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 Mar 2018 Ysa Pa
The Unsung Song
War.
This idea of competition,
this idea of fight or flight,
this idea of narcissism,

This is the epitome of,
not human nature,
but inhuman nature.

Humans were given the ability to talk with,
one mouth,
and they were given the ability to listen with,
two ears,
yet we either SHOUT at each other endlessly,
without listening,
or we skip the talking and go straight to fighting.
This poem has no real end because according to statistics, war will never end.
 Mar 2018 Ysa Pa
Donall Dempsey
THOUGH YOUR HEART IS ACHING

My father is mending my sole.

Slaps it up on the last and
with tacks between lips

begins humming Chaplin's
theme from LIMELIGHT.

Even the sunlight
pauses to listen.

The rhythm of the tacks
his only accompaniment

as he de de das and
the music enters my soul.

Now in his dying
far from that sunny time

I hum it back to him
in my mind.

"De de de de da!"
I tell him

as the music soars
and we are enclosed

once again in that one
perfect moment

where not even Death
can enter.
When I was visiting my friend Gerry Sweeney during my Da's illness he would always be singing or humming or whistling either  Chaplin's SMILE  or THIS IS MY SONG.... He wasn't to know that my Da would always sing these )to me as a small boy. It was his philosophy for living!

Gerry has a way of reaching into my unconsciousness and coming up with little bits of my past.

So it set me to  remembering my Da mending my shoe to Chaplin's "Terry's Theme from his 1952 movie LIMELIGHT which later would acquire words an become ETERNALLY.

I prefer it as an instrumental  and my favourite version is always this unseen/unheard version( visible only to me ) of my Da with a mouthful of tacks putting down this layer of love for Charlie and his music

In the hospital I had to indeed smile though my heart was aching and I sang the LIMELIGHT theme back to him one last time.
 Mar 2018 Ysa Pa
phil roberts
As I lie here
With eyes closed softly
I think deeply of you
And I inhale stars
The scent of twinkling light
So fresh and alive
Sparkling gentle inside me
And I want to write this feeling
So tentatively
As it must be
Like writing words on bubbles
Delicate and precious
Begging them not to disappear
Like dreams in the morning

                                        By Phil Roberts
This may well be my last poem here.
 Mar 2018 Ysa Pa
Cné
~
Hold my hand and persuade the way
tell me all you want to say
~
Whisper softly in my ear,
all those things I want to hear
~
Kiss my lips and touch my skin
bring out passions deep within
~
Draw me close and hold me near
eradicate my pain and fear
~
In the darkness of the night,
shine your beacon, be my light
~
In the luster of the sun,
demonstrate you are the one
~
Offer me wings so I can fly
and I will soar when you're nearby
~
Infilrate my heart, break the wall,
it's time for me to let it fall
~
I've been a prisoner, extensively
Break my chains and set me free
~
Strip me of my armor tight
this time I won't put up a fight
~
Release my soul held deep within
For you’re in my heart where love begins

~
 Mar 2018 Ysa Pa
Peter Balkus
Love isn't blind,
blind are those,
who never loved.
 Mar 2018 Ysa Pa
Tiana Marie
She was like music,
and I longed to dance.

Her heart was the beat,
and I begged for the chance.

Her words were the vocals,
and I was put in a trance.

Her smile was the melody,
and I fell in love at first glance.
 Mar 2018 Ysa Pa
z
when people are in love
they often say
they simply fell
tripped over their own two feet
face forward
and into the arms of their beloved

i did more than simply fall
onto the ground of your love

you, for me
were an ocean
and i dived
headfirst
roughly
harshly
almost painfully
into the waters of “you”

i knew i could not swim
but i did so anyway
i was drowning
entangled in you
surrounded by this being of “you”
engulfed in this feeling of “you”

and i did not know what came over me
but i let myself drown
i did not try to swim back up
because if i went back to land,
releasing myself from your grasp
that would mean losing the feeling of “you”

and after
submerging into the depth
the love
the passion
of “you”

how could i ever leave?
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