don't ask
i can't give it to you
don't require
i can't pay
don't expect
i can't afford it
just love
i will come into you
shea glendening
--*--
Dancing down the church aisle
laughter breaking through
Pieces of hopeless night time fare
Miraculously comeing through.
Jesus loves you
little one
Time
Turning
Laughing tears
years
Play hopelessly
Helplessly
over your face
Hearts
sigh
peace
reigns
The final rapture
takes
center stage...
-Mary Ann Paris-
--*--
ART
The art of art
Is it art itself
Or just a frame of
thinking
The art of art
Was it made to be art
Or just a
waste of paint
The artist who created art
Did he know he had art
If not
Can he rightfully be called an artist?
Desiree
--*--
I know how you love her
At least thats what you say
Why you love her
A question to stay
but as i sit here
sit here and cry
wondering why
why cant that be me
when you tell your friends
you love her, love me
--*--
As long as there are stars above
And a moon where
lovers love
And new days with mornings dew
That's how
long I'll miss you
If this world should ever die
And your soul goes to
the sky
My heart will stay forever true
Because that's
how much I love you
--*--
ENDLESS FALSE REMARKS
I stand afar and wish to be close
Open your arms to
me
There is strenght in love
Let us be strong
together
My heart aches for your tenderness
I long for your embrace
To smell your sweet
fragrence
I search my pillow
For your faint
scent
But it is gone
Bring back your aroma
bring
back your love
--*--
THE WORLD IS IN RAGE,
AND Im left to recognize,
the feelings and the hatred,
brought on by my father's eyes,
cold and brutal memories,
eached in my mind,
no force can erase them,
there carved in stone,
sober minds dwell on there thoughts,
acid reflexes to kill them off.
I realize Im standing all alone,
no one can touch me Im far to gone.
abxtra@webtv.net
--*--
Tonight, I dreamed
I dreamed of
moonlight
of
stars
of Little girls lost
Last night, I screamed
I screamed of you
of
me
of life together
of tomorrows that might
never
come.
Tonight
I loved
A man of ebony
carved
steel
and then
awoke.
Last night, I dreamed....
-Mary Ann-
--*--
Life is hard
It will get harder
Sometimes food
Is not in the larder
Yet if you keep the
Greatest Master
In your Heart forever,
He'll save you when
you meet disaster,
And leave you never.
--*--
What can take away all your pain?
what is there for you when all you see is rain?
many people take for granted,
the best people God ever planted.
Friends.
They care,
they're there,
They listen, when thats all you want someone to do.
they are always there for you.
friends.
--*--
I will remember you as I first knew you
My Miki in the ether
My fantasy in the dark
My champion, my eternity.
And you shall remember me too
Because a even a heart that wanders must rest.
trascal@webtv.net
--*--
Dreams come true in shades of blue
Created in hearts that dwell in shadows.
A wish for better days reaches out beyond the haze.
Tenetive fingers fondle the creases of imaginary faces,tracing the lines
Of days gone by and times that were alive only in a mist.
Tina
--*--
I stand in the sun
My skin begins to peel
I only wish I could attain
The way I want to feel
Stand close to the fire
But don't reach out to touch
I see what I want to gain
But fear I'll loose too much
If only I could get there
Jump up and reach my goal
The fire burning all around
Would burn within my soul
Just then could I be happy
My heart could truely smile
To love you with all that I am
If only for a while
--*--
MIRROR OF THE PAST
I turned my eyes towards the lake
and came a reflection of me.
As I looked closely I began to see memories.
Memories of a child laughing, playing,fishing,
but blind in a way.
Didn't know how growing up would be.
Being a child I couldn't see.
I was a kid, free.
--*--
Who am I?
I'm the daughter that fathers dream about
Yes, a good little girl without a doubt
With my legs crossed and a smile on my face
Making everyone want a warm embrace
Think Daddy's little girl is who I am?
Well you are wrong, but I don't give a damn
I live for myself, to make me happy
I will do what I want, not to please
--*--
A light reflects on a windowsill,
A candle,
I see your face,
I cry,
I cry not a happy cry,
or a cry for joy,
I see you as a little boy,
you stare into my eyes you cry,
for LOVE,
you watch the sky pass by,
you cry,
It rains,
the light dims,
you fade away,
I CRY.
{I did read your message in the guestbook, but your email address was invalid \o/}
--*--
Breed
A different breed
On a different path
Falling from the sky
Adorned with penciled death
They come to sing the muses
They can take us home
Their song claims hope
As I breathe in their sweets
And feel the rope
Tugging
Burning into my skin
Why are you doing this?
Why must I pay for sin?
They are the angels
Who did not chose a fight
We
A plague
That must see light
Jezebel2000@webtv.com
--*--
--YOU ASK ME WHY--
You wonder why I'm careful
You wonder why I'm
accusing
But you know nothing of my past
And all the
lies I've been using
You wonder why my heart's guarded
You wonder why I
don't trust
But these lies are protecting me
From guys
and lust
All I have is my sanity
And that can easily slip
away
So please just don't ask me any questions
I can't
handle that today
By: Kristin
--*--
sometimes I sympathize with the devil
in-between his
shaken eyes and vacant body
i believe in the sins that go
unforgiven
in these thoughts, the inspired burn in
hell
graciously I glorify the gift of god
embroidered in
our hearts, we find the invitation
to circumvent, to heal
this pain and leave forgiven
like a storm breaking quietly
in the night
i must ask to have this right
to be blinded of my
other sight
in this ignorance, i found god.
--*--
~~~~~~~~~Runaway~~~~~~~~~~~
I sit with the silence of the night.
Awaiting the beams of tommorow's first light.
All I can think of, is leaving here.
I can't live like this, I won't shed another tear.
I'll leave by daybreak, and get away fast.
Their grief over losing me won't very much last.
There's nothing here for me to do.
So I'll just leave, don't ask where I'm off to.
Written By: Angelica Lopez
--*--
Sabrina
ONE DAY OLD
by Pat Guide
Child with gently waving hair
New as a second
She
dares life to fill her lungs
And vibrations to pass
through
Tunnels never touched by sound
Innate resilience, amazing strength
This fragile
creature, one day old
A pumping heart, with
energy
Drawn from where
This child one day old
She finds her voice, creates a scream
Grown people
run
She's hungry, she's wet, she's angry
She's one day
old
t
--*--
I Fear Not
By Lindsey Bullard
As the anger builds
I Fear Not what grows
As the sheilds pull down
I Fear Not what is above
As the pain runs through
I Fear Not the suffering
As the tears drench my skin
I Fear Not the triumph
As the light falls
I Fear Not the darkness
I Fear tomorrow.
--*--
In His Care
When the darkness closes in,
and success seems far away
Remember there comes fresh hope,
with the dawning of each new day
Keep in mind that our thoughts,
are only those of mortal man
Put your faith in God above,
trust in His master plan
May the Lord lift you up,
from your darkness and despair
Placing His hand upon you,
and keeping you in His care
--*--
Moon & Stars
Under the moon light
Almost every night
On almost
every star
I wish a wish from a far
As the moon beams shine on my face
I thank the lord
for all my grace
The things he's given me in these 15
years
Have been worth all my tears
Sometimes late at night
I stare at the stars so
bright
I feel that under the moon
I am safe from my
doom
And just by the way the moon glows
I think that it
knows
That the stars above
Gave me a wonderful
love.
--*--
Dad and I
Dad and I
Got the old 1909 car started
Once we opened
Those double wide doors
Smoke bellowed towards the skies
We rattled, down the drive
Dropping parts
Hollow head light mounts
Running boards
The fire trucks stopped when
They saw us out for a drive
Dad mum-mum mumbles
"We should have tightened those bolts a bit son"
by: rick slottow
7-17-79
--*--
You speak to me as though
My very presence is a disruption
And you listen for contradiction
Like you're searching for an excuse
To dissmiss me
I won't compromise myself
For your love
I say
But I always will
--*--
I fear life like
a child fears the darkness
of the attic which
taunts him with the secrets
whispered over the dinner dishes
I peer in awe around the corner of the door
and the need consumes me but
I shall not advance
for there is no one to reach the switch
nor to hold my hand
--*--
Prettiest Smile
On a great adventure I'll soon embark.
Around the bend there will be.
A small light...only a spark,
...A glorious flame to me.
I'll reach out my hand...to grasp the flame
And hold it near to me.
Drawing near...hearts the same
The prettiest smile I'll see.
We'll share time...the greatest gift,
More precious than silver or gold.
I'll never again set my heart adrift,
Even as we grow old.
Ron Orr
--*--
Quietude
Silent breezes kiss naked branches
Windswept footsteps fade
In day old snows
A lonely hawk wheels in
Endless sweeps against
Steel grey skies . . .
Quietude undisturbed.
--8--
O sweet surrender to those eyes
Those midnight stars that shine so bright
O be a prisoner to those arms
The gates that do embrace the night
And to those lips that rest on mine
I cry each night in slumber deep
That while I dream he'll come to me
And kiss my eyelids while I sleep
And to that face so fair and fine
And hands that angels hands may touch
And to the rest of him I pray
That he might love me just as much
--8--
Little girl smiling.
Ferris wheel slowly
winding
the bright summer day.
--8--
memories
time stands still for memories
stranger you may be in
paradise
like the leafs on the trees
they fade away and
die
summertime for some is gone
shadows in your
mind
but life must go on, and on
and memories are left
behind
Peter
--8--
If
If the world was a perfect place
Would I still play
guitar as bad as I do now?
If the words I write now matter
Will anyone ever read
them?
If I could express my feelings
Would there be words to
describe them?
If I could have any love I wanted
Would he love me in
the end?
If the stars could talk
Would they tell of years
past?
If the door I shut every night could open to
anyone
Would anyone come in?
-Mara Skujins
--8--
Tulips' to Love
3 Waves crashing on the shores,
2 crows on the cross
be sure.
Sunset skies, eagles arise.
Forget me not, a flowers promise,
A love like ours
should always flourish.
--8--
THE CONTINUUM SHEDS DREAMS
WHEREFORE CAN OUR ESSENCE STAND
FIND FOOT UPON THIS
TORRENT SEA
THE SELF IS CRUSHED NEATH TIDES OF FLUX
ENVISAGED BUT IN DREAM REALITY
BORN UNTO PASSAGE WE HUMANS ARE
UNTO SOURCE WHICH
MAKES PRESENT
THAT WHICH IT MUST STEAL
THE PAST IS
SWEPT FROM THE HAND WHICH CLUTCHES
LIKE SKIN THE CONTINUUM
IT SHEDS SUCH DREAMS
--8--
Falling Down
His eyes roll back
Into his head.
He starts to topple
To his cold cement bed.
His dark red blood
Pours out of his skull.
When he wakes up
The pain is at a dull.
He prays to God to help him,
But his head is ringing, like a bell.
As he slowly loses conciousness
He thinks God can go to Hell.
--8--
THE MIND
Why do some people
Always manage
To get what they want
From Life
We always want
The person
Who we cant have
They may be
Within reach but
There is always
Something or someone
Blocking the way
How do we overcome
This problem?
Please tell me!
--8--
Life Alone
I am a solitary being
A loner
A hermit
I hide out
I think
I write
I ponder
I am a solitary being
--8--
Many faces
Sick, Naive souls
Contaminated kisses of hate
Negative smiles
Of knowing past confessions
A bleeding hope
Suicidal dreams of death
Victims of disease,
Hate, wrath and desire.
--8--
NATURE
A female body has a flower,
Which blossoms and blooms
when it's wet.
This flower has this astonishing
power,
That can make a man soak in his sweat.
--8--
wash and wear
oops!
another stain on your soul
hopefully it comes off easily
maybe no one will notice
the fading
--8--
i've seen pain
pain that slows the way that you live your life
pain that makes you wish things had never occured
yes, i've seen pain
pain is my welcomed companion
so close it is...
even when you wish to be alone
there is pain
so you see
i've seen pain
i know pain
it is not an enemy nor a friend
its simply itself
pain...
--8--
verbal gunshots
ghosts
of
sweetwater
made
fun
of
my
dreams
when
i
spoke
so
i
peeled
back
my
shadow
&
hid
inside
it's
skin
to
shield
the
blows
--8--
I'VE LOVED
I'VE LOST
I'VE LEARNED
AND SO I MOVE ON
xer marvin s. madamba (Pinoy poet)
--8--
An Eagle
By Ree McDaniel
The sun within its orbit,
circles round the
earth.
Shining on the four corners.
Each in its own
turn.
It never stops it progress.
Never ends and never
begins.
For you see, just like an eagle,
It simply
circles round again,
and again and again and again
And
Again.
--8--
These feelings they are pounding
And I don't know where they're going
And I'm in a state of confusion
Not seeing, never knowing
Pushing grounding grinding
In my unleashed state of mind I'm
Juggling blocks of memories
Stale within my life
They're crunching banging binding
My true feelings I want to find and
I'm never going to be the same
As when I was long, long ago
--8--
i sit in a room
no larger than
the phallic symbol of
my integrety
it slowly but surely
will close in on me
and i on it
the keiser has found
a hole in which to
stick his defeat
i look for a place
to send mine
maybe people listen
but it seems that
evolution will remove
the ears and the eyes
although the brain
will stay as is
so i can think about
what i've done.
--8--
Time
We
are mortal
descendant
of time, and
all its
shortcomings
we
run too slow
when days are dim,
and beat the
horse
when chances are slim
and
with the sun
we rise and lay
to set our
smile
another day.
--8--
~~I'm not quite sure if I understand
Why life turns out, not as planned
Does this always have to happen to me
I try so hard, but cannot see
My heart has broken into two
I searched for something, but found no clue
But I guess this is what God intended
It will just take some time before my heart
is mended~~
--8--
BATTLEFIELD
(A POEM ABOUT RECOVERY)
I'M A SOLDIER ON THE BATTLEFIELD OF LIFE
BEATEN, BATTERED AND BLOODIED
MY EMOTIONS TATTERED AND RAW
MY EGO SWOLLEN AND TENDER
MY MIND WEARY OF RAPID FIRE THOUGHTS
MY BODY RAVAGED
BY THE STEADY BARRAGE OF ENEMY FIRE
I AM EXHAUSTED AND FRIGHTENED
YET I REFUSE TO HIDE IN THE TRENCHES ANY LONGER
IT IS TIME TO FACE THE ENEMY
IT IS TIME TO FACE MYSELF !
--8--
Love is in the air
Spring is a wonderful
thing
flowers are blooming
--8--
like an angel in a cage
I can do nothing from my
cell
like a philosopher I sit and ponder
pondering
about what I have done
and what I have yet to do
I try
to think but
nothing comes to my mind
like an angel in a cage
I wait for the end to come
its stalking me waiting, patiently waiting
I see
deaths red eyes in the greyish smoke
it comes for me
like an angel in a cage
I once was here
but now I
am gone
never to return
but always remembered
--8--
Clip them
take them
longer than
i had ever wished
force is excerpted
on minds that wish
to
see
but nothing
will project
or protect
so send
us
your wishes
and we'll
send you
our grief.
--8--
The Wind of Change
In the wind of change
I hear the call
Of times past
Weeping for the present
And the future
Laughing in the breeze.
In the wind of change
It brings rains of tears past
And hurricanes of laughter
Mixed in the storm
Of past emotions.
In the wind of change
You see the future
Bright and clear
And the past
Dim and cloudy.
The wind of change
May cry
Or laugh
But it drives
Straight and sure.
--8--
Walk into my realm
of ignorance slavery and hate
Stroll my lined doctrines
proclaiming dust
wash away the ink
as you have the blood
of past wars
tanks patrol crowds
pawns read isms
standing on rotting floor boards
reverends
preach to deaf eyes
blind ears cleansing the world of thought
how glorious
one god
showing lemmings
THE OCEAN
--8--
THE TRUTH TO YOUR BELIEF
IS BURIED WITHIN YOUR CONSCIENCE
TO UNDERSTAND TRUTH
IS THE MAIN CONCEPT
LOOK DEEP INTO YOUR SOUL
AND FIND THE TRUTH
BY BELIEVING IN YOURSELF
'CAUSE THE ONLY TRUTH
IS THE BELIEF IN YOU
WRITTEN BY
CHRIS DUNN
--8--
New Woman Knowing
hearing the hollowness of my voice
I am taken by its
childlike tone
very needing to know your heart
and not
my own
I am taken by its childlike tone
echoing from deep
within
and not my own, I plead
for I don't want her to
be a part of me
echoing from deep within
it is a pain I can no longer
bear
for I don't want her to be a part of me
weak,
needing and wanting
it is a pain I can no longer bear
feeling the call to
stand alone
weak, needing and wanting
knowing the pain
of letting go
feeling the call to stand alone
the ones I cherish
most
know the pain of letting go
I am a new woman
rising
the ones I cherish most
teach the hardest lessons
I
am a new woman rising
the morning gentleness sweeps over
me
love teaches the hardest lessons
cleansing the deepest
places
the morning gentleness sweeps over me
as I
declare my will to the wind
cleansing the deepest places
shadows walking into the
light
as I declare my will to wind
I feel the strength
of the ages enter my body
Shadows walking into the light
just a sense of who I
am
I feel the strength of the ages enter my body
I see
her standing on the ridge
just a sense of who I am
her name is Future Women
Knowing
I see her standing on the ridge
I whisper her
name
Her name is Future Women Knowing
very needing to know
her heart
I whisper her name
hearing the echoing of my
voice
heidi vetter
--*--
Memories
Somewhere in the corners of my mind
Memories linger from all the good times
Then many years I've spent on earth
The joyous experiences, filled with mirth
But the most exciting moments, true
Are those fleeting seconds, alone with you
For all the time i think of you
Soft sweet hair and eyes so blue
You're like a drug in the way you taunt
The more I see you, the more I want
To hold you, caress you, ease your pain
Of memories of alove so vain.
Pearl
--*--
I paint a pretty picture, for all the world to see
My smile is big and bright, we all live happily.
i don't want to continue, i feel so insecure.
but my friends are always there, they helped me to endure.
i slit my arms, clutching my wrists fall to my knees.
No one hears my cries or pleas.
I put on my mask, for one more time.
I must complete my lonely crime.
I sit and smile, my whole life away.
I'm here though, but not to stay.
--*--
JUST WANTED YOU TO KNOW
i will never love anyone
i will never need anyone
love is nothing but a lie
i will not believe it
so someone tell me why
why is my heart breaking
why do i have to come here
just to look at you
why can't i walk away
my mouth is mooving
but i can't hear the words
i don't have to
..."i love you"...
amber dawn
--*--
Back Away Down
Take No One Near
The Night Has
Come
The Thought Is Clear
Rise Up And See
The Naked Sky
Turn Over Your
Mind
Spread Your Wings
Keep Flying Up
The Wayward Child
Keeping No
Trust
And Having No Fear
--*--
the stars are shinning
the moon is whinning
the wind
blows softly
as i run freely
--*--
isle of yew
lyre of chive
'neath a coal shawl swaying
a few tall lilies wind and laugh
me and my lover, laying
drifting lied of my mind's harp
twining under amber leaves
he's gone today so skies are crying
and join me singing on my knees
--*--
a fish in water
moves lithely,
flicks his tail with
utmost grace,
and observes the world with intelligent
eyes.
when he's stolen from it
he thrashes
about,
gasps,
and screams with all his body:
I am
scared of dying!
I am not his water,
but he is mine.
--*--
O sweet surrender to those eyes
Those midnight stars that shine so bright
O be a prisoner to those arms
The gates that do embrace the night
And to those lips that rest on mine
I cry each night in slumber deep
That while I dream he'll come to me
And kiss my eyelids while I sleep
And to that face so fair and fine
And hands that angels hands may touch
And to the rest of him I pray
That he might love me just as much
--*--
Little girl smiling.
Ferris wheel slowly
winding
the bright summer day.
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