Best Lost Lovelife Poems
“In this life there’s been heartache and pain”
How could I begin to find love again
Desperado walking a tightrope
I looked down and Daniel gave me hope
“The first time ever I saw your face”
Cold heart melted, longed for your embrace
Your compassion and character shone
No longer could I live all alone
“You took my love and you took it down”
Felt lighter than air with feet on the ground
A love without chains, a soul unbound
But walls closed in as I watched you drown
"In a New York minute everything can change"
Sometimes life takes twists that seem strange
A human chain was formed to find my man
Reaching up was Daniel's lifeless hand
Efforts to save, resuscitate
Proved futile to fight the hands of fate
Casket sent home, called his folks to explain
“Daniel is traveling tonight on a plane”
*Foreigner’s “I Want to Know What Love Is”
*Roberta Flack’s “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”
*Fleetwood Mac’s “Landslide”
*Don Henley's "In a New York Minute"
*Elton John’s “Daniel”
By Carolyn Devonshire for Tracie's "Sing a Song for Me" contest.
Dedicated to my fiancé Daniel Sammons who drowned while we were swimming in a
lake near Tallahassee, FL.
Once we claimed it as our own, that lovely, special song;
No matter when, no matter where, we simply had to hear its sound.
Our hearts would melt, our love would rise, our feet would leave the ground;
But life goes on, your love has died; no longer, dear, do we belong.
That slow, slow dance, promising, ‘You Were Always On My Mind’;
You held me close and Willie’s words, your lips would lightly sing,
Softly, quietly, in my ear, your love vows whispering.
No longer now, your love has fled, your promise left behind.
So now it’s come, our dance is o’er; no more a life together;
Separate paths diverged before; one way I went, and you the other chose.
We waltzed apart, the music stopped, no more we hold the other close;
The storms of life, the silent songs, we simply could not weather.
Lock me up, hide me away
Shut the door till there is no more
Close my mouth so I can’t speak
Shut my eyes so I can’t see
Break my heart so I can’t feel
Tie me up so I can’t leave
Hold me down so I can’t move
Stomp on me there’s nothing left
Drown me in fear and bitterness
My life is worth nothing now
I think I’m lost, might not ever be found
So just go away there is nothing here
You can be free
I won’t make a sound
Live your life without me here
Go ahead it’s what you need
A life of control and flying free
Yeah it’s good for you so just forget about me
Form:
I watched you walk
into my life with grace,
I watched you dress
in black satin and lace...
I watched your beauty
come out,
I watched you dance
all about...
I watched your tears
roll like a stream,
I watched you reach
high for your dream...
I watched you from
far and near,
I watched you from
my life disappear.
For "An old or new" contest sponsored by Brian Strand.
The clock on the mantle, quietly chimed ten
As she placed the note by its face
Then checking herself in the mirror
She walked to the door, to pick up her case,
The note told him, that she was leaving
That her love for him had died
And without that love, she’d be living a lie
No matter how hard she tried
She hadn’t wanted to leave him this way
She wanted to tell him, face to face
But knew if she did, he’d persuade her to stay
Then she’d never get out of this place.
You see, she’d tried to leave him twice before
But he’d always talked her around
And made her a prisoner, in her own home
Whilst driving her spirit into the ground
She’d lived this way for seven years,
But now the worm had turned
She was leaving her life of servitude,
To find the true love that she yearned.
As she put on her coat and walked through the door
She harboured no feelings of sorrow
For she knew she was crossing the threshold
To a life with a brighter tomorrow.
I heard so long before, crying from fields where blow
it 'round the lonely stones, hair-waving gentleness.
Were it a poison o, still I would ride its breeze,
trailing so finely forgetting resentfulness.
How can it worry, when ne’r does it lack its ease
Winding and binding the waters and highest cloud?
Oh that I could have run past those unbending trees,
For to return to the land were my thoughts ring loud
when the breeze takes me away from this bleakest light.
Unto the storm! I go unto its lighten’d shroud!
Perverted science, our earth, oh our earth in plight.
Need them we never shall, for we shall never leave.
Stormy winds blow past our necks, and the gods, they know
When ones like we have found what they could never show.
Me, oh for me, thus myself low, in mourning. Such
men blame themselves, their lost love from whence hope arose.
Hope, it depends only on wishes ne’r conceiv’d
past what primordial dreams that men hold so close.
Fantastic imag’ry, happiness here receiv’d,
tells himself that which he wishes so much to hear.
How can a man so himself cover, so deceiv’d?
How did he think that this love, unthought, would appear?
How can he walk down this rail-thin road while so blind?
Whether he wonder’d if living or not, its here!
Sailing across the sea, riding waves, felt so kind.
Parted his life when his glass house did shatter, and
there in the fields, he lie on his back, pain’d so much.
Where was his love? Could it have been in fleeting touch?
Cried out he did when his life shatter’d ‘fore his eyes.
He wanted never to look back with morose face,
Only look forward to future loves, of this kind.
Laughter and joyous voice, sounded in man’s cold race,
touch’d by the countless works of dissilusion’d mind,
art from adversity, love from the artist’s heart,
pain’d from eternal grief, mark’d by eternal grind,
in love’s name, his one wish, from whence his hope would part.
Realiz’d that his heart will never see love again,
Turn’d to in desp’rate resistance against his heart,
winds, rays, and waters, his void fill’d with life again,
Were it a poison o, still he would ride the breeze.
Love loses meaning, emotion, no more he cries,
Only the sun, the stars and dark, cool ev’ning skies.
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Dactyllic Alexandrine
Remember her face you knew so well
You were in love, she rang your bell
Remember the way her hair just flowed
She made life easy, lightened your load
Remember her eyes glowed green then blue
They seemed to change when she looked at you!
Remember the times you spent together
Running through fields of deep blue heather
Remember the walks on golden sand
Hours would pass holding her hand
Remember the way she’d make you cross
Was it because she was the boss?
Remember the way you’d kiss and cuddle
She’d sort you out when life was a muddle
Remember her now with fondness and cheer
Now more than ever, now she’s not here!
As time flies, so her emotion swiftly fries,
As life frowns to dust, so her affection swiftly drowns to lust,
As love turns to coal, so her smile swiftly runs to the cold,
As sunset sets away, so her truth swiftly upsets the root of likeness, and erects away the boldness of trust,
but her hate doesn't rate me to roasted rat, because her hate is wingless, and no other can make her sweat and melt to hashes like I do.
Damn! I’m damned, if I get soak in her socking beauty,
Damn! I’m damned, if I get stolen by her golden smile,
Damn! I’m damned, if I don’t bench her lioness sex drive, I’ll infinitely feel less, like a quenched man.
Damn! I’m damned, if I merge with her chameleon cries and battalion kisses.
If I give in fully, just for the sake of ‘be a real man’, not 'a steel man',
my life will end up like the life of a North American bug, which inflicts painful bite on love and life.
When I transparently decide to give into love, all I get is:
Vultures smoking cigarette in an uncultured manner,
Kangaroo's doing Michael Jackson’s moonwalk in a live show in Cameroon,
Monkeys ordering for coffee, while wooing female donkeys
Zebras playing golf, with liberal views,
Lizards rearing Afro and trying to reawaken Lazarus from the dead,
Dingo's wearing costly tuxedos in Mexico, and speaking Spanish fluently,
Frogs driving Rang-Rove jeeps, in a foggy weather
Snakes wearing condoms to nibble into snacks,
Female Goats, wearing sexy underpants, to enable them float in a sinking Titanic boat
Bareheaded demons and bears drinking chilled bears together in a beheaded mood and using chilly pepper, to chill down their temper,
Horses babysitting housewives
I trip endlessly!
lost in a confused mood and temper, for she false me, she false me not.
I limp endlessly!
No matter how we try to put souls together to make our love bright and wealthy like the brightened face of Paris and the fat pocket of Las Vegas,
We always end up creating a poverty of love.
I have relentlessly tried praying forcefully for our love,
but I end up noticing that people, who aggressively pray the most for love, end up marrying angry praying-mantis.
I will just have to remain light-footed in love, and let her featherweight affections for me, turn to true feelings, or get carried away, because she false me, she false me not.
Here we stand on both sides of a one way street.
Open arms and a shedded soul yet my heart continues to beat.
Memories of that joy seem to haunt me in every inch of her smile laid deceit.
How can I why would I to myself admit defeat.
To this love..failing trust, fading fast like vapour that raised my feet.
To disapear like an echo to the sound of all the things she used to need.
I am shedding all I used to knw to a life as empty and lifeless as this blood I bleed.
Drop for drop each draining the life out of me.
Standing there as we drift further and further from our own eternaty.
Nw what was once whole screams of all that is incomplete.
And even as we.... we, stand firmly upon this ground we are falling deeper into the whole of sorrow and infertility.
Love me once more as you walk away to that infinate obscurity.
I guess I’m a winner because no confusion I’m losing
With no prized to gain while she did the choosing
To the decision she made that got me confusing
I’m told I’m the best and other choices are down
To take my place I’ll have to drop my crown
But why look for less, when the best is found
What do you want, you don’t have a clue
You want me in your life but not to love you
To make life easier, you say your heart’s through
If a mistake was made, my heart will love you
What’s the point of reviving when I was just kilt
The cow can no longer moo over spilt milk
I’m going to shine on my own and help failures sprout
But why the clock still ticks when the time ran out?
Slowly you entered my life
Slowly you made it beautiful
Slowly I took you to be mine
Slowly this life became wonderful
Slowly you made me love you
Slowly it increased with time
Slowly I was all yours
Slowly life became melodious as a rhyme
Slowly from me you got bored
Slowly you lost all interest
Slowly you craved to move on
Slowly I was left in a state of unrest
Slowly you left me
Slowly I became depressed and cold
Slowly I choked down, 'caus
Slowly I caught death in my hold
I have always loved you
From the first day I met you
I have always cared about you
Since I first held your hand…
But now I don’t understand…
What you’re doing to me
I just can’t comprehend
What you’re saying to me…
You don’t love me anymore
But how can that be
What made you change?
That I cannot see…
So you were lying to me
When you said “I do”
You pretended all this time
With those “I Love You’s”!
I just can’t imagine it
How you played with my heart
How you faked the smiles
From the very start!
How you took what felt so right
And shoved it in my face
How you turned our light
Into a dark empty space!
I loved you, I still do
What else could I say?
To show how true it is that…
My mind thinks of you each day…
But it’s not like you care
You did the damage and ran
And now my biggest fear
Is that forever alone I shall stand!
I just can’t see my life without you
A life without the one that meant everything to me
A life so obscure
That darkness is all I see!
Now all I can endure
Is a life with no morality!
Eliel202
Why does the road to life have to run shallow?
Where is the love that should be deep in the hollow?
To have and to hold, to forever keep a dream.
To find peace and forever let life gleam.
Tears and pain controls the run away train.
All the human race, what is tomorrow to gain.
Insanity has claimed us by the wayside.
Truth and reality has gone out with the tide.
To take a walk in the acid rain, the Earth be torn.
Lives beauty in the yesteryear so forlorn.
Thou hast had to play the role of crazy, obeying thee, displaying my faults and
portraying the shame of me. Breathe, free, finally free. Fire! Adores you and
welcomes you to an empire of the new. I tossed the idea of inviting a few, opting
instead with pleasure for you and only you. Never will failure ever be considered,
pending impact impedes speech and renders me down to bereave. Grand! I have
been dying to see, love, yes love and its grandiose display, always will be my
reasoning. It reels me in and cleanses with nature, pure as pure is in creature. Am
I? yes I am, though not sinister. Unstoppable and driven by attraction to disaster
and admiration of whisper, this hush is listless, wrestle it, don’t miss this. Satisfy
desire lets make it glamorous in dedication. Fire! Re-lit! Savagely craving the
moment that we meet again. Imagine the breath and the chests, tension and lust
duelling with hatred and love. Trust is a laugh though laughter will bring it back,
time will help. My muse, do you not understand? I need the right to exploit my light
slight hand under right eye, you cannot subdivide the mind of a made up guy. Love
be my minds light, love blind my minds fight, right the pain and create love new, so
that tonight we may sing. Dying young is not a necessity of living forever but love
certainly is. We are majesty and perfection in love, it was majestic and perfected in
new. I do not want your hugs hello or your waves goodbye, rather please supply
onto I the dreams that I dream and the wishes that I provide. Real life not fictitious
false life liked delights. What will it be like when we meet again? Electric?
Dangerous? Casual? Loaded with hatred? Will we feel obligated to hug or smile?
Even if our stomachs and the others eyes tell us not to? Betrayal? Really? Dig!
Deeper! Dig! Deeper still! Find it, learn it, believe in it, trust it, crave it, welcome it
without denial.
A life long friend,
A soul mate,
A heroine, a star
A woman so phenomenal,
The very best by far
I never thought I’d have to
Say these last goodbyes
So long and farewell my hero
A girls so strong and wise
These last few weeks of life
Since your diagnosis
Have been so tough, but you pulled through
So difficult to notice
One day we will meet again
And live our lives together
We’ll start a new life, you and me
And share one heart forever