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Premium Member A Real Enigma

Well, here we are at the start of a brand new day

Who knows what exciting new things lie just ahead

Will I win the Lotto?

Might have had a better chance had I purchased a ticket

Will a long lost friend suddenly reappear?

Not likely since he passed away a few years back

Will I regain my youthful, debonaire, good looks?

Did I ever have them?

Dreams can be so realistic at times

That when we wake, it takes us a bit of time

To clear our heads and get back to reality

Have you ever tried remembering a dream

How frustrating is that

You know it was filled with joy, laughter, and good times

But can't remember it no matter how hard we try

Strange but so very annoying

Sure would be great to continue on where we left off 

The mind... a real enigma!



© Jack Ellison 2014
Form: Narrative


My Answer That You Seek

Your words touch my heart and are 
Embedded in my soul.
Could it be the young man I fell
In love with so long ago?
The young man who promised to me 
His love his heart  and his soul,
And as we walked under the moonlit sky
His words of our life together began to unfold.
And then one day that young man and his dreams were gone,
He left  me with only those memories to fall back on.
After all these years he’s now  back again,
And those memories of long ago greet me like a long lost friend.
The young boy from those years ago 
Has now become a man,
Standing here before he asks if we can begin our dreams and life again.
 I look into deep green  eyes and see 
The memories of long ago come back to me.
I know the young man I fell in love with long ago,
Needed time to grow
To grow into  the man who stands before me 
Knows  my answer is forever with him  is where I want to be

That's Me

It falls from my hands 
and scatters all around
one by one I pick up each piece  
my life comes together in this poem 

Joys and laughter everywhere
but a little sorrow hides under the chair
dreams and hopes desperately hang on 
the wind threatens to blow them away

Fragments of my memories lie here and there
a few unforgotten college days
some precious words dad had said 
angry face of a long lost friend

Strewn all over are words
well intended but misunderstood
words written for a poem, left halfway
some earnest attempts, some fake

If I were to measure these pieces 
Would there be more joy or despair
I really cannot say
But they make me what I am today.



Afroze Ali
Date:24th june 2011
© Afroze Ali  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

To my long lost friend

A, I did not have time to talk to you about my ill fate. 
It seems nice but I think it is a curse for me this year.
It has been 5 years since you were gone, 
Although I do not feel missing you as I used to, 
But it did not mean I love you any less. 
I am upset that I did not love you as much as I should. 
I suppose, one only learns how much one was lucky until one lost it. 
I took for granted you would always love me
And I would be loved and cared forever.
Would you bless me to have wisdom,
Energy, time and love for my sons.
Whom you also loved as your grand children. 
Even when you never have a chance to meet them.
I was grateful for your kindness, respect and
Treated me differently to the rest of the women in your life.
© C33 B66  Create an image from this poem.

To My Long Lost Friend

There was once a time 
When there was you and I
And we had shared
A friendship beyond compare

No matter how long
We had been apart
Whenever we met
Our bond was untouched

And I remember parks
Laughter and jokes
I remember your eyes
How they smiled

And then we were separated 
And I didn't know
How far you'd gone
And long you'd be

Years pasted
And you were
A faint memory
In the back of my mind

But every once and a while
I remembered you
And our treasured friendship
And I smiled

But then you were
Just a passing thought
Sometimes you'd come by
Others not

What happened I heard
Was so sad
But not for children 
To understand

So when I remembered you
Once again years past
I looked for you
And I found you

My heart sped up
And my eyes filled up
You look so grown
And yet I got that familiar feeling

The bond of friends
That could be siblings
Forever there
For one another

Yet I didn't make contact
And I guess
That's my mistake
I'll learn from

And one day I pray
That on the street
Of anywhere we are
We shall meet again
© Sam Tab  Create an image from this poem.


Teach Me a Lesson

There's a beach ball stuck in the rafters of the pool, It's been there for the 7 years I've been coming here, It contains air from the lungs of an unknown person, An essence that rests here though they left and likely never considered the fact, I wonder all the places, There, I've left pieces of me, I've caught sight of the unknown, Known but not seen, Recalled gently where my presence never left a place but I never returned, Sometimes I encounter it with a long lost friend who has a memory or an item I made, a saying or dance I embodied that they kept somehow, There are some people I'd like to ask – who I was in that moment of my life when we passed, I hope those fragments are more than the air I breathed on an unremembered day, And the reason people smile and hold an item in their hands to conjure back as I do on occasions, Small links of the unforgotten piece me together as someone who existed. 



August 11, 2023.

Premium Member Genevieve, My Lost Friend

I had seen this girl around my workplace,
one day she handled a problem with grace.
We were nurses and things could get nasty,
and this was no place to get all sassy!

I complimented her and then we talked,
and on our breaks in the park we walked.
The flame of friendship ignited in us,
our spirits entwined like twin blazes, yes!

We became a beautiful matching pair,
with a special friendship so very rare.
Then the unthinkable-  she had to leave,
gone my counterpart and chum, Genevieve!

Oh, I was filled with sadness and deep loss,
and I wept and wept for my sweet friend lost.
Who would listen to my poems eyes closed,
and I had made her a lover of vintage old!

When she left I was in a dark chasm,
it will took a long time to find my awesome.
I never heard from her ever, ever again. 
How could she not look back? How do I mend?

_________________________
May 2, 2018


Poetry/Couplet/Genevieve, My Lost Friend
Copyright Protected, ID 18-1018-953-18
All Rights Reserved.  Written Under Pseudonym.
Form: Couplet

My Long Lost Friend

MY LONG LOST FRIEND (NIGERIA)
By Edward Ntebri Egbelo 

Just like snow you left the clouds; withering the earth with enclaves of your shadow
Memories can never escape the glimpse of your far gone character; your smiles of hope in moments of dismay
Your pedigree nature in guiding human opinions
Your strength in conquering strange battles with sanguinity and fervour 


O!!! Behold thy old self; gazing at the failing mirrors
Jealousy has enclave thy mind with malevolent and odium of close friends
Where is that integrity I use to envy, that humility I use to covet, that optimism I use to hanker? All sucked up; by that quintessence of sleaze

Wake up my friend; up from thy waning slumber
The road is tapered; assuredly coarse and short
But they is surely a destination
Hope fills thy fading face; you will surely conquest over your qualms.
The dreams you beseech will surely be your climax

Your victory is not far-flung my friend; it lies in the neighbourhood
Waiting for you to grab it with complete vigour and sincerity 
Haste should be far a point from grasping it 
Hold tight my friend, enjoy the cool breeze of nature and acquire your birth right with integrity and honesty.

God bless you my friend
God bless Nigeria
Form: ABC

Wee Small Hours

was feelin too sick to write poetry
every breath taken
was another nail in my coffin
with shades of self pity
hanging over my shoulders like a long lost friend

this cold still goes on forever
robbing me of vitality, smell, and sacred and much adored sleep
as coughing fits
like grand mal seziures
keep me enraptured in their tendrells

never mind
these wee hours of the early early mornin
say 1.14 am
allow me to think about things long forgotten
like how my loved one called me "toquie"
and how much I loved that name....and all the warm cozy feelings
the little girl inside of me now misses these feelings

I get to think about my goals and aspirations
of the art show I again want to put on in a small
coffee shop on THE DRIVE

But, most of all, this cold has given me a gift of realizing
how imporant one's health is...
in order to fully love oneself...
and you.
Form:

Premium Member I Am Yours--

Lord, I am yours;
There are new beginnings and I must get them;
One in the morning time, some with same old long lost friend;
But He’s the one I rely on, in Him there’s trust;
And in man there’s no victory only lost;

On another day, will you come and stay;
Will you come fully and pray;
I am your vision you’re my watch;
I am your voice when you talk;

And I breathe the life of you inside you
I am yours, I am yours…

Come together right now over here;
I am yours and you’re my dear;
I am your vision you’re my watch;
I am your voice when you talk;
And in man there’s no victory only lost;
On another day, will you come and stay;

I am the truth and I’m the way
And I breathe the life of you inside you
I am yours, I am yours…

On another day, will you come and stay;
Will you come fully and pray;
I am your vision you’re my watch;
I am your voice when you talk;

And I breathe the life of you inside you
I am yours, I am yours…

9/10/10

Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.
Arranged music by Jonathan Kabore
From anthology Jonathan Kabore’s “Kabore Praise” ©2010
Form: Lyric

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