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 Sep 2014 Salmane Driouch
Marian
I sat down with you
In the coolness of the night air
Watching you sip Dr. Pepper
After a long day's work
I listened to the sounds of summer
Watched a few stars twinkling
In the jet colored sky
We were happily chit-chatting
About this and that
We were all together
Just us three
Oh, those summer evenings
Gone forever
Only shadows remain
Touching my heart

**~Marian~
For my dad & mom, Timothy & Hilda!!! ~~~~~<3
I wish I could be a better daughter to you...
I am sure that there're over a million ways
I could be much better than I am!!! ~~~~<3
Hope you enjoy this poem!!! :) ~~~~~<3
How could you do this?
You cheated on me tonight
How could you not show?

I miss your soft light
A tranquil luminescence
That calms my sad soul

You were always there
A calm, silent companion
A present comfort

I took for granted
Your prescence, beautiful love
And alone, I'm left

In the empty dark
With the all the stars in the sky
But their light is weak

Your nearness I loved
Your great face never laughing
At my tears of woe

Invisible Moon!
You cheated on my tonight
Still, I forgive you
Even
After
All this time
The Sun never says
To the Earth,
"You owe me."
Look
What happens
With a love like that.
It lights the
Whole
Sky.
This is by the fourteenth century Sufi poet, Hafiz.

My absolute favorite poem OF ALL TIME. It is so simple and elegant, and quite lovely!!

The sky
is unimaginable in
it's lucid vastness
as kaleidoscopic clouds
skip across that
cliché post-card blue
under which I am going
post- modernly insane.

2.
These trees,
they speak to me.
Whispers in my hair,
and teases me
with rambling
codes of rhymes
and riddles.
I speak to them,
my woes, sorrows,
happiness,
anger, and
most of all those trees
have absorbed my pain.
I feel their hearts,
I taste the bark,
I count their leaves,
and I am half- crazy
from it all,
full of praise!

3.
Swirling, tumbling,
wildness in constancy,
and when
the sun shines on
this river,
it is a rapid,
solid, pure rush
of golden light.
This blinds me,
but I do not look away.
My mind is blind,
but my heart is not.

4.
Who am I?
What am I?

5.
I simply am.
Existing only within
change, yet
without changing
at
all.  I am just within
my reason.
Vapid as
a new thought.

6.
I am.
I am relentless.
I'm sitting
In a small, red chair
With my feet up
On the edge.
The three feet
Between me
And the ground
Feel like
Three light years
Away to me
And I don't know
If I can
Touch the solidness
If the eyes
are the windows
to see the beautiful world,
then I am
half- blind,
for true beauty
can only be seen
when shared
We'll walk hand in hand

in a field of daisies

each whispering

their little secrets

to the wind.




The willow tree

beyond us dances

in it's own trance

that we try to understand

by kissing the bark.




A geometric heart

has been carved

eternally

where we share "I love you's".




Beauty waves

from the sky

and no matter what eyes

behold it,

It is beautiful

and wonderful and

full of bliss that we might

burst into

fireworks of stars,

and now we can




make the night shine too.
He fell from a shooting star,

Dust from angels' wings

Falling from his hair.



His eyes reflected the sun,

Burning bright



From his soul shone the night,

Still, quiet, and tranquil



His heart was the wild,

All fierce and patient



And I fell for him,

Thirsty for his



Pure existence

Of being
I'm not sure if we ever grow up.
We grow old in our bodies,
Maybe our minds mature too,
But I'm not sure if we ever grow up.

Our problems stay the same,
As they were at eighteen,
Maybe a little different,
But they still stay the same.

I'm low on cash,
I'm with someone already, but I still love someone else.
I'm being pulled in different directions,
I can't sort all my priorities,
I want to help everyone but I can't seem to help myself.

So, I'm not sure if we ever grow up,
Or if we just learn to deal with things,
Accept them for what they are.
I've noticed suddenly we forget our age,
Drop everything to follow our hearts,
Remind ourselves we only live this once,
And that we are  are getting old.
But perhaps, only our bodies are.
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