Your soul a halo of golden light
lingering in the canopy of blue hearts
longing for the essence of you
your touch your voice your smell
your swelling smile long as the Nile
the bright energy of your spirit
warms many melancholy nights
soothes the somber of fuchsia fright
that there is no more you
because there is a change of venue
where love transcends
never ends but begins.
12/20/2022
Written for BEYOND REACH POETRY CONTEST
Sponsor Mystic Rose Rose
Residing in the deepest crevices of self-doubt
Where dark shadows shroud the damaged identity
Fear, like a disease that suffocates, cripples the soul,
Languishes within the breast, tightening the cords
That stifle freedom, threatens to render creative
Approaches to a myriad of life quandaries mute.
Fear, the most appalling way to approach the future,
Continually casts a gray pall over hope’s morrow
Blunting the realities of hope and promise, merciless,
Making one helpless to cultivate peace and serenity.
Placing one’s faith in a higher power; perhaps, casting
Oneself into the consoling arms of a benevolent spirit
For guidance and direction when confidence wanes
Can, with practice, thwart the stabbing pangs of fear.
FOURTH PLACE WINNER
written August 28, 2021
especially for "Fear Transcendence" Poetry Contest
sponsored by Unseeking Seeker
For I can not write
In this trance state of mind
Words die withering out of hand to pen
Like love’s lost bloom, wither to die
For I can not love
Grief’s strife, rips through my body
Disemboweled love
As the one heart I loved
Hand in hand we walked
Forever no more
My sorrows are for myself, silent to all
Screams of pain, bellow outward
I find myself silent and still
Caged in a violent loss
Love transcends
My body feels tired and weak as I sit and perch in my tree
My feathers are wet and heavy, I think this is the end for me
My feet barely grasp the branches as my wet feathers drip
My body feels sleepy, my wings are feeling numb to the tip
I feel myself falling, but miraculously I am now soaring free
8/23/19
Contest: Writing Challenge 3, August 2019 - Five Lines
Sponsor: Dear Heart - Wiishkobi Ode
When we snuggle up close, my heart melts:
as a warm sensation flows through me.
We are both caring, sensual souls,
deeply in love; that's easy to see.
You're my dream, my hope, my everything;
I don't know what I'd do without you.
Your love is the light that parts the dark,
and with a gentle hand, guides me through.
There's no doubt lingering in my heart;
I love you more than mere words can say.
There is no disputing a feeling:
that keeps getting stronger every day.
I trust you with the keys to my heart,
for you're the caretaker of my soul.
The eternal half that completes me:
the one that loves me and makes me whole.
Spontaneously sharing a smile,
we confirm our love with every kiss.
Our harmony is remarkable,
for the feelings we share transcend bliss.
Tabatha Transcends
The rains in March came down;
And she thought that they would never cease.
She prayed with all her might;
For just a little peace.
The clouds remained so dark;
And gloominess all around.
She cried out for it to stop;
But no hope could be found.
She said that I think I could make it;
Though my strength is not sustaining.
If only God would listen;
And make it just stop raining.
But the water just kept rising;
And her tears flowed down in streams.
Sunshine found only while asleep;
And comfort be in her dreams.
She really tried to fight it;
In silence and all alone.
Until the day she shut her eyes;
And angels took her home.
~ Darlene Doll Smith
In loving memory of Tabatha Gayle Anderson
An expert archaeologist found
Adventuring in a long trek
Egyptian sarcophagus
Where rests a pharaoh and
Dearly beloved
Holding the hands
As promise
Of true
Love
3-10-2016
Eyes express feelings
Recondite concealed in the
Profoundness of soul
Exuding a deep love that
Transcends the eternity
2-18-2016
Heavenly voices sing sweeter than a lark
raised in harmonic language of their own.
At the ready to guide us through the dark.
Love transcends on the tongues of Angels.
They pay heed to our glimmering tears
and to hearts when in need of mending.
What blessings for us to have them near.
Love transcends on the tongues of Angels.
Through faith we feel them hover close by,
reaching out to comfort us in time of need.
Tender mercy they show us when we sigh.
Love transcends on the tongues of Angels
Beneath feathered wings they keep us warm.
A gift from our Creator, He sends them thus
to comfort and protect us from evil and harm.
Love transcends on the tongues of Angels.
I always wanted a genre
that united punk, hiphop, jazz, rockabilly, country
that united us
I want joni mitchell meets johnny cash meets the clash
I want a united front of love and culture
I want to see the genres meet
as I want to see the peoples meet
Im talking about the art that meets, unites,
and transcends.
wind chimes invoke serenity upon the vessels
of insouciant souls
but even with every woo of the wind an
unrequited howl echos though an empty abode
as we dress our iniquities in a trousseau of faith
allied to the vrigin of bliss
we misguide and forsake the creation of beauty
with litany as the glory of God becomes a myth
with indirect espertion we become rabbis of
ridicule and scholars of schemes
we dress happiness in a tunic of terror
and compensate truth for dreams
we implicate the innocent and regurgitate vanity
to feed our own egos
as our gestures of courtship flit on currents
of air like carrion eagles
the repertiore of elves and sprites falsely
imitates the incandescent radiance from the sun
reflecting off the moon at night
recognize not the goodness of deeds of women and men
for only deeds unknown will glorify God when faith transcends
Oh, little eyes turned up to skies as the dark of night descends;
where fireflies glow in disguise and starlight dreams extend;
such sweet surprise is a great prize as innocence transcends.
We mustn't look to define
truth....in mere words of any language
Fore,we can truly,only find it
from the mirrored expressions of the heart
But...if we must,in need of description
allow that one word...truth...be....love....
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