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 Feb 2018 Ashlynn
Poetic T
Death is never a rough sea
             its an ocean of placid waves
  enticing you deeper beyond you strength.

And when it falters,
  it will kiss you with abundant waves
to comfort you in sullen breaths of eternity.

You will be silent underneath
                        the noise of above
only seeing the darkness swallowing  you below..
 Feb 2018 Ashlynn
Umi
A world of distortion
Without time flowing anymore
With broken gravity which does not really keep you on the floor
There are no directions, up is down, left could be right
There is no moon, or sun to shine bright,
Just clouds, which seem to orbit this place,
In a beautiful blue they keep their little race,
It is a world with not much sense
Is it where dimensions are overleaping ?
No matter how bizzare it might be,
It is beautiful none the less to see,
How a bunch of chaos can end up so well,
But be careful, don't mistep, it would be a shame if you fell
After all I don't think this world has a bottom,
You might just land on an floating island and..
Never mind what I was about to say
Let us just enjoy this place and our stay,
Together as lovers

~ Umi
 Feb 2018 Ashlynn
Anthony Grant
I'm not a poet.
But if I were, i'd probably be a nocturnal one and i'd write about how on most nights my tongue is a tombstone, my throat a grave filled with regret,
and my voice is each grunt and whine I give my timed reflection as I avoid every mirror because I can't stand looking at myself...i'd tell...
I'd tell people that my depression is an ocean. Within it's waves, high and low...slowly but surely blanketing over me...dragging any broken
and lost pieces of my happiness back into itself, resetting the sand that is my skin so tomorrow you can't see the holes that were there.
Yeah.
I'm not a poet.
But maybe if I were, i'd write a song about her. It would tell a story about how on days when the sun blinks and everything around me is grey; and the
world is stained with my fears...she. is. the honey-warm scent after a summer rain, an evening primose before the tempest, and the quiet cerulean air in an earthquake...
she's...every hue of a pacific sunset.
I'd sing about how she was the moments between each tide that kept me warm; how she was the sun that fed the daisies in my throat reminding me
that life is possible.
I'm no poet.
But if I were then this paper would be the towel I dried my heart with, the words would be all the unspoken dreams of my insomnia, and the pen was the
blade used to cut this heart so I could bleed my everything to you...I swear. If I were a poet, i'd whisper every vowel i've been given that completes me
into stardust. Sprinkled into the cosmos to someday create a world where the ocean never raged. A world where there were just enough clouds and no
earthquakes...then again...where's the poetry in that?
I've gotten so much great feedback/shares/reposts from this, I just wanted to say thank you all truly. This was a piece that I really dug deep for and i'm so glad I found a place to share it. <3
 Feb 2018 Ashlynn
Night Flyer
In swirling clouds of silver lace
The disk of Luna lies concealed
Across the Autumn skies they race
Over this shadow realm surreal.

On evening shadows now, I gaze
A gentle wind swirls through the trees
From depths of sleep, I watch half-dazed
Thin branches stirring in the breeze.

Lights flickering neath mystic skies
Through gaps in trees, they shine within
Entranced, my mind, I watch surprised
This spectral beauty in the wind.

In these dark shadows, spirits drift
Translucent ghosts and dryads old
From this meadow, I sense their gift
Strange stories from the wood untold.

Oh let me join thy sylvan fest
Pale spirits of this Solstice night
Before the Moon sets in the west
We'll revel neath her misty light.
Wrote this in 2008 while living in Florida. Much of my poetry was inspired by walks beneath the stars.
 Feb 2018 Ashlynn
Anna Swir
As a child
I put my finger in the fire  
to become
a saint.

As a teenager
every day I would knock my head against the wall.

As a young girl
I went out through a window of a garret  
to the roof
in order to jump.

As a woman
I had lice all over my body.
They cracked when I was ironing my sweater.

I waited sixty minutes  
to be executed.
I was hungry for six years.

Then I bore a child,  
they were carving me  
without putting me to sleep.

Then a thunderbolt killed me
three times and I had to rise from the dead three times  
without anyone’s help.

Now I am resting
after three resurrections.
Allá en las horas más dulces
De mi fugitiva infancia,
Sirvióme de cuidadora
Una mujer muy anciana,
Con su rostro todo arrugas,
Su cabeza toda canas
Y su corazón tranquilo
Todo bondad y esperanzas.

De noche junto a mi lecho
Mil historias me contaba
De geniecillos y ninfas,
De trasgos y de fantasmas.

¡Pobrecilla! ¡cuántas veces
En estas noches amargas
En que repaso tristezas
En mi alcoba solitaria,
Al oír que de la torre
Vuelan en lentas parvadas
Las mismas horas que entonces
Pasé a su lado tan gratas,
He pensado en ella y visto
Llegar su sombra a mi estancia
Pretendiendo como en antes
Secar con cuentos mis lágrimas!

En cierta vez, caí enfermo,
La fiebre me devoraba,
Y en mi delirio quería
Para volar tener alas.
«Dámelas tú»: -grité altivo-
«Tú, nunca me niegas nada»:
-«Es verdad, nada te niego,

»Pero no sufras, ten calma,
Las alas que Dios te ha dado
Las tiene tu ángel de guarda;
Esta noche se las pido
Y te las daré mañana».

Nunca le faltó manera
De responder a mis ansias,
Y siempre al verme llorando,
Con la paciencia más santa,
Me dijo tales ternuras
Que aun me conmueven el alma.
Ella, que al velar mi sueño
De puntillas caminaba,
Y porque rumor ninguno
A mis oídos llegara
Iba a sosegar el péndulo
De un viejo reloj de sala;
Ella, que jamás hubiera
Permitido a gente extraña
Lanzar un débil suspiro
A dos pasos de mi cama;
Que en balcones y rendijas
Cortaba al aire la entrada
Y por no causarme susto
Rezaba siempre en voz baja;
Una noche fue a mi lecho
Alegre y entusiasmada
Diciéndome: -¡Ven, despierta,
Ya es hora... no tardes... anda!

Sobrecogido de miedo
Yo le pregunté: ¿Qué pasa?
-Ya lo sabrás cuando escuches
El vuelo de las campanas,
El tronar de los petardos
Y el disparo de las salvas-.

Abrigado hasta los ojos
Salí con la pobre anciana,
Y un sueño del paraíso
Me fingió lo que miraba.
Desde las enhiestas torres
A las humildes ventanas,
Lo mismo en extensas calles
Que en las más estrechas plazas,
Faroles y gallardetes,
Banderolas y oriflamas
Con los hermosos colores
De la bandera de Iguala.
Y al escuchar tantos gritos,
Tantos himnos, tantas dianas,
El rumor de los repiques
Y el estallar de las salvas,
En brazos de mi niñera
Lloré sin saber la causa.
-Lloras de placer-, me dijo
Esta es una fiesta santa,
La sola fiesta que alegra
Mi corazón y mis canas.
Hoy es quince de setiembre,
Y en esta noche sagrada,
Hace cuarenta y cuatro años,
Si mi memoria no es mala,
Un cura humilde en Dolores
Hizo nacer a la Patria.
Cuando era yo jovencita
Mi padre, que en paz descansa
Me traia de la mano
En esta noche a la plaza
Para repetir con todos
Los que aquí gozan y cantan,
El grito de independencia
Que repercute en el alma;
Mi padre, mi pobre padre,
Fue soldado de Galeana;
Pero mira... allí está el héroe
Alcé mis ojos con ansia
Y vi un inmenso retrato
Entre lucientes guirnaldas
Bañado por los reflejos
De las luces de Bengala.

Un rostro apacible y dulce,
Una frente limpia y ancha,
Una mirada de apóstol,
Una cabeza muy cana...
¡Era Hidalgo, el Padre Hidalgo,
El salvador de la Patria!

¿Lo ves? me dijo temblando
De regocijo la anciana...
-Sí, le respondí, sintiendo
No sé qué dentro del alma,
Y entonces a un mismo impulso
Con las manos enlazadas,
Nos pusimos de rodillas
Llenos los ojos de lágrimas.
 Feb 2018 Ashlynn
R.S. Thomas
So beautiful--God himself quailed
at her approach: the long body curved
like the horizon. Why had he made
her so? How would it be, she said,
leaning towards him, if instead of
quarreling over it, we divided it
between us? You can have all the credit
for its invention, if you will leave the ordering
of it to me. He looked into her
eyes and saw far down the bones
of the generations that would navigate
by those great stars, but the pull of it
was too much. Yes, he thought, give me their minds'
tribute, and what they do with their bodies
is not my concern. He put his hand in his side
and drew out the thorn for the letting
of the ordained blood and touched her with
it. Go, he said. They shall come to you for ever
with their desire, and you shall bleed for them in return.
 Feb 2018 Ashlynn
Jasmine Marie
Crack a smile laugh show those pearly whites,
Pull your sleeves down hide yesterdays sorrows
You gotta pretend like you're okay
Your world didn't fall down just tilted
Keep telling yourself you're okay
At some point you will believe it
Don't show the world just how messed up you really are
And how you lay in bed at night
With the razor on the floor blood stained t-shirt
Praying that this time you were closer to death than before..
Brave that smile
Make the world think that somehow you got this all under control..
 Feb 2018 Ashlynn
Nick
the suns soft soothing rays:
golden, gleaming.
honeysuckling throughout the field
where you used to play.

your childhood waning with the moon
the sweet grass once a forest:
never ending. a story that
strayed between you and I.

ere long the wind blows,
and tousles your hair.
a glint in your hazelnut eyes
straying towards my plane.

so I linger for a mile:
listlessly, illusory.
and I saw your sweet smile
hidden beneath the mire.
 Feb 2018 Ashlynn
SE Reimer
epiphany
 Feb 2018 Ashlynn
SE Reimer
~

had i not known wrong
i had been the lesser man
had i not sung winter’s song
i had known no warmth to gain
had i never tasted blood
i failed to see fragility
and had i not these understood
life’s tenderness was lost to me.

~

*post script.

for Pradip who shared the only muse these words were wanting on this special holy-day. please read SJR's gorgeous post, but then see Pradip’s after-words here: https://hellopoetry.com/poem/2246391/gratitude/

Epiphany: January 6th https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphany_(holiday)
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