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Phosphorimental Oct 2014
I'm putting the tea to boil...
finding a spot on the earth in which to sink,
a heart string to play, my mind to think
and untangle a knot of toil
I'm putting the tea to boil

Something warm to come
porcelain cups and waiting lips
hibiscus leaves and rose hips
within the heart a thrum
stirs a ripple in a steeping conundrum

My last verse has gone missing
it’s sound, sans words, lost half in slumber
so half awake, and torn asunder,
by answers hissing then bristling
then comes the awaited harmony of a kettle whistling
Phosphorimental Oct 2014
love takes a
#life, but be not
#sad for,
#pain gives
#depression respite, but more that
#death, gives life
#poetry, so that in times of trouble it's
#you I see, as a
#heart in a lighthouse for a
#poem lost at sea
I took the top ten trending tags from Hello Poetry and let each word become the start of a verse/line. In a matter of 90 seconds, this came out.   I did this hastily - so I'm sure some of you will amaze me with your #tag inspired insight.  Welcome to Hash Tag Poetry!!!
Phosphorimental Oct 2014
The Beloved
enters like a mist
When in stillness
Lays a kiss

Disarms my words
eludes my eyes
pages empty
the ink run dry

Hours gaze
from a clock with no face
free from the hands
of time and space

Pulsing chamber of light
that of a lantern
of a wayfaring messenger, she says
“I am not writer, I am written”
Phosphorimental Oct 2014
When she was cleaning
i thought her misery was going away
now she [is] talking to me.

She is gotta be
a little joyful
i mean really!
Written by My Son Aidan in magic marker when he was age 5.  He was observing his mother who has since passed away from alcoholism.  (unedited)
Phosphorimental Oct 2014
Todays tears in our eyes
from hearing a voice, a song back then
could quench an aching world,
if we’d just all fall in love….again.

O’ gather up those endured sorrows
my lovely friends of yesteryear and morrow
and set sail on these saline streams…
toward remember-when – foretold in dreams.

There – time and distance, have no say
There – we RE-arrive to not part ways
and what was once,
is happily, magically…always.
Phosphorimental Sep 2014
The only truth is the one I choose,
and choose,
                       and choose, then
what of these arrows
dipped in an elixir
                of delusion,
                                 and illusion.

Yes, a shaft may go awry,
but the archer always makes his mark
                in the blink of a
                                 bulls eye.

We’ll sooner slowly die from bleeding
than from the poison on the arrows tip;
listen for the bow of truth
               in the sound
                                 of the arrows slip.

The universal adhesive
for pairs who seek to be as one,
is in whether each can endure being two,
I as one, you as one
                I choose, you choose,
                                  we’re chosen.
You have to read it twice or thrice, to figure out you don't really like it.  But you still gots tuh read it.
Phosphorimental Sep 2014
He was love’s fool
A drop of rain
In a downpour of seasonal shame
A farthing in the fountain
Spent on wishes
Glistening in the fenlands
Of unreplenished riches

A plea, among the rustling
In a vast forest of variegated leaves
Sorrow among garrulous winds gusting
A path through
His wooded pathos
Blazed with love and lusting

Then a tear finds wing
On a falling leaf
Snapped from the limbs
by currents of heat
rockabye'd into halcyon
so misery and his companion
Forge a new coin

Thrown and flipping along an arc
A pinwheel casting solar sparks
Purling hope in a tumbling fall
promises anything can happen
To anyone
Anytime
at all
making up titles is fun
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