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Sad Sad Moon

To love you, you want the moon.
To be with you, you demand I sing your tune. 
I have denied myself time and again,
And yet you still treat me with the same disdain.

Tell me, how long can love last when ignored?
You were the one I once loved and adored!
But now, after giving you the moon, my soul, my all
I have come to realize I have nowhere left to fall. 

So take your moon and treat it right.
And, perhaps someday you’ll feel the slight
Of love cast away....
And beg your lover not to stray. 

10 March 2020
Written for Picture Prompt Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brenda Chiri

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Shantelle Eternal

Walking in the gentle rain, on a cobblestone path,
A dark-haired belle blended in with the blackened sky
A wonder too commanding for any god to behold. 
Beauty eternal.

Too much allure, too pure to wither.
She had to remain as she always was.
Stone cold lying on the floor.
Beauty eternal. 

She stays like this. The world could not bear to see the sight of her changed. 
If life must end, hers ends at the apex. Sacrificed on the granite altar to her perfection.
Beauty eternal.

Again! I am forced to stare through that glassy stone … 
Shantelle - beyond words, beyond form, beyond thought …
Rise like the phoenix to the stars as you ought … 
Beauty eternal.

February 28, 2020
Title Chosen: Shantelle Eternal
Shantelle Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Julia Ward

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Believed Protection

There is an enemy too small to see with the naked eye.
The 1600’s, the 2000’s, years before and between –
Have seen its result. Waves of death and destruction.
And with each comes a new form of believed protection.
When medicine was young, people had a never ending supply –
Of ointments guaranteed to heal. When all they needed was to be clean.
During the Black Death, they listened to the Plague Doctor’s instruction.
But those doctors with their long hooked masks never made the right connection.
Lack of knowledge makes us weak and we blame those on high.
But with time (and a substantial increase in hygiene),
It was realized that death can have a reduction.
So the Plague masks were put away into a collection.
Time passes, danger grows as connections between people magnify.
Problems arise from encroachment, from birds, from swine.
And with it all comes success and of pride, overproduction.
Thus, in the modern time we failed at detection.
It crept up so quickly and suddenly the world was awry.
Schools canceled, goodbyes missed, as all pretend to be fine.
The more we learn the more is added to the instruction.
But with all doing what they can we will again decrease the infection.

Written 24 July 2020
Written for 10-20 lines on MASK Poetry Contest 
Sponsored by Mohan Chutani

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Never

Long have I waited here, countless ago.
Is it too much to ask?
Too much to consider, that we could ever be together? 

I know, I understand,
That we do belong together. 
Do you not see how perfectly our hands fit? 

All you have to do is ask. 
Ask and I will answer. 
I would gladly be yours but now I wonder. 

Is there something wrong with me? 
Is there somehow an offense against you? 
I would give you the world, I would give you my heart. 

I could love you, forever and farther. 
Why do you evade my love?
I would be yours, and never consider another. 

The way things are going though,
The pain you’ve put me through,
I must question myself, how could this end. 

Long have I waited here, and forever more. 
I cannot love you near,
But my heart is yours and from afar I cry out. 

To you! To you I cry out! 
My heart is yours,
But I fear yours will never be mine. 

23 Sept 2012

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Simple Desires

Small goals and desires
Is it lack of ambition
Or just laziness?

Written 07/25/2020

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God

God is patient just like
little children waiting
to be born,

God is quiet just like
the wind blowing
through the trees,

God is loving just like
parents loving their children,

God is caring just like
people are for each other.


25 July 2012

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Pastry Puff

Still wind as the couple walks down the lane.
Stolen glances as they avoid touching hands.
Pastry puff upon the air, Sunday morning dew,
Too near for comfort, too far for pain.

How I wish I could evade this fearsome torment so divine!
If I could only pluck the bittersweet rose before it e’er grew.
Why would God grant you such supreme sovereignty o’er my soul?
Is there any means to steal your heart when you have stolen mine?

To speak to the angel would be too hasty
My strength so fragile couldn't bear the glorious toll.
But to not? My mind is berated in relentless pain
For the Love of God, Let me kiss your scarlet lips so tasty

To know where you are is the question of my being,
While it seems to me you may be deceiving.
The spirit of my heart is on the verge of shattering,
Bittersweet is the love you left, with me dreaming.


29 February 2020
Created for Lines to Awaken your Muse Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Joseph May
3. A hasty glance and still my heart leaped up - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Love Is

Love is blissfully
Being unaware of the
Earth spinning around.

23 July 2012

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Some Say

Some say love comes softly and sweetly,
Like the spilling of ink it drip drip drips...
Until it carves out a place in your heart and tightly grips. 

Some say love comes unexpectedly, like a flash.
It burns brightly and can consume until all is gone, 
Or it can help you rise and find your new dawn. 

Some say love makes angels of men.
It brings out their best—kindness, gentleness, awe—
And causes men to remain rather than withdraw. 

Some say love makes men turn to devils.
They become jealous and haunted when they find
That love does not always stay and is never really blind. 

Some say love brings out the fool in us all. 
The fool who will love after love has gone, 
Realizing they were only ever a pawn. 

Some say love is lost....
Some say I’m a fool for wanting you back...
Some say I shouldn’t try to join you...

But they don’t know what I suffer
Knowing I am the one who pushed you over the edge,
I am the fool who couldn’t keep the pledge. 

07 March 2020
Written for "Clown at the Abyss" contest
Sponsored by Kai Michael Neumann

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Love

Through trials and war, in and out -
A man, a woman has only so much to grant.
All long for it, but it is too hard to avoid all doubt.
Still, through scorn and scoffs only it can supplant? 

It is said that it is worthy of all –
How can it though? As it is not intact? 
For no mortal has not had a fall.
Thus, it is only at hand to distract.

Anybody can try to worship it.
But what is it, if not a crutch? 
Although it can hurt to admit,
As all anybody wants is a touch.

Again and again it follows -
All know, no mortal can quit it. And if it is a hunt,
It flits away as if a bird, as if swallows.
So do not hurry it or confront.

Softly allow it to brush upon you.
Only if it adopts you can it bring joy.
So sit and allow it to woo.
And hark back that it is always coy. 

Written on 23 July 2020
Written for Lipogram Poem Poetry Contest sponsered by Emile Pinet