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Premium Member In a Heartbeat

If God spoke and asked me
who would you bring back in a heartbeat?
I would not have to hesitate
for it would be mother . . .
of all the people I have lost to Heaven mother's death shattered me the most
she was not just mom but my very best friend in the world
my anchor and rock
loyal and steadfast
the one person who loved me no matter what stupid thing I did
and I had a few blunders along the way to here 
but so did she . . . 
at the end of her life we had cleared all that stuff up
we talked, we forgave, and we let go
if I could be just a fraction of the person mother was
then I would be one fine person
people lined the street for her funeral and I have never been so proud
she had an inner light that brightened every life she touched
God be very proud of your work creating this woman
if I could have mother back even for a little while
I would be the happiest girl 
we would go to her garden and walk the flower path
have tea in the gazebo
or go for a drive in the country with the wind in our hair
perhaps a horseback ride
or a picnic by a rippling stream
I would tell her about my life and ask her if she liked Heaven
God, could I have mother for just a heartbeat?

_____________________________
October 16, 2018


Poetry/Free Verse/In A Heartbeat
Copyright Protected, ID 18-1071-783-01
All Rights Reserved.  Written under Pseudonym


Written for the contest, Who Would You Bring Back
In A Heartbeat, sponsor, Caren Krutsinger

Second Place


Premium Member The Aching Want

I remember the gazebo
When I felt it was floating
The two of us sitting on the wooden floor
While the kids were doing nothing unusual
Or very interesting
But our eyes kept reconnecting
And I felt the moment would burst...

We talk only of work-related things
Only gestures in response to the kids
Our eyes in constant movement towards each other
Mine to yours at least...

And now I want all the inappropriate things
A long smile, a hug, a kiss
Extended eye-contact
I want to sit with you in the park
Kissing your ear, the one with two earrings
Moving my lips to the warm side of your neck
Deep back where the hair is,

Then retreat
And look into the big brown eyes
The one's that crushed God himself
And tell you with a fearful warmth
That I can barely stand my love for you

And that your very eyes upon me
Is proof that God survived the crush
And in fact uses them now
To guide light into my world...

And the catch of your eyes
Rekindles that aching want.
The only thing worth fighting for.
Mi amore, mi amore, mi amore.

Welcome

In a corner of a trailer park they have a wooden gazebo
With wooden picnic tables all around
Every night people of all ages come together.
The elderly tell all kinds of stories that keep everyone 
Spell bound.
Some are hell bound
To try to out do the other.
In a corner of a trailer park they have a wooden gazebo 
With wooden picnic tables all around
There are people listening to the tall tales with out
Making a sound.
As more people gather
The elderly tell all kinds of stories that keep everyone
Spell bound
Before you know it more people are here sitting on the
Ground.
Once in a while you'll hear Really brother?
In a corner of a trailer park they have a wooden gazebo 
With wooden picnic tables all around
Supposedly sleeping under the first table is the blood-
Hound
That pulled a man out of quicksand before he was
Smothered.
The elderly tell all kinds of stories that keep everyone
Spell bound.
Then I found
As I stepped in to the gazebo a sign that read Welcome 
To Liars Corner they can out do any one on any subject
Matter!
In a corner of a trailer park they have a wooden gazebo 
With wooden picnic tables all around
The elderly tell all kinds of stories that keep everyone 
Spell bound.

Premium Member Help Me Save One At a Time

Help me save the children from rage and hopelessness,
Bring your optimistic lanterns, and your jubilant joy sticks.

Meet me in a half hour in the gazebo in the park.
Bring all the children you can find along the way.
Use your magic flutes and faeries to get them out of their houses

I have sent others ahead with a scrumptious meal to fill their tummies,
Gypsies are bringing art supplies that will help them fill the town with creativity.
Let’s dance our dance and sing our songs, and bring all the children we can find.

Invite all the poets, singers, artists, pet-lovers, enthusiastic adults and dancers.  
We need all the lovers of life, the spreaders of happiness, and the proponents of joy
If we are to save the children.

We can start immediately, saving one at a time.




Date: Jan 4, 2019		Contest:  Free Verse
                                                          Sponsor: Emiile Pinet

Premium Member Walk In the Park

Ruby winds were breezing about,
Graceful ducks were crossing my path
Slowly, slowly in a purposeful walk
Curious of a cute fawn scurrying along;
There I paused, watching robins dance
Twittering and twitting songs of joy
In harmony with people ambling by.

Up there upon the blue garb of eventide
Sun was sketching a spectrum on arc
As evening was donning sienna brown;
In yellow rose-blooms some stilled awed 
Some stayed glued to pink-lotus pond
Gazing beauty of gracile white swans.

When orange-glow invoked amber vibes
I lingered at your gazebo a millionth time
Charmed by echoes of sensuous revelry
In whispers of hints from coral peonies
Lilting in your garden of flaming red lilies
Pulsing your heart’s passionate greetings
As fervor of the night chased our dreams.

Whispering to me, “meet me tomorrow”
You divulged to stars how sweet love was
Crooning its praises quite a long time ago--
Before we met for tea on your porch,
Strolls in the park, rise of purple dawns,
Before you waltzed desires of romance,
Before you owned the beats of my heart.

June 14, 2020
Placed 2nd: N/A Rerun-9- by John Hamilton


Sofia's Dream

For Sofia Coppola

  
The epitome of serenity 
lies just beneath the foot of me 
sashaying through the sweet, clean grass  
White linen bathes my skin 
my loose hair dancing in the wind  
billowy clouds, how silently they pass  

Oh Mozart!  
take my heart 
dance playfully and light about my mind  
Mandolin disrupts the wind 
glint of sunshine blinds my eye 
fat, sumptuous grapes exploding on the vine  
 
Brie, bordeaux, wild strawberries 
fill the bounty set in front of me 
my avid hunger puts me to the test  
To my woolly lamb, how safe I am 
amongst the wheat so tall and tan 
as I hold him firm and snug against my breast 

Take me home 
thatched roof and stone 
the proud gazebo stands beyond the stream
My duvet of straw and hay 
my eyes they close, my body lay  
to lose myself inside Sofia's dream. 


My impression after viewing Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette.
© Gayle Rodd  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

The Crusader

And we sat under 
A gazebo that sat 
Under palm trees, 
Standing and smiling 
At our seashore,
Emptying kegs of 
Palmwine in our 
Calabash and... 
And then emptying 
The calabash in our 
Stomachs...
An exquisite experience, 
I daresay!

The periwinkle-gatherer 
Alighted from her  
Canoe that arrived from 
Upper sea, bending in her 
Walk, no gratitude to her 
Culture. Beside her followed 
Her shadow, ever faithfully. 

Their movement our common 
Entertainment as we emptied 
More fills of our calabash in us... 

Entered the Crier, crying, like 
A crying Cricket, 
"The Archbishop of Canterbury,
And the Pope have now 
Legalized a Skirt and another 
Skirt together, and a Trouser 
And its kind together!"

We unveiled the Holy Book, 
In our flabbergastedness, 
Afterwards, and replayed 
The Crier's cry in our heads. 
"A pity, for this shall soon be 
Written in you by the Unknown 
In Time to come and be said to 
Be of the good God." 
Were our only audibility. 

We looked up and behold the gyre
For the legalization inundated 
Our Vicinity! For the Crier's cries 
Had spread its legs like a rumor. 

Sadly, my partner patted her hairs 
And we returned to our kegs, 
Contemplating...
Form: Didactic

Premium Member Worship the Lord Where Your Planted

The sunflow’r burst through red roses.
Still sleepy eyes - skyline poses.
Unseen angels lift up the light.
The saint below shows sheer delight.
Worship the Lord where you’re planted.

Coffee sipped and bible open -
The living word that we hope in.
Sitting beneath Gazebo shade -
Blossoms incline at Jesus name.
Worship the Lord where you’re planted.

In afternoon, the waning day,
The swans know it - nature’s ballet,
slowing down. The rush of sunset
in pink and blue. Remember -
Worship the Lord where you’re planted.

Moon shines through trees, a peaceful light,
Onto the folding buds - the foresight
Of love, that cares so much for us,
Revealed in due time, God’s sure bless.
Worship the Lord where you’re planted.

7/26/2022
Form: Rhyme

Dum Bee

I was sitting inside the gazebo eating a hot dog 
watching the swans swim in the beautiful lake 
it came out of nowhere buzzing round the place 
tumbling and bumbling read to do bite and sting 

I hurried to my backpack to get my epi pen 
but already the swelling had begun I froze 
when I saw the size of the bee that bit me 
it took a gardener and a stranger to inject me  

I never saw what happened next,  cuz I fainted 
but the next thing I knew I was sipping koolaid 
from a plastic cup and wearing a wet compress 
all this fuss because of a bad reaction, dum bee.

Nov 30, 2019 
Not for contest.

Premium Member Magnetic Attraction of Love

In the serene solitude of your slumbers,
You’ll dream of me forever and ever.
For there, with my enigmatical looks,
I’ve been haunting you 
From the first day you’ve seen me.
You have so often wondered at that look 
that draws you to look so intently in my eyes. 

I see you watching in the shade
Of that lovely gazebo in the garden.
You try to focus on my soulful eyes,
I notice your intense use
Of your make-ups of your black dark eyelashes,
Yet it is that exquisite pearl necklace that I love.
It draws all your wanton attention.
You look at a large diamond ring
Flashing it in the filtering sunbeams.

Oh stop looking at these gaudy trifles
Nor must you concern yourself about me.
Just look into my mesmerizing eyes.
Concentrate on my face all lit up,
Admire the light on my sweet kissing lips,
And don’t dare compare them 
To that aloof Mona Lisa’s smile.
One day, when I’ll come to you
In the serene solitude of your slumbers,
And I’ll show you how a kiss should be.

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