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 Sep 2014 Paula Lee
Joe Wilson
Though willing hands are always there
To feed her, dress her, and brush her hair
Disease has crept through her with stealth
Some things just can't be stopped with wealth.

The frailty was quite slow at first
She couldn't fasten her shoes at worst
But then it weakened her gentle heart
And eventually it tore her life apart.

And though she prayed with all her might
She started soon to lose her sight
She fell down often and broke her hip
And life began to fade and slip.

In time she couldn't leave her bed
And dreamed her dreams of Christ instead
For she well knew he'd suffered worse
Than her small Earthly painful curse.

Now in her mind in fear she weeps
Her life but spent in fitful sleeps
She waits in hope for His Holy hand
To lead her to the Promised Land.

©Joe Wilson - She waits in hope...2014
 Sep 2014 Paula Lee
Mike Hauser
I just had an epiphany
one on the grandest scale
Fire works went off in my head
Lucky pennies tossed in the well

I will take a single line
from all the poems I read
and come up with the greatest poem
in all of history

Just one line from brilliant minds
and jot them as my own
which shouldn't take too much time
for me to stand alone

I'll take their lines that make me cry
ones that make me smile
The ones that make me think I'll sneak
over to my side

I'll mix them up, lay them out
in some sort of rhyming order
No one the wiser will find out
I took them from another

I'll be known as the greatest poet
to ever grace the stage
As the greatest poet
to ever bless the page*...
 Sep 2014 Paula Lee
SG Holter
I read for you
Ted Hughes
Over coffee
In bed

Crow
I love
Now we
Both-

There's more
Art between us
Than
The walls

Of
The
Majestic
Louvre
 Sep 2014 Paula Lee
Mercurychyld
A lone ship,
no particular direction,
thrusts forward and
pushes through,
fighting, often,
impenetrable waves.

Waves in constant rush,
pushing back,
slamming into its
outer walls,
repeatedly,
diligently,
never losing
momentum.

In the distance,
a lighthouse makes
its presence known.

A vessel’s unfailing
guide,
a beacon of
safety and light;
a way back home.

Providing a path
out of the dark
and noxious waters,
this pharos,
with aid of buoys
of encouragement
throughout this heavy
journey,
provide a stability
not often recognized
by other ships
in the night.

Oh lighthouse,
bring me home
where roots of
benevolence grow
and branches of
serenity
may take hold.

Embellish promises
of provisions
and comfort,
as route to never
be lost in those
unenlightened waters
again.


-by Mercurychyld
Copyrights
(Inspired by my Wolf…ALM)


❤️
 Sep 2014 Paula Lee
Poetic T
I collect my tears
Never to loss that emotion
To the floor below,
Happiness
Sadness,
Pain,
Joy,
Stored never to let them go,
When ever I feel
Overburdened,
I take a drink
Droplets
Clear,
Pure,
Transparent,
Emotions, an elixir
These tears sooth the pain,
I have shed so many,
Some moments,
Others for days,
I never let them evaporate,
Collected them once again,
If tears ever decide to fall.
 Sep 2014 Paula Lee
Poetic T
The exhale of breath in the air
The shriek of no words
Only noise
Putting hairs on end.
Hand prints on a mirror,
Not knowing how they got there,
Like they climbed upon
Invisible,
Stairs,
Reflections not of my own
Teasing me with opened mouths
Silence,
Quite,
Deafening,
Noise heard there,
But mouths closed shut,
Light refracts
Light absorbed to no where
The reflections
Alive,
Caporal,
Reflections
Inanimate no longer
They follow, filling with terror,
My waking day,
For everywhere reflects
Light
They will be seen,
I have burnt a hundred times,
But no scares, just the pain inside,
They show what was, and store
The image to release the
Pain of all who died,
They release there
Anger,
Pain,
Hate,
To who ever touches their  surface,
They are watched from,
The reflection of pain
That must be shared on the other side...
Freaked me out writing this in the dark with two large mirrors in the dark..
 Sep 2014 Paula Lee
Poetic T
What
    Is
      life
If
It's
  Not
    Death
            In
      Slow
Motion
 Sep 2014 Paula Lee
Poetic T
They acted if I was
Soulless,
My heart did beat
60,
To
80,
Rhythms a minute,
Liquid did reach where belonged
It beat strong,
I felt like you
Compassion,
Empathy,
Loss,
Was it my fault I was
Ageless,
Where you degraded with
Age,
I had loved so many life times
Some rejected me
Others held me tightly close
I felt emotions, never did I cry, but I felt
Sadness,
Loss,
Death,
Hurt me most
Was I an abomination
"No"
For these feelings were never
Designed,
Uploaded,
Upgraded,
I learnt love on my own
When they passed I was alone,
Missing them each day,
But life moves on
I am hated, predigest,
"After so long"
I am not eternal I will die,
But know that I care for all
Who know,
Who knew me,
I have loved, I will again
But still they think a man born of
Metal
Liquid
Feeling's
Isn't alive, so he has no *soul..
 Sep 2014 Paula Lee
Poetic T
You wished to look
Wanting to peek,
Beyond the veil
Souls
Lingering
Empty
You were never meant to see,
Now those not seen, seek
Breath,
Flow,
Life,
None should peer
None should see afterlife,
But curiosity
Killed a cat,
Now it comes to finish
What you saw.
Never were you meant to look
Beyond a veil,
It was closed for a reason
Now it must cleanse
Eyes
Mind,
Life,
Soul
What was seen
Must be still like those seen,
Your curtain is closing
What was is now what becomes
For you are a prisoner of the veil
You are now what was never meant to be seen..
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