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Apr 2016 Evelyn Silver

Metaphors

Apr 2016 Evelyn Silver

Sarah Spang

If I was a mountain

That soared towards the sky,

With craggy snow caps

And stormy grey eyes-

Then you'd be the clouds

That swaddled my peak,

That silenced my thunder

When I tried to speak.

If I was the earth

The desert, in fact:

With arid dry soil

And mud, baked and cracked-

You'd be the rain

The downpour that soothed;

The balm to my bruises,

Relief to my wounds.

If I was the Moon

In the indigo night,

With stars as my blanket

And silver; my light-

Well you'd be the Sun

Just always behind

That lent me your glow

And caused me to shine.

#love

Apr 2016 Evelyn Silver

I Got Low. (The Descent)

Apr 2016 Evelyn Silver

Sarah Spang

I Got Low. (The Descent)

I got low
I went down
In my descent
I brushed the ground
And down below
Amidst the dirt
My ***** fingers
Combed the earth
I went deeper
Nails and teeth
The bones of trees
The stones beneath.
And then- at last-
Upon the fringe
My hands brushed hell
My fingers singed
I reached bottom
Saw you there
Immersed in fire's
Dancing flare.

At the bottom
At the end
I watched you burn
And fell again.

The inferno's twice as hot
When you have to watch someone you love

Burn.

Mar 2016 Evelyn Silver

Unlucky

Mar 2016 Evelyn Silver

Pax

Unlucky

Lucky are those who have found love
and been loved.

Lucky are those who bear the gift of face.
   Easy is for them to find an easy case
            for their own taste
     - a goal for their own base.

Lucky are those who has an outstanding confidence.
For by it, they don’t live with a doubtful fence.
Freely as they get any wants in their existence.

I give away smiles, pieces of my lies,
        pretending not having rainy skies.
Hiding my Breathless sighs.

Sometimes I am like a rock
   too dull to feel, a surface too rough.
A sense I lost, an unreachable core,
I don’t know how to love anymore.

*© 2014 Pax

to simply say: "I am just unlucky in terms of love"

First of all I want to give my special thanks to all my friends who supports me not in my writing but the me who is inside in every piece I penned. To all of you, it let me believed that I should not give up on love, with that it is enough for me to stay positive… hopeful for someday someone will come and bring spring to my 'cold landscape', bring light to my 'unglowing star' and a home that I could finally call my own to stop being the 'passerby'...

....

#love #unlucky #hardtolove

Mar 2016 Evelyn Silver

that moment when

Mar 2016 Evelyn Silver

echo

that moment when

you forget
you are a poet
and accidentally
make sense

10w truths

Mar 2016 Evelyn Silver

Knock knock

Mar 2016 Evelyn Silver

Joel M Frye

Knock knock

The angels that you can and cannot see
float in and out of life so gracefully;
enfold in winged embraces one by one,
celestial comforters when day is done.
Some angels take the shapes of passers-by
so you might see the Spirit in their eyes.
A smile that lifts the day from the mundane;
a kind hand up, a loving act conveyed.
The unseen angels hover in the realm
where power manifested overwhelms
our common senses. There behind the scenes
they battle fears and reinforce our dreams.
Take counsel from a humbled man, once proud;
they only enter lives when they're allowed.

Mar 2016 Evelyn Silver

You

Mar 2016 Evelyn Silver

Minal Govind

You

Thoughts of
You
consume me
- my entire being -
To the point where my fingers being to write feverishly and
My lips part slightly as they would in anticipation of your kiss
But now just to precede a wordy and rabid rebuttal in my defense.
My breath is shallower because my heart beats faster because my brain is electrically alive with evanescent memories of us -
Attempting a resuscitation of
You.

Words so inadequate to describe the
Pandora's box being keyed at by these thoughts of
You.
Silence that was once our long-distance embrace, now
choking the life out of my eyes
and shattering the soul out of my words.
It's as if
You
were the ground underneath me
as well as the
gravity holding me down. Now,
You
are gone and my horizon is limitless
but I have no rest, no shore to wash up upon.

You
gave me such stability, such balance,
a means to remain poised,
a sincere sense of calm,
my panacea.

I turn around to surrender to my anchor
but the rope is severed ,
leaving me to wafture on the susurrous offing until
the storm cracks me in half and
sends me
down to where
You
have been all along, on that ocean bed, motionless,
with a piece of rope still attached to
You.

Anchor arms outstretched as if to call out for
our silence to once again become our long-distance embrace.
I once was a whole hollow hull
and now I am only bits and pieces without
You -
entirely peaceless.

Mar 2016 Evelyn Silver

My Dancing Feet

Mar 2016 Evelyn Silver

RuthLyss

My Dancing Feet

if a mermaid falls in love with you
you will live forever
for our souls are sweet
but our hearts sworn with steel

so lick my lips
and let my scarlet sizzled touch
fuel your poisoned passion

fall forward
and find
where my disposition
meets your intuition

drown your doubts
&
steal my secrets
until you are merely
sand beneath my dancing feet

Mar 2016 Evelyn Silver

men don't protect you anymore

Mar 2016 Evelyn Silver

Z

men don't protect you anymore

time heals all wounds and i
overestimated the process
as a straight progression
of burn to scar
but i don't feel stronger bruised, stuck
messy fleshy **** up
hurts to touch
trauma reopened and stitches split
some days gashes slashes rips
some days smooth skin
i want to get over it

Mar 2016 Evelyn Silver

What LOVE Teaches...

Mar 2016 Evelyn Silver

Melancholy of Innocence

What LOVE Teaches...

What LOVE teaches

LOVE teaches
To hold on & let go
At the same time
Happily destroying oneself

LOVE teaches
To love from afar
Waiting for magic to happen
Desiring always to make YOU happy

LOVE teaches
Pouring out one's heart
And sipping one's blood
Drain out of one's wrists

LOVE teaches: dreamz
Day-dreamz
Smiling without reason
Imagining holding your hand
Walking side by side
Hugging YOU tightly for hours

LOVE teaches
Wander Lust
Gypsy soul
That can escape any moment
To be with YOU anytime

LOVE teaches: ART, poetry
I can write 1000 times more
I struggle to put into words
All things that I feel inside

Little things YOU do
Is just plain MAGIC

LOVE teaches: To cry
A million tears
Soaked pillows
Wet bedsheets
To appreciate a
Shiny trickle tear
Down one's cheek
And not getting used
To letting YOU GO
From one's soul
Let the wait be
A thousand years

LOVE teaches:
To poise, ponder
Listen to music
Read lyrics carefully
Read lots of good books
Dancing, a sway in walk
All because of YOU

LOVE teaches:
I care for people
I listen better
I stop and help others
I'm more compassionate

LOVE teaches: Hope
A chance to be LOVED
To soar and fly
To catch the golden cloud
Where YOU reside

LOVE teaches:
Dying in your wait
Hoping you'll come
And pick me up
Take me home with YOU

LOVE teaches
Treasured moments
Of togetherness
Remembering every little thing
You did, said, thought,
Been... with me
Together

LOVE teaches:
To cherish YOU
In utter melancholy
To respect YOU

Good, it was YOU
And you only...

LOVE teaches:
Happiness to smile
Thanking GOD
For the worth YOU gave me
To LOVE YOU in this life

LOVE teaches
YOU'll LOVE someone
Who LOVES YOU
Like I do...