Those black eyes,
like black velvet night.
Draw me in with a gentle might.
Your lips,a pink rose petal hue,
make you look like a piece of art.
Your smile lights up the sky and makes it shine.
Your skin ,a canvas of golden glow ,
a light skinned beauty for all I know.
In your eyes,my heart finds a home,
a place to rest and never roam.
Your touch ignites a burning fire,
melting my fears and soothing my desire.
But my dear, we're worlds apart,
and I'm left with just a shattered heart.
Though we're apart,I know I'm your heart's sweet melody.
Those eyes,
Like black velvet night.
Draw me in with a gentle might.
Your lips,
a pink rose petal hue, makes you a piece of art.
Your smile lights up the world and makes it shine. Your skin, a canvas of golden glow.
A light skinned beauty, for all I know.
In your eyes,my heart finds a home,a place to rest and never roam.
Your touch ignites a burning fire,
melting my fears and soothing my desire.
But my love, we're worlds apart.
And I'm left with just a shattered heart.
Those black eyes, pink lips and beautiful smile haunts me still, and makes my heart go wild.
Though we might be apart, I know that, I'm your heat's sweet melody.
In the spaces between heartbeats,
Where time stretches thin as spring leaves of poet-trees
blowing in the breeze,
I catch glimpses of you living
In a universe adjacent to mine.
There, the sky burns violet at dawn,
And trees grow downward, reaching
For a core of molten starlight
While gravity plays different songs.
You drink tea made from moonflowers,
Write letters with crystallized rain,
And speak in colors I can only taste
I press my palm against the membrane
That keeps our realities distinct.
Feel it pulse like a living thing
Between dimensions, between dreams.
Sometimes, when the barriers grow weak,
I swear I can hear your laughter
Echo across the cosmic divide,
A melody in quantum frequencies.
Perhaps one day the walls will thin,
The boundaries between worlds dissolve,
And we'll meet in that strange space
Where impossible things become real.
Until then, I'll keep watching
For traces of your existence
Collecting evidence of parallel lives
In the corners of my consciousness.
In the spaces between heartbeats,
Where time stretches thin as gossamer,
I catch glimpses of you living
In a universe adjacent to mine.
There, the sky burns violet at dawn,
And trees grow downward, reaching
For a core of molten starlight
While gravity plays different songs.
You drink tea made from moon flowers,
Write letters with crystallized rain,
And speak in colors I can only taste
I press my palm against the membrane
That keeps our realities distinct.
Feel it pulse like a living thing
Between dimensions, between dreams.
Sometimes, when the barriers grow weak,
I swear I can hear your laughter
Echo across the cosmic divide,
A melody in quantum frequencies.
Perhaps one day the walls will thin,
The boundaries between worlds dissolve,
And we'll meet in that strange space
Where impossible things become real.
Until then, I'll keep watching
For traces of your existence
Collecting evidence of parallel lives
In the corners of my consciousness.
Worlds apart are we
a windswept leaf and me
drifting forever on a current
heading back to the past
I promised a poem for you one day
Before I knew it you went away
Now just memories of you I hold
I'd do it anyway, to myself I told
What once was love is now an end
From whom I called my best friend
My life I changed, and still I would
To give this to you, I wish I could
We're worlds apart, that won't change
A life so lonely, yet not so strange
Your birthday I missed to help a friend
But its you I miss in the end
living in separate universes
boundaries spin a blur
lives never meant to intertwine
yet somehow worlds collide
when heart’s echoes resonate
soulmates from different times
across the ages love to meet
in random lost pages of poetry
AP: 3rd place 2025, Honorable Mention 2026
Submitted on January 22, 2019 for contest STRAND CHOICE 3 sponsored by BRIAN STRAND - Honorable Mention
Tiny baubles of silica baking
mixed hues of brown and tan marble dots
juxtaposition meringue peaks
Desert dunes intersecting
wind-whipped terra-forma
sun-dried expression
of natures rant
desert dunes
smiling
bright.
Bleak
empty
crevasses
empty valleys
caressing the dark
broken hearts beat no more
ringed stories long forgotten
concatenated lifeless dreams
frozen in time they forever stand
empty vessels no longer utilized.
2-15-2022
E Forms- Etheree - Poetry Contest
Constance La France
Theme: Nature
Like two hungry wanderers,
We met.
I, from the direction
You were set.
I was cupping a story
And all you had was beauty.
I poured my powdery story
On your breast
And then on your head.
With my tongue, I drummed
On your tympanum
Till you danced the dance
Which carried to the distance
The thump… thump… thump
Of our leathery hearts.
Briskly, briskly till they split.
Now, riven
Forever by too much passion.
The miasma of stillborn feelings
Hangs on within like an undying warble
To garnish our memories.
For it was such bloody ambrosia
That stripped us
Absolutely of all:
Garments, flesh, and bones;
Heart, mind and spirit.
Worlds Apart
You are not alone
Search your heart and you will find me
Open your soul and you will hear my music
Read my words and you may hear my voice ringing in your ears
You are not alone
You will dance
With my spirit wrapped around you
Close your eyes
You will see me reaching for you
You are not alone
Sleep and you will walk with me on the shore
Watch the rising sun
Feel the warmth of my embrace
You are not alone
So long as our hearts beat in rhythm
So long as I turn your world
So long as I light the stars at night for you
So long as my smile rises the sun in the morning for you
You are not alone
You were the one person I confided in
From you no secrets I kept
Everything I ever hid within
I knew I could talk to you
Day or night it never mattered what time
For every problem you were there to see me thru
And now without you here
I’m lost…I don’t know what to do
Everyone tells me you’re in a better place
But in my heart there still remains an empty space
Every day I fight the urge to call
Telling myself there’s no use at all
Because I know that never again
Will I hear your voice on the other end of the line
People keep saying that it just takes time
But I know that’s just another lie
Nothing I try to do could ever erase this pain
I look up and talk to the sky
Wondering if you can even hear me way up there
And again I begin to cry
Close to my heart
Doesn’t mean much at all
When we’re not just miles, but worlds apart!
At night when the stars stare at me,
I tried getting back our old memories.
Talking like a fool while watching the moon,
hoping you're on the other side staring back.
Coldness swallowed my being when I walk down the ground.
Searching for a path where we first laid our bodies down.
Breathless, you swore in my ears while we reach the finale.
You and I, 'til we're world apart, no one can divide.
Then you left my soul in the midst of darkness.
I learned how to embrace loneliness and pain.
I've waited too long to see you walking back at me.
Holding my hands and set my spirit free.
Years had faded my auburn hair into grey.
Whispering softly your name in the wind.
When the sunshine meets me in the morning
I know my darling, we're one heart in heaven.
when seen from afar
earth sits on the brink of peace...
beauty in silence
___________________
For Skat's Contest: Gravity 5/23/14
Worlds apart forever
Worlds apart when we started
We kissed that night both open hearted
We were unstoppable together always united
In a World of ugliness we were unaware and infatuated
A history of a burning star shone so bright had to end just like it started
People so in love it took my heart and placed a stone inside it
I walked alone till my boots fell apart and I felt so blinded
All I knew was I had to live then find my soul which was alone and discarded
I know now why we could never be- as we ourselves didn’t even know what are left when the passion departed.
There said two worlds can't make a right, but who said it was easy
,who said it would be hard .now you want
to go but am afraid it may be too
late for me to let go, of what
we had, when i see you my mind gets
Crazy, i love how my mind gets so
hazy. They told you, that no good
Thing will ever come from a man
born without a silver spoon, and they
told me that you and i were
never meant to be. Respect
and honor i gave them but mine
They said i must earn. And
so they said two
worlds cant
make a right.
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