Best The Blues Poems
.He walked in silence
to the corner of my heart
He lit a candle~ fire
in a room once damp and dark
His words were gently spoken
His love was loud and clear
His arms were unexpected
A fearless Chevalier
My strength was getting weaker
My pulse~rate running low
He sheltered my emotions
and fortified his soul
He helped me win the battle
against solitude's blade
His kiss bestowed upon me
His palm upon my faith
A faith of a new promise
on paths of pastel hues
Of jasmine scents and marigolds
Of Sunsets in the blues.
....in retrospect
There were mirrors there
Behind it, where all the Jews would hide
How can someone blame the black despair?
All You were, was a mirror over there
Flooding naked imagery
Flowing naked mercury
Proof there were no fa-ked lies
Unless words were pressed against the frame
Somehow you couldnt recognise...
your name...
Half blinded..
Besides, you would deny it anyway
One day while searching for those wandering Jews
Purple flowers in my garden winked at me
" we are they, if so you choose"
The mirror held was upside down
(It never mattered anyway)
So I kept on walking on and on
Until this very day
Ive heard it said just the other day
They used it to flash the sun
Hoping it would shine away
As some were hiding in its shade
A million miles away
Behind that fragile pane of glass
The looking glass kept looking past
And keeps looking for today
Looking at the torn disguise
And the lying enemy eyes
Though their lips were moist with movement
As yet the sound remained unheard
The spoken word was truth
One day it all may come to you
Whispered by a little bird
Ive held so high your high regard
And so your high esteem
Your badge of broken Jew
And friends by lives devided seen
I tried imagining I was you
Walking, standing in your wretched shoes
To us were done similar things
They also covered up the truth
In fact its happening here and now
How much cover do they need?
In honour tried to imitate , sometimes even emulate
Your cheeky contraband
Conducting your own orchestra
While playing your own band
This mirror holding up I see
If I was ever to wear those clothes
Emblazoned by a David star
Embattled with a Jewish scar
I wish to have your nose
The link between us circumcised
A covenant yet not broken
A people not yet broken by the blues
My love was found
Intact profound
In around
the nation of the Jew
"The Blues Released"
Black velvet
sits between
what is read
yet unseen
crushing sullen passion
across ripe crimson lips
holding tight those
dancing fingers
seduced
gliding across
the Player’s
pristine alabaster
piano keys
burning
the bluest blue
release
(LadyLabyrinth / 2020)
"Black Velvet" / Alannah Myles
https://youtu.be/ZHHEmd5mECY
“Pianos, unlike people,
sing when you give them
your every growl.
They know how to dive
into the pit of your stomach
and harmonize with your roars
when you’ve split yourself open.
And when they see you,
guts shining, brain pulsing,
heart right there exposed
in a rhythm that beats
need need,
need need,
need need,
pianos do not run.
And so she plays.”
“When you play, never mind who listens to you.”
LYRICS/ "Black Velvet", Alannah Myles
https://genius.com/Alannah-myles-black-velvet-lyrics
[Verse 1]
Hello, sweet brown-eyed girl
I'm just a guy with the midnight blues
Tryin’ to play it cool, but truth be told
I'm already lost in you
You gave the softest little smile
And I was halfway ‘cross the floor
Had a line in mind, a drink and some time
Maybe walk you out that door
[Chorus]
But girl, you lit up like the sun
Hit me with a look I couldn’t outrun
All my life, I’ve dreamed of this
Was countin’ down to our first kiss… tonight
[Verse 2]
That’s when he walked on by
With that easy charm and confident stride
You turned to him like a song you knew
And I felt the light leave the room
[Chorus 2]
Yeah, those sweet brown eyes
Never even caught these blues
It was just a dream, just a dance in my mind
A love I never got to lose
You smiled like I wasn’t even there
Guess hearts don’t always get to choose
So I’ll be walkin’ home alone tonight
Just a guy with the blues
[Bridge]
Maybe in another life
You’d look up and I’d be right
But fate’s a quiet kind of thief
And hope don’t always stay the night
[Final Chorus]
Now those brown eyes shine for someone new
And I fade back into the view
It’s me and this neon sky
Singin’ truths I can’t deny
Yeah, I’m just a guy with the blues
Still crazy… behind these blues
[Outro]
Just a guy...
With the blues
Listening to the Blues on this cerulean night,
my mood dark with visions of ecchymotic dreams
leaving chalybeous bruises in my crazed mind.
I waited for the turquoise twinkle in your smiling azure eyes
to soothe the despondent indigo thoughts I'm feeling.
Like a vitreous vapor I could feel you, but you did not appear.
I guess your cold cyaneous attitude shouldn't surprise me,
it's what I deserve, after leaving your beautiful mind filled
with empty, brooding, questioning, mazarine emotions.
Now I sit here alone watching the aqua liquid of your cocktail
throwing slowly fading teal reflections on a crinkled napkin
as the argon Curacao sign blinks lonely above the empty bar.
Liquid slowly pools in the corner of my cesious eyes.
You used to call them your sapphire visions into my soul,
now they're just old and faded like our cyanotic love affair.
It seems you have finally had enough of my broody blue moods.
I don't blame you, they've cost me more than just you in my life,
as for now I'll just wait in my livid sorrow and listen to the lonely Blues.
02/28/16
You have Africa on your mind
The distant land you left behind
With nothing to prove.
Humiliated, without a choice
There’s melancholy in your voice
What is your next move?
Vent your feelings through land and sea
To the rhythm that sets you free
Who could disapprove!
Raise your song – with a blend of hues
Bring on the notes of swinging blues
To shuffle and groove.
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Author: Paul Callus ~ 8th March 2014
Contest : Take Two
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
Placing: 2nd
I was borne to the winter
Carried into this world with the wind
The snowflakes were my mother
And my father was the hail that ushered in
I've never been a man of this earth
But I've always been one with it
Born to the tune of the sunrise
Ashes to ashes dust to dust
Carry me away with the sunset
When I'll pass away without a fuss
Yet for now, the fire burns forever inside me
It flickers to my AM radio
No one understands my perspective
They refuse to take my point of view
But if they ever walked a mile in my shoes
They might know what it's like to sing the blues
May you see with new eyes
Bright stars in clear night skies.
May you feel the warm breeze
That puts your heart at ease.
Hear the sounds of birds sweet.
Wear shoes that dance your feet.
Paint the sky a bright blue.
Just know I think of you.
Put a smile on your face.
Don’t hide in that dark place.
Talk to your friends, the trees.
Tell them I miss you, please.
Find your strength in your soul.
Hope and truth are the goal.
Think of all you could do
To make your heart feel new.
Drink a cup of red wine.
That will make you feel fine.
Sing a song, bright and gay.
Soon the blues will go way.
By: Carole O'Terry Duet
Copyright: 2/8/2018;
"All Rights Reserved"
For the 120 Word Contest; Sponsor – Silent One
1st Place
*Image of Kaleidoscope In Blue by Giphy.
When The Blues Are Fun
You consume the whole of me constantly,
Fair drafts ensure flight of our loyal tryst,
Though all known plans bear out uncertainty,
Our center grants said goals to be unmissed.
A misty vineyard drips of subtle dew,
And swells our noble chalice soberly,
Till such, we seal all promises won true,
Our profuse veins sip fortuitously.
Heaven embraces what Earth put apart,
Relished values carried by moral wings,
Sound valor our cultures nobly impart,
Adopted rivalries temptation brings.
Glorious when the twain of us was one,
Our intrepid tales, nonetheless, homespun.
2019 November 28
*1st Place*
A BRIAN STRAND FORMAL
~~Brian Strand: Judged 2022 March 12
*3rd Place*
2019 best sonnet
~~John Hamilton: Judged 2019 December 16
*3rd Place*
Best Friend Sonnet
~~Regina McIntosh: Judged 2019 December 22
Rex wondered if it really was true,
and developed a case of the blues:
He heard he was out
He was ready to pout--
When he brightened: "It must be fake news!"
The world's changing so fast
that my forever dreams no longer last.
Time swiftly slipped away:
for only yesterday
I felt life was all play,
while all those moments now lie in the past.
My hair is mostly gone;
old age advances with each breaking dawn.
I can no longer run,
and I've no time for fun;
friends have dwindled to none;
I've learned that I am no king, I'm a pawn.
Cell phones befuddle me,
I find their complex screens too small to see.
And they connect online;
while most would say that's fine,
I can't even use mine.
And what's an alternate reality?
I am yesterday's news,
just a cranky old man with a short fuse.
And I'm telling the truth,
for it doesn't take a sleuth
to see I've spent my youth;
and it's left me with a case of the blues.
He looked beyond her destitute smile,
And saw her shimmering hue,
Hovering above her cavernous mind,
In a glimmering radiant blue,
And her eyes gazed out not hiding the truth,
The truth of losing her soul,
That left her magic floating around,
In the cruel and vacuous cold,
So he reached his hands out into the air,
Cradled who she was in the shade,
And gently, with purpose, pulled her to him,
Over time she was gently remade,
With the love they both shared she became once again,
Alive where once she had died,
And her radiant blue shone from her eyes,
From her beautiful emotional mind.
I walked a lonely mile in your shoes the sadness you carry comes in twos if by chance you find one of a kind throw it far from you as I did mine walking a mile in this shoe one is heavier than you knew if by chance you find a shoe throw it far from you as I did mine walking barefoot and blue
You don’t remember what I told you.
The last time I laid eyes on you.
You don’t remember ........
I told you that I love you,
You only remember the blues.
Chorus:
You only remember the bad times.
You never remember the good.
You never remember the fun things we do.
You only remember the blues.
If you just tried to remember.
Some of the things we used to do.
I know in my heart you’d be happy.
Burt you only remember the blues.
Now I know this thing we have is over.
And I’m not blaming only you.
But I know it could have been much better.
But you only remember the blues.
Chorus:
You only remember the bad times.
You never remember the good.
You never remember …......
Just how much I love you......................
You only remember the blues...........
Cal Bambi "The word artist" ©Riginal
I paint pictures with words.
[email protected]
This instrument called my heart
That used to play love songs just for you
Is now old,worn and tattered
Barely even able to carry a tune
Beautiful love songs it used to play
Have now been turned to blues
From a woman I used to love
That has torn my heart in two
Melodies that would always flow
From a heart that was always so true
Now broken it hurts to even play
From a heart that's been so abused
Through loneliness a heart gets worn
Without all the love it was so used to
Leaving beautiful memories that are now forlorn
Almost unable to even play the blues
A sad song will still play on
Through these words that I call the blues
From a heart that used to play love songs
With all my heart,that were just for you
DannyBoy:2-10-13