybe soon, depths will be shown

That, maybe one day soon, I will be yours
And you'll be mine, in body too;
That one day soon, we'll dance through doors
And ethereal worlds we'll live, both I and you

So, don't you know?

My heart is bound to yours, and lost to me
It's yet my mind you kiss, that you must woo
And I, lost in this fantasy
Somehow made real, this life, by your love true

And - you must know!

Forever, in this time
That you are yours, and also I am thine;
That I belong to me, and you are mine!
That we are ours, forever-love sublime

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Only You

Only you
Defied reality
Defiled my mind
Withstood my sea
Came back to me

Not only you
Resisted reality
Withheld your mind
Shrank from my sea
Came back to me

Only you
(And only they)
Could claim my mind
Shift what you say
With meanings play

Not only you
(Nor only they)
Left me, my mind
And heard me say
"Love is not a game I play,"

But only you
Are only you
I keep my mind
My heart is true
I still have room for "I love you"

If You Ever Wonder Why You Lost Me

If you ever wonder why you lost me
All you have to do is remember
The countless words I spilled for you
Swept aside like autumn leaves
Blown away like apple blossoms
Discarded like old newspapers
Every word a drop of blood
A ray of sunlight
A breath of sea spray
Ignored
Unwanted
Every word, a piece of me
Relinquished wisdom
Burned in the bonfire
Of your bitter life

Photo ©2017 MLM

Tell Me How

Tell me how
You might be brave
When you run away
At the first glimpse of danger

Tell me how
You'd make me a slave
You demand your way
But you're not my maker

Tell me how
To ignore this wave
When love is not a game I play
I cannot help but feel this anger

Tell me how
I can but leave
Sequestered, I can't find a way
And I was not born to be a faker

Different Love

You may know so many things, be attuned to my mind...
But do you know the depths of love?

Why stop a feeling that is so kind?
Why stop a lover's heart?

Why end a love before its time
When it has barely had time to start?

What river's course would you dare tame
When all of life survives therewith?

So, why, when love behaves the same
Would any heart leave and claim the Fifth?

I love, and love, and love again
And not but one has dared to claim

My heart as deeply as he has,
Though I and he've not come to pass...

And, what on earth's a girl to do
When I love others differently than I love you?

Photo ©2016 MLM