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Nov 2016 John Hawkins

Ovi-Odiete

OH MOON DIVINE

Eyes that shine as bright as solemn glow
That pierces through cosmic thin air
Watch earth closely
Guide and soothe her bleeding heart

OH MOON METAL

Eyes that enchants a bewildered earth
That collides through sea of skies beyond
Watch earth closely
Shine, radiate her miseries away

OH LUNA QUEEN OF BLISS

Eyes that formed from God's wondrous grace
That sits and transverse under heaven's view
Watch us closely
Rock us to sleep under our Creator's bliss

Ovi Odiete©

#eyes #moon #bliss #metal #divine #luna

Nov 2016 John Hawkins

10/31.16

Nov 2016 John Hawkins

J

10/31.16

It is hard to imagine
Seeing a whole person
When the mirror shattered
And left shards in the same shape
As the scars on my arms
That divide me into two people.
one I wish I could escape
one who refuses to give way
To anything other than
Depreciation
Unwelcomed recollection
On times of skin fairer, clearer, kinder

#short #sad #depressed #fall #personal #freeverse #mine #halloween #jmk

Nov 2016 John Hawkins

the five senses

Nov 2016 John Hawkins

taia

the five senses

i remember your scent
it stained my favorite place to kiss on your neck,
and just behind your ear where you always nervously tucked your hair

i remember your flavor
the way your lips tasted like hope,
and the sweet tang of licking you off of my fingers

i remember your touch
how your palms where smooth like silk but your knuckles were hard and cracked,
and how our bodies felt when your bare skin rubbed against mine

i remember your sound
the way your morning voice resonated like you smoked two packs a day,
and how your moans were like the cries of angels

i remember the sight of you
how freckles were sprinkled across your cheeks,
and when your hair fell around your face and over your shoulders you looked a lioness

you awoke all five of my senses,
and you won't soon be forgotten

Nov 2016 John Hawkins

home

Nov 2016 John Hawkins

Alexandra J

home

Courteously skipping through petals and broken glass,
I make my way home.
It’s been a while.

Trees bow down in greeting;
Rain dampens my cheeks,
Mildly reminding me of the way things used to be,
When innocence still stained me red,
When stars still blinked at me.

So now I walk with steady steps
That the ground doesn’t recognize.
Only depth and chasm know my pace.

I push open the door--
“Good evening, girl of ice.
Same darkness, same time?”

#girl #stars #ice #darkness #red #loneliness

Nov 2016 John Hawkins

Maya

Nov 2016 John Hawkins

Mariana Nolasco

Maya

She buried herself on my chest
And
Through tired, foggy eyes,  stared into mine
Reading my expression effortlessly
Pure terror.

They said it was her kidneys, that, tired and tattered, could no longer keep up.

I kissed the crown of her head and brushed her cheeks softly.

Sharp pain ran through her tiny body and exited her mouth in a howl.
Call the doctor.

Just like that it was over.
Vanished.
Never to be seen again.

I am not one to pray.  But now I'm shouting at the heavens
OH GOD, PLEASE

GIVE HER BACK

UNDERSTAND

*She's  just a child

This is for you. Just yesterday, you went away. I wish I could give you a better poem but Im not a great writer. I'm sorry, I'm losing my mind. I love you so much. And I will never stop loving you and when my time comes, I hope to see you waiting for me, so we can be reunited. Never to be separated again.

#love #pain #death #depressed #daughter #denial #baby #sickness

Nov 2016 John Hawkins

Your Life.

Nov 2016 John Hawkins

ZWS

Your Life.

Where's the light in dark waters
Found my place there in between
But my telescope didn't reflect what I thought
And here we are in the midst
Makes me question the infinite

Your watering can is full of pesticides
And the birds only come in the morning
And when they leave you're left empty
The glass is left on the table with a fading imprint
And you never notice it till the next night
When you're paying with your emotions

I tried to cry, but couldn't
I knew you'd be there, but not like I wanted you to
Where 4 AM feels like forever
And the birds try and start a new day
But that day wasn't sung for you

Movies play on the TV screen
Projecting realities
Movies play on the TV screen
But it isn't your reality

Nov 2016 John Hawkins

Future

Nov 2016 John Hawkins

LaserHalo

Future

I had a moment in the sun,
Sort of like an epiphany,
A golden bridge laid ahead,
Our future awaits.

It was a cleanse of the mind,
And now I am aligned,

The universe speaks,
It teases, it shows,
It leaks, it oozes,
Invisible love.

Follow it,
Let the guidance,
Take you over,
Let it be natural,
Like the flow of water.

John Paul Sartre, Aristotle, Socrates, Plato, Rene Descartes, Immanuel Kant, Democratus, Carl Sagan, Ernest Hemingway, Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, Billy Wilder, Francois Truffaut, Jean-luc Godard, Ingmar Bergman, Andrei Tarkovsky, Akira Kurosawa, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Emir Kusturica, Quentin Tarantino, Ciro Guerra, Alejandro Innarittu Gonzalez, Bela Tarr, Ridley Scott, Christopher Nolan, David Fincher, David lynch, Darren Arronofsky, Jean Pierre Jeunet, Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, Sergei Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov, Godfrey Reggio, Ron Frick, Salvador Dali, Claude Monet, Vincent Van Gogh, Jean Giraud (Moebius), Killian Eng, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, J. M. W Turner, John William Waterhouse, Kandinsky, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Michaelangelo, Vivaldi, Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Camille saint saens, Tchaikovsky, Johan Sebastian Bach, Ennio Morricone, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Simone de Beauvoir.