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Tommy Johnson Mar 2014
Double edged sword
You gave them your word
Not a necessity
But a possessive desire
Got burnt by the fire
But it felt so good

Doing new things you’ve never done before
Inhibitions released and spirits soar
New trails being blazed and opened doors
Then the question come up, what you really here for?

When they’re happy it’s because they love you
When they’re ***** it’s because they wanna *******
When they’re mad all they wanna do is diss you
And when they’re sorry it’s because you got a shoulder to cry on and sympathetic tissues

And the situations can be reciprocal
As you put each other on that pedestal
You try to fit in each other’s schedule
And be together in the time residual

Sometimes you wanna **** them
Then you look back at the times when
You used to think they might have been heaven sent
And made changes and sacrifices as if every day was Lent

The break up
The make up
The forgiveness ****
All that nonsense for what?

To get your blood boiling
Just part of everyday mortal coiling
Suffer in the pain just toiling
Just forget about it blow it off its just annoying

You talk about kids, a house and a family
During a late night-early morning talk over some coffee
Thinking about the future is interesting
But you can’t predict so just wait and see

Then you got that real drama
Like a ******* soap opera
Know when it’s coming it ain’t ever a shocker
Just keep your mouth shut to keep good karma

Double edged sword
You gave them your word
Not a necessity
But a possessive desire
Got burnt by the fire
But it felt so good

Thinking they’re gonna be the death of you
But it doesn’t matter when it’s just them and you
In bed getting close making moves
Not caring letting loose with nothing to prove

Because you both know about that ***
That it’s just the best
When you ain’t gotta worry what comes next
And all the dramatic and arguments can be put to rest

All the jealousy
Emotionally
Devotionally
Taking its toll you see

Misunderstandings
Demanding
Reprimandings
Seeing where you’re both standing

This whole time I’ve been talking about you and I
You’re the only thing take makes me aware that I’m alive
The reason I survive
Every day with you on my side

So stop with the opposition
I got one mission
No compromising positions
So look me in the eye and listen

I love you
I hate you
I need you
I want you

I don’t know what’ll happen today
And tomorrow’s too far away
We're way past yesterday
I guess what I’m trying to say is

All that matters is you and me
And all that we can ever be
Is loyal and honest to the highest degree
And try to take it one step at a time rationally
And walk hand in hand through our clandestine destiny

Double edge sword
I gave you my word
She got the best of me
I’m no liar
So cut me, slash me
I’d die for her
I am an incomparable queen
My pristine beauty can only be seen
It can never be depicted in words
For me many kings draw out their swords

My lips are more beautiful than rose petals
And my hips are softer than jasmine bouquets
One may die looking at my bubbly *******
No wonder the kings want to enter my interior crusts

My eyes are lovelier than wild lilies
My hair flows on my shoulders like rivers
My waist makes a feast to beholders’ eyes
The cupid shoots at me the wreaths of flowers

But only a brave king enters the kingdom of my beauty
For him I devotionally discharge my romantic duty
And dedicate my body, heart and soul
That should be any woman’s natural goal
Megan Sherman Mar 2017
I feel you, river, help me grow,
feeding with your ebb and flow,
As gentle tides doth come and go,
a quantum of solace I do know,
Dutifully nurturing,
around River creatures play and sing,
Flying o'er water on golden wing,
grafting and aspiring
The birds are a silhouette on a sunny sea,
that sparkles iridescently,
I bask in it resplendently,
and honour it devotionally,
Toes licked by tides caress,
the waters gift us, give and bless,
Soothing fear and pain and stress,
the ocean is nature's silken dress,
I hear you, river, murmur and roar, those hallowed sounds that I adore
Which one of them that I love more?
I love them all, to hear them pour,
I love them like a troubadour, enamoured of River's wild old tour,
Transcribing her Beauty in to lore, Wisdom older than ancient war,
Rivers are the friends of sages,
who've known their power through the ages,
Wisdom felt, not read from pages, which imprison us in wordy cages,
Rivers must be loved and praised,
by them we must be amazed
Life on Earth they nurture, raise,
so listen to what River says
kaden Apr 2015
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I gave my all to your heart devotionally
I had you wrapped around my finger too emotionally
Guess i shouldn't of let you see that other half of me
But i was really in love, you see, i'm so sorry
old poem
Megan Sherman Jun 2017
Her heart bore pure on Liberty's soils,
A daisy with Love's light embroiled,
Preternaturally wise as babe,
She speaks to problems of the age,
A symbolist sweet, a sanguine sage,
Through which God's inspiration rage,
Imparting slanted, coy allusions,
To her lamentable maladies and contusions,
All who outlive her and drink up words,
Know they somehow meet her, stomp in her herd.

Like a deep and darkling Rose,
She to Cambridge on thoughtful toes,
To perfectly emulate role of scholar,
Who thinks in fathoms, imagines far,
Each word rise subtly as a star,
Leaving door to soul ajar,
To more hardened, callous souls devote,
A sad sight that Zeus saw and, cursing, smote.

She was Zeus' cub, afoot on paws of passion,
Lordly, divine as a languishing Lion,
Who yet know not her sublime nature,
Praise instead the precious panther,
She renders him as curious creature,
Considering the bards as teachers,
But she, not him, most exquisite of preachers,
Traversing inspiration's bright, fantastic acres,
Hers the sublime, cherished pen,
That makes me ruminate again.

Enamoured of babes, the yearning young,
Her heart rending lullabies to them luscious sung,
Imagining Ducks, the zoo of the new,
Through my Heart a warm breeze blew,
For having seen a soul so true,
Leaving the sanctuary of you,
My Heart turns cold from red to blue,
A Promethean passing all bards rue,
Bereft of her flame's iridescent hue,
Pray that in Valhalla she plays anew.

Verse probes for Love, it's all that's true,
Peace grows strength in words that grew,
Planted devotionally under the yew,
Truths scattered on Earth like dew,
Her rituals pure, to the divine flame alloyed,
Heart suffice to inspire the rise and fall of Troy,
Mother Cub of passion's heath,
All her lessons have transcendent worth,
But the battles of life by stealth,
Disrupt her mission with bad health.

Trials of treachery tiptoe afoot,
Conspiring coy, to catch her boot,
My friend fights, struggles to slay her ghost,
A spirit stray, sad and lost,
She never knew that Love had cost,
But now Love's winter bites with frost,
Dutifully at desk inspiration bleeds,
In sacred poetic deed,
Thine destiny to inspire child to remember,
Your unique and your unusual ember.

Soar my friend your divine course,
That doth transcend the blight of hearse,
Thou art a flowering of godly light,
That inspires Hearts to swoon, take flight,
Love suffice to ignite,
The fury blaze in bard's sight,
Blake would cry eternal delight!
If he'd lived to see her Heart take height,
Betrothed to Zeus but astonishingly,
She lives to tower higher, more legendary.
Sam Temple Oct 2015
unkempt neck hair
dancing in the fan breeze
pleased by the sight, I push up my sleeves
and seethe while sieving the encrusted cheese cloth
elderly resin glands scratch like sand
and the blandness of the disease seems to squeeze
any meaning from the motion
ocean waves graze mutant toes as wind blowing
snow globes throws devotionally challenged
prose writers into a delightful tizzy
thin lizzy in the background sounds like
barking dogs at the drown pound
and unwound knitted sweaters look better
when wetter than investment bankers at the swankiest of parties
sour smarties in plastic hats use poorly ventilated ski masks
basking rashes in priceless sashes bat eyelashes at lasses during mass
and the catholic priest has ceased to crease his pleated trousers
mouse traps snap shut in front of the bunk beds
her trunk of junk likes crunk juice on Tuesdays
and I sit, drunken, trying to debunk 9/11 –
I wonder
Does LOVE bud blossom
-because of Sunshine
-because of Moonlight
-because of Star-spark
Or is it the gentle breeze
The first rain drops
The sight of butterfly sitting on a flower
Or the ocean waves sound piercing our soul

I sit mesmerized
In the beauty of NATURE
I sit mesmerized
Seeing the beauty of YOU
Underneath a tree
Below a waterfall
Perspiring under red-hot sun
I remain without
Utterance of a single word
The bliss
That emanated after seeing you
Even though it was for a single moment
Has enchanted me,
I know...
For the next thousand years

And I stayed awake for nights together
To find the answer...
-Of seeing your beauty
-Of worshiping you devotionally

All my knowledge learned
All my education forbid
All my mathematics, science
Logic, Rational mind
All the intelligent discourse
The philosophy, psychology
All fall flat without
Giving a single convincing answer

Exhausted, my eyes closed
Sleep never came
I let the struggle of mind go
I let the struggle of thought leave me
And let your hypnotism overpower me

And that is the time
I saw the golden LOVE bud blossom
In my heart

YOU and LOVE
Are mysteries that nobody else
Can see except me
Not even my senses of knowledge
Something I try to put on paper
But always feel incomplete to write about
My LOVE for you
Megan Sherman Feb 2017
O Avon, swell meandering home
You caress my feet with silken kisses
Round your banks I wistful roam
Enamoured of thy babbling blisses
Awed by beauty of the gloam
It envelops me in tender thrills
Inspired to transcribe it in to tome
In words suffice to inspire chills
Sweetest treasures consist in stream
O loot of the aquatic
That floats like dream upon a beam
The river an element of nature's batik
Imbued with blisses deep, supreme
I wade akimbo to the flow
The awe of Earth from you I glean
You have me rapt in throe
You are the path my heart pursues
It's righteous, truest course
Quelling fear and pain and blues
From thy splendid source
Whenever my sullied spirit rues
My strategy is this
I turn to you to soothe, amuse
To get my fill of bliss
Beyond horizon, thou spread to sea
In unchartered motion
A sea that sparkles iridescently
In strange colours of the ocean
I bask in your waters respendently
Loving their commotion
And honour them devotionally
O Avon, you leave me insatiated.
S E T Nov 2016
Farewell Leonard Cohen
whose every lyric was a poem,
Whose life, the wand'ring minstrel's song,
The Buddhist monk's meditative gong,

Courtly and earthy kneeling on stage
to his lovers, our servant,
In his dashing 70s, still the rage, more fervent,
At the last, asking if we wanted "it darker,"
Life still coursing, but starker,

Of his salad days, at the Chelsea hotel,
A place he met Janis, perhaps not yet in hell
and knew her devotionally and well,
Contemplative star with amorous groupies,
Passionate, ephemerally loopy,

His irony, sans derision or slight
Helping me me through many a night.
For you now, Leonard C, we
"Ring the bells that still can ring," *


And silently sing,
Staying in motion,

Letting go of the "perfect offering" notion,

Rememb'ring withal and despite,
Those fissures in all which let in the light,
*

Your house is in order, a graceful good night.
Leonard Cohen References
"So you Wanted It Darker," L Cohen Final album title, released October 2016
** Chelsea Hotel, song (several incarnations), 1st, 1972
*** From "Anthem," song & album, released 1992; lyric words verbatim and slightly paraphrased.
Megan Sherman Feb 2017
O Vinayak, in aura drenched
Thou art brighter than God's mind
From divinest planes thy image wrenched
In it my soul's reprieve I find
Dancing sultry up to my side
You enchant, enrapture, snare
Beckoning me to the infinity in which you hide
Much magic dwells in there
O Vinayak, thou winked charmingly
And then you disappeared
I honour you devotionally
Elephantine goddess to whom I am endeared
     Under cosmos blossoming
     For Vinayak I play and sing
Richard Reid Apr 2018
Coming out of this mood emotionally,
Praying devotionally,
Couldn't sell myself because I'm soul-lessly cheap.
A token for my innonence, repented my sins again,
Sinister events, waving my pennant so grant me my wish,
Make me a kid, cause I disapporove of my independence,
This intelligence was a propaganda,
These moments aren't sensible,
This status isn't credible,
I'll take cents over the million views,
So help me get through,
The evaporation of my presence.
Niel Nov 2020
Business stains and I’m partially a napkin.
Or is it?. Can’t decide either way.
The moment aren’t too for it anyhow.
The mountain drive is so alive with soggy
Nights of living in a pent up tent.

We reached it on a back road,
      I’d hardly call it bushwhacking
Slave drivers move in and you find
       out it was yr personality
all along

The beach were *****
        Crawling, sinking, lifting foes, the victor.
Speaking of subspecies and kin. As professor has.
         Spells of nausea in the back party
        Sorting through the masters
          Seeing whom is served most devotionally
Bhakti, la-la, la la la!
              Present moment I am all..
I am all
I am all, I am all

Lifting fingers place a spell
And webs form out like destiny
Water serving through the flames
Emboldening, triumphantly exploring understanding.

Lifting fingers, for an empty shelter
‘It was crazy what was said through me, it almost sounded..but it wasn’t.’
And then we  cross it, move things
around a bit, losing yr place
Slightly, cautioning; to feel through the mess

Plenty are, and simply so that I short circuit, Everytime
Norbert Tasev Sep 2020
See emerged from the past, then suddenly disappeared again; I taught my half-knee to humility before him! I volunteered, bowing down. That swan-white mischievous face, that chocolate color that weaves like a fine strand of straw that disappears into the darkness of the night, forced and interrogated by the Truth! She had to melt disarmed from his smile!

And I had to think: In these bombarding, sensory-igniting minutes, what will happen to me when I can no longer see the smile of pride-igniting wounds? "It was an imagined dream, a distant imagination, only He ruled over my head, my heart!"

I was amazed: I was secretly surprised that he had not shared the secret, inner word of his heart with me — I could only watch and destroy the kiss of others as it melted, destroyed devotionally, and flooded with tiny details of our immortal Universe; that maybe I could have been happy with you!

"Now what else can I say: Alien exiled as an outsider?" In my place, a lot of roosting roosters would tidy up their own porch, and now I am forced to face a destroyed end result incessantly! Isn't that weird? The half-naked young man tried to believe in fairy tales, but his love affair, like a serious illness, overthrew his proud, sublime throne of existence! "He thought foolishly that I would confess all the insignificant bagatelle secrets, and honestly

holding hands forever, perhaps we could walk together through the macadam paths of the unbridled World!

— The End —