Long Lacrimal Poems

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Premium Member The Family Gathering

Lamentable, the family gathering
on the other side of sunshine,
with possessions no longer bothering,
sans loving cups, draining of wine.

Great-grands, grands, aunts, uncles, cousins and unborn,
one mom, a nephew, memories
their perspectives (only they carry). Torn,
yellowed pages of treasuries.

Climbing steps, silver dollars, and finger gloves,
savory chicken and dumplings,
boat on the lake, seashells on velvet (these loves)
tricks and treats, some were just ducklings.

      Soft hands, warmer heart; silver in corner chair;
      the teaser (he died way too young)
      To each I lift my thoughts - they are laid bare.
       Kindly, ancestors, I’m among.

All, go the byway, to our destination.
What will our progeny recall?
What bouquet of ours sets forth sensation?
Together we’ll be, blessings fall.

Lacrimal vessels are filled - our love, fearsome.
Eyes salty and brightened.
Peace comes after tears, reveling in wisdom.
Capacity to care, heightened.
Form: Elegy


A Greener Grass

You think I have a pretty face

My dresses weaved from frills and lace

You  think that I'm a spoilt brat

with diamonds around my neck

and roses in my bed

You think I own the pot of gold

A blissful future to behold

You think I live on a greener grass

but you know nothing

No ,you know nothing about my past

There are chapters still on hold

A thousand words untold

There's emotion still enclosed in a lacrimal drop

There is a tasteless tale,a colourless spume

and large waves that fall on the shore

There's a silent cry which keeps yelling why

which keeps loving and hating,mending and breaking

Pushing ,embracing  our God

 My unfaithful devotion keeps  begging in motion

Asking what,where,when,and how long

For how long  should I wait for

to feel the affection, love and protection

to listen to daddy singing for me 

just  one birthday song

For how long should I pray for,to listen to daddy

just calling out my name on the phone

You think I have a pretty face

My dresses weaved from frills and lace

You think that I'm a spoilt brat

with diamonds around my neck

and roses in my bed

You think I own the pot of gold

A blissful future to behold

You think I live on a greener grass

but you know nothing

No, you know nothing about my past

You know nothing about the way I feel

About deep scars that would never heal

You just keep thinking that I live 

I live on a greener grass.
Form: Lyric

Premium Member Tears


Tears are wet to the palate
salty to the taste -- 
we cannot not live without
the water...nor salt -- 
and their expulsion associated with
many miseries, many deaths.  
My focus though is on joyful tears -- 
laughter that pains the 
ribs in a good way, after a funny story
well told -- a child overwhelmed
by a blessed gift becoming happily 
emotional.  We are lacrimal in a very
poignant sense~ for what reaches the
surface, through trial and error, while
intense, outwardly drippy, is substance
of a great connecting conduit.  And despite 
ambient fluctuations of internal springs, 
over-all life is devotedly nurtured by a
Maternal Sky~ keeping dear watch,
moistening and drying according to
the ripening needs of her children.

Premium Member One Last Tear

Squeezed and bequeathed from the schisms of fear

A shibboleth opened as the ground swallowed her void

Final farewells in blood ink cracking inferno and soul

One step from the abyss and the lure of canyon below


Jasmine stumbled to an exquisite conclusion her eyes

Cast lacrimal torrents in wet wild withering streams

Aghast in terminal turmoil and hooked to the cliff face

One bare string attached threadbare shreds by a tether


Currents had run dry but she managed an ultimate drop

To smoothen the voyage and slip into teasing caress


She let go on passionate falls and slipped on what remained

Of one last tear oozing into torn halves of unknown suspense

Jasmin licked her scarred wounds in taste of scary freedom and

Promised herself that holding on was simply not good enough


03rd February 2019

The Eloquence of a Tear --Beseech

Oh, fuming teardrop!
You’ve boiled over from wrath and anger,
leaving painful blisters as you sear the heart
Why you don’t evaporate is a wonder
but there must be a valid reason…
If only to let the heart know it lives
Oh, fuming teardrop!
Will you ever learn how to forgive?

Oh, defiant teardrop!
Teetering on the edge and glistening,
refusing to fall to make yourself known
It is not fickle mindedness playing,
rather, a power play of emotions
a blatant refusal to show what’s within
Oh, defiant teardrop!
Why even stop yourself before you begin?

Oh, crocodile teardrop!
If you were truly so, slink back shamefully,
recede to your lacrimal gland and stay put
There is no need for your insincerity,
the world is chaotic as it is, too troubled
Fall not, trickle not, trick not who see you
Oh, crocodile teardrop!
How can you be so heartless to fool people so true?

Oh, pensive teardrop!
How gracefully you streak down window sills
Wash away grime and grit, cleanse everything
Flow unhindered, purify hearts you fill
Laughter may be the music of the soul,
but you are pure— the distilled spirit
Oh, pensive teardrop!
Will you course down blackened hearts, pay a visit?

Oh, jubilant teardrop!
Married to laughter, frolic and dance to its tune
Give birth to hope then soar with elation
Brighten faces, sparkle days, light up the moon
Let souls remember that you speak of pain, joy
Let them remember, then allow them to heal
Oh, jubilant teardrop!
Why did I ever doubt that you are spirit revealed?





04062011
**for Paula’s “Beseech “ contest :)
Form: Verse


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