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270 · Dec 2016
And then...
she fades away
Becoming quiet
Unsure where she belongs
Feeling whole with you
Then feeling alone

And then

she folds into herself
Thoughts of days past
Close up her mind
A cocoon of stealth

And then

she blossoms
Despite winter's chill
Your presence a breath of spring
She emerges vibrant
Whispers...*with you I feel..
269 · Jan 2016
Battle Lost
Everyday I choose my battles to fight
From the most mundane, like dishes or to sitting to write
To fighting my children for 30 minutes  
Or letting them have an additional 30 minutes of sleep
To go left or right, work or back home
Letting my demons out to play, or fighting hard to keep them at bay
To letting my thoughts be consumed with you
Or..............or..............
what was I saying again?
Don't you just hate when that happens.
#battle #write #consuming #muse
268 · Feb 2016
Feels Like Home
My bags are packed
I'm ready to go
Don't know where it's at
Just hope it feels like home

A brand new start
A fresh new place
I'll change my name
But I'll keep my face

I'm leaving here
No looking back
I have nothing more to say
We can't change the facts
You walked away and took my heart
I can't stay any longer
You left me to fall apart    

This isn't home
But it'll have to do
It's a different town
Nothing here to remind me of you

I'm leaving here
No looking back
I have nothing more to say
We can't change the facts
You walked away and took my heart
I can't stay any longer
You left me to fall apart    

I'm gonna start again
I have to face the day
In a different town now
Still no peace, but I think I'll stay

I'm leaving here
No looking back
I have nothing more to say
We can't change the facts
You walked away and took my heart
I can't stay any longer
You left me to fall apart
You left me
You left me to fall apart  

My bags are packed
I'm ready to go
Don't know where it's at
Just hope it feels like home

You left me to fall apart
Another song...
268 · May 2016
Still So
The stars are shining bright tonight
Our constellations glowing
Closer to eachother
Still so far apart

The city lights radiate in the distance
Beckoning me home
They are closer now
Still so far away

Your body emits an inferno
Blazing upon my skin though not touching
You are closer to me now
Still so seperated from me

Our hearts begin to sync
Blood pulsing in our veins
We are closer now
Joined we are one
268 · Feb 2016
Monster
Ten years asleep
Awoken from the coma
Bleary-eyed seeking
Hungry, thirsty
Weak from not feeding
A morsel here
A drop of nectar there
Stronger now fighting
Unlocked you did
Insatiable appetite
Unprepared I fear you are
The monster now set free
Uh oh, what have you done??
#*** #hunger #lust #monster
267 · Jan 2016
Rockabye Lover
Rockabye lover
There on your high
While the lust stays
Your soul can sigh
When the high ends
You're lust will fall
And crash you will do
Tears will fall
On a nursery rhyme kick
267 · Jan 2016
Mamma
(Chorus)

Mamma can you hear me?
This is your daughter crying out
Oh holiest of mothers can't you hear?
My heart is weeping so loud  
Oh ****** mother dear
Your daughter's heart is ripping out  
Will you not save me momma?
Save me from all this pain and doubt?

(First verse)

He has left me
Abandoned me to the shore
Sailed on to new adventures
He seeks for me no more  

(Second verse )

The waves crash against me
Tearing away at my soul
He has left me hollow
I am broken now, not whole

(Third verse)*

The salt hurts my wounds
Bleeding them fresh with every kiss
How I long for his embrace
As I am made into the sea's mist
My first attempt at a song. A little sacrilegious I know especially for a Catholic like me. Be kind.... I do not know what chord to place this in. I'm thinking a minor most definitely.
266 · Jan 2016
Poem 14
Mist comes off the pavement
As though waves from the ocean
Mother nature is trying hard to not weep
Upon this cold winter's eve
  
Unable to hold it in any longer
Mist turns to a fine rain
Wind starts to pick up
Rain drops now menacing, larger

Thunder starts it's rythmic beat
Lightning forks across the sky
Dancing not with the thunder
Yet in erratic silver streaks

Mother nature is not pleased
The heavens are open now
So much damage to come
Vengeance is hers to seek  

Thunder continues to pound its steady beat
Trying to have lightning dance along
But lightning is feral
Having its own rythym to keep

Damage done now
No true winners here
Mist comes again like waves
Mother nature done throwing her temper
266 · Feb 2016
New Phone
I got a new phone yesterday
All bright, shiny, and new
Transfered all important documents
All contacts too
Then I opened her up
Ready to write
My words were gone
Out of site
I went to text you
Ask your advice
Your contact still there
I sent a message hoping I'd find
Inspiration from your mind
I guess I did
Not how I would have liked
Though your number is here
Like my words,  you're gone
Out of site....
#gone #what did I do #words #phone #metaphor
266 · Oct 2017
Inside
In the end
we die
This journey in life
it's all lies
We are never truly connected
everyone leaves
You're always alone
*inside...
265 · Nov 2017
Left Unsaid
The words were failed said
Leaving my heart an ache
Mind blowing with possibilities
My soul crying in disbelief
And true to my nature is
I make excuses
For words left unsaid
Defending you to my own heart
My mind screaming
"Is not lost, his heart!"
The sun now gives way
Attempting to rid the night's agony
My heart still aches
With words left unsaid
I pray today
My heart be stilled
265 · Jan 2016
GO AWAY!
Go away
Please go away
This anger, this hurt, this pain
I cannot take it
No! I cannot take it another day
Just go away!
Leave me be!
Let me see
True colors
Not black and grey
I want to shine
Be sweet like wine

I want to laugh
No more looking at my past
Go away! Just go away!
No more breakdowns
i cannot break
I am strong
A woman am I, never wronged
Why was I right?
Why must I have seen the vision placed before me?
Why dear God did you put that for me to see?
An urn, a prayer
The waft of her hair
Why dear God did you do that to me!?
Why?
A picture I did not want to see
Yet, you did, made me believe
i was right all along
I knew it was the reapers song
Tonight I drink
For her and him
For me and them
Tonight I drink
For it to go away  
*just....go....away........
no words....
263 · Mar 2016
Green
Green eyes
Hard and piercing
Not likely to let go
Not until to her
Loyalty you show
Beautiful as she may be
But when her eyes turn green
A monster rarely let out
Takes charge and screams
You'd best show her boy
Tame the beast let loose
Or it will be you two
Swinging from the hangman's noose
Green eyed monster is abound. Make her yours lest it'll turn to a "see ya 'round"....
263 · Jan 2017
I am one..
Fire in my wake
Bridges burning around me
Heat is an inferno

am i still serene

Tears fall from my eyes
Ground becomes frozen where they fall
Winters follows easily

am i still passionate

Black surrounds me
A black hole my soul
Scars litter my being

am i still beautiful

A maelstrom of elements
A storm never tamed
I bow to no one

*can you handle me
262 · Oct 2015
Are You
Are you jealous
Are you lost and confused
Are you thinking of me with another
Are you thinking of him saying the things that you want to
Are you climbing the walls in you head
Are you wanting to take me to bed instead
Are you dreaming of me at night
Are you wanting to be my knight
Are you wanting to take that step
Are you wanting to make a you and me
Are you wanting
Please God just tell me,
Are you wanting
*Me
260 · Oct 2016
Slipped
Slipped into my life
Slipped into yours
Slipped into bed
Slipped out the door

Slipped into your hands
Slipped into mine
Slipped on your lips
Slipped up my spine

Slipped into your arms
Slipped into me
Slipped into feelings
No,
**here you tripped me
But we can slip some more....
259 · Jan 2016
Missing You
The pain never goes away
How can it when you were one so dear
It has been decades, still I think of you daily, still wish you near
I still hear your voice, even though it's sound is diminished in its tenor
I still feel your hands upon mine
soft as ever

You came to me three nights after you left
In a dream it was, I'll never forget
There was I sitting in a chair,
people surrounding me, but none knew I was there
I stood to speak to those with whom were in the room
None could see me, none heard my words
Then you appeared, healthy and full of life
You spoke to me as though in life
You told me to not fear and that all would be well
You were happy now, no longer ill.
You told me then to wake and no longer be sad
You said one day we'd see each other
One day again

You haven't come to me since that dream
I wonder why it is
I miss you so much brother dear
I have so much to tell
I love you still and my heart still hurts
Though the scars hide it well
I lost my oldest brother to lung cancer 16 years ago. I didn't mourn him until 5 years ago. This is the first I've ever wrote of him. He's been on my mind a lot more lately. I guess it was time. I love you Gordon. May the angels and God still keep you.
258 · Jan 2016
There Comes a Time
There comes a time in life
When rules are broken
You no longer mind

A time when you feel all is lost
Only to understand
You have yet to pay the full cost  

There is a time when your heart will sing
They will just walk by
All that was confusing will then make sense

There will come a time when your soul sighs
All the pain that you have endured
Just one kiss and the heavens then begin to cry
Your time will come....
258 · May 2016
Take the Wheel
There's electricity in the air tonight
Or is it just in me
The stars seem to shine brighter
Or maybe my eyes are opened wider
There is anticipation in the coyotes yelps
No, it's my own voice calling out
The vibrations throughout my body
They are seeping into the world
I fear I will not sleep tonight
I wait anxiously for tomorrow
My heart beats out the minutes
My mind races of what's to come
I fear the silence of the drive
The what if's invade my mind
Can I do this again
What if I lose my stand
What if my voice takes a hiatus
Being seen loses my status
What if everything changes
All lost in exchanges
I guess I will ride the waves
Deal and not run to the caves
Hold my head up high
Try my best to not be shy
Let fate take the wheel
Let go insecurities I feel...
First date.. double date....
257 · Jun 2016
This Isn't Right
How do you help your best
When you are thousands of miles apart
How do stop her king
From breaking and stomping their heart

When the ice of fear
runs through their veins
When they look at their king
Horror is what reigns

How can you say, it will be alright
When you don't know
if this queen can put up the fight

You've always known her to be strong
Not one to be pushed around
Now here she is weeping
Her cries into you are seeping

How can you help your best
When miles apart you are
When you know that may be the last time
Next time the king may go too far...
I sit here with words jumbling inside my mind. I'm unable to force them out, unable to clear my head. My barricade for my emotions is crumbling with each song heard, each story shown, each phrase uttered so that each emotion flows with each word that flits by. Ranging from self pitty to exuberance. From deep seated jealousy to passions untold. Rage to the deepest of melancholy  
Colors accompany each word, each sensation. Green, yellow, blue, white, black, grey, and the most prominent of all  red
A crimson so deep that it seems blood has saturated my entire being
My eyes fill with the bitterest yet sweetest of tears, but I refuse to let them overflow  
No, I will not. For that would be infantile.
I am a strong woman whose thoughts are just that, thoughts, words, emotions...
How I long to put these words down just so I can feel peace from the *storm raging inside
#crumbling #storm #peace
257 · Jan 2016
Not Quite Sure
How did this happen?
When did it start?
I wanted nothing but friendship from the start
But you were there and so was I
We were both drunk, and on freedom I was high
I knew after that first night it wouldn't be the same
But I steeled myself to not get involved yet again
I refused to talk to you first for so long
Then the next thing I know it's from morning till dark, till dusk until dawn
You said, don't get attached
******, I think that's when the feelings attacked
I tried hard to just be friends
Now I'm just so **** curious where we will end
No commitment yet has been made
In a way though it feels we've both staked claim
I cannot wait till we both get over ourselves
Maybe then, in each other we can delve
#fwb? #feelings #**** #spider'sweb
256 · Jun 2016
Words
Words sit on tip of tongue
Afraid to speak
Knowing it'll come undone

Alien feeling coursing throughout
Nerves a wreck
Knowing it's coming about

Mouth opens up
Words spill out
Faster than logic can scream or shout

Breath is taken
Tables now turned
Waiting in anticipation for words returned

Contemplative look
Becoming decisive in a blink
Words spill out, hurt here reigns

After all said and done
Together they stare
Phrases still ring the air

You, want, only, no
No, other, never
They both want to go

One tries to leave
the other stops them mid-step
Words were spoke, now regret

Hold onto me
Eachother they croon
Go back to safe cocoon

Words were spoke
Not soon forget
Trepidation now root...
We are not together but do not leave me.....
They are gone again
So is he
Unknown where he is
They in bed, other house, asleep

My normal rock
My shelter
Against the demons that rage
He has left
Not even a goodbye bade

My house is quiet
The shadow comes to play
Darkens my skies
My demons run amok
No one to help them slay

I'm leaving tomorrow
Just for the night
Not where I want to be
It isn't with him
It won't feel right

But if he wants to play
Then play I will
Since my demons are free
This almost love
Will just stand still
I don't know what's happened. I just know that I can't keep my demons in when he turns his back
254 · Mar 2016
Explore
My friend
My lover
My muse
It is you of whom I wish on me to abuse
Wrap you hands tightly around my neck
as you have already done to my heart
Grab my hair forcefully and expose my neck
you have already done so with my soul
But in return I ask of this
Let me bleed you dry
as my nails rake down your back
I want to swim in the vastness of your eyes
Take a trip inside your soul as we sweat
Let me nibble upon your heart
I want to make it quake as you do mine whenever you are near
My friend
My lover
My muse
Let us the galaxies explore
Let us do so hand in hand
#muse #lover #galaxies #explore
254 · Aug 2015
Freedom
Ooh! What fun! What fun!
It's new! Exciting! Intriguing!
It's scary, nervous, but Tantalizing!
Forbidden,  that's what we've been told
Forbidden to have fun within these folds
Ha! ha! ha! I laugh at that!
I'm just having fun...
Letting the butterflies soar!
Out of my stomach and into my throat
Enjoying the feeling......

FREEDOM!
254 · May 2016
No One
No one will see me break
                        i break behind closed doors
No one will see my tears
                          i keep those locked away
No one will see my anxiety
                           i hide it well with a smile
No one will hear my words
                            i lace them so carefully
No one will ever know
             *but you have broken my defenses
                               and delved upon my soul
#muse #lover
I'm back!!! My page has been down! Sorry to any who have missed me!!!
252 · Nov 2015
Lust
Divulge to me your most ****** of fantasies
Speak your words that make love to me

Hide not behind emotions that bind
Take me again and see what you find

Unleash yourself and claim me as yours
Continue to impale me with your pleasurous sword

Whisper your quips in kisses and thrusts
Let us take this to a new level of  **lust
Thank you Bill Hughes for helping me refine this. Much love!
252 · Feb 2016
It
It
It appears unexpectedly
Stealthy at you approaches
Then scurries away
Hid beneath boxes
It will appear while driving
Catching you off gaurd
It falls from the ceiling
No where have you to hide
While you are showering
You swear you feel
Feel it brush up on your skin
Making your heart beat faster
Your breath starts to labor
Finally it comes into view
No where for it to hide
That's when you....

can take your shoe....

SPLAT!

Now the spider's dead
I hate spiders!!!
252 · Jan 2016
Messages
Upon the wings of angels
Messages are sent
They land softly upon your heart
Whether hell or heaven sent

You'll know the colour
From the message given
For it will reek of disdain
Or be sweet as heaven

Though there is one who's colour
Is not so easy to assume
It is of red
Lust or love, both are of that hue

If truly lust
Your fate is doomed
If it is of love
The garden in your heart shall bloom
May all your messages be sent from above
251 · Oct 2015
Love to Death
He enters her crypt
Here he came to have wept
But as he laid eyes on her
His heart then started to soar
No more did he think her dead
He saw in his mind her in a wedding dress instead
So he pulled her out of her crypt
And began to dance
Round and round her tomb
Dancing to the waltz in another room
Her head lolling to and fro
Her limp arms flailing like that of a rag doll
Still, round and round he went
Crying to the heavens
"This is it! No more can I fear of someone taking you away from me my dear!"
All this while he danced with her corpse while the waltz continued it's course
A madman he became
After the grim reaper came
And to rest she was laid...
249 · Oct 2015
Amiss
I tried to put myself in your shoes
To see and feel the way that you do
But when I did my own feelings would intrude
It was then felt lost and confused
Unsure, unstable, not knowing what to do
I tried to grab inspiration from this
Only to find my own thoughts were amiss
So speak the truth clear and plain
For me to see
What is in your mind and heart
Is it me
249 · Sep 2016
Forever the Unspoken Vow
Eyelash wishes
Washed down the drain
Tears flow away
Along with her dreams
Porcelain white
Becomes crimson now
Confessions set behind
Blue lips
Forever an unspoken vow
249 · Oct 2015
Reaper
Lay with me in this lovers embrace
Let my cold hands caress your face      
My coolness brush upon your lips
Your light will not shine in my eclipse
Feel the fire within this ice  
Take my hand and succumb the heist
Lay with me at your end of days
Let your last breath be the one I take...  
For I am  the reaper of souls  
Tonight it is yours I chose...
249 · Nov 2017
I Waited
for the words to come

I watched
for hours at my phone

I cried
when I finally closed my eyes

I waited
*for you to remember me....
248 · Apr 2016
Lonely
I do pretty good most days
Battling my loneliness
Today is not one of them
I really need your hand
*I want to hear your words
Reverberate in my ear
I want to just lay next to you
Feel your skin upon mine
Warming me from outside in
I hate myself on nights like this
When my need for you gives in
This is definitely one of those times
when I wish you knew my kids
Then I wouldn't have to be lonely tonight
I could rest with the taste of you kiss
Missing my friend, lover, muse.....
248 · Jul 2015
Night
The harshness of the day gives way to the whispers of the night.
My senses become heightened.
My skin that was dulled by the acosting day is now sensitive to the caressing breeze of the night.  
My eyes look longingly to the crying moon. The night is my lover and I revel in its sweet caress.
247 · Sep 2016
Wind of Change
The winds of change are coming
Feel it in your bones
Summers blistering heat
Says goodbye
Welcome in autumn's chill
The heart that felt cold
Even with summers blazing heat
Now becomes warm
Upon the autumn breeze
The book that's been worn
So many times re-read
Pages of past fall out
Blown away
by the autumn wind
The unassumed campfire
Now becomes the pasts
Celebrated funeral pyre
Acrid smoke changes
To the sweet scent of freedom
As the past burns
The heart is warmed
the soul set free
Upon this autumn's
Winds of change
And with it new hellos..
247 · Apr 2016
Laughter
I love how you laugh
But I don't want anyone else to see
Then they too
May be mesmerized by thee

The way your eyes crinkle
The light that dances within
No one else is allowed to see
They may make you their sin

I want to be selfish
Keep you all to myself
Put your laugh in a box
Hide it high upon a shelf

I don't want anyone to see you
The way that I do
For then it won't be our secret
The way we now keep it

I do want to let the world know
Know of you and us
 But your laugh cannot be heard like I do
When we confess, that is a must

For you are my sin
For me alone to commit
No! Don't listen to his laughter. It is mine and mine alone. So rich and hearty, melts me to the bone.

#muse #laughter #mine
247 · Mar 2016
Really?
Am I really here
Are you really you

Was everything I've ever seen really so
Have I really done what I've seen do

Is your life really yours
Do you control it, or does it control you

Are you really reading this
Or is your mind playing tricks
I know, I know...posting a lot from my past.  Just want to get them out before I lose my nerve. Another one from when I was around 15 or 16. Wow, so long ago...
#tricky #mind..
246 · Nov 2015
Sex (haiku)
Ravaged body, mind, soul
He took her deep, long, hard
Demons silenced now
Wanting again
245 · Nov 2015
Winter
The day turns to night
Cold winters moon shines softly
Freezing breeze seeps through the windows
Chilling my already chilled bones
My heart still beats without my understanding
How can it still beat when it is frozen
How does it not break my ribs when they are brittle from this winter's night
I need summer to come soon
I am afraid that if does not my whole body will shatter while waiting on loves warming thaw
It has been so long since I was warm
245 · Feb 2016
February
It's February and there's no snow
No heavy coats
Shorts are out in show

The mesquite are blooming
Winter's at an end
Temperatures warming
Supposed to be eighty this weekend

I do not believe
We will have a quiet spring
Once the rains come
Tornadoes will be the thing

That's fine, I will be waiting
I need a storm or two
It'll match my heart's direction
Since it's compass is now askew
244 · Sep 2016
On the Eve
The hold he still reigns
Fills her with terror
She thought herself free
Out of the cage
But finds still tethered
By the rope of past
Love is gone
Horror has replaced
Skeletons will come
Bony fingers searching
Coldness gripping
As she reruns her life
Mistakes blazing red
Cannot see past
Their light too blinding
Pulling into herself
She let's darkness come
Praying a light will come
Show her she is
Good enough
Smart enough
Pretty enough
Mother enough...

More than all,
MOTHER enough
243 · Mar 2016
Slumber Prayer
For you, for them
For me, for him
I bid adieu
Goodnight
Sleep tight
May the angels keep you tonight
May the darkness not swallow you whole
May the suns morning rays
Be the first you behold

Upon waking from your slumber
I hope tomorrow you remain humble
To all the gifts you are given
Even the pain that is risen
I have said it once
I will say it again
For beauty will arise from pain
To feel pain is to know you are still living, be thankful for that...
243 · Dec 2015
Sleep or Drink?
I just want to sleep and drink
Drink and sleep
To forget how things were
Or is it are?
Were or are?
Been or now?
Had or have?  Was or is?!?Here or there?!?
I'm just gonna drink...
See what answers lie at the bottom of this bottle
Then I'm going to sleep, and try not to think of when, are, is, How, WEre, NOW, HERE, THERE.....
MIND SHUT UP!
Still too loud
*I need more to drink
An older one, but I think I'll still drink to this
The heart wrenching cry of a mother who has lost their son
The hungry cry of a babe who has no one
The mournful howl of the pup who has been needlessly beat
The hollow look of the lost loves' weep
The dimmed lights of a funeral procession
The look of defeat in a boxers loss of agression
The sunken eyes of a soldier returned
The one who has lost to war their entire platoon
These are just a few of the things on which we write
These are but a few heartaches of what keeps us poets awake during the night....
Sleep my fellow poets, they will still be there on the morrow.....
243 · Mar 2016
Church II
Today I was brave
Today I decided to go for it
Maybe not the best place to do so
You know, right before the pulpit
I planned it out carefully
Not wanting to mess up
I dolled myself up nicely
Coiffed my hair for the final touch
In I strode down the isle
Going to my seat
You know the one, that sits back three
Of course I had to pass him
since he sits behind me, 6 and to the left
To get to where I sit
Head held high and trench coat on
Hopefully reminded him
The night I won't soon forget
Black heels showing and legs galore
don't worry, I was still modest enough for our Lord
Under this black trench coat
That I had adorned
the same one he devoured me in
You see he hasn't ignored me
Since that spontaneous night
Oh no, we had plenty before
That one was just out of site
Yes I came to praise our God
But the devil wants to play
So black heels and trench coat it was
I hope I got a "rise" from him today
Yep, the devil loves to play.

If you'd like to, read the first one "Church".
243 · Jan 2018
Tears of Black
Her tears roll down her face
As grains of sand off an eroding beach
Falling into the abyss
Of her pillow, the ocean
The counter ticking away
attempting to keep up
Unable to do so
"Enough!" he yells
Unable to take her sadness anymore
He reaches into her heart
Trying to cut away the black
But he is unable
Every piece he removes
Another takes its place
And her tears continue
*to fall down her face
242 · Apr 2016
Come Child
What a wonderous feeling
The air is cool and crisp with a hint of heat to come later today
I hear the sounds of nature calling
Mother calling me home
"Come child, walk with me under the harsh sun"
I shall abide
Today I will leave my sins at the base
Today my mountain I shall climb
Reliving my hike from last weekend. It was glorious.
#mountain #climb #poetrymonth
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