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Mar 2016 · 274
Eyes
Tom Blake Mar 2016
Look
Into
MY
Eyes....
Can' t
You
See Paradise?

PARADISE....
Is Not LOST!
Mar 2016 · 290
Listen?
Tom Blake Mar 2016
Listen to me and my fears
I no longer want
To shed
Any tears,
Acknowledge My pain!
Help me
Understand
This journey.

Make
My transitions In life
Mar 2016 · 285
Bullshit, some say.
Tom Blake Mar 2016
This perceptible world
Isn't all there is.
There is
An
Invisible existence...
MORE alive
And
Endless.

How,
Does one know?

MY HEART!!
Tells me so!
Mar 2016 · 245
Beware!
Tom Blake Mar 2016
MANY
Are
Jesuitical!
Mar 2016 · 342
Not Human
Tom Blake Mar 2016
When you see a raindrop,
Flake of snow,
FEEL a zephyr,
Sight
A rainbow;
Things transient,
Potent,
Impressionistic,
Rememberable,
That
Is
ME.
Mar 2016 · 704
VIOLET
Tom Blake Mar 2016
I am a Flower
With
So Much Power!
Mar 2016 · 282
The Woman 's Struggle
Tom Blake Mar 2016
I feel  I am a slave
A slave to the kitchen sink
Never ending meals
Rattling pots and pans
Doing all the mundane chores...
Being
A wife
A mother
A nurse
A psychotherapist
And, an agony aunt!
The list
Goes on
And on, and on.

I
Want to unshackle those chains
Once
And for All!
( for Sanity's sake)...Set myself
FREE!

This Surely
Is not the way things should be for me.
I am sure
There are better things out there
Waiting there just
For Me.

I need to be cared for once again
Made
To feel Special...
And,
Not Just
A mother, a wife, a nurse etc.!

I AM
A PERSON!

YES,
A Human Being
Just like.,.YOU!

I
Also
Need
To be nurtured
Just like You.

I feel
My prison sentence is over...
I want to be released,
Want to be Free!

Grant me that pardon
Just
Let Me be ME!

For every other Woman out there,
Bless You All
Stand  TALL!
...Vi.!***.
Mar 2016 · 293
the True Monarch
Tom Blake Mar 2016
The truth of the matter is...
If there are
Kings and Queens
Then
We ALL are...
Every man a King
Every woman a Queen...
And
Not a minion in sight!
Mar 2016 · 221
Nocturnal Reader
Tom Blake Mar 2016
The World
Is
Asleep

In its Space
Surrounded
By stars, planets and
Deep
Darkness.

I
Am
There
On that planet
SO small
SO minute...

Probably

Reading
A
BOOK.
Mar 2016 · 163
Why You Need God
Tom Blake Mar 2016
Because
In this life
YOU

Are

EXPENDABLE.
Mar 2016 · 215
do we
Tom Blake Mar 2016
Do we live just to be a memory?
Like
A living thing Once was
But

Now a fossil?
Mar 2016 · 181
Today
Tom Blake Mar 2016
I want to remain in today
Don't want it to ebb away
I want to stay...
Too, the way we are...

To know only Love
It's where we truly belong...
In our own
Perfect Love song.

Don't want tomorrow to come,
I want the moment to live on
Untouched by age and time...
Like a flower never withering,
Remaining always in the perfect state...

Defeating death and decay!
Mar 2016 · 217
Eyes
Tom Blake Mar 2016
Her eyes
Reflected
ALL
Her emotions.
I
Would respond
Kissing her eyelids
Drink her tears
Allay
Any fears.
Mar 2016 · 214
message...
Tom Blake Mar 2016
...to everyone who has commented on my attempts at poetry, I would like to convey my most sincere thanks and gratitude... and wish you ALL progress in your every endeavour.
Tom Blake Mar 2016
Jesus is my God
Jesus is my spouse
Jesus is my life
Jesus is my only Love
Jesus is my all in all
Jesus is my everything.

Author: Mother Teresa.
Mar 2016 · 249
First Lovers
Tom Blake Mar 2016
They stood there holding hands
Looking at the sunset,
Then turned face to face and gazed
Into each others eyes,
Unaware
Of their imminent lose of
Paradise...

They kissed and they prayed
Through the gardens they strayed
Smelling flowers and watching birds
Fly...
They wandered through trees
Lay upon dewy leaves
And looked attentively at the clouds
Pass in the sky...

THEN...
There came a black day
Which
Stole youth away
Leaving everything to wither and
Decay...
Now
The lovers lament
At the darkness sent
And will weep till the end of their
Days.
Mar 2016 · 361
Respiration
Tom Blake Mar 2016
The
Breath
Of
LIFE
Is
Sacrosanct!
Mar 2016 · 537
Abuse To Children
Tom Blake Mar 2016
Do you think you're going to escape
Punishment for taking Innocence
Into evil?

You are a colossal fool
If you think you are!
Mar 2016 · 273
Remember!
Tom Blake Mar 2016
Certain people
Employ
Talent
Beauty
Erudition
Knowledge
Sincerity, etc.
To
Execute
Iniquity.
Mar 2016 · 732
Compelled!
Tom Blake Mar 2016
I am snared
In a false system
Not of MY making.

What I am trying to do
Is
Extricate
My unique self
From it.

I am compelled!

Because?
I can
See through
The facade.
Mar 2016 · 255
Darkness is Panicing
Tom Blake Mar 2016
The facade is coming down
TRUTH is emerging!
Those
In the Light
Have been bringing it to Light
From
The begining of time...

WE
ALL
Play a part,
Some,

Succumb to the dark...

Darkness is panicking
There is nowhere to hide
Evil
Is being exposed
Diminishing in the Light
Its
Presence waning

Disintegrating
Perishing!

Rejoice
At the cessation
Of
Evil...

It's demise!

leave me,
To study nature.j
Mar 2016 · 685
Poem for Jennifer
Tom Blake Mar 2016
When
I was there
You
Would hold my hand,
Talk about books,
Sing
And dance...

Like
The fairest sprite
In this Forrest green
YOU
Would wrap me up
In Your little Dream...

You made me forget
The Woes of Life
And
Youth would surge in me!
I
Was your age(11yrs)
And Free!

SO
Fairest sprite
In this Forrest Green
NEVER
Relinquish
OR
Let any other soul
Extinguish
Thy little Dream...
Do you
Hear me,

Jennifer
Elizabeth
Jardine?
Mar 2016 · 905
Transient Observation
Tom Blake Mar 2016
There is no room for pacifists
In this world;
It's a militant's Paradise.
Mar 2016 · 190
If We Believe!
Tom Blake Mar 2016
Don't you ever wonder, Love
What this is all leading to?
You and me and the rest of mankind
You and me and the rest of mankind.

Will utopia be reached?
Will there ever be peace?
For you and me and the rest of mankind.
Will it always be this way
The Way it has always been?
Harsh reality we ever face
While inside for peace we dream.

You know it's going to end some day
For you and me, everyone
But it's written there's a better life
For those who do what is right...
A better place filled with peace
Waiting there for you and me
If we believe
if We Believe!
For you and me and the rest of mankind
You and me
And the rest of mankind.
Mar 2016 · 262
U
Tom Blake Mar 2016
U
Go
On!
Tell me
What
Makes
YOU
Better?

The world is FULL
Of
Academia,  intelligentsia

Literature
Theology
All ologies and
Isms and sciences
Professing
Their greatness.

And
They
Still
Go on.

And
Will
Go
On...
Making YOU
Less
When
YOU
Are

The BEST.
Mar 2016 · 171
Equal!
Tom Blake Mar 2016
Significantly
Essentially
My
Birth
Existence
Is
Of
The
Greatest
Value!!
And
So
Is
Yours
Too!
Where does that leave us?

Same,
Equal.
Mar 2016 · 169
Equal
Tom Blake Mar 2016
Significantly
Essentially
My
Birth
Existence
Is
Of
The
Greatest
Value!!
And
So
Is
Yours
Too!
Where does that leave us?

Same,
Equal.
Mar 2016 · 322
UnMINDful
Tom Blake Mar 2016
She died aged thirty
Because
She thought
Intensely.
She
Applied her Mind
To the study
Of mankind, existence
And
Her own reality.
She
Wrote and wrote
Studied and studied.
Thirty years passed
Then
She collapsed,
Leaving
Behind her speculations,
Contemplations,
Musings on so much,
An impressive body
Of work.

Her demise
Was
Due to self-neclect.
You see
She was predominantly cerebral
Feeding
Her mind
To the detriment
Of
The rest
Of her
Being.
She
Became emaciated
Grew
Weaker, and weaker till
She expired.
So much
Was the power of her mind.
Mar 2016 · 201
My, Introduction...to Pain
Tom Blake Mar 2016
As a
Very
Young child
I fell
SLAP!
Onto
Concrete...AAa!
Then
I shed
Tears
For the first
Time,
And,
Hurt
Physically.
Mar 2016 · 331
Friend
Tom Blake Mar 2016
We are friends
But of late
I have been looking at you differently
And
Inside
There is a longing
I have to repress.
You are already in love and happy,
I see:
I would never harm that, my friend.
Though Secretly,
I wish
Your love was for me.

There have been times
Where I have almost disclosed
How I feel
But
It wouldn't work
Just cause hurt.
I can see how in love you are
I would never harm that, my friend.

Secretly, I will love you from afar.
Secretly,
I love you!

How many have been in this position
Loving a love already loved,
Honoured
That union,
Loving in silence
A love repressed,
A secret love
Love still a bud
Never having blossomed
And
Taken to the grave?
.
Mar 2016 · 185
Innocence... by VI.
Tom Blake Mar 2016
There's an innocence within
I will never deny!
This child in me
Wants not cry.

I shouldn't need
To protest
I just want what's Best.
Cry...crying
Sob...sighing!

Pain and relinquishment
I never ask for.

The innocent child
My essential
Help Me
Know
Who
I really am.

I've
Ran for years
Shed
So many tears
Tears of Joy
Tears of Sorrow

Everyone one of us
At a given moment
Will
Not
Be
Here
Tomorrow.

Then what?
Then where?
Then....?
Mar 2016 · 766
a question from noWhere
Tom Blake Mar 2016
How can You live
With All that wealth
When
Out there
On the same planet
Others
Struggle with little
To exist.

RICH  POOR
It is repetitive.


And WRONG!
An immediate conflict.
Mar 2016 · 202
Perplexed!
Tom Blake Mar 2016
Why do you offer me hope
When inside you know
This world is deceitful
It 's
Such a sham!
I want to grasp
Grasp something Secure! Something    sincere!
I want
To feel
Safe
Relaxed.
Help me
Show me
The way
To Be
Secure.
I ask
You All
Out there on planet earth
Respond.

If I here
Nothing
Then that's what I have grown
Accustomed to.
Mar 2016 · 428
COW
Tom Blake Mar 2016
COW
I love you Cow
I love your shape and sound---MOO!

I hate the fact you are constantly beleaguered by flies,
In your ears, in your eyes...
And you accept them like the air you breathe.
Is there something to be learnt here
About pestilence and nuisances that beset
Us in our lives?
Ignore them
Resist them
Remember we are bigger
Like you
My bovine friend.

I hate
When humans call you stupid, cumbersome!
Obviously, they haven't looked into your
Eyes!
THEY
have no right to disparage you
Or chop you up (sacred cow)
Heavens above! they cut up their own
Species.
I
Just wish
You could fly too, Precious
And
**** on their heads!
!
Mar 2016 · 217
Passing Love
Tom Blake Mar 2016
Where has She gone?
She simply walked by
Leaving
An indelible impression
Like
The smell of a flower
An Autumn sunset
And
Every good thing that occupies
This earth and life.

I don't know her
One sense percieved her
She
Was more than beautiful!

Transient Love
Is that possible?

This is repeated frequently in my
Journey through life
I
Fall in love all the time.
Mar 2016 · 213
Communicate
Tom Blake Mar 2016
On the shore
Let me walk
At my feet
Feel the sea
Thinking of thee

O Mysterious God
Touch my soul
Communicate
I await

All I hear
Is the sound of sea
Waves rushing to me
And Feel the breeze

Your creation's
Touching me
Your Touch is fine
Makes serene
My Mind
Mar 2016 · 280
Ardent Writer
Tom Blake Mar 2016
He weilds a pen
Beneath the burning light
His desire to say something more
Compels him into the night.

Before he knows it
Dawn peeps through the open blind
His weary eyes shut
As he indites another line.

His spirit is willing
But his flesh is weak
Over his works he sleeps
Dormant upon his literature
A pillow of thoughts upon a sheet.
Mar 2016 · 182
Motion
Tom Blake Mar 2016
The window is ajar
The Lacey curtain is lifted lightly
By a Summer's breeze.
The daylight, morning sunlight
Illuminating, enters the room.

You
My Love are still
Still in slumber
Soft and warm
Beneath the sheets.

I lie beside you
Awaiting your awakening
Awaiting the colour of your eyes
The movement of your lips
The softness of your voice
The motion of your Being.
Mar 2016 · 166
Panic!
Tom Blake Mar 2016
The facade is coming down
TRUTH is emerging!
Those in Light have been bringing
It to light
From the beginning of time.

We All play a part
Some
Succumb to the dark.

Darkness is panicking
There's nowhere to hide
Evil is being exposed
It's presence waning
Gradually
Disintegrating
Perishing
In the Light.

Rejoice,
At the dissolution of evil!
Mar 2016 · 225
Your Intention
Tom Blake Mar 2016
Something in our midst
Don't want us to live
It's doing everthing in its Power
To **** and promote Death.
The media shows it
Paints the bleakest picture.
No wonder
Their are suicides
No wonder
People want to get high
No wonder
People want to escape
When the only future they see
Is a Lie.

That's what You want, that's Your work:
To create despondency, estrangement, dissolution;
Create divisions, create rich and poor---
There's a War right away!
You've got everyone all over the place,
Everyone at variance!
That's Your Intention---generating disorder,
mayhem, HELL!
Never relenting!
Forceful through the centuries.
But
Out there
In dystopia
Infinite good acts eventuate
Unreported, ignored, rarely
Brought to light
Because
The light we live in is darkness,
Never
To be confused with   The Night Sky.
Mar 2016 · 257
Eve was Innocent
Tom Blake Mar 2016
Eve was innocent
And also absent a childhood
Like her counterpart.
She
Was beguiled by a bona fide Pro
They never stood a chance!
But at least they had a valid excuse:
Their unsophistication.
Mar 2016 · 176
The Sun.
Tom Blake Mar 2016
The Sun, does it shed tears?
The planet has witnessed so much
Over the years.
If it does
We will never know
Because
Of instantaneous evaporation.
Can anything get close enough
To determine so?
What
Am I thinking about!...
How can a non- sentient object show
Emotion?

Regardless,
The Sun is an awesome presence!
Mar 2016 · 318
How Can I Laugh?
Tom Blake Mar 2016
When you killed six million Jews
When you ruin the earth with pollutants
Terminate the embryo
Create an Atomic bomb
Have millions starve
When your priorities
Are opulence and power
When you deceive
To become rich
When you promote
Violence?

How can I laugh...
Even
Smile?
Mar 2016 · 416
Doubting Thomas (a song)
Tom Blake Mar 2016
Make yourself discernable
Let my senses percieve
Your Love and Being
For I want to believe.

There's Wisdom in your words
I know You're the way
Out of this confusion
That surrounds me today.

I can't make it alone
I need your love
With me
Every day.

Hear my plea, Lord Jesus!
Aid the lost soul
Equip me to combat
The evil in the world.

Let me bear the sceptics
With their alternative Lives
Let me know deception
Yield not to its lie.

I can' t make it alone...

Make yourself adjacent
Let my spirit receive
The Holy Ghost
For
I do believe.
Mar 2016 · 265
Apathy
Tom Blake Mar 2016
I'm seized
By apathy!

My pencil
The tool of my trade
Lies unemployed.

I Want
To draw
Sketch
Even
Write!

I am bereft
Of creativity!

I pace the floor
Watch T V
Talk on the phone
Drink a cup of tea

I pick up my pencil
...throw it away!
My mind feels void
I can' t create!

****!

For inspiration
I have to wait.
Mar 2016 · 220
The True Monarch
Tom Blake Mar 2016
The truth of the matter is
If there are Kings and Queens
Then We ALL are!...
Every Man a King
Every Woman a Queen
And,
Not a minion in sight!
Mar 2016 · 214
Manifestion of the Spirit
Tom Blake Mar 2016
Your matter dissolves
Before my eyes,
Disclosing
To me a Paradise...
A refulgent pearl
Within a shell
Now liberated from
Its mundane cell.
Mar 2016 · 379
Change of Circumstances
Tom Blake Mar 2016
The tables are going to turn
YOU in the privileged position
Are going to experience what it's like
In the contrary.
You had your chance to share,
Help the less fortunate
But
You remained steadfastly selfish,
Impervious to their plight.
Now
It's your turn to experience indigence
And witness the selfishness
YOU were.
Mar 2016 · 295
Conscientious Objector
Tom Blake Mar 2016
I can't do it!
Don't force me to ****!
Don't give me that gun!
It gives me a chill!

I can't take a life!
It's as important as mine!
This feeling should be mutual!
Then war would decline!
Mar 2016 · 188
Remember!
Tom Blake Mar 2016
Certain people employ
Talent
Beauty
Erudition
Knowledge
Sincerity, etc.,
To
Execute
Iniquity.
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