A treasure was given to me
One with whom I could never depart
Day after day, I saw decay
Form in the center of my heart
I watched pieces harden and split
Discolor and begin to chip
I told myself that one day
I would have the money to fix
...what I was breaking
Robbing the world of beauty
Given to me for my joy
By keeping you, safely in place
You remain my baby boy
There are so many elements
Outside the doors of this house
That can kill and maim
What I must never allow
....suffering
No, no, my sweets, surely you see
All punishment belongs to me
I tried so hard to clean it up
The systems riding my back
But it seems as though
I have taught you the way of lack
There is no way I can repair
What I broke with Mama's tools
Restoration can only come
When necessity pulls
...value
It is not enough for me to see
The gift of you in the reveal
Seed lies dormant in ground
And I am he that wishes to steal
You do not belong to me
I am not granted your soul
I enjoy your presence, always
But it is time to let go
....and observe
The grand rising of light
As the mason repairs our sight
Written by Trudy Schrader on 04-12-2026
I have never seen one
I have never seen a colored smile
I have never seen a white smile
I have never seen a black smile
I have never seen one
But I have seen a few beautiful smiles
Oh! It feels good when a woman smiles
Especially one who has style
Charisma, elegance, intelligence and a nice profile
I mean one who is not contumelious or vile
I love beautiful smiles
Which brighten the world in style
I love smiles which shine like the sun
I love smiles which bring joy and fun
Oh! They want to color or discolor everything
Even an awe-inspiring rainbow in spring
They want to put the wrong colors on every thing
Oh! Brother Martin, I thank you for unveiling the painting
I love beautiful smiles, simple smiles
Smiles which one can see from miles and miles.
Copyright © May 2023, Hébert Logerie, All rights reserved
Hébert Logerie is the author of several collections of poems.
The years pass
but the soul doesn't
accept...
The body
undergoes changes,
that heart
rejects...
the legs creak
as if they were
teeth, and the
teeth fall out
as if they were
drunk...
The body ages,
but not the soul
of child...
The skin, the fur,
the hair if
discolor, but
the spirit if
maintain it fixed
at the age that
it suits us:
we all stay
in thirty or
forty, because
we all desire
reach hundred but
not now... reach
hundred...!
Flurries of fall fling fabulous colors,
Drifting silent in dreamy discolor.
Marvelous, mellowed, midday, matinee,
Plummy and peaceful as red songbirds play!
Isolated, intriguing, gold, immense,
In fields of faded blooms beyond a fence.
Real beauty ripens in seasons of sun!
Written on 3/29/2021
the cry of one shall fade
among the masses
consumed
by wailing tongues
of ululation
the heart of one shall shrivel
denied
connection
to its roots
discolor
in its death
the eyes of one shall stare
blank hope
scanning
the darkened crust
of time
the hands of one shall cling
to an endless
emptiness
caressing that
which is no more
the voice of one shall curse
the will of men
laid dormant
at the feet
of their gods
John G. Lawless
©6/6/2018
When the rainy gloomy day
From the gray clouds weaves the arch,
When the heaven of lead acid in the silence
Floating to us vast object,
When the foliage discolor,
And the cries of birds can be heard barely,
And thousands of hums seas
Denunciations from the heavens stronger,
When the winds are changing rules,
And hit the backhand in the discord,
And the air, woven from the the needles,
Sparks all over the blackness,
Suddenly a flash split the day in two,
And the lightning sparkle the bridge,
Connecting the heavenly home and the ground,
Showing the miracle of burning fire.
Diamonds are a girl’s best friend they say.
I know of a story that’s filled with dismay.
A girl worshiped a gem in abnormal way.
Many never believed how she went astray.
Only one man knew of what she did pray.
Now she began her destiny to begin to prey.
Devil’s diamond was her private bouquet.
Daring spells spoke, never served allay.
Universal demons took her soul in decay.
Spells drove her gem to dust, then to clay.
Traces of her body did discolor and splay.
Disheartened love broke, as he turned gray.
Evil will always win over any precious array.
Veracious greed drives away personal cliché.
I know now not to worship any gem or pay.
Listen to hidden words in this poetic play.
Innocent
As the blood falls from my eyes,like the tears of a sore heart.
All I can do is watch the impossible happen.
I'm being cut down,I'm being thrown apart.
I feel the pieces of my soul being broken.
As my blood falls from your weapon,watch me cry.
Looking at my other self being throw into a cage.
Dried blue tears sit upon her face,So sad her face blotched
with discolor as she sits cold and alone.
Open sores,open wounds,returned of horrid memories.
Everlasting chains to keep me restrain,under control.
Only to hurt with a smiling face,watch me bleed from my eyes
inside out.
You seen it the key to release you,though I ask should I set you free?
For you see this freedom shall you wait, may you ever see it again?
This is the weapon of innocent,stained with they're tears. Over flowed with horribly.
This dreaded weapon,This weapon stain with innocent tears made with hate.
Salix Discolor had escaped my view
Living in south that would be nothing new
How I could enjoy your beauty in spring
When only one Weeping Willow see through
Gray-haired bloom so distintive against red
Beauty like fur coat of cat that's purebred
Salix Discolor stands still while wind's wing
Transports young where no other foot has tread
Sponsor: Francine Roberts
Contest:*****willow or Daffodil
Written: Today February 28, 2012
I look in the mirror,
I gaze at my eyes and see my soul,
No longer a pure shimmery white light I once had as a child,
Now it is stained with red ink,
Absorb inside my skin,
Like water soaking into the earth,
Not even my atonements can wash away the blood.
So now my soul stays poisoned,
With the evil destruction of my past,
And the beautiful white moon I once had,
Has disappeared, Tainted the black holes of sin,
Though light overcomes darkness,
I still see the discolor of my soul,
And the infinity of its presence,
Lurking in the dark, like a bat in a cave,
So now I stay longing for the once untouched purity of my soul,
That has now vanished without a trace of a memoir...........
What happens to our dreams?
They seem to discolor;
they shrivel
and fall wistfully into distant memory
like so many autumn leaves.
They seem to slip from grasp
and shatter painfully
as they hit the floor
like so many glasses before it.
When we grow,
our hearts become lost in the inferno.
They fry, dry out, turn crispy.
They become easily cracked, fragile.
They become useless, sterilized.
I watch my first hour teacher
as she preaches generalizations
of relationships we don't want.
She gives examples from her own life.
I watch and I see nothing.
She is dead from the inside out.
Her humanity is locked in dormancy.
She is a hollow shell with a voice box.
Sometimes I think
she should take a queue from Hemingway;
paint the walls with the back of her skull
and fragments of led-fused brain tissue.
When the dreams go,
so goes the heart,
so goes the soul,
so goes self-will,
so goes humanity.
Pry into the mind of a child.
Look around, soak it in.
See what we've all been missing.
Poetry is terminal, incurable-
it manifest words around the heart, mine and soul
hopefully it won’t discolor the skin but;
for around the eyes.
Alex died in Iraq
Nineteen years of age
The bench arrived at the Veteran's Cemetary
A reminder of the war and rage
It glows with beauty
For it is brand new
Yet the last reminder of an only child
A dad, alive, polishing until he turns blue
His tears would land on the bench
Discolor would follow
He kept crying and rubbing
I couldn't even swallow
As I pulled him away
To stop the torcherous event
He looked to the sky... to vent
"Alexxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx!"
I LOST IT!!!!!!
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