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Lorraine Colon Jan 2017
Loneliness is a shadowy hand
That reaches deep into the night,
Clutching our hearts, awakening our pain,
Reminding us of our wretched plight
(Without feeling the least bit contrite)

What a cruel master is Loneliness,
Each night it connives with the moon,
Urging her to mock and deride our pain,
While we cry, and our hearts lie in ruin
(To our pain and woe they're both immune)

Born of an evil, uncaring source
Loneliness has but one intent:
To deliver its pain and agony
To our hearts, causing endless torment
(Turning a deaf ear to our lament)

Loneliness can change a smiling face
To one filled with panic and fear;
Tearful eyes that once reflected Love
Tell Loneliness what it longs to hear:
(We have lost the one we held most dear)

But Loneliness has one fearless foe
That always ensures its defeat:
Love appears, rendering its deadly blow,
Knocking Loneliness right off its feet
(What other battle could be as sweet?)

Alas! Loneliness will not be deterred,
It knows the ways of Love are fleeting,
How patiently it waits in the shadows  
To pounce when it sees Love retreating!
(And the dead heart goes right on beating)
Sally A Bayan Sep 2017
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the stillness of twilight, was disrupted,
thin, hushed raindrops, ....all of a sudden
became sharp nails hitting the roof
continuously,
heavy rain, now falls generously

the night...the dark firmament, they both weep,
shedding tears...they can no longer keep...
trees, houses...anything, anyone out in the rain
all are wet actors in tonight's masquerade
all are resigned...soundlessly, accepting rain.

their heads are bowed
subservient to the rain hitting ground,
performers, dripping all over
eyes, swollen from too much water,
laughter's gone, splintered smiles...scattering
in the dim air.......floating
like debris, from crashed stars...disappearing

the night's touch is cold...and bold...
but, in weakness, there's strength that holds,
the dark connives...moves in circles with the rain
hurting, comforting, reassuring, hurting again,  
touching back, again and again...
......until healing is gained

i saw myself on the glass window
i gotta get in from the rain
.....hide from wet shadows....

Sally

Copyright September 12, 2017
rrab
**rainy days and Mondays***
anne collins Aug 2014
Envelopes and elevator music can explain
Why we clutch our horror and flee our name
A watchtower and alarm clock sang their lament
Across the concrete we rejoice and the paradise we repent
And as we signed
we denounced allies
In favor of the forbidden
what artificial blood and absinthe love
could deduce the lies we've hidden?


Mistletoe in the greenery of late july
and honor's punch drunk alibi
Reinvent the wheel that streets had broken
but its all another poker deal
a bet from the same token
Why do we abhor the delight to adore
what is written across the table?
If we read it as love we read it as a fable
and who still gives a **** about Cain and Abel?

Forgive my verse I tend to curse and my pentameter could benefit from consistency
But pardon your barometer I never intended to study calculus or chemistry
The commodity of obscenity and the gardens of Versailles
It's not a question then of who or when but rather a matter of how and why?
We buy and slash with words and cash all of those we enable
Why not, my love, give whiskey and drugs it's honestly more stable

The aftertaste of lust and lace
Grim fairy tales and telephone sales
The absence of the rhythm
That transforms mere words to singing
but format this or format that that isn't a life worth living
The morning connives with sidewalks and vines
while dark eyes sit and stare we are but wine and air
What is this routine we have fought to acquire?
No sweet perfume can sweeten the flame of fire

so kiss you reflection and hold close to the glass or the mirror
Objects that appear far away
they may in fact be nearer
onlylovepoetry Jul 2018
Friday Night K-nulcking Under III

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it is a (my) three day weekend
it is now
Saturday late morning

Friday night we went to Joe’s Pub,
you could look it up,
to hear marvelous stories and marvelous singing

then
full stop

homeward bound (apologies Paul),
we swap Lulus for p.j.’s,
and alliterative alternatives

after having bathed and showered
alternatively alternatingly debatingly
the meritocratic merits of bathing methodologies
and our respective but not respectable
technological techniques and sundry technicalities
are peaceable declared tied

we have not left the confines
of public globalist bedding since thenning,
and no plans for departeeing
not even for meals
or anythinging

(ok, barbecue chicken not cool to eat in bed)

multitasking multiplayering
music, poetry, Sunday NY Times,
action movies non-stop,
even napping,
anything
i want,
as I am the only worker bee
celebrating a workless Mondayee

periodically and often, I kiss the
knuckles on either of her hands

and we laugh at my joking insistence
for she vociferously denies,

most badly connives,
that she is
(with a pronounced hard K)
K-nulcking under
to my every demand
as she is equally guiltily
and capable of excellent excessive
leadership in the art of slumbering parteeying,
ergo all good

we still have Monday to resolve an unraging debating,
this unurgent knuckle biting questioning

who is the K-nulcker
and
who is the K-nulckee

~~~

for US citizens only:

We approve this message^
Looking at the times giving, folks still amongst the children,
Of sinning, ask myself why am I still living, past of hunted chilling,
In my dreams, and it seems, gotta watch the beams, and cream,
A few checks, and the economy still ain't healed yet, let's forget,
What the demos is doing, just chewing, on ya mind fine,
Let me rewind, before trump took office, he backed americas spine,
Now these same, folks standing in lines, fake woke signs,
It's just a design, to keep us in line, I saw the plight, before the shine,
Black versus white to Asian, it's still amazing, folks easily phased,
Staring at fallacy, gazing I took a chip of ****, to stay hazin,
Peloski to Fauci, make deals with the socialist, ideology,
Along with thee, black lives matter propaganda, marxists stanza,
Dont yall understand tha, times is now take a fight, now vow,
Ya grievances, too many distances, six feet to deep as a sheep,
Think about it, social distance, just a social experiment,
Exercise JFK to MLK, six more letters, for the final cheddar,
We going down, folks gonna drown, sounds, like the teachers,
Of charlie brown, yo I gets down, still sweating throughout rounds,




Folks taking the covid shots,just another body to drop, from clots,
Operation depopulation, I see death too busy, creating,
Mating with the live, too many suckas jive, break the vibes,
They tried to chain on me, **** the communist party, they barely,
Want us to be free, sold us out, before the slavery routes,
Gold's hidden, in the land of the forbidden, still *******,
On the average citizens, they dont want us to chip in,
Keep us silence within, throw a few pennies, in the pen,
Stay home, no more freedom, new age terrordome, stardom,
Is the new boredom, and how come, nobody feel, the drums,
Beating, on ya instincts, too scared to blink, as we begin to sink,
Deep into a fallen state, wait ya minds, catching a earthquake,
Plot disguise, women destroying men's lives, with connives,
Only to **** themselves, but it's only damaging for ya health,
We dawning, the age of spin, where we get, all passes of sin,
Separate spirit, from the human body, all hail illuminati,
enlighten me, though the touch, of King James, demonology,
Worlds a staged democracy, wake up and see, the hologram scenery,
Almighty God our Savior
You deserve our great honor
Your mercy is Thy splendor!

Human form of God up there
Teacher, doctor, messenger
Manifest divine power

Like us, He eats, walks and sleeps
Laughs, gets angry, even weeps
Feet get hurt while tending sheeps

Being listened to and mocked
Believed, received, deceived, knocked
Driven-delayed, hastened-cocked

Subjected to mortal loss
Whose bones, flesh and blood compose
Sweat, tear, pain and timed repose

While Satan here still survives
With us to whom he connives
We’ll wait ‘til Jesus arrives!

-11/27/2011
(Dumarao)
*First Incubus Collection
My Poem No. 61

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