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Premium Member Letter To My Future Self

LETTER TO MY FUTURE SELF
   
Hello there, sweet Lady Jane,

So, it is three weeks before you turn seventy, 
do you think you can honestly tell you found
your peace of mind, contentment, happiness?
Or are you still searching for answers to the
things you never understand and wondering
the what ifs, when you damn know there would
be no answers, no explanations, no clarifications.

Your children are giving you a party and all your
grandchildren will be there to celebrate you.
Do they make you proud for what they become?
Or do you still think you did not spend enough time
with them when you cannot turn back time or do
you still worry and wish something better for them?
All your siblings with their spouses, children and
grandchildren will join your family in celebrating
you reaching a major milestone, are you excited?
Or do you still feel like an outsider for your
mother, their mother treated you differently. 

I know your life did not turn to be what you wanted,
as your life journey put you through many adversities
including sorrow and pain that you turned out to be
what you are meant to be, a strong willed woman.
You learned to let go the shadows that haunted you 
and you accepted and embraced what life threw at you
becoming appreciative and thankful with your blessings.
   
In the past, you were asked many times what your plans
were for the next five years? ten years? for the future?
You had so many for you couldn’t get no satisfaction.
Now, you just whisper let it be, the words of wisdom. 

Your dreams never materialized; but they never left you.
So at this time in your life you think you are never too old
to dream or create new ones by reinventing yourself.
You dare to live your life at its fullest and take a chance
to create your own happiness for it is a decision, a choice.

So, my sweet Lady Jane, it is nice to see you not worrying
about the future; but dancing and rocking to rock and roll
music, living like Ruby Tuesday, you come and go and
change every new day and you just imagine, living for today.
Ahhhh……..


11/22/21  Your Favorite Poem of 2021 Poetry
                Chantelle Anne Cooke

 
9/18/21    Written and Submitted
                Letter To Your Future Self Poetry
                Silent One


NOTE:  My pen name is Sweet Lady Jane      
           from the Rolling Stone's Lady Jane


Premium Member Floating

The people of this world are like the three butterflies in front of a candle's flame.
The first one went closer and said:I know about love.
The second one touched the flame lightly with his wings and said:
I know how love's fire can burn.
The third one threw himself into the heart of the flame and was consumed.
The alone knows what true love is.
Rumi


I sit alone in a silent field of fairness,
under saffron rays kissing sunflower serenity,
among dawn's daisies and dusk's dandelions -
watching buds floating away with whisking winds.

Fate does not favour my quest to soar freely.
In a meadow of humanity's betraying breaths,
our buttercup souls become ambushed by a suffocation of sighs.
When there is no justice in spiteful judgement,
visions of Basilisk slither with a deadly gaze.
Envious eyes poisoned by potions of venom,
abuse the selfless mistress of my garden's muse -
but without Eve there would be no Adam nor Eden.

Weeping on the grave of her past self,
her fatigued spirit struggles to fight and rise.
I watch darkness ascend in springtime,
when her mind portrays a veil in the misery of mist.
I feel like a helpless flame burning in ivory wax.
Untreated wounds with time festering
into an ebony existence of self deprecation.

I can see butterfly hunters with their narcissistic nets,
chasing my imperfectly perfect empress of empathy.
Her heart hungers for a plethora of petals,
to hover from a ruby rose to lotuses of liberty,
but predatory birds like harlots and hussies,
have lured her into a withering winter colony of thorns.

Sorrow stitched her eyes closed with merlot thread,
as her sanity sits upon the edge of heaven and hell.
The Devil wears a hat with an emblem of her sins.
The bewitching conspiracy of his crimson eyes,
tempting to massacre the magnificence
of her invisible crystal wings of bronze and gold.

In a martyrdom of self-sacrifice,
love reminds her that kindness glows softly like fireflies,
as she tries to find light in a tunnel of lost thoughts.
The universe echoes her cosmic whispers of life,
as psychedelic ink shimmers like starlight in her veins,
pouring compassion into a selfish blank canvas of hearts.

Cherry blossoms tint the air pink
and she's looking at the world through their gaze,
but knows like everything,
their fragile beauty is only momentary.
© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Daisy Daze

I was a successful, fashionable florist, in mild green days of elegant gardens,
When an orange sun beamed its pleasure, like locales where lavender begins.

I formed arrangements for many occasions, drawing beauty lovers from afar,
As pretty planets arrange for a meeting, after wild rumors of the newest star.

And crowded hours were filled with summer, like pearly dews crowd morning,
Until ruby butterflies are playing tag, and gemmed damselflies are swarming.

Friends felt I might always be found, in some area of flush bloom fragrancies,
Like raven midnight's march to daybreak, with its warm, varicolored agencies.

Fond family held festive feasts, in fading hours of sparkly, fuchsia sun falling,
As whippoorwill songs clashed with red robin's, midst magenta stars gawking.

I lived in the house of tangy, saturated noon, when flowers were in full glory,
Like the most beautiful day of a woman's life, when a bride she's come to be.

Scarlet, saffron and other hues glittered, within the soulful sector of summer,
As starlings sang songs along my street, and sun rose and retired, a stunner!

Neighbors were nomadized at times, as honeydew moon nestles in new night,
When visiting me on eves of silk and satin, when fresh June was at its height.

Silver clouds were saddled with summer sun, in suddenly days of sweet rose,
Like grey encumbering smoke from autumn fires, when in plum mists it flows.

Raven noon was in green treetops, as the inarticulate ravens were squawking,
And fading time seemed to stand still, but ephemeral moments kept walking.

One day I woke to a gorgeous view from my window, daisies pink and yellow,
In the wide field right next to my house, glowing in the rich, sunshine mellow!

It put such a smile on my face, oh my! Like flocks of pretty blue jays going by,
And I kept seeing daisies everywhere I went, like a pearlescent moon on high!

I beheld African daisies and shasta, and pom pom-like chrysanthemum ones; 
Along with fine lustrous gerberas, in all colors found, in wild green kingdoms.

I wondered at my strange, good fortune, in seeing beloved blooms anywhere;
Like the young, butterscotch days when Mother said, 'We're going to the fair!'

For awhile, I saw sweet daisies by day, and it seems I dreamt daisies at night;
Like a brief mystic spell of rapture, when hidden beauty's freed from its plight.
Form: Couplet

Premium Member The Mark of the Mother

" My mother shed her protective love around me and without knowing why, people sensed that I had value." ~Maya Angelou

" As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. " ~Kristin Hannah

“ I hold three magic rocks, in my hand
Rolling them over and over and over
Leaving this reality behind, far behind"


Born female, and upon my brow the magic mark ,
 as my mother's mothers before me. 
Red pigmented and shaped like a broken heart,
the very heart of my story.
 
From generations of wombs and bloodlines before,
 I am chosen to take up these stones.
And being apart of this family, 
I am yet destined to be alone. 
 
The Amber, with whiskey color glowing within… 
 pumpkin tinged and power singed. 
Giving its wielder healing power and 
protection through the midnight hour.

The Sapphire stone, deepest indigo, 
as the depths of the ocean's foaming folds. 
Granting wisdom within it's warming light 
and discernment of truth, of wrong and right. 

And the third stone is a Ruby of red, 
whose clarity muddles the mind and clouds the head. 
Releasing passions once held in check, 
while you see clearly, their pulsing neck. 

Combined the three, passed down to me, 
from maternal bloodline flows. 
So now with these words and the heat of my hands,
 I part the veil to long ago...

Though darkly, I see, far back through time,
 this several great-great grandmother of mine. 
And watch as she, undeservedly, 
is made to lie in an early grave …
No knight in armour in this tale, 
Herself alone she must save. 

These stones that I now hold, she finds,
as in darkness they begin to shine. 
All air is gone, her breathing stops 
and the heart inside can beat no more.
Until the magic finds a home in a wronged woman's maternal core. 

Then hearing 
a weak pulse,
 somehow 
MISPLACED...
upon her brow I see
the red- pigmented mark, 
the broken heart 
Upon her brow,  
BEGIN TO B E A T.... 

And now we know this history,
the story that began my own. 
I await the rest of my family tale 
from inside the stones, I'm shown. 

When I know my true life's purpose, 
when I am connected with all of them…
then my hearts blood will stop beating...

...but my magic heart beat will begin.
Form: Epic

The Mystique of the Lady and the Unicorn

An invisible string was created from the beginning of time,
it is wound around my horn, and bound to your heart
Invincible.
Each time your heart beats, you tug at this string,
drawing me closer to you

You are unaware of this, I love you
yet I fear and resist you, dear Lady
Not only have you captivated me, but my fate is in your hands

I am the last Unicorn in existence

Kings and nobles desire me for my horn, 
for it can purify poisoned wells
and they know only you have power over me

Sweet virgin, all I ask is
one song  to enchant my ears
one glimpse of your precious smile
one kiss from your ruby lips 
one whiff from your perfumed dress
...a single stroke from your gentle hands

and I shall dream of you forever

Betray me not please by handing me to the men

Let me lay my horned head on your lap even just once…

then set me free


~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~**~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

You are Testing me my rear precious unicorn, 
every King has offered more than our beauty holds.
Unfold I will hide with you in a placed to protect us from every face.
Avoiding your poisonous horn, in which I fail to feed my soul with your purity.
I will move you from this revolution in which has troubled the monarchy.

Medieval strings of power to catch you~ your the last of your kind. 
My Unicorn you are the medicine, the symbol ones seeks to rule darkness.
With passion I hold a belief that your horn can heal illness, 
your strength will carry on.

Every time you returned to drink the waters of a no man's paradise,
I reach out to touch your radiance once a year.
Your horn can cure plague, rage, rabies, fever's and more!
Become my host let me wear you in this mystical amulet.
I will wear you as my jewelry while you lay your head on my lap.
My Unicorn of purity, I will never tell the ingredient and secrets we share,
as we got lost in each others stare.

I will ride with you and never betray your existence.
Together we will gather the fresh fruit and CORN~
My precious unicorn my virginity is your dignity.
Bathe with me throughout my immortal long and healthy life.
I'll sing you a song good night.

Ali-corn you are the weight in gold, all emperors, will fall at my feet.
One kiss with my red ruby  lips!

I "guarantee" you a gift only we both see.

"If you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you!"  



**a collaboration with pd ^_^!


Seasonal Sensational Love

 Seasonal sensational Love 

 These lovely eyes bracing the glimpse of Trees, Mountain,
           And Rain in parallel, Falling in its pioneeringly expressive ways!!
Clutching my attention, Serene beauty stickered on my Heart,
           Tantalizing with the rhythm of jazzy shake,
Rain pounded against my window!!

Ringing bells lighted the inner peace,
            Mountains dwelled with the green nature band,
Paced off those lovely yards,
            The garden green snippet filled my soul with the refreshed    air!!

The sun rising across the bay,
            Inter tranquillity fluorescenced my soul.
Praising vociferously with the theme of attitude towards life,
            Around the globe wanted to face the Life's fate.

Ruby red sun tinged through the west,
             Water falling through the Cleavage of the mountains!!
Rainbow flashing against my eyes like a mist in heavenly arcade.
              Thumping night life on the bustling island amazed me!!

The white cotton sky,
               Plugged in with vivid spectrum in depth!!
Immersed in deep ruby eyes of her,
               Neither the constraints of latitude and longitude,
Just bouncing the sunshine forever!!

Bracing with rose gold moon in its arms with the twilighting stars,
               Perked up with full of energy!!
Rejuvenated with full joy,
               The strength of spark instigated my feelings towards you!!

Harmonious accord establishing the ceasefire, 
                By showering rain to melt the temperature of boiling sun!!
Opening the switches of my heart,
                Stimulating the senses,
You will find desire of Love towards you!!

Melancholy rain, Cinerous sky,
               Blazing eyes, Peasant walkaway!!
Just can’t forget You Honey,
               Life has quite often solaced my eyes,
Glow of cotton rubbing socket of vision throughout years!! 

Your eyes,
               I love you baby!!
Your smile,
               I like that way You come and cheers my heart blazing my soul!!
Baby just come in my life cleansing my broken heart,
               Baby you come back please!!
And then only you will find the peck on the cheek!!
               Staring in my direction,
You attracted me again, occupying the vacant space of my heart!!
               Come again, please heal my heart!!
© Maddy Sp  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Maiden of Musical Moonshine


Music is an undying 
art of soul ~ 
an abstract eden, where, 
euphonious unicorns 
glide in strawberry sonatas, 
amplifying rhapsody in
ballads of flight, 
when fuchsia feathers
tease those 
jingling breezes, 
infusing breaths
in every lifeless aroma;
where I can soar 
beyond the 
brushstrokes 
of symphonies that
planktons sing to me, 
in the requiems of 
forsaken pearls, 
crooning with 
silenced shimmers
beneath wavy blues. 

Maybe, 
I'm a songwriter 
without words, 
and my electric fingers
trace the tunes 
of serene strings, 
when guitars weave
a sonorous guilt
midst ruby runes 
of regrets. 
I wish to keep
swinging in a 
cosmic cadence, 
where celestial notes 
choreograph 
themselves in the 
moonwalking
mellifluence of 
lunar legacies. 

I gossip with 
neon nightingales, 
laced with neutrinos
and compel them
to chant those
healing incantations
of love and glory,
like the forlorn 
princess - Rapunzel, 
desiring to feel 
the glow of 
familiar lanterns, 
winged with 
hazy syncs of 
unsung yesteryears. 

I wonder if, 
I'm not meant 
to compose 
crystal canticles
in a Disney duet, 
for, I believe, 
I'm a soul searcher
in the flesh of
a soloist, concocting 
an elixir of my 
existence through
cinnamon anthems
of mystical 
moonrises, as 
they softly unfold, 
a million 
unheard tempos, 
within tranquil 
memoirs. 

I'm the 'maiden of music'
resting as a floret on 
every sepal, 
yearning to become
a unique acapella 
of nature, 
where empathy 
has an ethereal
dialect of 
nurturing spirits
and tinkles
of magical waterfalls
whisper in 
gentle lachrymose lulls
of our ambrosial Mother. 

When the harmony 
of my voice, 
kisses those 
ivory keys of 
the heart-shaped
piano, they 
echo a tipsy secret 
in my sunset skin, 
making me 
believe ~
"I'm everywhere 
in the essence, 
yet nowhere
to be found...", 
like the sweet 
scents of 
hummingbirds, 
smiling behind
that first dusky star. 

      "In each husky hallelujah
                of ribboned halts and replays, 
           life is a song ~
                    where every lyric, 
                phrases an ember of end, 
      and when passionate heartbeats 
                       shall knit sombre medleys, 
                  I will hum in the last 'chef-d'oeuvre'... "

Premium Member Her Name Was Lucy: the Girl On the Corner

I watch for her after midnight's twelve strokes,
often thinking how life likes to play cruel jokes.
Stilettos clicked on pavers as she walked
a nod on the stairs, but we'd never talked.
Eyes smudged with black liner, like bars on a cell,
She always returns looking like she's been through hell.

I knew her name was Lucy. I heard him yell at her last night.
She trembled past me in the hallway, teary eyes full of fright.
Midnight lady, short skirts, and pouting ruby lips,
street corners for an office as she swings her hips.

I saw her in the morning light when she walked out the door.
Fresh face, pink cheeks scrubbed clean, and nothing more.
In jeans and baggy t-shirt, she looked like an innocent child,
not the kind of woman who got paid to drive men wild.
Lucy - if I tried to rescue you what would you think of that?
Would you have to worry about the guy who wears the fancy hat?
No one can own another, so I'd like to make an offer to you.
I'll buy you a ticket to anywhere if you tell me you're through.

I'm just a stranger, but I know who and what you are...
too young and beautiful to live a life that's so bizarre.
I've never gotten over how guilty it made me feel
for living that life while pretending nothing was real.
I'm offering you the way to get out the mess you're in,
a life of danger, a tangled web of emotional sin.


Dear Lucy,
     I'm leaving this note and money under your door
because I don't wanna see you around here anymore.
I wish someone had given me the chance to be free
then maybe I could forgive myself for what I used to be.

     You don't know who I am, and it really doesn't matter.
My name once was Lucy, before I was bruised and battered. 
Long ago I had a daughter that I was forced to give away.
I'll regret the choice I made until my breath fades away.
                                       Signed: Someone who cares
                                                      Someone who dares

I prayed this Lucy was not the daughter I had born.
In her faded jeans and baggy t-shirt she had worn,
I watched her walk away with all she owned flung over her shoulder.
I knew she'd have a better life than I had by the time she was older.
As a tree, my limbs are broken and brittle. My life not worth a dime.
But if she is my fallen apple, out of the gutter I must help her climb.
© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Died In 2014 - Part 2

Don Pardo: Born: 1918-02-22 - Died: 2014-08-18
He’s been gone from SNL
We heard he wasn’t feeling all that well
Don Pardo’s number came around
The Lord was calling “Come on down”

Lauren Bacall: Born: 1924-09-16 - Died: 2014-08-12
Finally the sound Bacall longed to hear
I guess Bogie learned how to whistle this year

Robin Williams: Born:1951-7-21-Died: 2014-8-11
Robin you kept us in stitches
Of comic minds yours had the riches
If your mind had a filter
It was always off kilter
Your death was the greatest of glitches

Richard Kiel: Born: 1939-8-13-Died: 2014-8-10
Richard Kiel was the great villain Jaws 
A man with a few minor flaws
He stood seven foot two
And you knew, you just knew
As a bad guy he’d win our applause

James Garner: Born:1928/4/7 - Died: 2014/7/19
We watched him in The Rockford Files 
Victor Victoria brought us all smiles
And the great Maverick, Bret
Who could ever forget
James Garner was nothing but style

 Johnny Winter: Born:944/2/23- Died: 2014/7/16
Johnny Winter, as thin as a splinter
And white as the fallen snow
He kept us amused
As he played the blues
Till it was his time to go 

Tommy Ramone:Born:1949/1/29 Died: 2014/7/11
Tommy Ramone didn’t play the trombone
But he was a drummer of note
He played with his brothers
And never no others
For Hall of Fame, he got my vote 

Casey Kasem: Born:1932/4/27 Died: 2014/6/15
Casey Kasem they treated you wrong
Stole your body, we looked, it was gone
Fighting for your estate
Until you were “the late”
Your passing would make a sad song

Ruby Dee: Born: 1922-10-27 - Died: 2014-06-11
Ruby Dee how can it be
An actress of your worth
With awards galore
You should have won more
Before you were yanked from this earth 

Ann B. Davis: Born:1926/5/5-Died: 2014/6/1
Here's the story of a lovely lady 
Who always played a great supporting soul. 
Schultzy with the late great Robert Cummings
In the Brady bunch, old Alice was her role. 

Till the one day when the lady met her maker 
And we knew it was much more than a cold, 
Ann B. Davis’s career has finally ended 
And that makes some of us feel too damn old 

Bob Hoskins: Born: 1942/10/26-Died:2014/4/29
Bob was an actor, a man with a face
That only a mother’s love could embrace
And in spite of that face, he became a great star
Bob Hoskins we’ll miss you wherever you are
Form: Rhyme

Whispering Wings

      Amethyst shades dazzle her mysteriousness
        hiding black secrets in vulnerable mellows
          though recognized in the forgotten marshes
             she's said to possess dark onyx powers.
             She smiles at lost passersby in the red valley
           aware of the myths bubbling beneath wet soil
         and they disappear in unexplored forests
        seemingly safer than her uncharted evil mind
       every full moon augments her fragrance they say
     her Carmen blooms to entrap innocent souls.

      A thousand false alarms wrapped in assumptions
        for they'd never know she's a trampled magnolia
       tattered spirits in frayed rags was all she had
            dried oceans of scarlet tears in enclaves of fears
       humanity died on a full moon night under heavy breaths
          her weakened screams muted with lustful arms
              blurred visions of a forced conviction in blood
           her faint shrieks died in this swamp of tragedies
        till her blood froze beneath slumbering snow.

    Her burning spirit simmered mauve mists
      slimy seeds sprouted the dirty green marshes
        spring bloomed her courage to recollect storms
           crushed to sprinkle colors on heavenly topanga
      diamonds in her mind shimmer as she laughs 
         sending ripples of valor in perturbed oceans
           embracing her flaws she sings a folk melody
             trances of whispers blended in mellow symphony
    legends of crimson valley float with her flute
       a goddess calming oppressed souls to breathe 
         they've heard stories of sapphires burning
           splashing colors of freedom and kindness
    but all they see on drooping moonless nights
       her pious caricature coming alive in dark
          magenta petals blooming in layered fog of storms
            turning mauve then scarlet glittering ruby
         spreading wings from green marshes perfumed flowers
       on elevators of courage to save scarred souls
    infant butterflies arise in lilac hues of whispering hopes.


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