Scorched and Singed
...Yesterday
I cried my heart out
For I wept tears of glass
To lay a path for you to walk on
Barefoot on the hot pavement
naked as I bleed
In the hopes that you won’t taste my fear
Teeming with...
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Categories:
effaces, addiction, anger, angst, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Bonedeep Lonely
...Imprisoning textures
and routine lectures
in loneliness,
"your own fault"
"not Other's loss"
blame
shame
dipolar co-arising
Loneliness effacing
cognitive/affective reason
and denying ...
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Categories:
effaces, green, health, loneliness, peace,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
To Be Immortal
..."Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end." Majalbe
At our wedding we said "I do" in voices sof...
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Categories:
effaces, love,
Form: Rhyme
Summer Love
...***Summer Love***
Summer’s pulse - hopelessly romantic heartbeat -
Opens wide winter’s barren lifeless places
Aroused in solstice fields of bare petals sweet -
Unlocked naked delight spread ope...
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Categories:
effaces, love, summer,
Form: Sonnet
The Meal
...On Christmas Day the meal sings,
The music lies wide open to call,
Sparks fly out from the fire place,
And Santa is here, present for all.
Too much is not enough or false,
The binge effaces th...
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Categories:
effaces, appreciation, christmas, gender,
Form: Rhyme
The Promise
...A weary traveler wandering in wasteland, I was adrift
on futile journey to nowhere destined to end forlorn,
along the contours of convoluted life in winter night,
when all the promises my dreams ...
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Categories:
effaces, flying, imagery, journey, life,
Form: Free verse
From the Heart
...A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
A sun had risen,
Some bit of ice or mercury had melted.
One stormy win...
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Categories:
effaces, faith, family, fantasy, fate,
Form: Romanticism
Chock Chalices
...I don’t wanna remember the blues
I feel when your heels trample
My feelings, my dealings as clues
Emerge our relationship no longer serves as an exquisite example.
I don’t wanna think of the m...
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Categories:
effaces, poems,
Form: Free verse
Unsettled Sea
...While whispers shush on sheltered shores, as soon the cockcrow quakes,
the seas descry a skittish sky, sense summer zephyrs wake –
roused passions neath the sunrise pulse, the whitecaps throb and ...
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Categories:
effaces, nature, sea, sky,
Form: Rhyme
On Timetable Happiness
...Past the years of innocence
Moreover the renaissance
Gazing to familiar faces
Familiarizing myself as it effaces
Now, I have been here four days
I can say it's all worth the pay
Was taken aba...
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Categories:
effaces, care, happy, how i
Form: Imagism
Children of War
...Look! They resemble Rose buds in spring;
Though hearts run,souls are withering
Demented heads rest on skinny hands;
What dilemmas pinch little panicky minds.
Bring moments back how moms care;
Gruesom...
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Categories:
effaces, inspirational,
Form: Sonnet
Journey Into the Snowy Forest
...Striding into the snowy fortress my tepid heart at double time
paces
Entering a pine colonnade sprouting a wintry mane, saddled with
velvety laces
Cloaked with icy needles forming a brittle...
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Categories:
effaces, adventure, animals, nature, placesheart,
Form: Rhyme