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Ryun 1d
A little girl stood by the path
heart on a gilded platter
Many people walked on by
yet not one of them saw her
By and by a wolf came past
to have a little nibble
Away back to his house of glass
he ran to chew on kibble

And then a kindly granny came
and gave a gentle pat
Upon her heart and her head too
as if she were a cat
Soon after came a bearded huntsman
armed with axe and bow
He did not want that heart of hers
but took the plate of gold

Holding now her heart in hand
holed and flattened so
She wondered how and what to do
wherever could she go

Lo and behold, a little man
appeared on the horizon
Juggling more hearts in the air
as if they were his own
From his breast an ace of hearts
with which her heart he bought
Exchange so made, he then proclaimed
it was not what he sought

So he down along the path he went
toward a distant land
Leaving just the little girl
a paper heart in hand
Above her flew a raven bold
cawing all the while
“What a foolish trade you’ve made!”
He pecked and pierced the paper tile

The raven was then chased off by
a beggar with a cart
“That looks like you’d need it no more
a relic to discard.”
Replying with a tiny shake
of her head, she turned
And trudged back home, a day well spent
with something for to wait and yearn

Again tomorrow she will go to stand beside the
path
A paper heart without the gold was surely still an
art
An old piece, reformatted and edited to replace the original. Best experienced read-aloud I suppose. Initially written as an exercise in narrative poetry.
(reposting an old poem)


Next to my cup of hot bitter coffee
my bowl has a cone
an avalanche of heartache cereals;

~ a plate of ~
peppered uncertainties omelet
beckons, to be gulped and wiped out,

but, alas,
i feel already stuffed
i can no longer swallow;
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i decided to skip breakfast.


Sally

Copyright 2014
Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan
Thomas W Case Jan 16
She had that
octopus smile,
always reaching for
something.
I was her small
fish; her handmaid.
I lived in her nebulous
world for far too long.
Inky confusion...

There's a reason for
your treason, said the
old man to the shark,
but Hem forgot, a beast
is a beast, they do
beastly things.
We all have to eat.

I'm done being the
meal.
It's your Ocean,
I'm just trying to
swim in it.

You're an oyster,
and I want your
pearl,
but I won't drown
for it.
Here is a link to my you tube channel where I read my poetry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psGsLxRoaII
Thomas W Case Aug 2024
We've been apart
now for a while, and
the pain has begun to
subside. But today, something
triggered it all fresh
and sharp.

I ran across some
pictures of your
****** that you let
me have.
It makes me sad
to look at them
for hours on end.
I may be reading
too much into the
three different views,
but in one of them,
your dormouse seems
to be whispering,
"I miss you, Thomas,
we had so much fun,
you and I."
In another shot,
the light hits little Jezebel
just right (she loved it when I called her that.)
And I swear it seems as though
she is pouting like she's sad too.
And the third picture is
the hardest to view of all.
It's in black and white
so it has that artsy film noir
look to it, like a sad French
mime. Quite artistic as far as
closeups of vajayjays go.
It has a fussy, pouty
look to it, with a twinge
of anger, as if to say,
"why did you break up
with that great poet who
idolized me, and took such glorious
pictures of me." It seems to be
beckoning, "Please take him
back, maybe if you do,
he won't drink so much and
disappear for days on end
with your car, and then come
back smelling of *****, and
old painted up ******."
It breaks my heart
to look at that one.
I'm almost crying as I write
this because Jezzy looks so sad, and
lonely, and a bit angry at
you for selling my collection
of baseball cards.
Check out my you tube channel where I read this poem and others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnWn7sX-Y4E
Sally A Bayan Apr 2024
(haiku x 3)

Life is a river
we swim, we drift...a cycle
of rising....falling.

equanimity
is ******* soft riverbed
we reel....sometimes drown,

we give up, they dry
we fight...we breathe....rivers flow!
ripples do follow.

Sally
Copyright March 2015
Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan
(Wrote this a long time ago, and while writing, I thought of a fellow poet, our good  friend, Harlon Rivers.)
Eloisa Mar 2024
Her poetry loves her usual melancholy.
Her rhymes couldn’t even summon the sun when dark clouds lingered over her.
She just waits for the fragrance of rainwater to wash away the dirt from her tears.
The misty yet melodious pour.
A lengthy silky strand of memory that always escapes.
Heartache and hope,
rhymes and misery,
lyrics and odes.
Slowly lacing themselves to the value of who she is.
A continuing thread of love and grief.
A colorful crochet of life’s  tapestry.
Hello!
Àŧùl Jan 2024
I shall marry you one day soon,
To bring you to my world.
Then take you out to the hills,
To make love in the snowy whorl.

You might lose something,
But me you shall gain.
We'll make love under the moonlight,
You'll experience no pain.

I have a dream about us,
To bring new life to the planet.
We must become united as one body,
And one soul for this one love.

That one love will be our daughter,
Who we will kindle as our love,
Then we'll not deprive her of happiness,
We'll give her a sibling as well.

I am so sure that we'll have a daughter first,
Well, that's because I have a lot of love inside,
Such love for you and my future,
And we'll always thank the Moon for its love.
My HP Poem #1795
©Atul Kaushal
High atop the spire, beneath a cloudless sky
the Cross stands forlorn, Christmas is nigh
since long in the past, time beyond recall
no bells chime here, sung no Christmas carol!

But still its heart flutters, as it hears the Lord's voice
I carried your burden and set for you the choice
to do this world much good and love your fellow men
be happy in others' happiness, take share of their pain!

Kind Lord, mutters the Cross, men still live for gain
act the way it seems, your blood was shed in vain
they war and breed hatred, between them raise wall
hanker for pelf and power, in their loss they squall!


The church lies abandoned, starkly white and bare
only the Cross bows, to the Lord in silent prayer
still hoping it's not far away, when the bells would ring
the Lord would carry the Cross again, on his second coming!
Merry Christmas to all my fellow poets.
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