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artisticAR Oct 2020
Hey, got any love and respect on you?"

"...plenty, even mixed with passion
if you fancy something new?"
-amp-
Mom
artisticAR Aug 2020
Mom
My mother died at forty-eight
Far too young to go that way
It's been decades since I've relived
that day
But today would have been her birthday
so in celebration, I'm going to rewind and press replay
to remind me of her
charismatic beauty
and generosity and
oh dear...I need to keep
my tears at bay...
...amp
artisticAR Oct 2020
I was once so very important to you
Now, I keep asking myself what did I do
to have you search and find a newer one
and leave me, alone, completely undone
...amp...
artisticAR Dec 2020
Heart wrapped in a dazzling bow
Its colour sparkles and glimmers
while glitter escapes from many tows
Even torn, it still shimmers.
...amp...
artisticAR Feb 2021
January 30th...

Drinking coffee with Bailey's
Anything to numb the pain
My heart sinks, crippled and heavy
Outside, it's dismal, rain
I sleep an hour or two
wake up thinking I see you
But you're missing...
I shuffle around the corners
of our house
You're everywhere, your coat,
your socks, your coffee mug
We've closed the door to our bedroom
I hope you don't mind
I promise we'll reopen it again,
in time
I don't know if you can see us
But I wear your golden chain
and D. wears your silver ring
I'll give your brothers
something of you
I just hope I choose the
right thing.

I love you so much,
rest my darling
Till we meet again
on the other side
...amp..
artisticAR Oct 2020
I built my nest upon a hill
to gase at the striking view,
a spectrum of vibrant colours,
the seasons of my life renewed.
...amp...
artisticAR Aug 2020
I feel raw and bruised,
lasting remnants of you.
Nothing categorically bad
Just feel like I've been had.
I thought you were kinder and different
You thought you were the epitome of cool
Guess I'm no longer so significant,
I swear, next time, I'll be nobody's fool.
                                     ...amp
artisticAR Nov 2020
This is something I wrote to commemorate the " International Day of the Elimination of Volence against Women, which was on November 25th..

I knew from his weight on the stairs
what was to become of me that night
But I had a plan, an exit, a way of flight
Our child was out of house, would never know
THAT is what I constantly told myself so...
And as HE banged the door against the wall
And tore off the blanket from my body
I pretended to be dazed, incoherently groggy
As his hand came down on me,
he suddenly fell backwards, quite sloppily
for he was far too drunk to see...
and when he grabbed my ankle as I tried to flee,
I used that bottle of pepper spray
you once gave me
I feverishly sprayed his eyes closed
Until that bottle dispensed no more
I fled as quickly as my feet could master
Down those steps faster and faster
I ran through the night, torn and shattered
to a place where I knew I would finally matter
To that shelter I used to walk by all those years ago
To a place of refuge, a home to mend my broken bones.
From that day on, I became another woman
I helped those who were once powerless, afraid and broken.
There is hope, you need to believe
You can stop the cycle, you can try to leave
...amp...




.
artisticAR Oct 2020
A little dot or comma here,
a stroke of pen often there
a dainty rhyme starts to appear
suddenly, out of nowhere
- amp-
artisticAR Dec 2020
You are authentic
You are brilliant,
Fashionably eccentric
And undoubtably resilient
But in my little world
I'll  protect you, baby girl
For you are slightly delicate
Like a long string of pearls
...amp..
artisticAR Aug 2020
My bed is empty, the sheets messy,
my pillows need some talking
for my thoughts are frazzled
and quite frankly, a tad baffled
at the eagerness in which you
left me this morning.
...amp
artisticAR Dec 2020
Hail to the poets
Their Holy Grail of words
Splashes of emotions' intensity
Restores one's soul after its purge
...amp...
artisticAR Dec 2020
What's a Fossil fuel?
Hostility, she answered
What's carbon dioxide?
Hmmm...Earth's form of cancer?
...amp...
artisticAR Oct 2020
Look into my eyes,
what do you see?
Is it a baffled soul
masquerading
as me?
artisticAR Oct 2020
I used to cut my hair
for a new beginning, a newer look
to redesign the cover of this
simply- written opened book.

It seems necessity now cuts my hair,
leaving strands dull, blunt, no flair
a synonym of sorts,
sticking out here and there.
...amp
artisticAR Oct 2020
"What's renewable energy?"
LOVE, my dear...
-amp-
artisticAR Aug 2020
The rooms in our house are
possessed
by every soul living in this crowded nest
At night, our spirits converge to confess
the secrets desires of the day that were never met.
...amp
Say
artisticAR Sep 2020
Say
Sometimes the best way to say something
May be to say absolutely
nothing

...amp
artisticAR Aug 2020
I don't know what it all means
I never had it as a child.
I've learned to recognize
what lies in between
Something lost
Something found
Something wild
She
artisticAR Apr 2021
She
Wrap her gullibility,
secure it with Charm
Leave it as forage,
for others to disarm
...amp...
artisticAR Aug 2020
I'll be the shelter for your feelings
a refuge for your shattered heart
I'll safeguard what you're not revealing
Keep it closed and be your confidant
...amp
artisticAR Dec 2020
Aquarius pours its water
unto a hot, feverish land...
its oceans quench their thirst
while waves split, tear up the sand
and with sheer reluctance, slip away
leaving behind sparkles
of prisms in their wake
...amp..
artisticAR Nov 2020
The illumination of a snowflake
cut precisely from clear ice
Attracting other partners
they freeze together and
tumble through the sky...
...amp...
artisticAR Aug 2020
My heart needs some sorting
to relieve it of its clutter.
I'm afraid once sanitized
it may lose its vibrant colour
...amp
artisticAR Jan 2021
Embarking on moving old boxes,
as they've sat, awaiting my touch
Dust flies, layers of memories cry
memorabilia line with dirt and must.
Friends on cellophane-filtered pictures
enhanced by the mood of that time
as we swore an oath of allegiance
to a friendship that would never die.
...amp...
artisticAR Nov 2020
Hey you, it's me!
Your skin, your pores
Your cells, your core
The all and everything
You slowly swallow in
The art in which you digest
strong words and their mess
with a shake of your head
a coy smile on your lips
A smirk that you thread
From your eyes to your fingertips.
Good on you, you've learned
a thing or two!
...amp...
artisticAR Sep 2020
Stay ***** even when you're crumbling
Stay in tact even when they distort
the fact
that you are still strong
even when you admit
you're wrong
....amp
Sun
artisticAR Dec 2020
Sun
I'm benumbed by the autumn sun
escaping to turn the day dark
and undone
But for now, I'll embrace the
balmy wind
Its air dancing in sultry swells
Its whisper touches my skin
As I walk in the warmth of the
sun's spell.
...amp...
artisticAR Dec 2020
I'm scrutinizing a burnt red sky
holding steady in the midnight sun.
Its colours dancing and swirling
till they flee and the day is done
...amp
artisticAR Dec 2020
Lets grab that bottle
to share its bliss,
its taste stays on our
lips like a kiss.
...amp...
artisticAR Nov 2020
I lick up the savory taste of my tears,
in their vigil,they camouflage my fears
and for awhile they leave me numb
until I fall asleep, hurt and undone.
And in the early morn, I shake off their residue and slowly
start to begin anew.
...amp...
artisticAR Oct 2020
Where I came from people gather around 
A table, decorated with a cornucopia
Of harvest's fruits and gifts
abound
And here I sit so far away,
wishing I was homebound
to enjoy this special
day.

...Happy Thanksgiving Canada...

 -amp-
artisticAR Apr 2021
You crawl, you wind
You circle to find
A Strand of your life
Left behind...
...amp..
artisticAR Aug 2020
I like it here, the quiet, the stillness.
The tranquility drapes my skin, flushes out my soul.
I need to come here quite often to reassess my infinite desire to control.
For here, amidst the smell of earth and the rustling of leaves, I become a simple Being, I become once again, me.
...amp
artisticAR Oct 2020
Enclosed by a tunnel of branches
A slow breeze sets leaves free
Like feathers that sway and dance
I let go of the hold you've had on me.
...amp...
artisticAR Aug 2020
A serpent sheds its scales of dread, inviting us all to pay a debt
to those whose warnings do not comply  until the enemy diligently multiplies. It shows us beauty in isolation until we leave and judge salvation.
Trust remains the ******* sentiment as I negotiate pedestrian regiments.
artisticAR Nov 2020
A trodden path through a flush
yet wilting forest
Its ground so often stampered.
The trees hover over our footsteps
leaving their leaves scattered...
I feel small and inconsequential
as I tread over their exposed roots,
their screams, I can only fathom
as we assault them with our boots.
...amp...
artisticAR Aug 2020
The shadow in the rain slowly dissolves into teary blur, a line of black in a mist of watery grey.
The water layers drop onto drop dancing down on the passenger window and I realize he's left me in an ocean of salty tears.
High tide's coming, blinding harrowing winds are circling as I shiver from their strength.
The light drizzle masquerades itself into a storm but I find it soothing.
I sigh and slam the car door and walk in another direction,
hoping next time I'll meet someone completely new and refreshing.

...amp
artisticAR Oct 2020
Don't come too close
Don't lean in
For we might kiss
and the Ride will begin
I'm scared of heights
Prefer being grounded
For I'll lose my grip
Get hurt and wounded
Then you'll stop the Ride
Abruptly, I'm certain
I'll walk away alone
Because I love you too much
to be a burden
...amp...
artisticAR Nov 2020
I tried to paint a picture
Overmixed instead of oversimplify
Now the colours resemble mud
Something I hope my eye will defy
...amp...
artisticAR Oct 2020
I'll walk then run,
To follow that light
I'll savour every step,
The upheavals, I'll fight
to find serenity,
an understanding
to life.
...amp...
artisticAR Nov 2020
You were unmoved,
so rigid and frozen
and my words hung
on my lips, dangling,
unspoken.
artisticAR Sep 2020
What would happen if I walked in?
Would you welcome me the way I've been,
throughout the times, a fickle believer
full of  suspicions but still I linger
awaiting, full of hope...
....amp
artisticAR Sep 2020
If only the "If Onlies"

were actual Maybes

Then my current one-and-only

Would become my bonafide lately

...amp
artisticAR Aug 2020
Someone once told me, if I were ever lonely, a book would be then my best friend.
And reading two or three simultaneously would feel like a party, squashing my solitude
and hopefully boosting my mood.

...AMP
artisticAR Oct 2020
My vacancy sign flashes in the night,
but love just drive on by...
And I wonder how I'll survive
in this empty room, my heart
left behind
...amp...
artisticAR Aug 2020
Who am I, if I, to you, am
nothing
when I was once, to you,
something
and now I'm left here in
Nowhere
when the love in our hearts was going Somewhere.
...amp
artisticAR Oct 2020
There are so many things

I need to say

but the right words,

aren't coming my way
artisticAR Oct 2020
Truth be told,
I am far too bold
to be anything but
silent and yielding,
I struggle with my intent
to be the right person
but my words are too abrupt
and revealing
.....amp....
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