Updated October 30, 1997
NIGHT TIME'S FAITHFUL BLISS
Chalk's powdery dust
Floats around the room
Taking
away restraint
Carrying them far above the rainbow
To
the land of OZ
Where the wicked witch
Takes these
"restraints"
And mixes them with her poppy
field
So she will never reach the Emerald City
Where her creative side can be booted out
And sent
back to Kansas
Where only the chickens and Toto
Will
listen to her creative ramblings
~*~
Narcissism
by : Rose Capranica
Glaring at the intangible
Grasping at air
My fingers stretch but aren't elastic
And the one out of range
Is surrounded by one thousand other fingers
That seem so much longer than my own
He laughs at us all
But before his teeth shine in my eyes
I drop my hands and turn away
For I do not wish to go blind
Or be covered by the explosion
Of his upperworks
~*~
A soft whisper from the wind
Reminds me of the time
The time when one could
Soak up the essence of the world
Without thinking of the problems
That tear us all apart
A soft whisper from the wind
Lets me smile for a while
And reminded me of the time
When youth was held carelessly
And life was completely
Free.
-Jenn King-
~*~
Closed into myself
Like a prison chamber
My once strong voice
Echos through the halls
Reminding me
That I was once my own self
Not owned and controlled
By the voices of others.
-Jenn King-
~*~
It's as if the angels
Came out today.
The clouds cascaded
Shards of light
On the brims of my face
Leaving me
With an essense of
Pure Joy
I felt the sorrows and angers
Of yesterday
Escape into the dark
Clouded corners of the sky
I felt
Pure Joy
When I thought of you
And for once in my life
The angels smiled down on me.
-Jenn King-
jking@whitman.gmu.edu
~*~
haiku.....caribbean
likkle bwoy him see
him black foot in dah white sand
neath cool clear water
jamaica...rasta rascal
~*~
Numb, my mind is numb
Overflowing cool and
hot
Crumbling joy - tears of boredom
Stopping - halting
- never ending
Final rights, my brain is dead
Funeral procession
marching
No feeling - conscience gone
When can I
flee
My sanity wanes
My soul is desolate
Where am
I
Who is Me
Stop - Stop - Torment
A thousand echoes in our
mind
All calling "HELP US"
There is no
peace
There is no peace....
~*~
heaven or hell
big or tall good or bad fat or skinny
chicken or fish
dog or cat
rich or poor
together or alone
inside or outside
upside or downside
smart or insane
lead or follow
sink or swim
happy or sad
or angry or not
so many ways to be
all add up to somebody that
you
want to label me
Updated October 27, 1997
People say
that you and I
would be good together;
that you're being flirtatious
when you compliment me
That your gazes transcend
friendship and love.
And I tell them
it's all in their heads...
that we just get along well
And that's why they say
that you and i
would be good together.
l.s.
~*~
Letting Go
and every time the wind blows
the shock reaches
in
and the memory seizes hold
as the eyes begin to
film
and every time the sun shines
the time begins to
flow
and the memory resurfaces
as the heart aches to
let go
and every time the waves crash
the salt reaches the
shore
and the memory is swept away
as the tides begin
to pull.
~*~
Darkness
Darkness wraps itself around
it creeps and slides across the town
in the shadows I do hear
a noise that brings upon such fear
as I turn away to run
in the stillness there sounds a gun
searing pain I do then feel
as my life he does now steal
while I feel my life blood flow
there comes an angel and together we go
up toward the bright warm light
as darkness creeps across the night
~*~
RECANTED
blanchard@hotmail.com
MY EYES ARE CLOSED
YET I SEE
WHAT YESTERDAY HELD
AND WHAT TOMORROW WILL BE
I HEAR THE VOICE
OF A LOVE LONG PAST
A LOVE I THOUGHT
WOULD ALWAYS LAST
YET I PUSH ON
HOPING SOMEDAY
I WILL FEEL A LOVE
IN THAT SAME WAY
THE DAYS WILL GROW LONG
THE NIGHTS WILL GROW COLD
THE STORIES OF LOVE
I'VE NEVER TOLD
THE FACE OF AN ANGEL
A HEART SO ENCHANTED
THE WORDS I LOVE YOU
HAVE LONG BEEN RECANTED
~*~
Updated October 25, 1997
"My Child"
by CAS
Oh my child! How I feel your pain within my heart,
tightening its grip as it tears you apart.
This new road before you with obstacles
of uncertainty and doubt,
a face once known now just a face in a crowd.
Your road will soon straighten your burden shall
become light.
This new world that awaits you will no longer be
your plight.
You ask me how I know such wisdom to be true?
Oh my child! You see I was once just like you!
~*~
LIFE
I Breath in
I Breath out
Blood flows along
It's predetermined route
I sigh
Deep and long
I laugh
I cry
I suffer both
Joy and sorrow
I have life
Mark Gallagher
~*~
got a bib on monkey like me need a bib
ok so we got doctors or whatever
feedin me some mushy so and so
I got hair all over me body so you can tell
I'm a big monkey
a Mind Monkey, not a gunsnroses monkey
or a Wizard of Oz monkey
or a davy Jones monkee
I am a big hairy stinky covered in mushy monkey!
My name is Jose!
Give me cash!
Call me a pizza order in!
This idiot spasming like some sorta Icky Pop!
yeah, man, I'm a monkey.
~*~
signing my initials to a few
words
won't make me any more
than what I am
signing my name to a
large check
won't make me any more
than what I am
having another's
thoughts and feelings
passing
through my head,
still won't make me any more
than what I am
the sooner these thoughts are
digested-
the sooner
we can get on with our work.
~*~
My First Poem:
who decides what's right or wrong?
maybe...the ones who are wrong...
who knows what's normal or insane?
maybe...the ones who are insane..
but, what is normal?
who knows what is normal?
what if we are insane,
but we think we are "normal".
what if we are wrong,
and we think we are right?
but, who can answer my questions?
how can they answer them?
do i know the answer?
'em i right?
'em i normal?
who knows?...
God knows...
maybe him....
~*~
Magnum Haiku
Soul pain forty ounce
pissing laced tears,
cigarette
filthy mouths swallow
sin, sings above, below
it came, somehow, inside
me
Sickly journey ride
~*~
Was it your words or the sound of your voice?
You brought my heart out of hiding but,
I can't remember when or how or why.
Was it your touch-so soft, so sincere?
Was it your need-so strong and clear?
Or was it a dream-so far, yet so near.
My love recalls it all, but what if you have forgotten.
What then?
What words?
Where will I hide this time.....
Tina
~*~
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?
doubting and questioning your life like that
the only one you have
at this moment every little thing is just fine
but you're too stuck to see it
and you want what someone else has worked for
or stolen
or simply just has for their own use
who do you think you are?
look at all the great stuff going on
and all the s****y stuff too
it's everyday , everyday
it's always the same
always the same
in all ways
~*~
CLEAR WONDER
Wonderful bounty of actual courage
Filling, spilling with the power of my blood
opening to the closing
~*~
Remember Me?
lonely
unwanted
no one understands me
or wants to
i sit here
and watch
always an outsider
looking in
my thoughts
conflicting
in constant turmoil
i sit there
trying to fit in
forever the outcast
rejected
banned
ignored
no one would even
notice if i were
dead
Jennifer Pattinson
Oct 21 1997
~*~
The dream of blue skies
Clouds blowing past the green scape
Wanting to begin and never wanting to end
Love's blind eyes looking upward for the future
Past and present, converge in a meaning
Only woundering when the dream will return.
-Todd David Vaught written 8-97 at The Center for the Homeless in South Bend, IN
~*~
An Easy Thought Went Up From Me,
Of A Dancer Bounding The Stage.
She Danced Pirouettes On The Brow Of The World,
Took An Accolade Or Two And Bowed.
She Flew Back To Me Then And Warmed Me Up,
An Intoxicant, Invading My Spirit.
And I Took To The Air And Touched A Heaven,
Touching The Dancer, Turned, Was You.
~*~
We are like a tree
It gets more beautiful
As it gets older
It becomes stronger
And holds lovers' carvings
As the years slowly pass
And unlike a flower
Whose life is short
And it all too quickly wilts away
We will last forever
And we will continue
To grow stronger
And more perfect
As the years go on.
-Jenn King-
~*~
Swallowed into the darkness
Lost in the mist
Hidden under a rock
Never to be seen again
Mixed into a memory
Lost inside a dream
Eroded into a river
To float out of a mind
Lost in a sunset
Washed away from shore
Misplaced in the sand
Not to be seen anymore
The dream was lost
One summer
In an endless attempt
To grow up.
-Jenn King-
~*~
Could love only occur
When your not wanting it?
Has someone's company
Merely become an exsistance?
I have spent my whole life
Searching for love
And only when I've lost all hope
Have I found it looking for me.
Perhaps next time
When I'm looking for love
I'll stop and let it find me.
-Jenn King-
~*~
LOVE IN THE AIR
In the air you can bring
some special for the people
your feelings are connected
with all minds.
the love play with all person
a special share like a rose
in the first kiss of one person
the human need love is very
important.
why? contains the special touch
for the soul in your dreams you
can bring the fear and love try
you can bring more.
~*~
Holding on
to yesterday,
And desperately praying for tomorrow.
Living in dreams
until sunrise,
And then passing the moment by.
Creating a world of fantasy
with no key,
Back to reality.
~ Bonnie
~*~
The leaves of trees have fallen
And the weather turns ever colder
It seems like earth is aging
That the hand of death has touched her.
But in the spring returns the sun
The lover of our mother
and breeding warmth and love
the winter will be over.
SheaDKnight@webtv.net
~*~
WAR"S END
Lying in a field of clover one beautiful summer day.
The chaos gone forever now so peace and quite reign.
Soldier's death on the battlefield, his war over now.
D.Wiggins
~*~
Pacing the dark corridors of my shame
my addiction painfully screams out your name
come feed me my love my hunger my life
or release my soul from this eternal strife
your burning touch my pleasure my pain
my destiny's etched and will always remain
in a world where only you and i exist
devoured whole then swallowed within the mist
and memory....of you..........
~*~
Burdened heart i once thought had died
awakened to feel no pain now inside
please tell me heart how can i show
my love so deep wanting to know
This gentle loving tender man so rare
joy now replacing complete despair
oh how we embrace such delicious pleasure
our love so real what a priceless treasure
One day to meet held in loving embrace
united together what adventures we face
soulmate you called me and that rings true
I give all my love and devotion to you
~*~
fragments of life go by....
etched deep into the forgotten desires....
of our youth....
~*~
Updated October 17, 1997
it's a day like any other day,
but I am not the same.
I went to sleep a cranky old man,
and returned a toddler among men.
Soon I will learn to speak.
sl
~*~
It's as if the angels
Came out today.
The clouds cascaded
Shards of light
On the brims of my face
Leaving me
With an essence of
Pure Joy.
I felt the sorrows and angers
Of yesterday
Escape into the dark
Clouded corners of the sky.
I felt
Pure Joy
When I thought of you
And for once in my life
The angels smiled down on me.
~*~
Fervent
Ashes to ashes,
Dust to dust,
Light a match;
Watch it combust.
Ashes to ashes,
Dust to dust,
Live while you can.
Die when you must.
~*~
Cows
black, white
mooing, chewing, resting
cows are cool animals
heifers
~*~
"Sunset"
Vivid hues of pink and purple
streak across the sky.
Almost detracting from the glory of the red sun.
Some people look longingly at the sunset.
In their eyes it is an ending;
a closing curtain.
Yet others see it as a beginning
for without the velvet night
the soft yellow dawn would not come-
gloriously running over with new possibilities
and exciting adventures.
Such is the sunset of our existence
it is not a closure-
it is but an opening act.
~*~
Autumn's Call
Possibility
A silence after "Hello"
Is it you calling?
~*~
Sea Shores
The sea is a maiden who possesses my heart as I stand by the sea shores
and stare endlessly across the calling sea.
My life has been filled with sea shores where the sea has come to me in
the stillness of the night.
Its not the endless thirst for life that calls me but the warmth and love
I have enjoyed with the many friends that allows me to view the sea shores
of my life. Thank you
~*~
ALMOST INCEST
The blood that binds us
Tears us apart
In those damned, iron strands
Is the locked door to
Our love
We're denied our desires
Because of two counfounded people
Who had to come together
To ensure our
Separation.
~*~
God Bless the USA
>From coast to coast
From sea to shining sea
People are making toasts
To what this country will be
A nation full of drugs
Along with hate and violence
A place for homeless mugs
And everyone stands in silence
~*~
Inspiration
The Muse quietly frees him
from his terrestrial brig.
He soars on oils and canvas,
till reality's stealthy prig
slips in and steals the moment
and his face and brushes fall.
Abigail Sugan
~*~
REASON
Love poems written
Ease the pain found in lost love
By not forgetting
~*~
Thoughts of you carry brilliant colors that pierce the shadows and dance for my hearts delight.
My skin remembers yours
My fingers retrace the discovery of you in dreams day and night. I need to know more. To close my eyes and drift with the rhythm of your breathing, your light.
I need to hear your voice-so clear, so soft
Saying my name
Making sin right.
Tina
~*~
He Longs To Fly
He longs to fly
To soar along
above the throng
passing by
His heart's release
to glide above
unsteady love
to set at peace
The timid tears
which so abound
such pain unfound
in solemn years
He wants to fly
in setting free
his love for me
to passing bye.
©1997 Twyla Turnbow Sorrells
~*~
I am longing for the day
When you'll again call me yours.
~*~
DARK THOUGHTS
They fill my mind with shadows,
images of what's to come and should not be,
they are the voices of the past,
they are the voices of immortality.
They are premonitions,
of moments not yet come,
they tell me to share them,
and so, I come in peace.
Here, I offer this to you,
scrawled lines on parchment,
and though they do not match,
it is all one, entrance,
and so, instead of a poem,
I submit to you, me.
~*~
THE WIND
It moves through the trees so softly,
following hidden pathways,
it touches my face so gently,
it's like fingers running through my hair.
As I stand, I waver,
feeling the gentle breeze,
voices murmur in my ear,
begging for release.
I am all I can ever be,
a true child of the wind,
I would give up everything,
to fly unfettered, unbound, free.
The wind is my mentor,
the sky is my plain,
I lift my wings so happy,
and fly away, away.
~*~
FEBRUARY'S DUES
Pregnant with remorse
Raspberry flowers shed tears
My love regrets love
~*~
making tomorrow
lesser yester
day
the roses(and the
hearts which
are
their petals)grow
still taller.
~*~
"Forever Mine"
How can I tell you how much I adore
the way you smile at me when you walk through my door,
Your body has a peaceful glow
sitting next to the fire for only me to know,
This side of you that I can see
you have given over just to me,
So when I look into your eyes
I can see with great surprise,
That you love me, and I love you
forever and ever this will brew,
My heart is yours, and yours is mine
for we are forever intertwined.
~*~
NIGHT WARRIORS
Butterfly wings
Kisses of Gold
Dream Angels
Death's Light
These are the guardians of the night
Witch's magic
Star's of fire
Christmas Dreams
Days of incest
Time when innocents drew blood
Rage is the only Death that is a lie of beasts in love
Confusions find their place
Furies keep their place
~*~
I can see you but I am not watching
I am absorbed in the feel of you
The smell, the taste, the warmth
Your rising.
But mostly I am humbled by your grace.
for love...
Tina
trascal@webtv.net
Updated October 3, 1997
~*~
Sipping sweet red wine
near the warm and crackling fire
I hear her eyes speak
E. Lee Saffold
~*~
When the windows of love shatter and the heart lost
divine justice is cruel and you only find it at great cost
~*~
Three years, love unfed, weak and dying,
one glance, one laugh
Leave the fire crying--
~*~
The look that's never given
The touch that's never felt
The heart that's always driven
By the pain that has been dealt
The word that's never heard
The thought that's never said
The love that goes unanswered
By the time that has been shed
~*~
all the faces blur
and bleed to red.
my heart shatters
into fragments.
shudder to think
that you were real,
really stupid of me.
ab
~*~
weathers, are earth songs.......
full of dust and cloudy skies
through the days and years
Peter
~*~
autumn's leaving now
never ever returning
these moments again
Peter
~*~
colors play around
in gardens and on the streets
one calm autumn day
Peter
~*~
A Rainy Day
this rainy day
shines in one thought:
it goes the way
a lovely day ought
for people in love
the rain don't matter
just another day
that makes no love better
this rainy day
will go on by
whatever we say
won't reach the sky
for people in love
what does the whether count
it will go or stay
but we are cupid bound
Peter
~*~
Raven's Glory
Stars of Glory
Shattered windows to the soul
Tiny tear drops of blood
The world loses innocence
This thing must be love
Pain so hot it burns a place within me
Small members fly free
Fire bugs of the best Degree
Flames ignite and scald flesh
Innocent Raven's
Scavengers from up above
They come to eat in this feast of love
Deaths true rhythm
Blue stores prime
I may be crazy but the stars turned green
When we all marched in time
~*~
You have walked into my
heart. You can read my
thoughts and emotions you
are the reason I came to be
this way.
Now I watch in Silence as you
pass by the gap widens between
us what happened I feel the bond
But weak and frayed.
Where do we start on closing
the gap? Can I still cross
over.
~*~
The Light.....
You may be walking in
darkest night. Open
your heart let the light
touch it.
Feel the love Radiating
from it. Don't fear it embrace
it.
Darkness you will never fear
as long you carry the light
in your heart.
The Light of
Love
~*~
Your Love.
Your desire burns across my body,
singeing my soul and devouring my heart,
trapping me in your raging inferno of emotion.
Your gaze lingering upon my body,
tracing a path across my trembling flesh.
My soul crying out for more,
writhing, exhausted in a pool of want,
I'm helpless and weak-you sweep into my heart...
and we are one.
~*~
Show And Tell
by Summer Leigh
Strip the dressing of your eyes
Release the madness locked with chains inside
Show and tell all to all
Taunt the world with jewels of your ardor
Curse and bleed and guard your soul
Believe your smile and make that belief your shield.
Updated September 30, 1997
The leaves turn as does my heart
Deprived of the sun
Starving in the shadows.
Years are not my friend-
They pass only to show me what I have been.
Tina
~*~
Vengeful friendship
Vicious charity
Cutting me down
Like so much wheat
Cruel compliments
Fiendish kindness
Using me for
Your personal gain
Sobbing joy
Weeping happiness
Trying to show
What you do
Indifferent affection
Dispassionate love
Wearing my shattered heart
On my sleeve
~*~
Look at you
I hate you
just sitting there pretentiously existing
absorbed in your own exterior
acting as if you're superior to everyone
everyone seems to agree with you
they all want you
beckoning at your slightest whim
Well I don't long for you
You cannot capture me the way you've captured them
To me you're revolting
I despise everything that you are
Go away! Go!
I hate you
~*~
one truth of truth,
is knives cut deep
Truth, not the wound,
but the blade
~*~
SOMETIMES
Sometimes in life
we gaze upon a beautiful thing
that rises the spirit
and helps the soul to sing.
Sometimes we are touched
by lifes gentle hand.
That begins to sculpt
a love in man.
Sometimes the music
we are blessed to hear
the sweet melody
of someone who cares.
These are special moments
that we are allowed to taste.
To cherish, to savor
but not to waste.
~*~
*THE KiSS OF DEATH*
The Kiss of Deth duz kill U so, 2 much room 4 luv 2 grow... B/c Your luv U can never have, it maxe you sad and drives you mad...But forget the fake and focus on real, live out those feelings you want to feel...b yourself and forget the croud, dare 2 B different, dare 2 B proud... Keep no worries, set yourself free, be the person you wana B...For when you are yourself, dreams do come true, and maybe your love will fall in love with you! *by rEdQuEeN*
~*~
Time is not our friend
It teaches us things we don't want to know.
It takes us to places and makes us see things we can never forget.
Time deceives us
It pretends to be endless, coaxing us into a false sense of security.
Then, just when we need it most...it runs out.
trascal@webtv.net
~*~
<**Here we go again you gatta jam**>
<**You wana break-up you need some time**>
<**That's how you feel, I understand**>
<**I'm gona miss you, you're love of mine**>
<**But there's something you need to know**>
<**I gatta feeling, it's deep and low**>
<**This time you walkaway, I won't be near**>
<**Just ganna turn my head and disapear**>
~*~
Loving you
was like
losing someone
I never had.
----!----
I loved you
for who i
thought you were
made you to be
and now i know
the kisses we shared
our wistful gazes
were nothing
but a game
i lost
~*~
The trees have blossomed
the flowers have sprung
I'm sitting here wondering "how come"
How come the world is so pretty
yet so many families I pity
How come the world is filled with hate
yet beauty is timed not to wait
Our minds are filled with thoughts of hostility
how can it be us not to have the ability
to think for ourselves
Women must show that we can survive,
no matter how many men may come into our lives.
Take a stand
~*~
Drizzle
Beating, beating, beating heart
set my rhythm with your sound
sparkling, sparkling in my eyes
tears of passion you will find.
Every tear with its own secret
hiding it with zeal behind,
every tear with its own secret,
yes ! this ardor is all mine.
Fragrant perfume in the air
tenuous drizzle that our God
scattered with thorough care,
just propitiating love.
~*~
I thought I saw you in the crowd at a downtown shopping mall, but when I turned you were just a shadow on a wall.
I thought I heard you whisper, your love song so divine,
but when I strained to hear you were an echo in my mind.
It's odd, but I knew-
I was sure it was you
Wanting me, like you did. Blowing through me once again...
Like a soft southern wind.
for Miki
trascal@webtv.net
~*~
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