Best Beating Heart Poems
hummingbird wings
beating swiftly --
my heart when near you
1/10/22
Entered in Damned I Be's Haiku contest
a
Heart. Heart
Is beating. Is beating
Sending hope and promises.....
pumping ideals and ideas
reducing life's stresses.
ready to look for love
to accept to take..
for always..
xxxxxx.
I recall how we once strolled
together; how our hands met,
firmly clasped, yet gentle, as
would two puzzle pieces we fit –
Saw the greater picture...the
landscape mountains, then down
life's slopes, our sparse valleys
far greener than others for the
closeness we shared. We were
a true panorama when it came
to matters of love. No Gable and
Leigh~ just real, from head to
foot. Alive with all scents of
leisure and labor, the pungent
aroma of the many worldly
atmospheres inhaled, we moved
as one despite their differences, never
alone even when briefly parted.
Time, of course,
is merely, a soulless counter...
oblivious of human passions
unregulated. Oh, to give Time
a beating heart! Then love would only
start, start, and start....
I call my apartment (my home) my nest,
with this and that collections and beloved stuff displayed:
Oh, when within my nest I am not stressed,
where my art supplies, books and papers are arrayed;
and it is a place where my soul- can rest.
There is a beautiful kitty that waits,
when I open the door I get meows, kisses and love:
I dread the day heaven opens the gates,
and kitty walks over rainbow bridge to above;
so, amazing the special love- life creates.
Often, I don't want to leave my nest home,
so nice to listen to quiet music, to draw and write:
In my home library I love to roam,
with the sun shining in the windows it feels right;
so I stop- selecting to read a vast tome.
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October 11, 2022
Poetry/Quintain(Sicilian)Non IP/Home is My Beating Heart
Copyright Protected, ID 10-1493-732-11
All Rights Reserved, 2022, Constance La France
Written for the Premiere contest, Three Stanza Poem in Quintain (Sicilian)
sponsor, L MILTON HANKINS, Judged 10/30/2022
Eighth Place
Inspiration
Deep within the mind it plays
Bounces around your heart
Scatters a picture which you care to see
To live to breathe
Inspiration
Without, we are blind
See less than the ignorant
Possess only a blank portrait
Lacking the needed brightness
Inspiration
Fondly seeks us
Discovers who we are
We live, we breathe
Life
"The Beating Heart and Our Skin"
When the heart of a
people stops -
blood brothers
and sisters -
when does God
walk in?
there is no
waiting patiently
when children
are taken
by the monster
who grins
when does God
walk in?
to assuage
the Hell burning
non-discriminatory
in the lower levels
stoking its war
beneath our skin
when does God
walk in?
Beneath our skin
am I not that
I am
somewhere
within,
watching
we watch the fall
complacent
for we are human
what can we do?
we are we.
and that is them.
God
watches
the ghosts of
all the others
calling Morse code
to The Supreme Other
God watches
their mothers.
where does it all end?
where does it all begin?
the heart
starts beating
under the skin
Holy Ghosts within
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TU AMOR — Y COMPARTIMOS UN CORAZÓN PALPITANTE---
Si tuviera que conformarme con alguien;
Sólo alguien que cree como yo.
en el Dios del cielo;
Todo poderoso creador;
Tú, mi amor, creo que te elegí;
Porque con todo mi corazón eres mi amor;
Ya sea que estemos juntos o separados, eres mi amor;
Compartimos un corazón palpitante;
¿Porqué? Porque tú, yo y Dios;
eres mi amor---
I, 2, 3;
Las alegrías que me traes;
Mujer de Dios estoy muy agradecido;
Dios mi padre;
Eres mi querida;
Todos compartimos un corazón palpitante;
De los cuales nunca somos parte;
Ambos sois mi amor y compartimos un corazón palpitante;
Sometimes a normal life can become epic,
But this thing called fate has a bag full of tricks.
Every day in my village, out of the window,
I saw the face of a graceful belle who had the sun’s glow.
I wanted to confess my love for her but the time wasn’t right;
A mysterious man from the faraway castle kidnapped her one night.
She needed help I thought; she left without a goodbye.
I knew I needed to do something not just lament & cry.
So the cat inside me turned into a lion,
And I rode off on my steed with arms of iron.
I travelled for long, cold nights, ten,
In the Valley of Ice where everything was frozen.
The only thing keeping me alive was my love,
As I faced creatures like that dragon from above.
The scaly beast wanted to eat me; it roared loudly bringing my ears pain.
But the sound created an avalanche and the next moment, it got slain.
I kept on walking, covered in white from head to toe.
Little did I know that I was yet to face the wicked dwarves of the snow?
But on seeing me half frozen, half wounded, they got scared and ran.
The puny blokes might have thought that I am an abominable snowman!
So after surviving these hours of tiredness & frustration,
I finally saw the gates of that majestic castle; I had reached my destination.
The doors to the fort were surprisingly not closed.
And the deadly crocodiles in the pool had lazily dozed.
I got inside and saw a hairy, cruel looking beast.
Looked like he could eat a hundred men for a feast.
I felt like killing him but his sight had turned my skin white & pale.
Then I saw that he was being hugged by a belle, it was the same female.
I got shocked but she told me the beast was actually kind.
And so she began to love her abductor; I realized that love was blind!
The brute turned out to be a good fellow with a heart of gold.
Needed he someone to give him company in this lonely blanket of cold.
Then I bid the couple adieu with a heavy heart.
And I rode on to a new place for a new start.
I had cheated death but failed to win the girl who I thought was mine.
Still, I’m not distressed anymore, at least she’s smiling & fine.
Its a deep kiss that always curls my toes
Its the whisper of a secret that no one else knows
Its the touch of the hand that clenches with mine
Its that look in your eye that gets me every time
Its that smile on your face as you walk by
Its that truth inside when its so easy to lie
Its that deep yearning for all of your love
Its our dreams from above
Its that forgiving second chance
Its that cheek to cheek dance
Its that passion that stokes my fire
Its standing your ground that I will always admire
Its not putting off tomorrow and fighting for today
Its willfully coming when you could just walk away
Its that determination of wanting to be free
Its that special way that you always care for me
Its reaching for the end with your last final breath
Its fighting your fears and laughing at death
Its wanting more the second we have to part
Its this and more that stirs my beating heart
A heart so big
She couldn’t help herself
She’d give and she’d give
Just couldn’t help herself
Just couldn’t say no
Never seen the reason why
It never hurt to give
It only hurt to be stolen from
Toys that were given to her where stolen
Clothes that were bought for her were stolen
Relationships given to her were stolen
Privacy given to her were stolen
But when these people asked for something she had
She’d never say no
“I need you to give them your signature so we can withdraw all of the money from your bank”
Sure she’d ask why but she never said no
“I’m your mother; I’ll pay you back!”
Because that was her mother she couldn’t say no
A brother she’s lived with until he was kicked out for the final time
His loving kinship reminisced by her in pictures of her as baby
Her first dog given away in a bout of her mother’s selfish anger
With a heart so big deceit was consistently persistent
Her first boyfriend would ask and ask and she’d finally give in
Because he said he loved her
“Even after I graduate high school, we will still be together”
He graduated high school and they are no longer together
Her first diary once used as a method of venting had to be hidden from this place to that place
In an attempt for freedom of thought after she found an ill willed message from a subscriber unbeknownst to her named, Mom
Money would go missing so she hid that from place to place and then one day it was burning in a lamp
Once she seen her brother putting his belongings in a garbage bag
She cried, went for her stash and gave him her last – it was a little over sixty dollars
This girl knows no karma but her heart continues to beat
She gave most of her heart to the people of the planet
Now she dreams to be one with the planet where she will give the last of her beating heart
I will never leave you
No matter what you say
I’m willing to stand by you
And take it all the way
So this is to my blue eyed babe
Take my beating heart
Take it now babe, today
And we will roll out a brand new start
I know that you have issues
And yes I know that I do too
But I am starting to realize
That I am nothing without you
Every single morning
I breath in your air
So babe, don’t you worry
I will always be there
Like two peas in a pod
Two fishes in the sea
For my life's worth nothing
If you’re not here with me
We will love forever
Go dancing through the stars
For I know now where ever I go
It is ok; because there you are
Beating Heart
Holding it in my open hand
Showing you my pain
Look at my heart
Watch it beat
Time after time
In a perfect rhythm
Does it only have one beat left?
Does it have a million to go?
Look at my beating heart
It has seen so much
Lived through unimaginable pain
Count the scars
Look how deep they are
How they never healed
Brush away the ashes
Look at the burns that have been left
Scorched by dreams that went unfulfilled
Look at my heart
Whether it beats just once
Or if it beats a million times
It doesn’t matter
At least it lived for a little while
17th November 2020
Beating muscle beneath frail skin,
Rigid bone beneath strong muscle,
A warm full of life fleshy heart,
Thumping with feeling and passion,
Taking a stand on your sleeve,
No lies can be told in flesh and blood,
A cold, worm filled, empty rib cage,
Cracked gnarled and hollow,
Hiding away beneath veins and sorrow,
Whispering sweet lies into your skin,
Frail flaky bone,
Brittle stretchy muscle,
When you’re dead and when you’re gone,
Who stays?
The bone
Who withers away?
The heart
Even in death the empty chasm lies
Even in death the empty chasm consumes
My feeble beating heart devoured by the earth
And the bones who lied their way out of it
I would say by the skin of their teeth
But we both know they don’t have room for it anymore
Something is in my heart’s heart
Died this morning I must restart
Pounding in my chest, nothing left
For my muscle now abstract art
8/29/19
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2019
i believe i am part breath
so i dare to second guess
i am a beating heart
that belongs just to you
(which I always knew)
i send a telegram to you
from here and now
back to May of 1885
just to have a year with you
and i keep remembering
how i once lost mostly
everything in a fire.
:: 02.18.2016 ::