Love is a blank canvas, a phantasmagoric fantasy,
to pucker up with glossy lips, the subtle soft brush
against the opposite sex, with eye-shades drawn.
Love doesn’t know the body yet, still sizing it up.
It doesn’t know the femininity and masculinity of art.
O Leonardo…O Romeo…Ah Juliet…O Venus!
Love craves the parts that match up, some the same,
others staining the cheeks, straining and draining strength,
magnetic and quaking, erupting and earthshaking.
Love weakens knees, draws attention from the whiteboard,
sharpens the brilliance of the sun, dots the i’s with hearts,
Nearly breaks the blank canvas with its passionate volume.
This canvas sans focal point. Bubblegum pops, primroses
afloat with ribbons and strings, ponytail tugs, pastels and
honeysuckles. Swings way too high - the girl, the guy.
Longshanks drainpipe and whistle through the day.
pterodactyls got it easy in this wide-open sky,
they glide too far up to be real anymore.
The beady-eyed slinkers that wriggle under our plodding boots,
they also avoid the earthshaking heaviness of light sleepers.
Beyond the curtains, a plastic pelican
has got its bill and belly stuck on a satellite dish,
now we can only receive small-minded thoughts in a soup bowl.
Strong winds are disrupting sleep patterns,
static pictures can only take baby steps or crawly shuffles.
Leggy winds go out to play in front of green screens,
illusions, made to promote the good-looking and perky.
12/4/2023
Hypnotic snow peaks, transformed into shades of zirconium.
sparkling green.
Thou art truly, an existential,Yuletide,eternally kissable,love machine!
You made the gods of Eros, come alive within these throbbing
poetic veins, boil and joyfully return.
You awakened your sleeping princess-poet’s crimson,sensuality,
truly …..with your sensual,incense burn.
Reborn. I am, with affection of your sparkling snowflakes of again
earthshaking masculinity.
This glorious Christmas of joy, to rejoice,in my own femininity!
Waking to your touch, I feel so blessed, such bliss
This is wonderful that I once dreamed about
Nothing feels quite as perfect as your sweet kiss
Because I know you’re mine, I will never doubt
This is love so alive, it feels earthshaking
Awesome love so fine, knowing I won’t burnout
These feelings, like fine art, are just breathtaking
Nothing on earth feels as much like gentle grace
Where you are, that is where my smile is waking
Thanks to you, I know joy that pain can’t erase
You give me more love than my words can describe
There is gentle I can’t explain on your face
I haven’t a doubt, you’re what my heart did prescribe
When I found you, there’s love the soul does inscribe
Foggy mists engulfed the bright
When raindrops fell throughout the night
The lampposts glowed at midnights dark
When sweethearts kissed at Lover's Park
Passions roused beneath a silent moon,
Hanging onto skies where stars are strewn
Rhythms of dreams ripe for the taking
Trembling in the kisses, utterly earthshaking
"From forth the fatal loins of these two foes,
A pair of star cross'd lovers take their life,
Whose misadventur'd piteous overthrows
Doth with their death bury their parents' strife."
— Prologue, Romeo and Juliet
As teens, they were told you’re too young
Time passed and they both were married
Another vowed they were among
Lovers who stole hearts once buried
Time passed and they both were married
Like this might mend the wounds within
Lovers who stole hearts once buried
Bygones could tell of pain that’s been
Like this might mend the wounds within
Where battles left them so forlorn
Bygones could tell of pain that’s been
As they stayed in darkness to mourn
Where battles left them so forlorn
Star-crossed lovers - hear hearts breaking
As they stayed in darkness to mourn
The feelings felt were earthshaking
Star-crossed lovers - hear hearts breaking
Another vowed they were among
The feelings felt were earthshaking
As teens, they were told you’re too young
Mesmerized by the fire in his warm eyes
Love played over my soul, softly glowing
Beautiful alive, like glorious skies
Singing wonders to my life, hopes growing
Feelings so perfect I could not disguise
Love so tender. my whole heart was showing
Breaking through the darkness, hushing my fears
Stirring my best dreams, silencing my tears
With him, I could feel my heart skip two beats
Joy echoed the love living inside me
Where I found beauty so full it defeats
Every feeling of despair so I’m free
To be the woman who feels, in heartbeats
Sure that what has come is what’s meant to be
The best of the best, the most joyful kiss
Blended with gentle and filled with sweet bliss
I lost him to the past where he’s buried
Fate would reveal the truth, so heartbreaking
Through so many years, the pain I carried
Awaiting love that would be earthshaking
Felt like he could’ve been who I married
Now, I know it wasn’t love in the making
Sometimes I wonder about this lost love
Alhough I’m sure he wasn’t sent from above
~ if life were a happy song - I'd sing it yesterday ~
quote by poet
"All my troubles seemed so far away"
Vinyl records, a review from yesterday
The best songs of all time that will live forever
Music had a completely different content yesterday
A modern way of writing cultural history
no tango for two - that was definitely yesterday
We got the rock culture and it was earthshaking
Record sales skyrocketed yesterday
A crank gramophone on a living room table is fun enough
Defined to be a clever invention from the era of yesterday
As parts of the guidance to this cosmos
Life is a highway - a souvenir of yesterday
04.05.2023
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(unrhymed couplets)
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- “Yesterday” is the most covered song in history,
with over 2,000 versions having been recorded
- A haunting song of lost love from the early Beatles,
it was sung by a young Paul McCartney -
I never could have predicted
That I would leave in such a way
Circumstances brought me to a place
Where I could no longer stay
The legalistic rules
All of them, hypocritical fools
In all of their getting
They were too stupid to retain
Any measure of learning
For the mentally insane
Justify, justify, justify
Then they have the nerve to testify
.........of God's deliverance
Who needs that crap
When there is life to be livin'
I'll not give one more moment
To eternal grave diggin'
I'm going to run to boat loads of fun
Until I am filled up, good and done
But don't be lookin' for me
To darken a church house door
I'm a sippin' saint
Who won't bow to "law" anymore
But, I'll hold on to what God hates
Surely he'll let me in those pearly gates
............WHAT???
..............................Mama's dead
I can't........................breathe
Written by Trudy Schrader on 07-19-2019
Note: This has been the most difficult write of my life, and it is not autobiographical...that's probably why. Anyway, when reading the poem, think about how a fault line works, and hopefully, you will have an earthshaking experience.
Every eatery we frequent, us guys are a hit
Greeted with big hugs, the owners transmit
Feel really at home
Likely my shiny dome
Or Cathy's verbosity and my earthshaking wit
Wind and Water
Battles that rage
The earthshaking sky
Tumbles down on us
The endless fight
The crashing waves of water
The long sling beach
How bad I feel for the beach
That holds the burden
Of the two clashing faction
The never ending war with water and wind
N-ine eleven earthshaking day
E-xposed the human's frailty;
W-isdom, wealth and power were also used by enemy.
Y-ear two thousand and one,
O-ne morning of September eleven;
R-ubbles from fallen buildings
K-illed thousands of men.
W-ings of suicide planes
O-verflew the aircraft's head;
R-eady to hit the targets,
L-eaving many people
D-ead.
T-win towers were on fire,
R-unning men were in fear;
A-t the walls and windows they were helpless,
D-esperate jumpers turned a deaf
E-ar.
C-entral Intelligence Agency
E-xpected not the terrorist attack;
N-either they knew nor were they warned,
T-he USA was in utter shock.
E-xactly fifteen long years have passed, but sad memories still stay;
R-emember those who perished during nine eleven earthshaking day.
I would answer by saying that it is the absence of your fathers earthshaking glance at the dawn of an unpredictable night. I would answer by saying that it is the acknowledgment of the neglected truth, that life is nothing but a series of scenes in an indisposed screenplay. And that death is the anticipated protagonist, a patient gift disgustingly disguised underneath the smiles of all that which we think brings us happiness.
I want to write a funny poem now
after reading Darryl's poem
Why do men think there is no tomorrow?
Because they always want it today
What does a bird say to a bee?
Watch me haha
I'd better keep it clean
Keep it down, will you?
The neighbors are sleeping ha
Is there earthquake around here?
I heard the ground is shaking
Don't be too long
I'm coming haha
That's it for now
I hope you enjoy it
Earthshaking moves
Easy will ya?
Inspired by Darryl Ashton's "Body Talk - remotely" poem. Thanks, Darryl :)
Its in that moment when
Like the words of a legend
Nothing else can compare
To the way that I am loved past my pain
Accepted with my flaws
And asked if I need more
That perfect moment
I get high on affection, that's perfection with no flaws
I am floored...
In that moment when your joy is my smile and with yours my world is alright
I am captured, caught up in the rapture of something so
Earthshaking, so groundbreaking completed by the act of love making
I am taken...
Fulfilled
Nourished by you, me and how we flourish
Oh that sweet moment
I love how we own it
What is this
What kind of love is this
That fine china kinda love, that over the moon kinda love, that
I am yours, you are mine and together we shine kinda love
That over and over again kinda love
That can't get enough
Sent from above type of thing
Three words and the bliss they bring
Its simply amazing
The songz we sing
Together...
In the moment
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