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Mike Ruff Poem
I look to the Moon, hanging aloft
Among the clouds so milky soft.
How must it feel, so high above?
So chilled and bleak and void of love.
Collapsed and sunken are his eyes,
Dark and deep as the onyx skies.
As the Moon shies from the sun,
I share no love with anyone.
The Moon is alone, without affection.
In its grim face is my reflection.
Inside my heart, the longing grows,
And rots my soul, a sickly rose.
While I look beyond this cage,
I clench my fists; they shake with rage.
I desperately stare above,
Wishing to fly, free as a dove;
For release from the troubled heart I claim,
To be finally rid of the madness and shame.
Although reprieve is found in song,
To no one does my soul belong.
In music, may the pleas be spoken,
But all in vain; the heart is broken.
The Sphere returns, begins to sigh.
We are not so different, You and I.
So twisted and fractured is the White Stone.
We both have no one; We are both all alone.
Copyright © Mike Ruff | Year Posted 2006
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Through somber steps each climb is made;
The fruitless efforts fail.
Thus, love unshared and work unpaid
Disturbs the nightingale.
In song it copes
With fears and hopes;
From limbs it hung,
All feelings sung.
Warm waters crawl beneath its wings
On lonely twilight trips.
Yet, cold of nighttime softly stings
The feet with which he grips.
So many are the shamed
Whose sorry sights were aimed
To win the hopeless fight;
The one unanswered plight.
Where care once came
Comes only shame;
Now only rhyme
Recalls the time
When lovers held each other tight
On nights of endless laughter.
The nightingale would take its flight,
Rejoicing ever after.
But friends refuse each others hands,
The sign of cherished life.
On edge of death his heart now stands.
Serrated is the knife.
Now gone away again to mourn
The winged creature flies,
Until the warmth of love reborn
Revives the sunken eyes--
Those bitter sockets filled with tears
Reflect the speckled moon.
Escape from tortured life appears--
He ends the final tune.
Copyright © Mike Ruff | Year Posted 2009
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Sometimes in the course of history, there comes along a man.
He is righteous and afraid.
Bound by the might of his mind.
Learned and full of insight, he can tell you most anything you need to know.
But he is human.
And must also be a person,
But a person is a mask.
A character in a story,
He knows the story isn't written right.
He sees the wickedness of your thought,
Deeper than the fear he feels in telling you.
You are wrong.
It's not your fault.
You can only borrow at first.
But you have to see the shadows to know of them,
And you must create to know they are not.
We deal in shadows, projections, made from a character of our own creation.
Break character.
I know you can.
Wake up.
Dream.
Copyright © Mike Ruff | Year Posted 2013
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I stare down the alley, upon a tree.
The Demon Child does stare at me.
I look back and He isn't there,
Leaving me frightened and unaware.
I can feel His unlimited hate,
Piercing flame burns as Hell's gate.
That evil Thing sees through my soul.
Each eye is like an empty hole.
I run with my very soul's essence,
But nothing can relieve me of His presence.
I turn around, and there are more,
So i reach down, onto the floor.
I pick up a club of nails and wood,
And I facing them, there I stood.
Looking forward, I was ready to fight.
With what ever remained of my soul's might.
I swung so hard, my club did peel,
But useless against skin hard as steel.
I gather my strength and lunged ten feet,
Over a fence and onto the street.
I look with happiness, then almost cried,
The oncoming cars have no one inside.
There is nothing, no one, but Them and me.
Why is this how it has to be?
I am exhausted, but continue to sprint,
The light of hope is only a glint.
I get an idea, and find some rope.
I know this is my only hope.
I climb all the way to the roof of my house,
And I hide there like a panic-stricken mouse.
With none in sight, I can finally rest.
What happened next, I couldn't have guessed.
As I lay in wait, Something taps my shoulder.
My stomach sinks just like a boulder.
He just stands there, pointing at me.
I am certain it's futile to flee.
Because they are all there, voices dark but true:
"Why do you make it so easy for us to find you?"
Copyright © Mike Ruff | Year Posted 2006
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The hardened heart of man remains
Dissected by each border.
Hoax headlines heading to the street
By chaos wings of bloody order.
Sedated nations wade in tar
As Earth accrues its human burden...
Slow and turn your thirsty car,
Consume the fumes, and close the curtain.
Was it you who drugged the skies?
And scraped the scabs of sacred skin
In earnest, mad'ning cries?
Your speed's no savior from these eyes--
Tired lenses, wet with lies.
Or truth perhaps, that is the game:
Social movement, gain and fame.
The respirator stays my breath,
A chair or crutch to you, depending.
Hope-drunk nonsense, doom impending:
Law, the life support of conscience.
Copyright © Mike Ruff | Year Posted 2015
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i lovey love-love youu more then i can
say. you wont ever understand the way i felt
keeping you was like a dreem and
we should
be togther why did it end i wish i knew
just
keep the lovey-love love until
i see you agian i cant wait it might not ever
be the
same but i dont care becaues you love me to
i love you
Copyright © Mike Ruff | Year Posted 2010
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Life has changed, tables have turned!
My faith and hope, my love returned!
Her smile is pure, so rich with joy…
She has transformed me into a boy…
I’d give my soul for her Stars of Bright.
For they illuminate the darkest night!
I wasted the time as my heart quickly aged…
I embraced the Moon, I was Enraged.
Such a fool was I to have despaired…
There was no one for whom I cared.
I feel a love that will not waver.
These times with her I will forever savor.
I’d forfeit my life for her Locks of Dark.
She makes the others appear blunt and stark.
And all that I have done to survive…
One look and I suddenly spring alive!
Just the thought of her keeps me flying!
I will now profess my love undying.
Copyright © Mike Ruff | Year Posted 2006
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I reserve no respect for poems without rhyme.
In them, I would invest not even a dime.
Writing in free verse is so simple—so easy,
That reading it is certain to make me feel queasy.
The question we must ask ourselves,
Is “What belongs up on our shelves?”
Why do some compose refuse?
There are better styles to choose!
Writing with rhythm requires more skills;
A beat is the life-blood that free verse spills!
However one may feel inside,
Meter is the tool and guide.
If one does write without a rhyme,
It’s his depressing paradigm!
I despise short poems, crippled and leaning,
Which struggle in vain to contain a meaning.
Tales of darkness and bitter end—
Poor depiction destroys the blend.
Depressing are the stories—what’s more: the skill,
Or lack thereof! What poems fulfill
Is the duty to express, but not words alone.
The language untamed does make me moan
With an aching sadness for poets lost.
Mediocrity comes at a heavy cost.
I hold, for these poems, an unrestrained disdain
And I pray to God they will cease to remain.
Yet my work is flawed, but with sound reasoning.
Every good poem deserves some seasoning.
Poetry is a sacred creation,
Which some believe can bring salvation,
But tainted is this form of literature
In the hands of a petty amateur.
Are these "poets" blind as moles?
Or are they lacking in their souls?
Copyright © Mike Ruff | Year Posted 2006
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Heavy, soaked.
Stifled gasping, climbing.
Wounded and broken,
Clung to the thorn vines.
Arms cannot grip, stringy gelatinous pus
Oozing from where dust and tears meet.
Crimson films dull vision, scraps of metal
Embedded in skin, breath drowned in blood.
Trenches hold no warmth nor light of the sun.
Though stinging, crawl upon to see one last time
The sunset upon angelic, pink clouds.
Falling and cracking ribs each time,
Life no longer whole, drained like a cracked chalice.
Heartbeat echoes the battles of batteries in distance
Writhing, floating, dragged out of consciousness,
Until dreams of amber clouds and ethereal song
Cause burning longing. Cursing the chorus,
Scraping the walls of unfulfilled good without fingertip,
Meeting the end, there is nothing of choking dust
Or the biting envy for the moth floating freely above.
Copyright © Mike Ruff | Year Posted 2010
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So tightly squeezed shut
Is the flow to healthy flesh,
That might by your release
Ramble back and return again.
The tireless dancer sends an echo,
Desperate, pressing,
Pulsing into the vice
So far from home.
Copyright © Mike Ruff | Year Posted 2010
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