Best Saudade Poems
I
roam
alone
where the ghosts
cannot touch my spark,
nor steal the sear of soaring moon,
for I am the violet zenith of an arcane
chimera aching and breathing in the afterglow of primordial love magic ~
and in the saudade of stars, I held my muse… as tonight, I need you a little closer than the homesick heat kissing this soul in silence,
as I no longer weep as a victim of the devil’s weak harbingers, camouflaged in color-drifting liquid currents of lethal lapis blue, as if these sighs of forgiveness resemble the face of a fool’s paradise…
To think again of what could have been;
Those painfully painless imaginative dreams of cloudless days
with winds whispering love's scent through new spring clover,
of walking barefoot through the glistening cool of morning dew,
listening endlessly to the song of your laugh.
If this is all I will have of you,
I shall know no grief.
Saudade Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Edward Ibeh
02/20/2019
It's been eons since
Life took us in diametrically different directions
Yet melancholic memories of you
Still bloom in my mind like a flower, filling me with glee
Our fleeting union, I'll forever treasure. It's strange
Grieving the loss of what might've been. Notwithstanding
The brevity of our romance, the flame ignited between us
Still remains undimmed, flickering in the wind
I miss your captivating stories about
Your upbringing in Rio De Janeiro
I instantaneously think of you every time the song
"The Girl From Ipanema", creeps into my mind
Oh, the many fun times we had! Walking arm in arm
Under the summer sun; snuggling cozily on winter nights
The sound of your laughter, your voice
Your fragrance, the twinkle in your smiling eyes
So adoring and brimming with tender love
I remember them all too well
Thoughts and dreams of you, a smoke that will never turn to ash
If I could turn back time and relive all the happy, endearing
Even the silly moments we shared, I would. Sadly, our bond
Couldn't weather every storm that came our way
Our loving companionship, though brief, I'll hold dear
In perpetuity. Thanks for the everlasting memories
We were never meant to be
I guess that's the way destiny intended it
It's been eons since we parted ways
Like rope severed under a colossal weight
Yet melancholic memories of you
Still bloom in my mind like a flower, filling me with glee
Submitted for...
Impress Me With An Old Poem(002) Poetry Contest (Winner: 7th Place)
Sponsored by Poet Destroyer A
Date submitted: 10/08/2020
Strand Special 12 Any Form,Any Theme Poetry Contest(Winner: 2nd Place)
Sponsored by Brian Strand
Date: 12/29/2019
Best free verse April 1, 2018 to July 15,2018 Poetry Contest(Winner: 3rd Place)
Sponsored by John Hamilton
Date written and posted: 07/12/2018
Best Free Verse in July 2018 Poetry Contest/Winner(1st Place)
Sponsored by: Laura Loo
Date written and posted: 07/12/2018
"The Saudade Receiving"
Alate
Epiphany
God is a Child
Innocent
Protected
Untouched
Reverent
Purity
Pillaged
Hurt Heart
Broken Trust
Angered
All forgiving
Guarding
Children
of Parents
of Children
Saudade
Light
Love
Us
(LadyLabyrinth / 2020)
LUX VITAE
Christmas 2020
Matthew 18:1-3
3 John 1:4
432hz - Carbon Based Lifeforms
https://youtu.be/d1a8BTt0-wM
adj. Alate
Saudade
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudade
432hz
https://attunedvibrations.com/432hz-healing/
"Saudade is a pleasure you suffer, an ailment you enjoy." ~ Manuel de Melo
I sit in our room and think of you,
ponder your framed, steady gaze,
touch the circle on the wall
where you placed your head
during those days of propped pillows,
watching the Discovery Channel in bed.
You liked to learn about faraway places,
black holes, other universes.
I remember the hour you
slipped into one of them.
You left your skin and bones,
keys, wallet, phone,
all your clothes,
the halo above our bed:
All the un-necessities
for this new place where you live,
though you visit me in dreams.
Are you an image on a screen?
You never let me see the other side.
Do you have some secret that must be kept?
I keep everything the same,
don’t even stretch my leg across our bed
just in case you want to slip back again,
though I know you won’t return.
I’ll have to come to you instead.
“We have to pay the price,” is what you always said:
The toll it takes, every day, to re-accept
this new arrangement that’s been made,
where there’s pain, yes, but also wonderment, allure.
I still believe you, and there’s more to believe.
You swore you’d never leave.
Saudade Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Edward Ibeh
February 7, 2019
My
core
eludes
convinced I’m
under a moonspell’s
magnetic pulse anchored within
across bossa nova sambas strummed on nylon strings
luminous is this moonflower’s white petals contrast the deeming darkness
under a saudade of stars symmetry an opus pleasant to the ear, there in lateral
is my b u r i e d s o u l in s o i l so l o v e ’s d e e p s t e m s s t e a m ~
into sweet fragrance lingering in dawn’s ensemble, I its exhibit an external bloom only at night’s crescent-lit grace, strands of opalescent pearls, jewels face up, yet my thirst is still unquenched,
e a c h
n
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g
h t a r
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w a l
The day you died, I died with you
You were my anchor that I played
The grief burdened through lonely nights
Feelings I always try to deny
Our tender melody has stopped playing
Alone I am a marble figure
02/20/2019
Sun :) - A-L Andresen :)
Saudade Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh
3rd place in the contest
Saudade for friends I have lost
as I get older
I lose more people
every year
more people I knew
have died moving on
and I mourn their lost friendship
wished I had been
a better friend for them
and knew them better
and with the corona virus
spreading around the world
I will lose so many more
in the coming year
as the virus spreads
its malignancy far and wide
I lost my father due to cancer in 1985
and my sister
due to a freak illness in 2007
and my mother
due to Alzheimer’s in 2005
and my father-in-law as well in 2007
Demel Tucker
high school debate teammate
dead of HIV in 1995
Julian Bartley and his son
died in a terrorist bombing
in Nairobi in 1998
Jon Weber college roommate
dead due to prostate cancer
in 2000
Paul Simon friend from the visa line
dropped dead of a heart attack
in 2004
Ted Halstead
one of my best bosses
died of heart attack in 2007
Chris Richard
one of my former bosses
from my days in Bangkok
dropped dead of a heart attack
shortly before we were due
to have lunch in 2014
and so many others
I have lost
along the way
and soon there will be
so many more
as I get old in the corona era
Saudade act 1
It's my heart
Fell right beside me
Left behind
These see-through eyes bleed
Hurts so bad
This pain screams ANGRY
//KILL JOY LIES//
Dirt in my mind fiends
Forgotten how you stared behind me
Scared to hide
Who'd look to find me?
Forgot and lost
When will your lies leave?
A love so sick
//SEW STITCH//
My eyes bleed
Twisted fate
Berate
Forsake me
Penetrate
And
Mastuerbate me
Erotic play
//LOVE LIES//
To leave me
Colored lights
So bright they blind me
If you could feel
You'd feel what I see...
sometimes
in my world of make~believe
with cuts so deep
sew
stitch
still bleed
Swimming in my wildest dreams
I'm drowning drowning
blood bath scene
Obscene
I fiend
So obscene
Sellfish Fiend
And these cuts
Oh these cuts
So strange is
Romance
It's my heart fell right beside me
Left behind
You despise me
Kill Joy for Lies
And
Lust
FantisiZe Me
On a Friday night
An otherwise empty space
The pain of your silence
thoughts of Heartless
And madness
Helpless and sadness
Sick
And silly little...
Oh!
Let's eXplorE IT
My God so euphoric
Adore it
I want more
So much more
It's you
all i want
It's all of you i want.
Every last piece of you
My GREED is to feed in you
Disease you
breed in you
My seed in you
Ravage you
Pushing your insides
And death
Savaged is you
I'm enchanted
So Romantic
Consider this Fantastic
Seeping~ your soul
Oh my God!!!
´SAY IT!!!"
"SAY IT!!!"
LOVE
LOVE
"SAY IT!!!"
LOVE...
My heart felt old; I sought the cold.
Canada’s land was what I planned.
Among trees grand and far inland
To dance my sad brand of sarabande.
Yet precious moments come when joy flowers,
Far briefer than Four-O’clocks,
As resurrected visions composed of spectral smoke,
Reignite our love in brief rapture; abruptly fading.
Far from the shores I now abhor
Where eyes of blue were wrenched from view;
A grisly depart for my sweet heart -
A rag doll tossed and dragged into the deep.
Winter trees in chiaroscuro
Cuffed by icicles grip and snow.
Dark, defrocked beeches beseeching;
Limbs pleading for the sap of Spring.
Staring into those leafless woods
As cotton obscurity falls;
And gloaming passes into night,
Something I see sheds its dark veil.
Life bursts anew; I plainly view
Your windswept raven hair framing
Jeweled eyes and lips set in tan
An amaranthine vision of
Our ancient love, so evergreen
Waiting sweetly in the deep snow.
So near, so there, but not now here
A snapping branch broke quietude.
Daring damsel of Tavira,
My heart still glows at thoughts of thee
Cuddled close on Algarve beach
White wave swash foam tickling our toes.
Our brash love was a high wire act
Done without any safety net.
Diving the sky, diving the deep;
Scaling the peaks; dancing in Rio.
Passion flowed allegro con brio;
Alloying us ‘neath moon and sun.
Until you vanished in the swirling sea
West of the sandy swath of Algarve.
Stolen, seized by a great white shark
As your surfboard raced past mine.
Absent your smile my life seems spent
As if impaled on Triton’s trident.
Yet precious moments come when joy flowers,
Far briefer than Four-O’clocks,
As resurrected visions composed of spectral smoke,
Reignites our love in brief rapture, abruptly fading.
2/11/2019
Sponsor: Edward Ibeh
Saudade acT III
Eyes sewn shut
Can't see you hide me
Hurts so bad
This pain screams
"Hate me?!!!"
Angry for this hate
You made me
Made me hate this life
"Berate me!!!"
Penetrate
You mastuerbate me
A loVe so sicK
\\\Sew Stitch///
My eyes bleed
Erotic play
Death in my mind fiends
I wish you'd take this life
Despite me
\\\Kill Joy Lies///
You came inside me
Fantasize and still my eyes bleed
It's my heart fell right beside me
Left behind
Please stay to find me
It hurts so bad
This pain screams
"Angry!!!!"
Erotic play
Love lies then leaves me
Make me hate
The way you hate me
Colored lights so bright they blind me
If you could feel
You'd feel my heart bleed
If you could feel
You'd feel my heart bleed...
by Christian AleXander
Writing
you
a word
a letter
A message
a longing
A search
a view
A feeling
a way
A promise
a hope
You
will stay
All those talks we had, your breath smoky.
All those plans we had to someday meet.
And then I felt the fear turning my legs icy
while we climbed toward the sky’s craggy peaks.
Were you safe didn’t matter compared to gloom
and encapsulating castle with weird turrets.
I knew you by the peeled bark bared to bloody red,
all cork removed as if we’d sip continually of wine.
I wanted glimpses of you in the twisting streets
along the cathedral, someone to make the world okay.
I wanted to touch your body however beaten or holed
to wonder at the risen glory of angelic choir.
I remained alone, quiet in heart staring at the world’s
star map, hungry for some distant home, just you and me.
And the children we would have had, all graceful
with the bump against wall flight, free from gravity.
How could gravity keep me among trees and seashells
among prehistoric rocks uptilted, among the waves.
While, you. You were you, husky with sorrow
but free within tomorrow and I remained today.
Such are dreams, carried by an aqueduct built
by foreign legions and crumbling to dust as we age.
Do you remember all those talks, the stogie’s curl
of smoke heating the breath and all the places
where we walked together hand in hand along
cobblestone with a ship about to sail and me?
It seemed so easy to love you-
Effortless to touch such perfect
Skin that I thought longed for me.
In the gentleness of the night you
Left and I was forsaken and
Abandoned without reason.
It seemed so easy for you to love me-
Undemanding in every single way.
In the calm of the storm you chose
To leave without warning nor cause.
Bestowing sorrow onto my heart
with such ease.
I was naive.
Now I am left with the craving for
You to satisfy my appetite for your kiss.
Thirsty for the hope you long for me too-
You know, like you used to.
For I am but a lone doe lost in the
Wilderness of abdicated relinquishment.
My hunger is astounding as I am
Hankering with nostalgia of how we
Once were when we were what we were.
And we were in love, my sweet.
Forgive me for desiring your sweetness,
Atone me for my greed for completeness.
Pining over all the magnificent memories
Of us walking along the shore,
Hand in hand with bare feet in the sand.
I aspire to embrace your eagerness-
Have appetence for the faith you yearn
For me to open the threshold to my
Weakness-
And that weakness is you, my love.
I have tried so hard to surrender,
Attempted with all that I am to ease
This fever I call you-
For your love is my forever dwelling…
And I am left homesick for you.
Poem titled Saudade Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Edward Ibeh
Date: January 25, 2019