Tag: poets

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

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

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

Photo credit: Pexels Free Photos

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"

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

Bending Time

What's left when a kiss is o'er and through,
When limbs once-woven unfurled?
I can still see the kinks left from me-and-you,
Can still feel the gravity of our world —

And yet, you dare take a simple love,
Compare it to an ill-fated time,
Withdraw from this curious treasure trove,
Would treat you-and-me as a mere past-time?

Words fail
Emotions fail
Love fails
Time fails

There is The World,
And then, there is the world:

Control versus freedom
Love... and nonsensical rhyme

The sense that makes sense makes no sense to you;
Though I follow your thinking, the logic's askew —

And I'll suffer while you do as you do,
And I'll love even while your love you will eschew,
And I'll love, remain in love when you bid 'adieu'...
And I'll help you acquire yourself a wife, anew...

While I hold the days close
When you held me so close

When words won
And hearts won
And love won
And time won

And I won time with one
Whom I always loved

Photo credit: Pexels Free Photos

Fire & Water

Fire at your fingertips
Fire that leaps from your perfect lips
Fire that heats all of what I am
Fire that burns in your epigram

At length, you and I are endlessly drawn
You of the sun and I of the sea
Slipping through sunsets and rising at dawn
Flames crave to be quenched only by me

Water drips from my eyes every night
Water cleanses each burning, every harm, every slight
Water connects me to all beings that are
Water surrounds us, no matter how far

Roil and boil in our yearning to grasp
Groping to touch as hearts at distance clasp
Fire and water barely meeting, and then
Into the ether, we rise again

Fire at your fingertips
Fire that leaps from your perfect lips
Fire that heats all of what I am
Fire that burns in your epigram

As soft as I am when I wash over you
As hard as I come when my fury's released
I fall every day as the morning dew
Wash back again, back again, passion unceased

Water drips from my eyes every night
Water cleanses each burning, every harm, every slight
Water connects all the beings that are
Water surrounds us, no matter how far

Can you claim what is mine with all your soul's heat?
Can a sun claim an ocean and neither retreat?
Can two beings so strong make a life that will last?
Can two such hearts meet, make a love unsurpassed?

Fire at your fingertips
Fire that leaps from your perfect lips
Fire that heats all of what I am
Fire that burns in your epigram

Heat me, embrace me with fires that burn
I'll cool you with kisses, none sweeter than mine
I hope and I wish and I want and I yearn
Fire and water make a love genuine

Water drips from my eyes every night
Water cleanses each burning, every harm, every slight
Water connects all the beings that are
Water surrounds us, no matter how far

Silhouettes of You

Waving just beyond the window
Swaying just beyond the blinds
I sense your sensual energy flow

And I can't, for all of me, reach you
And I can't forgive myself
For I can't and I won't make do
I won't put life on a shelf

Waving just beyond the window
Swaying just beyond the blinds
I can't bring myself to go

And tomorrow won't be different
And tomorrow won't ever do
For tomorrow, you won't think to repent
And I'll still be missing you

Waving just beyond the window
Swaying just beyond the blinds
I can't reach you; I can't know

If your voice, my heart will cling to
If my voice will sing to yours
All I want is to be near you
All I want is mine and ours

Waving just beyond the window
Swaying just beyond the blinds
Still, we flow, we love, we grow

Photo ©2016 MLM

Running In Circles

So, the obvious 'comes apparent;
Does this change 'nything in truth?
For our friendship leaves the aberrant
‘Fore I come home to Duluth

And I found another lover
And your soul and mine depart
And my freedom, I recover
And I find again my heart

There was never any answer in the minds rejecting love
There was never any truth in those blue skies, so far above
There was only I and you, two lonely souls stood, side-by-side
There were only two hearts calling, though but one love could abide

And I found this other lover
And your soul and mind depart
And my freedom, I recover
And I offer him my heart

So, the obvious 'comes apparent,
And all life is changed, in truth
And a friendship dies, inherent,
For each choice made in Duluth

But, I found my only lover
Ne’er his soul and mine depart
And our freedom, we’ll recover
As I share with him my heart

There was never any answer in the minds rejecting love
There was never any truth in those blue skies, so far above
There are only I and you, together: souls here, hand-in-hand
There are only two hearts ‘twining, exploring love and life, unplanned

Prisms of Love

Don’t you know?

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
Your fingers not yet on flesh; still, for you I thrum

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, this depth 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
In 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 forever 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

Photo ©2016 MLM

The Muse

“The trouble with a muse,”
(my dear friend said)
“is that one cannot control it.”

I am bound by the aches and pains,
By the emptiness and the questions that remain
In the absence and the silence of this reign
Of my forever love affair with you

I am bound to find the answers that may hide,
To bear the passion and the weakness of our tide,
The forever pull of being at your side
In my forever love affair with you

I wonder sometimes: If you loved me true,
If your sad heart could calm its changing hue,
If your mind's eye could see, at last, its due,
If your dear soul could finally renew
In your forever punishment of you
Would we, at last, unlock the clues
To a forever life of me-and-you?

But, who am I to ask of you to shift
When all we are has led us to this rift
Where our hearts hold fast and souls can freely drift
Amidst this waning love affair with you?

Photo ©2017 MLM

I’m Sorry, Darling…

I'm sorry, Darling,
the light is fading,
though the love does not wane

I'm sorry, Darling,
the world must go on,
my life must go on,
you must go on

We must learn
from those pains,
from those sorrows

we each bear;
from the frustrations,
from the highs and lows
We must take something

We must love

I'm sorry, Darling,
but you have neither control
of Light or Dark

The Sun remains The Sun,
and the World, itself, is turning

Watch as the Sunset erupts into immortal flames across an infinite sky;

When you're in the right place,
at every Beginning and at every End,
it is impossible to deny
her beauty is as great

Now is the sunset of our love
Now is the end of you-and-me

Photo ©2016 MLM

The Sounds of Freezing Rain

I don't care if you are beautiful,
I am done with you

I don't care that I love you

I don't care about our past,
I don't care about our future

because love was meant to last

I don't care for your intentions,
I don't care for your mistakes;
I don't care for our desires

This must end before I break

I don't mean it for a minute,
I don't mean it for a year

I mean:

I can't bear this feeling
of you calling me your "Dear"

while you test that my heart beats
for you through the test of time

while you promise me your friendship
when devotion is but mine

I don't want to hear your sweet voice

I don't want to read your words

and should you chance upon me

please don't ask that I abjure
either love or firm abstinence

for my heart and mind must heal

I have chosen life without you
'til your heart you will reveal

Without love, there is no friendship
without friendship is no love
possible between two people who

may swear to skies above
that they are true, that they love,
that they care for one another purely

and yet, wish for something different...

as when you ask me to demurely
sit, or walk, or feel for you,
abnegating all my soul,
deprecating all I value
and then, playfully, cajole

me into bearing, yet again,
my heart

such is neither kind nor true

I don't care that you are beautiful

I must be done with you

Photo ©2016 MLM

The Return

I waited.

I learned.

I did not leave, nor quit of my feelings.

Why would I, when love IS?

Why would I, when you ARE?

Why would I, when I AM?

I waited.

I learned.

I felt you so many times, and I still loved you;

I knew you always loved me, too.

Why wouldn’t you, when love IS?

Why wouldn’t you, when you ARE?

Why wouldn’t you, when I AM?

I waited.

I learned.

I did not give up hope – though almost…

And you returned.

I don’t know how long it will last – but I will still love you;

I don’t know how it will look – but I will still watch you;

I don’t know how you will be with me – but I will give to you…

Because love is,

Because you are,

Because I am

Always.