Running through the galaxy,
My wings stretch out behind.
With fear comes out a dreadful scream,
Is this secret really mine to find?
I ponder on it with diligence,
To make the answers more secure.
The lights sparkle with suspense,
Making my case less unsure.
So I soar high out through the sky,
Glancing consistently left and right.
With elegance I swiftly do fly,
As to not be late to this fight.
I see the conclusion of my battle,
The answers fill up inside my mind.
Does coming clean mean you tattle,
When it is a supposed friend you find.
I know that telling the truth is higher ground,
So therefore I graciously give forth what I found.
Thy countenance behooves what I adore
The sun is dim beside your smile and glow
I see things in you never seen before
You make my heart beat anything but slow
Your feet they float on surface where we walk
Your clothing wafts like mist above the ground
I look at you and find it hard to talk
My voice does not give forth the slightest sound
I see your hand and wonder does it call
Or is it just to drive me far away
Your hair, is as is for a summers ball
I have the will, I ask show me the way
I contemplate the way to make you mine
I may need help to get me past the line
One day my child, I shall not see your face,
Nor hold you in my arms on this fair earth.
My voice, once filled with song, will leave no trace
And all I owned will be of no real worth.
Yet still the stars in clear night skies will shine,
The rose in bloom give forth its pure, sweet scent,
Warm sun shall swell the fruit tree and the vine,
The pulse of life beat on though mine be spent.
And though at first deep grief will fill your heart
To lose the bond of love which we have known,
I pray, your life in which I shared a part
Will reap the seeds of joy which we have sown.
Through faith in God our lives will touch once more
When by His grace you cross the sun kissed shore.
26.09.19
[Cash Prize Poetry Contest] Because It's A Tuesday 140 - 140 Sonnet Poetry Contest - sponsored by William Kekaula
April showers here
trees and plants having a drink
frogs singing their songs
ready to give forth their thanks
You are the sun, the moon, and the stars,
the very breath of the universe.
Everywhere I go,
the thought of you accompanies me.
The flame of the candle
the ruffle of the Springtime breeze,
the smell of the freshly cut flower--
Yes, they are wonderful, my darling,
but you surpass them all.
O, Ecstasy!
When your gaze meets mine,
The angels of heaven sing in full-throated chorus,
The oceans give forth their mighty roar,
And the very Universe trembles in dumbstruck awe.
If ever you would leave me, my darling,
The sun would be blotted from the sky,
My world would collapse in upon itself,
Turning into a deadly black hole--
I into a silence-singed dwarf star.
Now is the time for M e and you
Let's keep our love! Y oung and fresh
P ieces of our daily events kept together
I n a safe box that keeps our love pulse beating
C ollecting epic memories to combat boredom
T o eliminate any doubts about us acrude due to aging
U nder no circumstances I wanna see you worried
R ead my lips, I will never fail to love you
E ndless love is a gift I'm willing to give you
F rom now onwards
R est in my future plans
A nd see our love give forth it's fruitages
M ind and soul agrees with my spirit that
E very bit of me is satisfied with us.
Although the night is black, the sky is still blue.
A blanket of fog covers the late evening sky; above it, night light from the moon and stars still shines.
When a new day begins dressed in dark clouds; even still, the sun rises along with it to give forth its light.
As I ponder all of the above.... I wonder
Is there love as enduring and true as this?
You strong and
untammed youth of
yesterday, tramping
under your feet the
fears of yester-years,
why now did you
think twice?
Those days when
your blood were hot
like lava, and pure
burning bristle flashes
forth from your eyes,
what is it that has
corb you?
Mightly youth of
yesterday, you who
set coals ablaze with
just the breathe of ur
nostrils, when you
give forth your
roar,with voice
echoing like the
thunder of angry
gods, oh who dared to
stand? But why now
are you calm?
When your blood
ranges within your
vains, tempesting and
thossing like a
troubled sea, who
was there to contain
you? None.
Why now oh youth
once filled with
valour,fame and
strength did you
tremble before give
birth mare words and
leaning on a mare
staff before to you
as straw, for balance
and support?
Oh youth of
yesterday, your
mortal nature escape
you, but age is back
frm exile ,blessing you
with every vile
mistery and each bile
feeling you escaped at
youth.
Dear youth, still fresh
like tender dew, don't
be drunk with the
wine of youth,
someday old age will
return from exile.
(start 1:06)In the dark of the lonely night
When the stars don't give forth their bright light
And the ocean's waves are so still
Please embrace me
Emmanuel
In the dark of the lonely night
My love for you is just so right
Emmanuel you're my guiding light
Emmanuel
1:32 (minutes into the song)
Come to me oh my love
My dearest Turtledove
Come to me and hold me now
You're gentle touch is so envigorating somehow
Inspiring, enchanting, enchanting
Oh! my love
In the dark of the lonely night
My love for you is just so right
Emmanuel you're my guiding light
Emmanuel my love
Written: Friday, November 22, 2013
Sponsor: Craig Cornish
Contest: Emmanuel
Lyrical written to Toots Thieleman's instrumental Emmanuel
No Homecoming
Memory flows like the wind through chimes
Of a love so sweet only a fool would not know
To remember forever the passing of a sublime
Giving of a love so timeless, so bold
Perhaps etched in stone, a remembrance displaying
An imbedded longing, a need to take back
A life, ending so sudden and cruel, displacing
A hope, a promise not kept for a lack
Of a knowledge yet to be discovered
Despite for centuries past progress so swift
Has yet to seal a chasm, uncovered
Of a despair of loss, a smile to uplift
No broken spirit, however, ‘tis only body
Unscathed thy soul, a candle that burns
Within the reminiscing of truth not forgotten
A lover, a fool at times, yes, who still yearns
To trace his words, words under no pretense
Will give forth his mournful meaning
Flavored with life’s riches, bounty, a permeation like incense
Words etched with caution, for he hopes for this to be his dreaming
Fool cannot sustain his own life for
The grievance of his promise broken too soon
Through death a betrayal leaving fool forlorn
Yet was witness to a lover whose own devotion waxed and waned like the elliptical moon
Found hanging in her cell
from a noose made of teeth
and hair and bone
Blood red wine drips
from veins down arms
loving arteries give forth
Rusty bridge hangs in mist
creaking with weight of time
eyelids closed, sublime
Cranes etch their outline
on the greyest horizon
strong and fatherly still
Be the first to lead
First to land and last to leave
Give forth fruit and seed
At night you doubt; now you believe
Morning came, and you were freed.
Be the lost to the world
Last to wound and first to breathe
Tugged, drawn and hurled
At junction you ask: answer with you
Healing came, now you stand tall.
Be the mighty,
Never in arms and answer the call
Listening for the plea, look... it is done
At silence you baulk; stillness now
Stillness in which to know.
Didn’t it take six days to create the universe by the Almighty,
who wasn’t mightless to do so as and when he wished & willed
the galaxies, sky, stars, earth, mountains, rivers, and so on….
It took hours for the golden sun rays to reach and light up the earth
and again took time for the flowers to bloom, greeting the rays
and even more time, to spread the fragrance…
It took ten painful months to conceive and give forth a sound and healthy birth
moulded by the brain and beauty, taking ages……
Then when did we happen to be wrong in practice….?
being in paradox,
belief in God but not his signs,
Impatient,
not building up the world in justice and
not devastating the evils surrounded by, in moments..
Awaiting not,
for the time to conceive and give forth a revolution
and to pervade the fragrance around…….
In moments,
never did raindrop emerge into ocean,
neither did breeze into storm,
nor sprouts into forest….
Certainly, wasn’t it time that made and brought out the excellent,
the greatest, the gorgeous and the marvelous……..?
with brain and mind, wide open, look around……
Enveloped by the fire of Love, I must give forth my blazing heat.
Expansion burns within as I am tempted to retreat.
My availability as a transcendent soul
is pertinent for the good of the whole.
Flinch I will not
in this initiation process.
I stand strong with valor and courage
as I complete the bridge
between experience and purpose.
I am the guard and constructor,
sealing division in my divine structure.
I arise as the flame,
destroyer and creator,
one and the same.
Before the river melds itself with sea,
it glistens as a rippling mountain stream
and starts its course with purest quality.
Before the river melds itself with sea,
it runs along, fulfilling destiny.
Our course is also brief; give forth your beam!
Before the river melds itself with sea,
it glistens as a rippling mountain stream.
By Andrea Dietrich
for "Write Me a Rippling Stream" Contest
sponsored by Constance La France ~ A Rambling Poet ~
Written June 2, 2011
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