an empty room
and I stare at the ceiling
blank eyes and a blanker slate,
my poker face
arms spread over my head
all I can see are
whirring blades blurring into
creamy paint and
the small cracks in between
the shadows in my chest,
mahogany
branching out their needles,
ebony
one pricks my eye
red ink taints crisp alabaster
damps it slow, slow, slow
I exhale shaky, shaky, shaky
heavy lids droop to a close
and no one sees
no one can.
Categories:
damps, cry, death, grief, pain,
Form: Free verse
Precious romance in paradise
A memory that damps the eyes
Lovely tune of charming love song
Played in the air for hours long
How can his heart forget her face
When her soul was his saving grace?
She's a star of the darkest night sky
That lifted his spirit high
She's the sun in a gloomy afternoon
That blew away his lonely tune
She quenched the thirst of his contemplation
She was the calm of his agitation
May the heat of her warm embrace
Fill again his empty space
So the heart that craved for long
Will play again his lovely song
Categories:
damps, love,
Form: Rhyme
You're the voice that echoes in my heart through eternity
Hearing you speak brings me complete serenity
In the dryness of the day, you're a song that brings the rain
Like the dew in the morning that damps the thirsty grain
You're like a gentle wind that hums a cozy song
Hearing you is my pleasure, no matter how long
In the turmoil of the night, you're the calming rhapsody
You're the gentle wind that tames the rouse of my anarchy
In the darkness of the way, you're the guiding melody
You're the joy of my soul, for sometimes you're comedy
I'll be lost without you; with you I'll always find my way
Every moment with you is always a holiday
Everytime you sing your song, my heart dances out of joy
Please be serious with my love and don't play me for a toy
For the moment that I lose the sound of your sweet voice
Is the moment that my heart will cease to rejoice
April 20, 2023
Writing Challenge- "V" Words - Poetry Contest (2nd place)
Sponsored By: Constance La France
Categories:
damps, voice,
Form: Rhyme
Blowing breeze damps my horizon like a kiss
Spring's bliss brings the memory of the heart I miss
May the light of dawn bring back her glorious grace
So in time I'll feel again her sweet embrace
April 3, 2023
Categories:
damps, memory,
Form: Rhyme
She first saw the light in the year of the dragon,
In a blissful morning in the month of the lion,
Water cleansed her soul in the same year of faith,
The angels up above have foretold her fate.
Her name exalts the heaven up above,
She is the symbol and the bearer of my love,
For I couldn’t ask for more
But her sweet smile that I adore.
Her name manifests my divine conviction,
Her eyes shed the light for my resurrection,
She is the meaning of the future and my past,
My love for her will forever last.
She’s my light from darkness that lasts till eternity,
Her face is a symbol of beauty and purity,
She’s my dream and my reality,
Just to see her bright face brings me ecstacy.
She’s the flower that blooms in my early month of May,
She gives life to my sunrise and a color for my day,
She’s my sun, my moon and my stars,
She’s the tower of my faith and the healer of my scars.
She’s the morning dew that damps my arid horizon,
She is the muse of my dreams and my vision,
She’s my glory and my consecration,
Just a moment with her is like my salvation.
Categories:
damps, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
A thunderstorm passed over,
gun turrets flash.
gray hulls rumble and roll
above tumultuous clouds.
Evening commences to weep -
an aftermath,
a damp emotive capsizing
that barely touches upturned faces
yet it splashes fright onto brows.
As seafaring battles go
it was a skirmish,
flotillas of cruisers awash from
near misses.
They sailed away
leaving this whittling rain,
a backwash of electric jism,
the distant sound
of sailors shouting for rum.
Behind our eyes
deaf fish mouth deaf bubbles.
Ozone spumes against inner ears.
The wake of the storm
sponges, damps down,
slowly drips
into a salty bucket
of silence.
Categories:
damps, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A thunderstorm passed over,
gun turrets flash.
gray hulls rumble and roll
above tumultuous clouds.
Evening commences to weep -
an aftermath,
a damp emotive capsizing
that barely touches upturned faces
yet it washes fright from brows.
As seafaring battles go
it was a skirmish,
flotillas of cruisers awash from
near misses;
they sailed away
leaving this whittling rain,
a backwash of electric jism,
the distant sound
of sailors shouting for rum.
Behind our eyes
deaf fish mouth deaf bubbles.
Sea legs are braced against
peripheral nerves.
Ozone spumes against inner ears.
The wake of the storm
mutes and tingles, damps down
as it slowly drips
into a salty bucket
of silence.
Categories:
damps, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A dim a dozen
A determined day dominator
As a dim dark dominance by lights
A dozen dooms domestically
A dodged fountain the cry of dogs
A denounce to announce a drum dance
As dams develop damps the duck
A duckling's life already dead.
Categories:
damps, life,
Form: Alliteration
You were supposed to be there at the end of the rainbow but you left me waiting
You became my addiction and its my fault I can't blame you for my issues
You held my dependency
I looked to you to be my shoulder
Was waiting on you to be my high, when I was low, to be my teddy bear through the storm
I shouldn't have and I knew it but, once you love someone who became someone
else you cant help but look past that speck of flaw
Held my heart in your hand now I hold it shattered in the sweater that holds your
scent
Rain on a Monday morning
Pain that's ever growing
I'm in need of a recovery
Everything I thought I need I don't
I started a new life now and it does not include YOU
Broken walls built back up, I'm stronger
Open damps covered now, no more hard feelings I'm healing
Hole in my heart becoming patched up, you are non-existing
I don't need you to depend any more
I have became my healer and assigned my recovery.
Categories:
damps, growth, love, recovery from,
Form: Free verse
Rot on me light, like murky cool damps,
That drip like some sweat in your sockets.
I look on green flesh, purple, bruised and unyearned,
Take it, take it, when it's all alright,
Like a fight that ended in closure.
Steal it from the smile, and take it.
They'd rape the roses anyways, so selfish,
Fine tuned to rot on me light. Rot on me.
Turn my skin darker and pale, steal my heat,
Steal my voice, steal my words, and purity.
Categories:
damps, abuse, depression, evil, psychological,
Form: Free verse
LAMPS
in a room full of wine bottled peagreen lamps
velvet cushions of blood pillow tramps
liquidised assorted pots
constellation drops
sanity
stops
vanity
landing dark red clots
a fresh new beating life stops
as life seeps into dark soggy damps
in a room full of wine bottled peagreen lamps
Categories:
damps, abortion,
Form: Rhyme
The night is when I write, when dews and damps do light;
When the silence is punctuated with a thought of life and love and death;
When darkness is soften by a moon so embracing and full of life.
Night is when I write, when specters rise and sit upon their tombs,
And dawn shrouds for their brief release.
The night is when I write, about those haunted paths, and lives ferried away
Too soon, weeping on the distant shore.
And night is when I cry for sins so heavy, and repentance too easy too brief.
Oh, the night is when I write, and cry, and consider this field of sadness,
Sown with old hands.
And I would weep all night and never see the day,
But the day comes and I wait, for the night is when I write.
Categories:
damps, dark,
Form: Free verse
When winter shows its face, a death occurs,
those living plants unable to draw breath,
whose leaves turn brown and wither on the vine
as freezing winds tear through the grassy land.
The roses drop their petals one by one,
the ferns dry up with shrunken, curling fronds
and shriveled 'mums transform to brittle stems.
If we gaze through the window now, we view
a world so drab, we yearn for spring to rise
above the hardened soil and pierce the earth
in hues which veer from dull to rainbow bright.
Yet as we sigh and sense this winter gloom
descend, the wind itself damps down and sends
soft flakes to cover death in shrouds of white;
a mourning so bewitching, we recant
all thoughts of spring, but revel in the snow
and praise the One whose gift can still enchant.
Categories:
damps, beauty, god, snow,
Form: Blank verse
May you gently tender whatever surrounding you
As your mother tenders you
May you generously give whoever in want
As you are given by beloved ones
May you patiently enlighten whoever innocently unaware
As you are clearly enlightened by reverend mentors
May you bountifully assist whoever helpless
As you are secretly assisted by unknown people
May you wisely share the happiness with whoever never met before
As you are well hospitalized by every warm but uninvited party
May you thoughtfully apportion the sorrow with whoever mourning
As you are wholeheartedly comforted by uninvolved others
May you always fill in others' shoes
As others tolerate you
May you always know the stamina
As Sun never fails to rise
May you always known the docility
As timely rain damps the thirsty soil
May you always know the truth
Suffer as people suffer
Enjoy as people enjoy
May you always know the best time
To be strong
To be mild
To be firm
To be acceptive
Above all
May you always know
The one
You should always extend your gratitude to
Categories:
damps, hope, people, people,
Form: Ode
May you gently tender whatever surrounding you
As your mother tenders you
May you generously give whoever in want
As you are given by beloved ones
May you patiently enlighten whoever innocently unaware
As you are clearly enlightened by reverend mentors
May you bountifully assist whoever helpless
As you are secretly assisted by unknown people
May you wisely share the happiness with whoever never met before
As you are well hospitalized by every warm but uninvited party
May you thoughtfully apportion the sorrow with whoever mourning
As you are wholeheartedly comforted by uninvolved others
May you always fill in others' shoes
As others tolerate you
May you always know the stamina
As Sun never fails to rise
May you always known the docility
As timely rain damps the thirsty soil
May you always know the truth
Suffer as people suffer
Enjoy as people enjoy
May you always know the best time
To be strong
To be mild
To be firm
To be acceptive
Above all
May you always know
The one
You should always extend your gratitude to
Categories:
damps, hope, people, people,
Form: Ode
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