The start
I loved you in less than a week and although there are plenty of days that I wished that I did not
My love for you continues to flourish non- stop
Like a cactus without much water on our love seeds
Like the sharpness in my chest that fractured my heart and causes my love to bleed
Just promise you'll stay this time, promise you won't leave T
You are oxygen to me
Before you, I was waiting to exhale
Without your love, life is jail
As long as I have you, I'll be stronger
As long as I have you, I wanna live longer
Falling in love with you was just the start
Let's build with everything we have, starting with our heart
This is not A.I.
Up there in the darken sky
Where astronauts fly
Accomplishing a heavenly ride
Pictures they took
Perfect for the global Instagram scrapbook
Allowing everyone a peek
Admiring the skyrocketing pecking cheek
Isn’t that sweet?
Reflecting upon the spaceship heat
Duet rekindling a romance
And dance
Expressing galactic vows
Circulating the day end bow
Performing a musical tune
Artemis waltzes around the illuminating moon
Ready to depart
Softening the international diplomatic heart
Exclaiming ‘gee’
Both stating ‘do you love me’
Heading home and everybody will see
Sporting Saturn rings
Showing off souvenir bling
Fore who completed a mission
Proving someone’s scientific vision
Life does exist throughout the stars
And we are proud to know who they are
Time skims on smooth sails,
hold the voyage as lungs draw fresh breath,
Let the kettle whistle on the stove—
Rekindle the fire with renewed fuel.
Age may fade the skin’s soft glow,
And sages are mocked by age’s rage,
When meat turns to bone for toothless mouths,
And joints go hunting for needed relief.
But that can’t halt the dart on life’s track;
Shun not the fun that’s disguised in veils,
Caged by age upon a covered stage—
Be that actor that rewrites the play.
If balloons defy your winds,
Puff your cheeks like air in a sail.
For joy often comes in altered costumes,
So dress to fit its fabric hues.
When songs are played in ruffled rhythms,
Suit your dance and shuffle to new tunes.
Invent the lyric that joy forgot,
And sing the song that fits your feet.
Fill your calendar with dates, not years;
Years recall what time has robbed.
For life can still bloom at twilight—
Forget the dawn that’s long gone.
"Im not doing this because you told me to
Im doing this because I feel sorry for you"
No, you don't.
You want love.
You want acceptance.
You're scared it isn't real
Scrapes and bare bones wilting in your soul
Waiting for your joy to steal
No home to call your own
The eyes are windows to a world inside
You wanna hide
Keep away
Ur led astray
These hands do not feed
They take
Then convince you are the bag dog
A stray alley cat deserves scraps
How about that?
Now I feed myself luxurious banquests
I CANT breathe at the end
I endulge and indulged, but now suddenly with the banquet
You find yourself reaching out a hand?
When I had scrapes and you were prepared for?
Choke on the salty essence of your tears
The slowly imploding borders of an ancient empire,
lights flickering in a vast array of circuitry,
a battered starship adrift in the inky void-
our Church.
Yet, though the titaness is harried, old, and worn down,
shrinking, ridiculed, belittled, and cursed,
She is still strong...
A network of vast potential, seemingly obsolete and crumbling,
could bloom again with the radiance
of a thousand suns.
Break the yoke of lethargy.
Dust off the great gears.
Blow a spark back into her heart-
and shall we not soon see a great white flame
roiling out of the darkness
as the sullied bride
bathes once again
in holy fire!
1 October 2024
written ~9:40-9:51 PM CST
Someone stokes through the ash pile to rekindle your spirit
It's a puzzle with one missing piece,
it won't let me complete this game;
sweetness is not found in a Reese
candy bar, it's such an urge to tame!
I resist each and every temptation
for a day or two without a caress,
and staring at happy lovers kiss...
I get emotional and cry in pain!
It's a puzzle with one missing piece,
it won't let me complete this game;
sweetness is not found in a Reese
candy bar, it's such an urge to tame!
I resist each and every temptation
for a day or two without a caress,
and looking at happy lovers kiss...
I get emotional and cry in pain!
Can absence rekindle my flame?
I throw pebbles in the blue lake,
making another wish for my sake;
why do roses smell all the same?
Can absence rekindle my flame,
can it undo what I really became...
if it vanished to feed my vanity?
A pretty girl stares at me and smiles,
it's a whiff of scented wind that promises
little or nothing that leads to certainty!
I stand still and not smile,
could it be real or a mere delusion?
Should I resent the intrusion?
Oh, her smile stretches for a mile!
oh, it charms, it delight me;
I doubt that it deceives me!
Can absence rekindle my flame,
restart the passion long lost to time?
No desire is greater than mine:
I've put to rest sadness and blame!
A leader looks forward
He doesn't look back
Makes tough decisions
Rarely backtracks
He's not always right
And he's sometimes unwise
Yet he admits his mistakes
He deals not in lies
He has his core values
When he speaks, he inspires
He may not be beloved
But he's widely admired
For truth is his calling card
He's genuine, sincere
He'll do the right thing
Though it may end his career
It has been quite a while
Since America's been blessed
With a straight-backed President
Who could pass such a test
Yet for the USA to again
Kindle Liberty's flame
We'll need such a leader
Not one who puts us to shame
A mere glimpse of her
his heart beat faster
Nearly called her name
-- No, that'd be lame
Trailed her for a while
emotions swirling
Recalled how she'd moved
He'd been mad with desire
All these years later
he had a conceit
to rekindle the flame
Sure it'd be the same
Lengthening his stride
he pulled alongside her
Turning to face him
she was no longer slim
Night sky is splashed with glitter,
As I lie on my back in the desert sand
Reminiscing this is where we first met
This is where I once held your hand.
The icy wind blows cutting deep in my bones
is it you or is it me I am wondering,
Which one of us has to take the blame
Of these mean cold vibes initiating
I take a handful of sand in my fist
Helplessly see the time slip
Just as the sand slips out
Even as I try to tighten my grip
When did we drift apart exactly
When did our love perish
That we turned deaf to each other's
Sounds of anguish
I write in the sand and watch
as the wind wipes it clean
Lets find that old love to start afresh
And wipe the slate clean
And There are thousands more wishes
than my few left breaths could fulfill
I know it is autumn of our lives
Lets squeeze some old love in the chill
The word planet means wanderer in Greek,
Venus being the brightest of them all,
In the Milky Way stars are there to seek,
Pluto was once a planet I recall.
When the Moon is shining none can compare,
It's beauty and grace it captures the night,
She shines for all and for all that is fair,
The war planet Mars gives off a red light.
Zeus is Jupiter for his massive size,
All the planets can fit into his sphere,
Father of the gods and gracefully wise,
Many stars come out on a night that's clear.
So lie next to me and stare up above,
And we can rekindle our starry love.
(Ten syllables per line)
1~May~2017
Remembering the pool
down by the port
where at times we use to swim
sometimes with friends
sometimes alone
at times beneath the moon
black and blue beautiful hues
arm in arm just me with you
the stars above ignited a light
I thought would never end
the days and nights at Gardens Place
I gladly held within
I see the mountains in the valley
where we often use to spend
rekindling the days and many a nights
we sat and reminisced
I see the diamonds in the park
from bleachers we often lofted
I see the bridge all boarded up
as once we came and left
5 days to rekindle
a heart filled with memories
5 days to rekindle
an old love from deep within me.
Spark the dead flame of
My soul with the love that heats
All the universe
I feel like the candle flame
As it's about to die...
So... cold...
I shrink in on myself,
A used wick curling up
Blackened and lifeless-
Now suspended in
A haze of my own smoke
Like hallucinations,
I suddenly recall
How it felt to be warm-
Face pressed against
The fire in your chest,
Roar of its beat in my ear;
I tapped its rhythm
On your collarbone
With one finger, delighted
At how fast, how erratically
It sputters at my closeness;
You laughed,
Because you understood...
Now I close my eyes,
And with one finger, I
Tap the rhythm of
Your heartbeat
On my collarbone-
Maybe to recall
How your fire sputtered for me
Will keep me from guttering out
Before you can return to me-
Rekindle me-
Again...
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