She was more than a footnote
In someone else's fame
Yet many people when she died,
treated her just that way and let her fade
Not much is known about her final day
But I'm writing this just to say her name
To say "Pamela, you're not forgotten, you're in my mind all the time"
At the very least I can honor her with this rhyme
By: J.N.R Dutton
mothers day pilot pam bass
feeling a bit bored and crass
flew east in a wink
right into the drink
losing her sons boarding pass.
the phone cord coiled,
attached to the wall —
i can’t reach you.
the hours and hours
we’d spend,
chitchatting
would come to an end.
your humor, your face —
once in a while
visaged
in my mirror...your countenance
mine.
though we’re related
by twin mothers,
i never saw
it, before
you died.
but you shine your light
under my lids —
i can still see you
though our converse
has been carried out.
i miss you so deeply,
affectionately and poignantly.
gratefully cognizant
of your place in Christ.
12/8/2019
Memorial of a Loved One Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Chantelle Cooke
My cherished friend and almost, sister!
I took you under my gentle wings that
you might overcome addiction, and so
you did.
You, so conservative in dress. Me, so
flamboyant, in a state of colorful and
flashy, undress!
How kindly you transformed me from
my addiction, artificial wildness!
We, so different at first in looks but
hardly in souls.
Each contributed to each others's
transformation.
Walking miles that final New Year's Eve
through a dastardly Chicago blizzard.
Oh, my dead Pamela, once full of light and
laughter.
I will be searching for you in the silver
threads of the hereafter.
You are my Angel my saving Grace, When mom passed I think you took her place.
We have always been close and gotten along. A sisterly bond that can never be broken even after we are gone.
My big sister Pamela is Goofy and supportive in every way. I haven't seen you for a while but we talk almost everyday.
I love you big sis and wish I could be there for you, but you just say" It's alright Theresa and love you to'.
For you Pam,
Love Theresa
I know it's been a short time
That you and I have come to be
But I can't get over this feeling
That's been growing inside of me
I hope you don't mind me saying
But these words I swear are true
There's a piece of my heart, for you babe
That will always be there for you
Love is very special
And you made me realize
By the way that I feel when I kiss your lips
And I look into your eyes
The feeling is so wonderful
And it ranks atop and above
So I want to tell you Pamela
You're the best, you're my life, you're my love
Sometimes when I'm not with you
I seem to just want to cry
But all my tears just fade away
When I see that sparkle in your eye
Loving you is easy
Because your as perfect as can be
Especially, when you say those words
That sound surreal to me
You tell me that you love me
And I feel it in my heart
I knew that I'd fall in love with you
Right from the very start
Free Verse On Love Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Lu Loo
EMBRACED - Embraced
Her eyes and lips captivating,
her large nostrils and paws supping at the wind.
Trying to flee, her lustful charisma embraced me.
Her darkness twirls around in my head,
entering at my own free will.
Afraid, my senses said run, but no-my feet keep still.
So here I lay with the rest of the beast
caring nothing of the worlds between us.
Breathless, breathless, breathless.
Emulated by her prowling dark side;
her bold beauty consumes my desire,
until I am no longer breathless.
On the other side, my first loves found anew,
as I chance the epitome of mysteriousness. Do I stay or do I go?
Her eyes and lips, captivating;
her large nostrils and paws supping at the wind.
Trying to flee, her lustful charisma embraces him, her next love.
Go back now, you say, for my own first love, to fight .
I am with my first love. Right here, I shall stay.
DEAR PAMELA
Dear pamela,
The song about you remind me of pains
Your smiles remind me of that day
The sun visited the earth in her full human
To touch the soul of another human being
Is to walk on a holy ground but yours is a
Burning hell decorated with brimstones
Instand of ros flowers which are made in woman's heart.
You are of sadness and weired experience to me
I take as my guide, the hope of a saint in
Crucial things but your presence in my life
Frustrates my believe and trust for womanhood.
I watched the time eroding away, my soul laughed
Sarcastically; your tears built the hut which
Harbour my happiness and my life is long gone
Leave now! I beg you with tears.
The day is still young and fresh to ruin my life
I look forward to get my lost rib not you
Young ladies await me in the corner
Do not be a hinderance to my life
Another will love and care for you more than me
My heart belongs to another, dear pamela.
Come to me but only with a smitten heart,
And I shall open mine before you depart;
Or say the magic words but within a prose
And say something about the scent of the rose.
The love that from your heart still grows
Must not die as the envious wind blows;
But if there’s anything I’d ask you to do,
I would never ask you to be untrue.
I blow you late a goodnight kiss,
To show how much love in me there is;
But guilty of love and anger, your soul draws back –
Whether too little or too much, my love shan’t slack.
My soul tells the heart, the heart tells the mind
That love is so cute but love is so blind;
Anarchy of thoughts, love and pride, all bemused –
There’s no love as proper as mine to remain abused.
But be kind, I would never dare distraught thee
As I hope that you’ll soon and forever be with me;
Be just and bid me welcome into your life –
And hand me joy by accepting to be my wife.
No feeling of love from me to you shall withered be;
Say not that I said it not without courtesy or glee,
Because ever since I told you that I love you, and swore,
You’ve scourged me more than you’ve ever done before.
Now that you have left me for reason,
I am a man of passed-out desires
And passed over dreams
Of passed-out desires
I have unlearnt to find safe line
Between teasing and pleasing you.
I am yet to learn the difference
Between bare-breasts & fashionable breasts.
I’m a man of passed-out desires
I have crossed to the other side
And I can’t ever go back.
I'm a man of passed over dreams.
I caressed your body all along the day,
Planted my affection on your lips
Surely it will stay there forever.
Hope, will stay there forever.
I'm a man of passed out passions.
I never treated you a subordinate eve
You were only privileged to get pleasure
You never got the pain of childbirth from me
It was I who ate the forbidden fruit of Eden.
Committing adultery in my old age.
I'm a man without dreams and desires.
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OPTION; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOX_ACdOmQE (Bette Midler's version of Tom Waits "Martha")
Date 2-3-14
Form : Free Verse
Dr. Ram Mehta
First Place Win
Tries to kill himself.
Rather die young than
Achieve goals.
Unsure about
Making a bright future.
Acts like a follower but can be a leader.
Tries to get out of trouble but
Instead, continues until something bad happens, then
Cries when not heard.
Pain in my heart,
from the day you left.
Thinking that you would be next to me soon
but I guess it was too good to be true.
Why is it when I say it's going to be a good day,
I truly know it's not,
especially without you?
Pain in my heart,
feeling weak when I think of you.
Just wanting to break down and cry
but not wanting to make a show.
It's true what everyone says,
how a smile can hide pain
but this pain is too strong
for me to hide.
Pain in my heart,
waiting to hold you in my arms
but never got the chance.
Hoping there was no harm
but there was,
for me.
I know you're in a better place,
that's all that counts
but I still wish I could see your face.
Pain in my heart,
but you're happy in heaven
while I'm not well.
Trying to snap out of this misery.
depression isn't me.
Life may have ended for you
but love will not!
Ode to Pamela
Now that you have left me for reason,
I am a man of passed-out desires
And passed over dreams
I have unlearnt to find safe line
Between teasing and pleasing you.
I am yet to learn the difference
Between bare-breasts & fashionable breasts.
I have crossed to the other side
And I can’t ever go back.
I caressed your breasts all along the day,
Planted my affection on your lips
Surely it will stay there forever.
I never treated you a subordinate eve
You were only privileged to get pleasure
You never got the pain of childbirth from me
I t was I who ate the forbidden fruit of Eden.
Committing adultery in my old age.
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