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From This Day On

From This Day On

VS. 1
I have seen many mornings
Through my own eyes
The seasons change before me
Winters snows follow summer rains

VS. 2
Ev'ry path that I've chosen
Has been my own decision
But somewhere in the evening light
I have prayed for a miracle
Someone to share my life with.

Chorus
From this day on, my heart will beat with your heart
From this day forward, your life will be my very breath
From this moment on I chose to take a chance upon tomorrow with you
From this moment on our lives shall be as one.

VS 3
I am called from my fam'ly
You from your home
We are called to be one now
One in mind, one in body and soul

VS 4
And we ask our God's blessing
Upon our life together
The keeper of our wedding vows
Stays with us ev'ry day of our lives

BRIDGE
Wherever you travel
Wherever you roam
I will stay with you
For I am at home.

Una Vita

One life,
one tiny light to shine in our allotted hour
a single strutting chance upon the stage
a single line writ large upon the page,
a chance to love, to live, to give
and what is more,
one entrance and one exit, no encore

She's Looking For Her Grave

there’s a lady dressed in rags and robes
she’s slowly skulking by the stones
of names and dates and faded mark
as mist and crows guide through the dark
she’s looking for her grave

a single bell helps set her tread
a steady toll of calling dread
beckoning eyes that chance upon
this ageless figure’s soul now gone
she’s looking for her grave

her mouth it holds a large round stone
that forced a blooded fractured bone
and shattered teeth and stayed her tongue
to threaten not those she’ll rise among
she’s looking for her grave

a witch they called her when alive
who’s words and spells brought all a strife
as village folk by stone they saw
to end her knives of blackened scorn
as each moon she leaves her grave

Aeriforms - Supernatural Scifi

sometimes 
misconstrued
in a fluorescent grove
where malachite petals
marry emerald blades
verbose biting chews 
too close to the cheek
among a confetti of bees
amid undulating bumps 
of raw superfluous air

interdimensional entities 
of spectral occurrence
wave with graphic-less suave
to gurgles, to coos, to hehs 
seek noodle communication
to a bouncing mistaken few
using the eyebrow medium 
of coincidence
a babbling infrasonic tool 
of curious happening

sometimes
misunderstood
exhume, with heed
supressed benevolence
they fly shapelessly 
in quartered skies
aloof in mocking flight
frilly, frothy entities
divebombing ghettos
exacting urban sprawl
chance upon neonates 
and families out picnicking
feeding babies whose
knowing smiles to air 
see, or do they?
 – beware
Aeriforms

Rodent For Sale

When I chance upon a lone squirrel
    The vibe hardly approaches a thrill

  You think he's cute, waving his bushy tail
    Congratulations! Here's your rodent for sale

The Sailing Cloud and Me

O my feisty little cloud
From places afar you sail 
Along the leeway 
With gaiety so profound!

I treasure a hidden desire 
To share my thoughts with you 
Could you stop by for a moment 
Give me a minute or two

With all the silver linings 
You sail over mountains and seas
Did you chance upon a special someone 
Who could be tucking a note for me

I've seen the sweetest of messages 
On the soft petals of flowers 
And in the wobbling shiny dew drops
Over the lush green blades of grass

I've heard the blowing wind whisper 
To the the forests and hills around 
Soulful tunes of melody 
Where pleasures of my heart can be found 

O my pretty cloud do tell me
Tell me with all your glee
Could I be meeting that special someone , 
In the valley of eternity! 


STRAND COMPLETELY NEW (6),any form any theme Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Brian Strand
Date: 07/07/2020

place : Honorable Mention

Time Travel

It’s so odd,
how time expands and collapses.
In doing so, 
it scatters the timeline shimmering across the sky.
It left me crumpled,
Surveilling the kaleidoscope that was my life.
Waiting for someone to chance upon my path
and remake the sense of it all.

Yesterday is tomorrow and tomorrow was last week.
The orderly patterns of existence 
that had kept me blindly safe,
had dissolved to a blur of images;
orderless and ambiguous to the life I’d led.

I wandered aimlessly through the frames.

The Daredevil

I thought to cross the busy lane
   but cobblestones cause foot pain

As I chance upon a rushing stream
   her current whispers, 'Don't dare dream'

When fragrance beckons from the rose
   angry bees buzz 'round my nose...

While softly falls the swirling snow
   Might I fall? Who would know? ---

And now to secure my tank's door
   Three cheers ~ I'm off to war

My Home

My Home

I watched many mornings dawn
        Through my own eyes,
The seasons changed before me,
	Winter snows followed summer rains,
Ev’ry path I followed I made my own decisions,
       But in the evening light
             I prayed for a miracle,
                 Someone to share my life with,
Then you came from your family I called from my home -
Called to be one in body and one in soul,
For from this time on
	My heart beats with your heart,
		Your life my very breath,
Now I choose to take a chance upon tomorrow
  With you,
Asking Heaven’s blessing upon this life together,
	Guardian of our vows abide with us
		In stormy times – in laughter and in overflowing joy 
			Ev’ry day of our life;
And wherever we travel,
	Wherever we go,
I will stay with you
For with you 
        I am truly at home.
8-7-19

His Ears To Find

Never writing for the unholy dollar,
  but that kid in a hundred years

When the world has irrevocably changed,
  and lies are all one hears

If he could happen to chance upon my words,
  just once while searching blind

Then my humble verse would breathe new life
  —within his ears to find

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)

My Love Is Patient

Love is patient
Love is far too kind
My love is unconditional
I want to give you all my love
I can’t keep it all to myself:
I lost my heartbeat, I found it in you
We beat together now!

What circle have you gotten me into?
Not that I want to get out of it!
I long to sleep and wake up every day
By your side to love and support you.

How did you chance upon this power
To open my mind and heart again to love?
You have been persistent in your love for me,
Your caring touches my heart,
Will I be able to contain all these?
The love, affection, care that you are capable of?
Will I be able to fully reciprocate?
You will always have the power to touch my heart
I have surrendered it all to you,
I want to be powerless when it comes to you.

We both know the meaning of love,
Never thought it could feel like this ever again
That feeling when you walk with that special woman
Or man in your life, glowing with pride!

Waiting

Forge a waiting game
Trace a festive flame


Spice the end game cheer
Watch how time sparks clear


No vain wordings fit
Little bits of wit


Dream of happy date
Patience bears kind fate


Chance upon the prize
Meet with fond surprise


Play the waiting game
Be beyond all blame




Leon Enriquez
17 May 2018
Hamlet Place, ACT

Psyche

Fit that sure ease
With happy wit,
Fund your clear peace
As balance fits.


Dance in the light
Where joy swirls fond,
Chance upon sight
Where beauty spawns.


Deep mellow light
Can shine new daze,
Set poignant sight
In sensuous craze.


Words come around
To set true reach,
Upon old grounds
Face each to each.




Leon Enriquez
18 January 2018
Singapore

Out On a Limb

Hitch-hiking on the road of yellow bricks
I took a chance upon a passing whim
It ferried me where thins grow out from thickes
Turns out, I found myself out on a limb

Imagine, on a limb and at my age
How could I get my feet back on the ground
My first instinct was fly into a rage
A brainstorm came, then all my anger drowned

Yet this was not my first time on a limb
Fact is, I've shinnied down more than a few
These days, instead of taking it so grim
I've learned to sit and just enjoy the view 

If you're caught on a limb by some mistake
The bright side is, the damned thing didn't break


     by Daniel Turner

Zurich In Winter

A gust of icy air blasts 
the cold into my bones,
tugging at my knees with 
hollow, aspirating groans,

making numb my cheeks, 
whirling 'round my waist;
pulling at me thither-ward 
down cobbled streets in haste. 

Thick snowflakes lightly flurry 
soft upon my lashes,
squinting hard, I blink away 
the blinding, frozen ashes.

Presently, I chance upon 
a steepled, stony schloss,
whence I knew myself beyond 
the bounds of Hotzestrasse.

All around me, strangers rush 
to unfamiliar places;
swiftly stepping, spinning past 
with stern, impatient faces.

I sidle down a sleepy street, 
apart the harried crowd,
into the quiet entrance 
of a quaint café I bowed.

A corner cuckoo ticks away 
the time with listless ease,
whiling away the morning; 
an anxious spirit to appease.

Rich and steamy mochas 
warm away the frosty chill
of this melancholy trav'ler
reflecting on the wintry still.

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