Best Just A Second Poems
Had she looked back at me
Even for just a second ...
Our encounter might have been the stuff of tabloid frenzy.
But she left quickly a coffee in one hand,
A shopping bag in the other,
And I waited for my turn next in line.
The vegetable orchestra was about to play
Fred and Ted had to have their way
Both the same, stubborn twins
These two dueling string bean violins
“I’m the lead violin” said Fred
“No you’re not” said violin Ted
“My strings are taught and so fine”
“So what” said Fred, "so are mine"
“And you’re warped in the middle”
“Get lost” said Ted,
“You’re just a second hand fiddle”
“I'm as good as a Stradivari, don’t you know?,
And I have the finest bow”
“That doesn’t matter, you’re still a buffoon,
Oh, and you’re always out of tune”
“Look I’m lead violin, I won’t be thwarted”
An angry Fred String bean, retorted
The argument went on, it never diminished
Until the concert was over and finished
So who won?, that’s another story
Roger the roobarb stole all the glory
For contest 'Show Me The Funny'
When life gives you lemons, you never give up, keep on believing, and don’t self destruct, a minute in time, is all it could take, doing the right thing, or make a mistake, your heart could be breaking, your worlds at an end, remember these words, stay strong my friend, this is just a second, this time will pass, take just a moment, that’s all I’ll ask, think of the what’s, think of the if’s, think life’s worth living, the greatest of gifts, this may feel like, the end of the world, your life’s in your hands, it’s not meant to be hurled, what I’m trying to say, what I need to make clear, it’s ok to be down, it’s ok to have fear, it’s ok to be sad, it’s ok to shout, it’s ok to scream, and let it all out, pain will soon go, and then there is light, never stop fighting, the invisible fight.
You walked into the room, my heart began to pound,
Your hat cocked off, your clothes just right, your scent all around.
You took the seat behind me, eye contact as you passed.
I think my heart stopped for just a second, a moment I wanted to last.
Time goes by but the day finally came when our paths they did cross,
My palms were sweaty, my body numb, my brain suddenly shut off.
Talking on the phone to going on dates to you making me dinner,
It all lead to a forever love we both came out a winner.
Friends in the beginning , today husband and wife,
No matter what we go thru, with you I will spend my life.
Everyone thinks they can relate to me
but nobody really understands,
they lie just so you feels as if your not the only one with problems.
the only people that feel as if you do
are the ones that have experienced
what you have.
have you ever felt suicide flowing
through your veins?
or the sickness thats in your blood
it just drips out of your scars
and spreads to your fellow friends.
have you ever had a kiss of venom
from someone you cant have?
or the touch of someone who wants you
so much that they have killed
your heart all together.
not understanding yourself so you
go to your friends to council you,
then you just close your eyes
and forget all your feelings?
did you ever hold your tears in so hard
that your eyes start to burn?
or make out as if your smiles are
pretend?
it is easier than answering everyones
questions over and over.
what about when you see your desire
and your hands start to tremble and
tears fall like nothing before?
you try to imagine what life is like
but when you start it kills you
instantly.
your hell is my heaven
but im just an illusion of your god
and a prediction of the devil.
have you looked so hard that the star
has burnt a symbol in you?
no one cares about your life just whats
in it.
the talk can lead your head to desicions
you dont want to make.
but like you make your own thoughts
and everyone disagrees anyway.
if i could stop everyone
for just a second or a half
i would hate it to tell the truth
but for me to stop my own life
would be a pleasure.
they say listen to your heart but for me
its too late,
because my heart has already stopped.
Polished shoes. Check.
Bathed. Check.
Brushed hair one hundred strokes. Check.
Used deodorant. Check.
Re-did lipstick five times. Check.
Re-did eye make up twice. Check.
Changed clothes. Check.
Looked in the mirror. Check.
Twirled in the mirror. Check.
Changed clothes. Check.
Looked in the mirror. Check.
Twirled in the mirror. Check.
Took off this outfit and put on the first outfit. Check.
Honey, your date's here!
Just a second, Mom.
Change clothes two more times. Check.
Put the first outfit on again. Check.
Close closet door so you cannot see the mirror. Check.
Go downstairs and rescue your date from the hot seat. Check.
There is only one thing that you can control in this world
As It's to whom that we sing that our soul will be unfurled
You are completely powerless over all that you do control
But it will really become a mess the day you lose your soul
Just a heartbeat away standing on the other side of the door
Lord teach us to pray so that this fact we will no longer ignore
Just like a musical chair one day your song will no longer play
Becoming completely aware of exactly where you chose to lay
In just a second or even less everything could be taken away
It's only the Lord who does bless don't take lightly what I say
Even written down for all to see as the endless clues abound
What you couldn't afford, given free, oh how sweet the sound
The only thing that you can control that nothing can take away
Is who you're praising in your soul each morning, night and day
Now that music is playing but we all know that its going to end
On my mind it's been weighing and this message I had to send
John 16:33
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace.
In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart;
I have overcome the world.”
Think you can control me? Control my words?
They are oozing and bubbling already, and not your direction.
Control me?
I laugh. I scoff. I sing. I throw my bags in a taxi. I am gone.
But wait a second I tell the cabbie. I run back in.
To get in the last word.
I throw it onto your face. It grabs your cheeks and squeezes.
My next sentence punches your gut. It hurts you. Devastates you.
Just a second! I yell out the window to the cab driver.
Just one more second! I throw a paragraph.
She jumps into your astonished open mouth and she hurts your gums.
She hurts you like you hurt me, only worse.
No. That would be impossible. I hear the cabbie honking.
Stick out my tongue and turn to go.
Words come out of your mouth now.
Stinging, mean, ugly, unkind, awful words.
I run from the house and jump into the cab.
I wish I could have stayed to see your face as you read my note.
But the cab driver might have driven off with my bags
and my notebooks are in there. All of them. I only left you one page.
With a torn off side. And little pieces that fell onto the floor.
I will miss the dog. Nothing else.
You can have my clothes.
I could not fit but one pair of panties in my suitcase anyway.
The poems are all here. This is all I will ever want.
In the Shadow of Sunlight
It is one of those glaringly bright days that
make your eyes water painfully.
You can't see everything at once but in short glimpses and peeks. Between blinks, half an image forms, blurry around the edges.
You raise your hand as a shield, squint, lean back and tuck your chin, grimacing.
You thought you heard her say your name.
Searching in stuttering snatches,
Looking in limping lunges…
like a slow motion film in staccato strobes.
She begins far away but ends close, so close that her form blocks you from the light and you see her as the shadow of sunlight. She is glowing around the edges like a phantom.
She is smiling into your eyes for a moment.
The relief of sight, of cool darkness, and then gone in a flash of brilliance once again. Balking, you ask her to wait! Wait just a second! Why do your ears depend so much on your eyes? She speaks but without seeing her mouth forming words you're unsure of what she's said…dissipating as she goes anyway until only a whisper.
“I love you darling…”
And that's when I wake up and remember she is gone. Gone for just over 20 years now. An ache in my stomach and tears prick my sleep swollen eyes. I turn to my side and tuck my hand under the pillow…try to get back to my dream.
Sometimes it is the light that blinds us to the truth and darkness that soothes the burn.
Amazing in its glory to feel such thankfulness
As I finally came to recognize not once but many times
The all of yous who so willingly held space for me
During all of my darkness and all of my lightness to see.
What an expression of love to feel pouring forth,
Even if it were for just a second some meaningful encounter that held so much worth.
Maybe it was just a moment and we helped one another grow.
What if we all held space for each other until outwardly we glowed?
Whoever said love was a beautiful thing left out a few parts...
Yea it's an amazing feeling, but it hides the monster deep in the heart.....
They say If you've never felt jealousy you've never been in love....
********!
You see jealousy is the monster that shows it's face and engulf you in green despise hidden
behind loving eyes that make YOU seem so heaven sent....
They make you believe that love is the most powerful thing.... There right
But not for the hallmark reasons or the pictures defining love....
That's just a second in time,
Right place right time,
And you tell me this, you show me this and I'm supposed to think your right?
GET OUT OF HERE!
Love is powerful because it can drive you to do the most outrages things that shadow the
monster u hide inside waiting to emerge and bring a beautiful destruction to light.
So it's just easier to forget....
All the fights
All the words that penetrate your mind And bring u down to micro size....
Love is a beautiful thing.... But only if you can tame your monster who seems to be
multiplying and recruiting.. so now pride joins in and brings with him a sense of cocky I'm
right attitude.. Rage is right around the corner listening and waiting while verbal abuse is
making his way over to get in on the fun.....
ARE U JOKING?
Your monster is the reason you question this emotion the reason your going through motions
that make you seem like a horrible person.... So let's put jealousy away and tell his new
friends that he's not coming out to play...
Instead,Reminisce on the moments that made love be what they told you.... Let's live in a
frozen moment and extend it and see what it brings....
Cause then you can say with a smile LOVE IS A BEAUTIFUL THING.
As I lay my hand on my womb
I realize you will be here soon!
My pains come on quick and I could feel your patience
wearing thin..
Like a butterfly coming out of a cacoon
my dear you arrived very soon!
You looked up at me with your beautiful big blue eyes
and I could feel the rays of love beaming from your eyes!
You were my pot of Gold at the end of the rainbow..
The first day I seen you walk my heart beamed with pride..
The first time you talked I cried tears of joy!
When you graduated from kindergarten I realized that day
you could be anything you wanted to be!
As time has passed each and every achievement you have ever achieved
has been my pot of gold..
My little angel sent from above..
Now as I lay you down below the ground...
My tears fall and I wonder how this could be?
This was not suppose to happen to me...
As I lay my hands on my womb
I think back to the moment you arrived with those big baby blue eyes..
Just a second in time you were here
But the lord says have no fear
An angel i let you borrow and a angel in time, my dear child she was always mine...
From on top of a sharp hill
My feet have molded the dirt,
oh I am wandering still
How long does it take to fall again?
it's too late this time, I'm afraid,
The ship's already gone,
The fire from the engine is led,
The words for them never can be said,
Taunting images of the new that passed
are provoking these incredible feelings
to emerge and leave me speechless,
completely baffled.
Now I am outside of the blue Terra,
Moving with great speed but to no aim,
The ship has reached the belt
the asteroids are plenty, enough to alarm me,
So I kept silent, one more minute,
Now I exit the danger and face the miracle,
My heart is filled with confusion,
too many planets, to many choices,
But I know now, It took me just a second
to understand, to grasp the space,
and now I have the answer,
To Mars shall I go, if There I can fall again.
3/Feb/2014
The Flame Burnt Hot.
The air was thin, standing looking out of the small window
Flying to Tunisia through a cloud level that was low
Stretching my legs and peering down the fuselage
From the flight deck, appeared the man who was definitely in charge.
His dark good looks struck me, they hit me like a blow
He came and stood in front of me and then he said “Hello.”
Dark limpid brown eyes, dressed in a uniform so smart
If we had been there longer, he may have stolen my beating heart.
Holding in his hand, a bar of dark chocolate
Broke a piece off it, and asked me if I’d like to partake.
Not being a fan of chocolate, but I am a fan of a uniform so grand
I let him feed it to me out of his large, strong, tanned hand.
The flame was burning bright as we looked deep into each others eyes
When my husband tapped him on the shoulder much to our surprise
The pilot turned and offered him a piece of chocolate too
I think you may guess the answer, and what he told him then to do.
The flame that burned oh so hot, was snuffed in just a second
A warning to all those girls, for whom a uniform may beckon
When a tall dark pilot offers to feed you from his hand
Make sure there’s no one around round so that flame can then be fanned…
© 27/11/2012~GG~
Based very loosely on a true story lol
Cold day?
I am not fazed or dazed By
Winter’s fast approach because In such cold days
I just indulge in the comfort of Clinging onto my curvaceous wife’s gorgeous Cleavage
It’s like mind over matter as Minutes turn to hours and hours into days
I mean, Under clean sheets as our bodies collide and slide ,
as we twist and turn , till we both get burnt like we are laying naked on the sun’s surface.
our hearts mingled as one in a body to body out of body experience it seems we fracture the space time displacement
because you see , indulging in such a pleasure would have you think and feel that two hours is actually just a second
For Men and women who are unified in marriage as I , winter is not to be feared ,
Coz you see, My wife’s tender loving care
Completely covers me like the luxurious fur of a polar bear
It is As though she’s Whispering kisses, when her soft lips make contact with my skin, they bring adrenalin driven warmth to my cold ears.
Ahm…
While others get dressed up / with Boots , coats , scuffs and gloves
We get cooped up
close our eyes and but open minds to new ways of love
ahm,
We conquered a cold day
With a much Coveted foreplay
Bongani Malete , Ronny Madonsela
03/03/2014