Long Requite Poems

Time is like a shadow bright
 It fades and never can requite
 A lip, a shade, a palest kiss 
The sorrow that my heart did wish
 Clasped upon the rose and chain
 When fate cannot...

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   "I have seen and heard the vibrancy of dreams, 
and the way 
of the crossings-through the ills 
and through the barriered things."

A fleeting spark that perceives, 
I, have seen...

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My Dear, Please understand.
 

You cant force your light upon him.

You might be the reason he smiles while his eyes squint and sparkle.

His laughter will certainly affirm your clever humor.

You will impress him with well-earned...

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The Imp sat atop the dresser, unmoving,
in the corner of the room, I waited, pen in hand.
No sound did he make, nor his locus improving,
as his bloodshot eyes, my attention, they demand.

In days slipped past,...

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People surround until they stop expecting……...the upright stands alone…an intelligent walks alone……moral and ethics struggle to prove themselves right……friends and relatives are born disguised competitors…smiling faces burn inside……money is all that allures, attracts, builds and...

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Sleepless, with defeat...
when night is black and what is left
is time turning  back on promises
The sugar coated world askew
What happened to the world I knew?
My head in sand?  Was it a joke?
Have I...

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March 8 Scripture Meditations Based on 2Samuel 16-18

Key Verse – 2Samuel 16:12 It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this...

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Tiptoeing through the garden of love                             ...

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Breath and walk easily in a night so blue...
under the green branches of the pines;
and see the brisk breeze that lull the daises,
on the trimmed lawns, sparkling with dew!

On this side of town, rain comes...

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I saw a movie today
it was old and black and white
Looking for a memory that 
never left my sight
An old woman quite insane
but less than fear and fright
A subject in a story called Classic
from another...

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Pondering love’s inquisitions hitherto thine perplexities
as thou should knowest its tenderness requite.  
Whilst thy deliberate forthright such iniquitous fortitude of beguiling amorous utterances. 
Thine onliest causality lay boisterous extemporizations whereupon the chorus of crescendoing...

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there is only one woman
in the whole wide world
one thing that matters
this certian girl
and she fills my mind
both days and nights
her loveliness is my delight
a loveliness i can not requite
so quiet lies my tongue
that would...

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Midnight Madness (Ah! Earth Hour,2012)


All this low tech by candle light
Doesn't do much for my eyesight,
But, pulled the breaker at midnight
Having set up picnic delights.
Marshmellows, grahams, choc'late--Right!
Roasting them o're candle's light.
Toasty charred outsides black as...

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love is so hard to requite
when sin has killed desire
where there was once a desprite need
now the smoke of an extinguished fire
the empire where there was a throne
that sparkled with streets of gold
crumbled into disrepair
a...

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When last they kissed, and passion's lease
bloomed brief and sweet, Sir Shakespeare's quill 
would set in motion a deathly chill.
For Juliet, he could not appease
to win her smile and would not release 
a tranquil tale...but...

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The brightest light of all lights
Condescends to make all things right.
Darkness tends to overcome the light;
The Sun in shame withdraws its light,
Earth trembles and all nature sigh,
And accept the sacrifice set at the awful sight.
Behold!...

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A Woman Nothing More


The strongest feelings in life 
erupted when she appeared,
showing me all I wanted 
and hinting at what’s to be feared.

Her mysterious charm and power 
changed my goals for good,
target of all my...

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Trudging on a lonely road
In somewhat desolated and dreary mode
Stumbled upon someone ineffably enchanting
And felt the desire to espouse her, augmenting.
Ah! Her dulcet voice and ravishing charm
That pierced my heart without harm.

I told myself “Yes,...

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Life as a maypole, is an interesting theme
where schemes we might plan can get tangled with dreams 

The things I had dreamed of, to better my life,
would often get tangled, with wrong versus right
Some streams...

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"What is life but a secession of preludes to unwritten words"
                   Quote..." Constance La France "


Memories contain...

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Right away I saw the power of it,
knowing that the loan I made
would never be repaid;
that made me smile—
that secret, quite delicious irony
was mine  to keep within my heart.
My sacrifice had just become a...

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April 8 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on 2Samuel 16-18

Key Verse – 2Samuel 16:12  It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good...

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Tonight,.. stars dangle from the trees,
honed thistle sharp, while years unfold
and winter's muse, has pierced the cold. 

A song is stirred within the breeze,
sad words like snowflakes in the air,
that drift through years of old...

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The fires they breach far and wide
yet leaving no nest not low or high
the closer it gets the farther we fly
wind swept smoke clouding the eyes
distance by distance higher the height 
homes all gone as...

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Two lovers requite one is lonesomeCalling of a loon in the darkest nightCannot ascend or descend without the loving water              ...

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