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Premium Member A Gift

I longed for his heart
  Vibrant, alive, full of love
     Filled with music, a song of hope
   Imagination, inspiration
Feelings rich with promise

I yearned for his love
  Lingering prayers held my dreams
     Fulfilling lights, bold and promising
  Opening silence with kisses of faith
Dancing on hearts, pure grace

I craved his kindness, his caress
   The way he smiled and laughed
      The breath of his kiss, his wish
    Pouring over me like dewdrop dreams
Penetrating my pores with intimacy

I ached for his touch, his hands
   Whispering soft against my skin
      Breathing stardust desires through me
    Lighting my heart with moonlight
Flickering bright as my tears gleamed

I hungered for his feelings, his warmth
   Enlightening and bold, stirring my soul
      Gazing through a lens of purity, promises
   Brought to life by vibrant affections
Feelings blessed with acceptance

I coveted his heart, his mind, his feelings
   The honest way of his tears, his mystery
      Happiness, inspiration, imagination
    The fierce honesty that made him so amazing
The love that would always awaken me

I wanted him the way drought desires rain
   The way darkness awaits the dawn
      The way silence expects a noise
    Like pain knows there will soon be pleasure
And my heart anticipates his devotion

It would be many years before I realized
   This dream, my fantasy, my hope
      Becoming a reality, assured and fulfilling
    Like laughter, inspiration, joy - knowing
Love like this is my heart’s wonder, a miracle, a gift!


My Mother's Book

High on a shelf are some old hard-back books;
Mary Poppins is one on the pile.
An inscription inside, in a neat cursive hand,
Which I recognized, caused me to smile.

It belonged to my mom, which she got as a gift
From a teacher in her junior high.
Though it’s faded and worn, I won’t toss it away,
But it’s hard to exactly say why.

Such a link to the past is, to me, like a lens
Which allows a brief glimpse of a time
When my mother knew not that a mother she’d be,
Years before from her youth she did climb.

So I dusted it off and replaced it up high
On the back of the very same shelf,
A reminder of life when I didn’t exist
And my mom lived her life for herself.
Form: Rhyme

Opened Eyes

Opened eyes see beyond horizons everything
Behind the dirty ears of crying babies in the bath
Look up to see the future through the galaxies

Go through red lights at 80 miles per second speeding 
There is no time for tickets from the traffic cop
Impossible to stop
Blinking is a sin, a sign of weakness

So move on to boardwalks clearly visible
Capture every second in the instant lens

Pretty girls in Atlantic City on the beaches
Sport sunglasses to see glass hours darkly
Shy eyes hidden behind the frames
Body too blue to view from waters depth
 
Wearing a yellow polka dot bikini very thin and wet
She will never enter the shallows nearly naked
Eye candy you can watch and swim in with a smile
Tender to the touch but never fall in love

Brown eyes blink when they are thinking
Green is their favorite color while by the sea
Envying since they are in to neon reasoning

Never lose sight when viewing through the looking glass
Binoculars are better for sighting pretty birds

Hazel eyes are warm from our perspective
Perception, image is everything 
Moving forward in the light of day when opened
Already on your way to seeing 
 
Automobiles can take you there
Adjust your rear view mirror cautiously
When looking from behind with opened eyes

Premium Member Time

Time

Time spent. Time, spend my time. Here, there, dried reality, broken times
Yes, everything was lost, only the walk remained. In the space and time, walk alone

Walk alone
Walk alone

In the time
In the time

Remebering
The past

I just want someone to come back again. Again. This is the past. Back in the past
Recreate it from the past form again from the past time. Someone is in the past. Love
Her name is the Past. Not a woman. The past is what I want. The time of the lost age
It’s never coming back. I know it. But it’s my dream. The past. I want to live it now
Again and again. And again. Why was that time then, and why do I want it again? Why?

I can’t live without the past. Can’t. The past is pulling me back. This is the love of the past
My soul and the past are a union, they live together in the living past time, there is the dark
Dark and light in my life. The clouds are black in the sky, this is the dark life, so close, so far
Living in the dark memory is a sharp life. Now. Live in two time places, oh this is so high
Internal examination of my soul’s works. It is continuous. The question is why? That’s why

Questions from the past. Pasts from the questions. Questions from black clouds of lost life
My lost life. Others lost their lives. Everyone lost their lives. This time is like a dark hurricane
A storm. Is it the end of life? End of the world? No, it is not that, only a wave of the being
Being, being. I just see life. Is that being? Maybe a projection. Looks real. Strong view
Strong view is strong projection. But where is the existence? In the heart. Life comes…

From there. I want to kill my heart. I want to live without a heart. I want to live without 
subjectivity. Yes. I want to see the reality. The real dream of life. The time of present time
Needs it kind. A kind. A lens. A lens without heart. Give me life. The objectivity of life
Time, life. Life, time. I want to live in the next. That’s the future. Imagined realism. Of life

Time
Life

Past
Kind

Next
Cruel?

No
Unknown

The life
Dead heart

Picture Perfect

One powerful tree stands alone on the hillside,
                                       Colorful like a rainbow that is so very bright,
                                          A perfect picture of an excellent painter,
                                          Captured by lens on a sunny September.

                                            Colors blending with a fantastic view,
                                Red, orange, yellow, combined with green and blue,
                                      Even fairies will adore this beauty of nature,
                                    Calming our souls refreshes our heart so pure.


                                                          December 10, 2013
                                       For Poet Undertaker's "Nature" Contest
                                                            4th Place Winner
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Behind the Architects Crystal Lens

Musee d’Orsay grasps the hands of time.
The clock crowns; its gears move around.
Gallery-goers lookout and grin 
from Paris-Orleans to Montmartre;
the clock crowns; its gears move around.
Each eye’s drawn from inside scenes 
to the site of Sacré-Cœur without
then back again to the Degas.
Gallery goer’s lookout and grin 
locked on the Place de la Concorde,
as the hand moves past a boat
on the still Seine, and the traffic
from Paris-Orleans to Montmartre.
Time passes; patron’s heads spin unwonted,
as the hands of the clockwork pass,
Monet’s lilies await—is there time?



*The Retourne a French form from the middle ages.
Published in Page & Spine 2015
Form: Verse

BEULAH MARIE

This time I'm doing it
Release...out from me
Snag, pivot, swirl
Up, over, next to,
....around

Where am I found

Lost in the dark
Or maybe the light
Following hard and fast
After LOVE's guide
 
...REVELATION

Void, pain, agony
Tomorrow, again
Sick of it all
Can I die, already, please
...hope

Film removed
Like the optometrist's lens
Fear, doubt, unbelief
Removed in the cleanse

...BEULAH born

Open and pure
Let all things be
Growth will come
Shedding judgment
...restoration

In the BELOVED

Written by Trudy Schrader on 04-03-2024

Note: Beulah (House of God) Marie (Beloved)

Wide Eyed

I have come to be real-in-my-eyes,
eyes that only half see,
yet only the half blind may see themselves.

The fine hairs of apperception,
those metaphorical hat brims pulled low
over smiling eyes
hide nothing from deeper insights.

In the moment of looking
I see only that looking,
yet that view is broad, rimless
encompasses all
the mind can develop of reality.

Perception in its narrow lens,
its fractional calibrated cogs
within cogs
fades like a ghost on a white board
that wide-eyes rub out with a blink.

Nothing gets trapped
in a past way of seeing.
Only a clear looking-glass remains,
and it but waits for a wholeness
to shatter its frame.

Premium Member Summer Stews

The lake is a tsimmes; boats, babies, and fish bob in white wakes.
Ah but, the sandy shoal, the small fish nest beneath and beside the docks.
The lens of lake divides but   why chose when both are a joy?

Squeals of delight hang   humid air steams the Sunday sunbathers.
Barbecues char hotdogs and burgers   ladies strap-stripped, barelegged.
Coconut oil on skin  or grilled meat wafts  both are joyous smells.

Bob Marley on the breeze   teens necking on the boulders,  hot.
The roar of powerful engines or   the driving pump of nubile hips.
Catch the colors, eye the scene     you sit reading with a smile.





First Published in Pithy Pages For Erudite Readers Summer 2014
fun
Form: Sijo

Premium Member Personas Limitation

Personas have limits, boundaries veiled by the thin masquerade of pretense
They whisper promises of identity, yet crack under pressure of reality's weight—poet

She puts on her face while vaping smoke surrounds, 
Carefully paints fishtail eyes , studs, and crimson lips,  
satin scarfs around hug her hips
Bindi adorned when with the Janes
A sterling nose ring pierces a membrane
Azure pools of light inserted—contact’s atop  
wistful deeper dark reddish brown longing lens
Riffles through a cosmetic bag, 
Faberge`a final touch then off she struts
Spinning the roulette wheel in random realms
Burned through one persona after another
The mask worn smothers 
Charcoal tears pour down her cherry cheeks
Personas have their limitations
Reinventions only break the tiresome tensions
Infinite shades of pale, anemic, listless                                         
Darker are the shadows that deem
Her skin is frail, weakness fills a ship and torn it’s sail
Though her wit retains its cutting edge
out on the ledge an empty soul on trial
Tragic trends suit her
Charcoal tears won’t save her
Metamorphosis’s demise, elusive unmasked                            
Limited are the bounds of weakness,
Marie-Thérès  Picasso’s golden muse
hung herself after his death 
Now a frozen memory in the dark daze
as nothing else remains its love’s myth
She played the games we may or not resist
Gone those days frozen in merciless mist
where fate awaits
© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Persona

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