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Premium Member Broken: A Day On the Beach

Waves sang songs along the sea shore, 
Water washed up on the sand,
Life couldn’t be any better at all, 
Well, this is where the story began,

You see, all of a sudden a wave gripped onto my foot, 
Pulled me out to the break,
Where I was helplessly sunk below the loud waves, 
And they refused to let me escape,

And my hands reached for something, anything at all, 
A family, a house, a career,
Something to help pull me up from this horror, 
From this place of my absolute fear,

But the news kept on coming of a virus of death, 
I saw death himself like a dark ghost,
And he told me it gets worse as he shut both my eyes, 
Then I woke up all broke on the coast.
Form: Quatrain


Premium Member The Rising

Crushed beneath a heavy yoke 
                             She passed out from the pain
                            A Gentle voice spoke, she awoke
                             Pure water washed blood stain

                               The burden had been lifted
                                   He'd hoisted it away
                           She blinked away her tears to see
                               A bright and hope filled day



                                  Written March 30, 2021
                      Inspired By 'Phoenix Rising' Poetry Contest'
                             Sponsored By Unseeking Seeker
Form: Rhyme

A hard lesson

2015.03.09@13:13:13
As the V-Line Coach approached the Apollo Bay,
Along the sand line, what did I find?
The splashing waves rushed in to reach the beach.
The scent of the trees and plants,  
Triggered some ideas in my brain.
I planned to throw your book into the sea,
Let the salty water washed all your printed words.
Hopefully, it also cleaned your soul and sins,
Changed you into a better person,
Who would have some considerations,
And be kind and nice to others,
Treat others as you would like to be treated.
I learned an important lesson today.
On 2024.08.12@12:44pm, BB wrote
>> "you do and feel what you like"
Yes, because doing what others like
Always results in disappointment. 
I do what I believe in.
> 
Well. I did what I felt like
And it also resulted in disappointment.
© C33 B66  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member personal services

after doors close    after hours    when scarlet neon flickers out    red-light nights fill voids of need    my body is a ripped flower    my throat tingles to the burn of vodka-fire    gleaning the gleaming water-washed street    for an answer to the latest outstanding bill    sadly grateful for the slightest footfall    twenty for oral    forty for full    car park dark    steam-heavy dark    not streetwalking but streetstaggering    in hollow-pod hell    anaemic-ashy and vodka-fumy amorphous shadows    loitering    on durex-dotted waste ground    in secret alleys    back to dank brick    or deep throating down on my knees    skirt around thighs    fingers come-pearled and slick    come quick    after doors close    after hours    when scarlet neon flickers out    cold glitter of streetlights    gleam of cold hard cash    cold kisses    colder touch    no eye contact    look away   the cold nothingness that we say

Premium Member Summer and the River

Summer, 
	the Guadalupe River, 
	at least a couple of decades ago...
 	
	A bend in any river,
	no matter how slowly that river flows, 
	erodes the outside of that bend, 
	digs away at the bank, 
	separating stones from sand, 
	nudging them into shallow water 
	across and down the river, 
	sorting them by size as it goes, 
	the smaller, rounder ones 
	in a layer on top. 
	
	That’s where I was that summer afternoon, 
	on my back, half-submerged in the gravel shallows, 
	the water so warm I couldn’t feel it, 
	my arms straight out from my body,
	interrupting the flow, 
	causing almost waves
	as the water washed over. 
	My ears were under water; 
	I could hear only the flow of water around me. 
	Above me the leaves and branches 
	of trees overhanging the river 
	moved gracefully in the hot breeze. 
	Somehow the leaves and branches and water 
	moved at the same tempo, 
	not like music, 
	but rather a deep humhmmm 
	I could both see and feel. 

	I don’t know how long 
	I hovered in that flow, 
	but it wasn’t long enough. 
	In ways I can’t describe 
	I’m still there, 
	bathed in that most elemental of mediums, 
	moving with the leaves, 
	lost in a very long moment.


How Do I Explain?

How do I explain where I have been, new lover? 

Once, on warm summer nights 
I laid tangled in the darkness
Warmed against deep loneliness
In the form of a man
And how I accepted it, this moth’s fate-
Tapping my heart 
Over and over
Against that light 
On the other side of the glass. 
Seeking fulfillment from emptiness 
No better then that creature, I persisted. 
Digging myself this kind of grave. 


There was this death before you. 
My death.
And it cycles over and over on the surfaces of my mind
Like the tide, turning in on happier days
And withdrawing with the dark. 
And I fear
I am nothing more than these motions
Repeating with no more reason then to say:
I had loved once
And then it was gone. 


I had loved once. 
And now, it is gone. 


The water washed away the vows,
And with it, 
Somewhere deep within the texture of the bottom
I found fragments of truth. 
I found you.


There is no perfection where you seek it, new lover. 
And how I fear, 
Oh how I fear…
The impermanence of love. 
When permanence of loss
is far more real.

Premium Member Toss a Pebble

I came upon a spring so fresh and clear
Water washed the pebbles clean 
Tiny fish swam so happy and free my dear
Shimmering in the sun gills all a glean
And I closed my eyes and reached down low
A searching for a pebble not a stone
To propel across the waters’ surface all aglow
I the master caster all alone
It felt just right I closed my eyes 
I turned my hand a bit sidewise
It skipped across the springs clear edge
Remarkable as if it were possessed
And revolved itself in the whirlpool 
A hapless pebble skipped back to a fool
I cast it out but again in awe I watched
It skidded the surface a marvel unmatched
A wondrous sight to my eyes alone
A pebble skipper quite at home.
Form: Bio

Mountain King Rising

Spider of Love weaves us a tale
Of Kings and Queens Prophets and Outlaws
Pirates set e explosions ensue
Water washed me but fire bathed me in spiritual fruit
Guiding my heart to Mountain King Emanuel who starts all fire
Our shadow blades cut deep to their souls
Ravens and Crows circle their lands
How mighty they thought their wolves indeed were
No wolf can compare to the Lamb with seven eyes
A bear tried war with the ancient of days
a leopard did think it could war with the seven spirits King
He is war itself he holds the key to death and even the grave
those Pirates may echo the drum beat of war
But Only The captain of heavens armies can bring us true peace
He tried a violin solo to bring about calm but the soothing sound of Jesus melts all the worlds hearts
Indeed a sword fight broke out in between them all
Explosions ensued and we did eat some pumpkin stew with shark steak on the side
In dragons tongue they spoke all myriad of tales
Unbeknownst to them all one mighty weaver of tales like a spider did does spin it all with our many minds and we think we are the writers but One Holy ghost does write it all named Mountain King Rising deep inside your very soul this second he smiles in my heart at me now

Premium Member Rain In the Night

I lay in bed listening to the rain in the night
Patter on my roof, patter, patter
I thought about all I have lost, wiped away, 
	-  Gone  -
As if water washed it all away
No, it was people, circumstance that did
Not to be found, retrieved or replaced again

Nothing to mend the heart or fill the emptiness within
The rain kept falling into the night, as I shut my eyes to sleep
Listening, I was comforted by the patter, patter
Like footsteps returning, faces to see again
Words left unspoken, now able to be said

In this life there is only once chance to fully make it right
-	Resolution or completion    -
Either way, no-one knows when it can happen
A presence in life suddenly washed away, out of sight
Only to return in dreams, when the eyes shut….
To the patter of rain falling in the night

Heidi Sands
5/13/17

A Candid Rainscape

I watch the water trickle down my blank canvas,
The whole world is crying today...

      Nature has water-washed the Earth green, 
    The land looks fresh, as if awakened by a magic touch,
  I trace the cold mist with my fingertips,
as the dark clouds are drawn towards the half bright sun...
Raindrops jump and splash in brand new muddy puddles.

Lilies look lovelier and jasmines jive joyfully,
Daisies wear dewy dimples,
even as the merry marigolds seem to melt...

    And on that faraway mountain, in a summer cottage,
 those roses blush redder when the rain kisses them.

My eyes glisten and my lips spread in a smile,
while I brush away those few drops left 
to complete my candid dreamscape... 


06/29/17

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