Best Eclipsed Poems
Intermingled threads of my fantasies pour
from the ink of my love on the bare soul
of the letter I write for you, my beloved
The windowpane sparkles moonlit dreams
And I submerge into my visions of you
You, my moon bound to your services
Make me wonder how I would write
All the love-soaked words I've never said
I had questions that submerged in tides
Propelled by divine celestial waves
I forgot to savor the fragrance of lilies
That intertwine into my desolate bed stand
Perhaps you will be gulping your tea
When this letter relishes the touch
Of your frozen fingers looking for warmth
You might inhale the aroma of my love
Dripped in my waxing and waning hopes
Rosy shades of mellowed sunrise
Prompt my hopes to flutter and fly
Away to a land where you reside
I have spent last night tossing them
In solicitude of your awaited letter
My feet took a hundred strides
to the door that I opened warily
I await your reply to quench my love
I am the sun that follows her moon
Eclipsed by unending galactic cycles
Let me drape myself in your love
Let your letter wait at the corner
Until I've told you my anxiety faded away
I've been onlooking the desert roads
Oh should I merge into them in daylight
To kiss the path your letter traverses
This time I hope it remembers at last
My name and address on this frayed street
Let it bring to me your smooth embrace
The sun, exhausted of the chase for moon
Over these centuries, awaits the end of eclipse
Drenched in my fears I whisper at sunset,
"Let my love engulf me in soothing waves"
....The sun and the moon in a golden Aurora, unite,
Your letter arrives before you colored in lilac twilight.
*A tribute to the tumultuous emotions of a soldier's wife*
May 26, 2020
The Sun And The Moon Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Chantelle Anne Cooke
~~Premiere Contest Winner: 4th Place
BRIAN'S CHOICE V,any form,any theme Contest
~~Winner: First Place
The sun, drab green
The moon too quiet
Earth's cities wept
Looting and riots
Mayors postured, spoke
Their message 'woke'
The sun raced away
Moon's light gone gray
Reality seems obscured
By what we think
We need to do
Sparse lashes span aged lids,
framing an eye that catches light
like the clearest glass.
The softest liquid sheen - of tears?
But the eye stares blankly
without expression.
No crinkle of joy, no distention of fear,
yet the pupil dilates, eclipsing the iris.
Snuffing out the moon.
And there, the faintest reflection...
watching, waiting.
He stares down Death itself
with no sign of fear.
*Inspired by Escher's "Eye"
Moon on fire kissing souls unite
sparks in destiny your spirit flying towards the sun
Honey dew rises in light of a promise
dazzling warm golden blinding mirror reflections
Sparkling brightly rainbows
floating on a breathless air
Gasping frozen inside thoughts
you are grasping at the heartstrings
Eclipse of love splendid delight
a porthole of Heaven has opened up
One look in your eyes seventh wonder a golden stairway
on wings spirit of beauty an eagle over mountains call
Flying with your soul crystal clear blue horizon
before the eyes arising flowers you beautifully
Eclipsing the heart beautiful
tonight I pray with one in a thousand angels dream
Passionless lies turns to unmoved bigots thoughts
with emotionless half arsed hearts consumed by hate
splitting hairs we all know fact from fiction
Try to claim killing the unborn is care giving
then this retro bias claims a man has no right to speak
equality speaks from the soul without division
Where each son has a mother who protects who
when lines are drawn in the sand this is not about gender
This is not about women having the right to kill
Or even twisted sinners of men who live on cloud coo coo
Time waits on no man or woman to love and cherish each living heartbeat
we are brothers and sisters of the one God
His words have impact in those whom truly believe
Put me on your finger, like the faded ring
Eclipsed, amidst the sun, against your skin
Casting dark cages, incarcerating the moonlight
Of your burning desires, and the maddened grin
Of evil, exposing nefarious doubts veiled from sight;
Put me on your finger, for I am; the light
You've always desired, but failed to dance in..
Once upon a moonbeam you entered precious gold
like one shooting star the fireworks became the vision
this picture is framed beyond even words to draw
It was there a world burned brightest dazzling
became blinded by reflections flooding back
generating electric in the soul awakening possessed
Filling the four chambers with warm radiant light
sparks began to generate deeply powered inside currents
giving birth to the most radiant pearl of angelic beauty
Pure as a diamond sparkling within the brightness
rainbows coloured the radiance that shone through the sparkle
as wings flutter oceans began to turn the salt through a stream
Then the river flowed down streaming murmuring forever
where oceans drank from a salted spiced memory love
this treasure embraced the broken shell internally healed
Everywhere I close my eyes thinking of you appearing
we were destined to meet before the closing of the age
everyday you awakened the prayers that beg to heaven
Whispering echoes magic dust
soul's mate breathless wonder aired
peace within an eternal halo promise sings
Until time itself ends inside forever loved
circling trust colours salt of the sands
running out pure golden time captured
Holding precious memories sparked together
warmly lighting gems behind a veil
pink blushing fire spells cast enchanting
One shooting star that always welds kisses
unto your diamond treasured heart's lip's
dining under the candlelight of night
unrhymed tercets
Bad news eclipses sun
Like the moon orbits your face
As we grow together, rooted
This garden displays variety, its fruits
So don’t overrun simply because you can
Robbing future diversity defrauds us all
And you don’t have to love me – no
Just accept mine as encompassing
To protect from blinding madness
when the sunlight disappeared,
all around, the black of night
tinged my heart and every mood.
then ~ I saw your smile...
Ample words from bloated chests,
won't rest until the messages crest.
Moving through phases of covered stresses,
that are just shadowed mirrors from larger troubled messes.
Covert grievances, rise with the tide; during their full revealing.
And shine light through the crevices, that have not yet completed their healing.
every now and then
when heart ache laid, I fall apart,
shattered in dark
... CayCay / Based on Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart"
September 7, 2019
A slow death marinated.
In half-prayer and long goodbyes.
So much suffering on this cobblestone of lies.
To think it all began with a silky lullaby.
The Faries and unicorns soon drift from our lives.
Replaced by tarry intentions.
Oozing from cinderblock faces.
Bridges of hope undercut by trolls.
Silky dreams slip into eclipse.
The sun's last breath kisses the necrosed lips of our nothingness.
Could you also in shame bow
Like smothered cocoyam leaves
In all your elegance of prided shame?
You hid behind amber's of burning coal
Lording your weakness on cowards of sky
You crown yourself with sparkling rays
A kings regalia over your slumped orphaned shoulders
With a tortoise craftiness you awoke
As others fell fast asleep to occupy
The seat of kings as a king over kings
But your elegance was veiled in blackness
Your wickedness covered with darkness
As you resign in shame of your cunning at last
Sorry comrade, the rich also cry.