OPEN MIC ENCORE III
JUNE, 2003

Encore I  June, 2003

Encore  II June, 2003

TIME
Amber F.

  Time is delicate like a rose,
  You must treat it with care.
  Time goes by quickly like a summer breeze,
  You must hold it while you can.
  Time is fickle always,
  You must learn to change.
  Time doesn't like to stay in one place,
  You must chase it down.
  Time is a lot like me.....
 
  Time is as strong as an ox,
  I must get use to the strength.
  Time goes by slowly as death,
  I must be patient.
  Time is a sure thing it never changes,
  It's happy with what it has.
  Time continues to stay in one moment,
  I must calm down.
  Time is a lot like you....

=0=
The Sky Opened Up
Rebecca J. Lewis
It's just one two three
Dash for the door
because today the sky opened up
and decided to pour
I'm quick trying to fit
between the drops
getting to somewhere dry
untill it stops
I think I'l make it
if I'm fast enough
I step in a puddle
soaking my cuff
Not such a problem
just a few steps to trudge
when I push on the knob
and the door won't budge
So I stand on the stoop
under a roof with no gutter
beginning to swear
under my breath and mutter
So I resign myself
I can't get any wetter
On a day like today
things can only get better

=0=

 
So Close...
MICKELL GOREHAM

 

   It's almost beautiful the way you seem to push me down so far... I cant
climb back up. It's almost relieving the way you drag out my ugliness (only
being blunt.) It's almost wonderful the way you cover up my feelings in a
blanket of lies. It's almost intriguing when you are so oblivious to all
my cries. It's almost exciting the way you love to hurt and hate me, but
it's almost criminal when I want to leave you just to be free. Why is it
 that it's always and almost...when it comes to you and me?

=0=

Never knew......
Seerjana Munjral
Never knew you were the one
Never knew u'd be gone;
Never knew u were the laughter...
Never knew u'd be the tear;
Never knew what u gave...
Never knew u'd take it away;
Never knew while it lasted..
Never knew it could end!


=0=

Job-Hunting
douglas brooker
 
she clears her throat, she looks up, and
she says,
 
         “what about this two year period where
         you don’t seem to have worked at all?”
 
and i get to say,
 
         “oh yeah, that., i was kind of in prison
         during that time…”
 
and i get to go on,
 
         “i got caught driving all this marijuana
         across the border…”
 
and it’s, yes, well, we’ll be in touch
only when i go out the door
you won’t be in touch
you won’t even file the application.
 
my seat on the bus tells me i’m done for the day

=0=

  My Dreams Of You
DannysGirl
 You'r eyes are a dreamy blue,
and hair that's golden in the sun.
 You'r lips are as soft as silk,
and you'r kiss I can't stop at just one.
 You'r face is where I stare,
and you'r body I love to touch.
 You'r skin feels so warm to me,
and the feeling almost seems to be to much.
 You'r body has a lustful shape,
and fits so perfectly against mine.
 You'r hands so very gentle,
and you'r a romantic of candles and wine.
 You'r love is everlasting,
and you'r taste is so very pure.
 You'r heart beat is soothing,
and during intimacy I love to endure.
 You'r words are soft and sweet,
and you seem to be my favorite sight.
 You'r touch is a pleasuring sensation,
and I can still feel you through the night.

=0=

Broken Up
Theresa

Love is sweet when it's with you
Though I never imagined to fall in love like this before
But I did, and now I'm grateful
Because you told me you loved me
When we were together
But I had to go and screw things up like I always do
And I thought I needed a break from this
But as time goes on I realized I made a big mistake
But now you don't want me
You probably never did
But you still showed your love
As great as any person ever could have done
But now I love you more than I ever did
And I can't even show you how I feel
Cause you found someone new
I respect that, because I would love to be where she is
But I can't
Hopefully she loves you like I hope she would.

=0=

THE MIRROR
Kelli

I awoke with a start as if from a nightmare,
Unsettled by my surroundings, can't look, won't dare,
All the voices and feelings get jumbled in here,
Once more I am thrown in the middle of fear.
 
I have been here before but it seems this is worse,
Asking God or someone, Why was I given this curse?
In a way, I guess I am to blame....
Wanting to be better and hide from the shame.
 
Denying the truth, thinking that can't be me,
The child inside yelling, "Hey, I wanna see",
We both catch a glimpse of someone familiar,
Only certain things about her seemed a little peculiar.
 
Finally, with great sadness I began to realize,
It was only me and could do nothing but cry,
The face that I saw was certainly a match,
But her eyes told a story I didn't quite catch.....

=0=

Seeker
by : Sabrina Peek
 
Thy heart is uneased.
Not for thy goods,
for thy inner needs.
I seek your comfort.
You have given to me,
all that I need.
I seek your comfort.
You share your love.
You give your wisdom.
I seek inner comfort.
Show your plan.
Give thy path.
I seek the inner comfort.
Please bring the comfort
from the whole.
Let the mind,heart,soul;
be bound to understanding.
=0=               

                    

Reservation
Alison
just another day
so much i want to get away
these places of abominable fear
takes the shape of a tear
i want to be apart of this Way
but yet i'm to embarrassed to say
i've lost myself in my dreams
i've been lost in the hope that gleams,
in my mind
i wish to run and hide
but shelter i do not find
because i can't confide
to the news ways of my birth, so
i must continue to grow
the only way i know.
=0=
A small room
Robb
Have you seen, my very small room,
It ís furnished so simple and neat,
It lies at the bottom of a ordinary heart,
Untidy, but very complete,
And the things that I keep in this very small room,
Are secrets that nobody hears?
Little pieces of hope and a jar of desire,
Apprehension and a tiny look of fear,
For you see in this room,
In this very small room,
All my thoughts and my destiny dwells,
And if no one can see in my very small room,
Then my heart it never can tell

=0=
YOU ARE
Kristin M
 
You are my love
My hopes, my dreams
Of everything in life
You are all that I need
 
You are my everything
You are my one and only
I shall always love you
You shall never be lonely
 
You are all that I think of
All day and through the night
I hope and pray to God
For you to just be alright
 
You are my love
My hopes, my dreams
Of Everything in life
You are all that I need

=0=

.....    princessofallmydomain@yahoo.com

poem:

Contemplation of an Ideological memory
naomi

 

Erotic notion proposed in slow motion chemistry
Sensitive extreme birthed kind dreams in tapestry
Interlocked by experiences now set in stone as blasphemy
Stubborn intuition trust future stamped vision
Juxtaposed by you... perplexed by me... hunh? Tough decision
Paradox of times changed and times as it should be
Extreme proposition to contradiction of how I see
Destruction of a kingdom built up by royalty
Thoughts of me, Thoughts of he, Thoughts of she... thought we had a family
Extortion of fond hearts jump started relevance
Toxic hostility torched all history no hesitance
No conscience nagging of should, could or would
Known recollection and common interjection of hard wood
Attitude designed around compromised destiny
Trapped confusion and delusion, must separate only me
Lost in morals and sinful love with no closure of perpetual lust
Unknown liberation and esteem self driven mindful escape
Honest loyalty, fresh breath, relations last debate

=0=

APOLOGY
By:Elbonian
It was a long time ago.
 My first relationship.
I had been pressured into it,
I wasn't really ready.
It seems trite, but it truly was me, not  you.
I wish I could do it all over again.
I would still have to break up with you,
but it would be gentle, in person, and with an explanation.
The relationship wasn't going anywhere.
I wasn't ready for it.
I was not really attracted to you, though you did grow into quite a pretty woman.
My philosophies and yours
would never mesh successfully.
We are just too different.
I truly wish you well, and hope that you can forgive me. I'm sorry.

=0=

READING BETWEEN THE LINES.
BY LEE STEPHENS ARMAGH N.IRELAND
 
 TO BE ABLE TO READ AND WRITE
IS A GIFT IN ITS OWN RIGHT.
 
TO BE ABLE TO READ BETWEEN THE LINES
IS A VISION WITHOUT A DOUBT
IF WE CAN READ BETWEEN LINES
ALL STRUGGLES CAN BE CONQUERED IN OUR LIVES.

=0=

Visited by death
mary kellis

How does one explain this pain?
How does one keep from going insane?
How can you keep from playing this awful game?
We all know the cursed name.
 
Several visits from the grim reaper
Each time he makes my pain grow deeper
But by the goodness of the almighty keeper
I have learned how to handle this awful creeper.
 
Six children I have lost
And that was such a big cost
With my feelings all jumbled and tossed
I learned to fight through that thick,thick moss.
 
Today for this I am strong
So maybe their deaths weren't so very wrong
Even though quite often I long
To hear my children's song.
 
So what can I say?
Except there will come a joyous day
When my children and I can play
In that field of dreams beyond decay.

=0=


Man in Line
Merrie K. Miller
And so we stand ,it’s expected that we do
After all we are “The family”
The people come beleaguered of media hype
They can’t know what it’s like to ride a cyclone to hell
I don’t greet people normally with swollen eyes
And rivers of salty issue careening down laugh lines
Puddling gelatinously below my chin
But today I will because…I am family
We must help the people pay tribute to quiet cinders
And charred teeth beneath a lovely sculpted glass angel
People stretch out their hands in curiosity and sympathy of course
Many faces I’ve never seen
An old tall man with sallow cheeks stands ridgid with right arm raised slightly,
Eyes watery and intent
I take his hand because it is expected of  family to do so
It offers no recognition but lays limply between my palms
His face is unchanged as he pulls his hand back hissing
“You must be proud Mother”
A cryptic bigot in Strom Thurmond land
Not an anomaly by any stretch
Evil in intent and purpose
That love should evoke such rage in you
By everything eternal I am honored to be this child’s mother
And further to her darker seed, a child who can be hurt no more
Every fiber presently bound In unfathomable grief
Has  now been loosed to rage against you
You who ignored the stained face and heaving shoulders
Nourishing your demons and grasping the pieces of my broken heart like paper on a roll
Leaving your foul deposit and Hell rejoicing

=0=

"I Walked With Jesus"
 Christi
In the mid morning light I awoke to an unfamiliar face standing above
me,
He stared at me with such a look, it was as if he knew me,
He reached out his hand and touched mine, then he spoke in a deep
voice, "Come on it's time,"
I didn't know whether I should go or not, but before I knew it my
hand was attached to his,
We walked into a shining bright light, it was as if we were walking
on clouds, white fluffy clouds,
He never spoke anymore words, he just walked in silence, complete
silence,
For a moment I started to feel like I knew him his life story,
We stopped for a moment and he turned to me and stared with this look,
a look of gladness,
He let go of my hand and mysteriously disappeared into the darkness
of the night....

=0=

"Fallen in between despair and that thing called love."
R.R. Flores
we ran along chasing dreams
dealing our hands, you and me
our dreams escaped under the sea
puzzle was complete that made it what love should be
been made in the sky, was everything to me
 
You came across the land
over the hills
you made it perfect
i found my thrill
 
falling from the sky
was the best of all
breaking the fall
tore the day thin
we’re back where we begin

=0=
DEVOTED TO LOVING YOU
by: Brooke Dunkle
 
I don't know what stunned me first
The fact that you loved me
Or the fact that you wanted to be with me
 
I don't know what's holding me back
From loving you fully
From devoting myself to you
 
You say that you love me-
but what is love really?
It's not just an act, or a saying,
Love is an emotion
 
The fact is I am trying to figure out how to give you my heart  totally
I wanna love you with my life-
Until the day that I die
 
If I gave you my heart, would you break it?
Would you stay true?
If I gave you my life, would you stay with me till the end?
 
Promise you will do all this
And I will always love you

=0=

Reborn
G Wright

Await my rising wings of fright.
Dispatch in darkness disregard.
None shall miss my flight this night
nor miss my bellowing hard.
Perched where angels tears begin,
soaring above vanishing clouds;
with talons sharpened razor thin,
slashing at my binding shrouds.
A transformation will take place
between this world and the next;
from dark to light in loving embrace
to depart this soul often vexed.
That when I hit that blast of light
a singular dove will be seen in flight.

=0=
REMEMBER.
Durlabh Singh
Remember
Poetry is the blood of your visions
It rips you apart against
The torrid consolidations of mundane
Strengths elongated in the retinues
Sparked for uncertain Verses in trials.
 
It wants huge skies to fly
It wants ruined castles for your dreams
Vast open spaces for its habitations
Wilder faces and unknown stipends
And the spirit of beauty for
Its hearty congealments.
 
Open up the worlds for incantations
The barbarous that do not hold
Shipwrecks of your flesh
Sinking downwards
Pleads of the familiar
In an unfamiliar word
Silenced petals and anguished flowers.
 
It flies to faraway lands
It reaches molten cores of earth
It dances on raindrops of hope
It talks with dry ghosts
In the scorched summers
It accepts the cindered fragments
Forms frolicking in the liquid sea
Or shadows dipped in nothingness.

=0=

 
In The Beginning of Love
Jonathan Bezahaloni Jr.     
I know you've been hurt before, but girl.
I'm going to try and give you the world.
when you're feeling down.
I will come and turn that frown,
upside down.
then pull you up off the ground.
Hold you in my arms.
Whisper, "i won't ever do you harm."
I promise that frequently,
I will kiss you gently.
Damn I move swiftly,
and I sweept you off your feet.
Very quickly,
and now it seems like I love you and you love me.
I swear that when you're around,I almost go crazy.
I hold you and you start getting shaky.
As if you were weak in the knees.
We got each other begging and saying please.
Our long conversations on the phone.
After it's you hang up, no you hang up because we don't want to be alone.

=0=

WE CAN'T STAND
Steve Greenhalgh
We can't stand
in front of you
taking the blows
absorbing the hurt
protecting
shielding
cocooning:
Therein lies
our very
particular
    pain

=0=

The stink
niri 
One extrusion, two extrusions, three extrusions more...
Four extrusions, five extrusions. STOP!  Take no more
 
Rotten eggs, vinegar, sweet fruity smells
Sulfurous, acidic and carbonyl brutes
Temperature, torque and frictional heat
Wreak havoc on polymeric beads
 
Autoxidation, chain scission, chain branching
Reactions, initiation, propagation and termination
Smelly chromophores with busted chains
Yellow and oozing like snot from a 2 year old
 
When will it end. When will it stop!
Antioxidants phenolic, phosphites and phosphonites
Acid scavengers stearates calcium and  zinc
Save the day and purge the stink
=0=
 LOVE THAT'S NO LOVE.
CHIDOZIE IHEBEREME

IT'S LIKE A FOUNTAIN THAT SPITS BLOOD
THAT CAN MASSACRE WITH A BLUNT SWORD
AS THE CASE MAYBE;
 
IT TELLS YOU  THE NEW MORN OF TODAY,
AND FIGHTS YOU TILL YOUR SOUL GOES AWAY
AS THE CASE MAYBE;
 
IT PRONOUNCES IT'S NAME TO BE HEARD
BUT DESTROYS WHAT WHISPERS HAD SAID
AS THE CASE MAYBE;
 
LOVE THAT'S NO LOVE EXISTS IN OUR WORLD,
SOMETHING THAT WHISPERS THORNS TO AFFORD
ALL THAT LIVES YOU HEART BROKEN
AS THE CASE MAYBE.

=0=

MOVING ON
Matt Zimmerman
 
Moving on, racing through life.
Clearing hurdle after hurdle, like I'm on a race track.
Never knowing when to stop.
Faster and faster I go.
Gotta catch my breath,  legs are getting tired.
Finally, I stop.
Sweat dripping, and my legs quivering.
As I stand, I realize I can't go any farther.
I peer over the edge.
There's nothing but emptiness.
I ask myself "where do I go from here?".
I look over my shoulder, and see many of the things I passed up.
So I turn around, and run back.
For that's why I'm moving on.

=0=

                             Untitled
                        by: Lucy L.

I remember his sparkling brown eyes,
as if he weren't capable of lies.
Being in his arms were always warm,
he was so cute and nice, which was always his charm.
 
I liked him so much,
I never wanted to lose that special touch.
I never told him how I felt,
like the way when I'd see him I'd melt.
 
I wished something would of happened between him and I,
that was a wish I could never deny.
But he was in a long relationship,
and all I saw would be just friendship.
 
Many days have past,
I got over him at last.
I'll always remember the times we spent together,
hope our friendship lasts forever.

=0=

A Hero's Star
John Daniel Sandoval
For what seems an age
a light shines from your heart
and I find your gaze
from mine not far apart
the fairytales beginning page
starts with cool blue waterfalls
that fall too slowly
to be controlled by any earthly bounded fate
and thus is such
your smile a hand behind my back
to hold me upon my fairytale journey
to fear no one's attack
from this romantic moment
till just beauty in closed eyes
the light the heals my heart is ours
for whatever journey through waterfalls is true
a hero's wish he makes upon the stars
   is that love will bring me back to you.

=0=

For My Brother
                                Kelli
                             June 24, 2003
 
Artist, brother, son, the many faces blend,
as the judge sentences punishment of ten,
Freedom now seems lost in a dream,
just when the door opens, I wake up and scream,
 
When I recall the turmoil of the situation,
when the judge spoke those words of denunciation,
My heart crumples to the floor,
not knowing what to say or do anymore.
 
Creation pours from his heart through his hand,
to offer some hope to the absurd circumstance,
Evil walks rampant in most idle minds,
I pray my soul to keep and mercy HE will find.
 
I only wish I could pilfer him away,
from this exile of life where he must stay,
Unjustly confined in a one bed cell,
holding his breath afraid to exhale.
 
Artist, brother, son the many faces blend,
as the judge sentences punishment of ten,
Freedom now seems lost in a dream,
just when the door opens, I wake up and scream.

=0=

 

Ashtar
Mekhled Naji Al-zaza/jordan

Ashtar...Ashtar
Here has become the heart.
By your love..
Beats from a new.
And became the pleasure breezes.
He sings and exceeds.
Then follow you..
Ashtar...Ashtar
We will pull the travailing.
And exceed the seas.
And overstep the mountains.
And by a decisiveness.
Ashtar...Ashtar
The delusion the delusion.
And expel the devil.
And my hammering the bells.
And declare by an eloquent sound.
The Christ's return
The breaths disinfectant.

=0=
LOVE
TANIJA CONSTANTARAS

Let me into your world
And discover who you are
Let me touch your soul
And intoxicate your mind
Let me whisper in your ear
And stir your deepest desire
Let me be Me


=0=

Hopeless
Christine
What I'd like to do,
What I'd like to be,
What I'd like to feel,
are just out of my grip,
barely out of reach.
Like intruders,
they meander like lost souls,
walking up and down the lon alleyways of my very being.
Door after door slams in my face as I try to keep up with it all.
Frantically running as if my life is passing me by faster then I can say.
Constantly struggling to be someone, yet I still find myself,
Hopeless.

=0=

SILENCE...
By Lorisa Mount
 
The earth was silent… not a peep to be heard…
At her funeral they sat, straight faces, not one said a word…
In her coffin all dressed in white…
She looked like an angel ready to take flight…
As I got up and began to speak…
Tears ran down my already wet cheek…
She was too young to die…
But we must all say good-bye…
Everyone dies its part of his plan…
The preacher said with a sigh and amen…

=0=

I can never say to you how I feel,
Or what I think about you.
Because the fear is far too real,
and I don't want to lose you.
But if I ever had the chance,
I'd say what I have meant to.
Your beauty's put me in a trance,
You are my dream come true.
Your smile can light a moonless night,
And It brings joy to where it goes.
Your laugh can sweeten a bitter life,
A feeling I truly know.
Your beauty, though, exceeds my sight,
It is deep within you.
Its a part of you, strong and tight,
Its what makes you.....you.
Allow me though, to tell you this
You are a wonderful person.
And forever, it'll be you I miss
Without you, my life will worsen.
So Ill wait for the time to tell you,
(Its the time in between I hate.)
But waiting's something  I must do
Cauz' you're definitely worth the wait.

Greg Lendino 

=0=
                         EMPTY CANVAS
                            by, Andy Scott

Behind a door,
 Beyond the recess.
Inside the shifting caverns, Which have never been blessed with light.
 Underneath the fathom,
Ages past the fold...
 The brilliant room awaits a sound it has never heard.
A clicking, A clanking from the keyhole.
 Before pre-conceiving,
And after the final thought,
 Sleeps the key which has never been found.
Such things are brother to the universe unborn,
 And sister to the fate unreached.
It mocks likes a canvas dancing for a blind man...
 Like a song, Sung unto a stone.
Within the instant that has never been,
 There is a stirring which has never ceased.
Behind the door,
 Of the brilliant room.

=0=

LOVE SONG 303
Kent Beaudry
 
tilt- a - whirl red
from the Outside!
peering in through
emasculated bars
of false rust.
adequate morphine
and mockery speckle
the dry brain cells
smuggling furtive speech
toward sterile
Purgatory,
who are we to argue
a microorganism?
out- in -   out.
your black turtleneck
hanging breathless
in a laundromat
on 24th street
(dourer than other
shrines that stake
the flesh)
where the Hill   fading
sags against balky
aesthetic climes.
in-out-in
i retch into the dirt
your numb exit
with the contradictive
ache of survival...
no more rides.

=0=

WHY NOW?
BELINDA HEATHER LYNCH.
I was raised as two
but then there were more
I had no idea
they would knock on my door
 
I was shocked
I could not foresee
what was to happen
when they came for me
 
My father was late
my mother had mellow
but still I didn't know
about this fellow
 
they didn't look similar
they felt like foe
I know it sounds cruel
but I just don't know
 
Do I shut the door?
or let them in
why is this my decision?
it wasn't my sin.
=0=

                                     A Dream
                      BY SOUMYA KURUP.

I had a dream last night,a dream unlike any other.
I dreamt that the word was a wonderful place,
The sun was shining btight on my upturned face.
Flowers bloomed on every hill and meadow,
Innumerable trees encompassing everything in their shadow.
I looked around and was pleased to see,that hatred had ceased to be.
Men loved each other and worked side by side,
Everyone was happy and free,no one had to hide.
Goodness and justice ruled,not strength and might,
Nothing was wrong,everything was right.
But then I woke up and saw the misery,pain and poverty,
And knew what I saw before was imagination,this is reality.
I saw the difference and thought,this doesn't make any sense.
Why can't we change,why can't we try?
Why can't we stop thinking me and my?
If we strive to make this world a better place,
our troubles will be but few.
And my dream may just come true

=0=

YOU STOOD THERE
mike morgan
 
you stood there, more than one hundred years
you stood there like a clock tower
casting a single shadow from dawn to dusk
before civilization
you stood there
they came with there ropes and their saws and pick axe
you stood there
they cut, sawed and they scratched their heads
they could not predict which way you would fall
you stood there
finally,  you could stand no more
you fell
you fell in the wrong direction
they cheered and rejoiced
they marveled at their wonderful achievement

=0=

The Greatest Gift
Jaime Rene Cooper
Time is endless, but time will come.
Scared of what maybe though eager.
I can feel you depending on me.
 
The wait is over...
Beautiful pain forever to be remembered.
How can this moment be described?
Are there actual words?
 
Bringing forth into this world a love impossible to imagine.
Every dream I've dreamed does not compare.
The eyes I've longed to see,
The breath I've longed to hear.
 
Crying has never felt so wonderful.
Happiness has never been so great.
So weak, so fragile as I look into your eyes.
 
I have discovered the most powerful feeling.
The love between a mother and her child.
                    

=0=

I WANT TO BE!
Maha
I want to be the world for you,
The world,
Where truth prevails,
Where there is no pain, no miseries,
Where there is no hatred, no sufferings,
Where love blossoms and springs from heart,
And everywhere spread its immortal fragrance,
Where flamboyant rainbow of hope bestows its colours,
Where spring smiles forever,
Where immortal sun of care shines,
Where trust reigns,
And blessings drizzle,
Where joy leaps and pleases the soul,
Where there is no fog, no mist, no gloom,
I want to be the world, that covers the whole,
But,
Can u be the same for me?

=0=

THE WOLF
By:  Allen Williams
There's no mistaking by the way it moves or that stare that one will give.
This creature known as the big bad wolf must kill each day to live.
With piercing eyes and blood stained fangs, a monster it sure must be,
But come to know them and understand, this creature is gentle you'll see.
 
They long for the love they rarely receive, they howl at the moon to pray,
That tomorrow brings the love they seek, and food for one more day.
A life so tough and relentless, to fight they must to survive.
Please look at this creature we call the wolf, and then you will realize,
Although they do not want to be the creatures so wild and mean,
It's their daily struggle to survive, with each day that life does bring.
 
Don't blame the wolf for what it does, for reasons that are unknown,
Enjoy the beauty of the creature you see and the mysteries that it beholds.
A wolf does not have restaurants, or a bed to rest its bones,
When it gets tired or hungry, you should pity the poor sole.
Sometimes a wolf feels lucky to be a member of the pack,
Until a bigger stronger wolf will fight, to push him to the back.
 
The wolf will fight to get its share of the food it helped to kill,
But order of the pack prevails, the weak ones lose their will.
It won't be long, a few years of life until this wolf will die,
Among the wild as another struggles to kill so it survives.

=0=
Thoughts and Feelings
Gabriele Kraus
Never met a man like you
Thought to found my love in Lou
Who could bake a partner for me?
Then I got your letter ­ Bee!
 
Your talk and laughter, so sweet in my mind
I felt, you are the one of my kind!
For you, my heart has opened door
I never experienced it like this before!
 
No more lies to any more spies
 
I wished, you could bear my silent cry
While time slowly creeps on by
You promised to call
But I am not sad at all
Rather feel pity for you,
Cause I kicked you too hard, even without shoe!
 
My Darling, I wished to turn to a dove
Fly all the way for ­ to stay in love!

=0=

" REGRETS"
Kelli

I am alone,
and the only one around is my soul,
The only sound I hear,
is me heart beat to each tear,
the tears that fall down the face,
of the one who lost who she was,
and because of this,
she is numb to the touch,
she lost all feelings,
for herself and the world,
now she sits in her room,
as a sad lonely girl,
She was too afraid,
to trust her own heart,
and because of this,
she has been torn apart,
now it's to late,
to admit what she knows,
that if you can't be true to yourself,
everyone and everything is your foe,
she thought she could handle,
all that comes her way,
but as soon as she might have to take a risk,
she ran far away,
she didn't want to get hurt again,
by the one who possessed her love,
so she though if she left,
her heart wouldn't get roughed,
so now her she is,
tears falling off her face,
wishing I could take back everything,
and to go to a better place,
where my heart will be free,
and someone might love me...

=0=


The  piano playing her song ,
a memory of cotton candy
warm air forcing humidity to
her lungs.
 
An atmosphere of courage and vanity.
Young hearts racing through time.
The sun lying adjacent to my world ,
giggles of sacred words unspoken.
the same truths swaying like the wind.

shirley    matthews

=0=

To my one true Love L. B. Jr.
Deshon Robinson
once in life you meet a soul mate
one with those special traits
once in life you fall in love
that one whom you always put above
once in life you find that one
who sparkles in your eye like the sun
once in life we find destiny
that someone who makes you see
 
once in life I met you
that once in life I felt what was true
now that we are apart
this once in life it hurts my heart
this once in life I miss you more than i can say
and now I miss you more everyday

I can't wait to be together again
to touch your soft silky skin
I can't wait to feel your kiss
for you to fill my heart with bliss
to feel your loving compassion
and know that our love is everlasting.
With all my heart and Soul

=0=

Days filled with sorrow, regret, and tears.
Of darkness, confusion, and painful memories.
A glimmer of light as a star among the darkest sky,
Can light his world of mine.
 
This world willed with pain, suffering, regret, and remorse.
With pail colors and light
Contrasted only with the dark, emptiness itself.
Now fills with a vibrant new color full light replacing the emptiness.
 
Blocking our pain and regret with only a gate;
A gate that can be broken with words and simple actions
Letting my old world return and y new life withdraw.
What is needed is a wall, a commitment.
 
To hold back my old, and bold my new world in place.
A world I have become to love and cherish
A world I long to share with a person
Whom I can both love and cherish.

Jessica Burdick

=0=

I'M IN A INSTRUMENTAL DREAM
Larry LaRue Dahmen

I hear the violins playing, the music is
so sweet
I wish the piano was being played by my
hands and feet
When the drums play my body picks up the
beat
I hear the flute, my ears tingle my lips
burn
I hear the guitars playing together or each
taking their turn
I hear the saxophones and all the other brass
playing music with such class
I'm laying here asleep in my bed
I hear an entire orchestra in my head
Listening to the music play with full steam
=0=
 

"Dying To Be Beautiful"

Antoinette Anderson
I am dying to be beautiful, can't you see.
It seems like everyone is happy, except for me.
I see the young, the popular, and the old.
I am wondering where do I fit, so my story must be told.
I am a young child, brought up in this world.
Needing to stay thin, so I just eat and hurl.
Everyone talked, and everyone stared.
Everyone whispered, but no one cared.
At night I cry out in despair,
All I wanted was for someone to be there.
For someone to see.
Exactly how society is killing me.
I must be light skinned
I must be quite thin
Living has become a sin.
Or so it seems,
Sometimes I wonder what kindness means.
No one gives out compliments,
but with the glare comes along a diss.
Negativity lives all around.
I want curl up and make no sound.
So the I won't be noticed.
But I can't let anyone know this.
See I am as cute as can be.
Yet I strive for more, so society is killing me.
I am so tired of trying,
I am getting tired of crying.
Look into my heart, I am dying.
Dying to be beautiful, Can't you see?
So why can't the world just love me

=0=

WHISPER YOU LOVE ME
Sharon R. Korek
 
Whisper you love me on the winds
And I will answer in the ocean waves
Whisper you love me on the wings of a dove
And I will answer by butterfly
 
Whisper you love me through rose petals
And I will answer in the clouds above
Whisper you love me in the sunshine
And I will answer in the moonlight
 
Whisper you love me through the waterfall crystal
And I will answer in the raindrops
Whisper you love me in the rainbow
And I will answer in the aurora borealis
 
Whisper you love me in the music sweet
And I will answer through Dolphins frolic
Whisper you love me
And I will answer with my love

=0=

Eternity
Aleia 
 We could fly above a ocean swim across a sea, make love by a fire as our love echoes in a dream. we could kiss beneath the stars hide behind a tree but no matter what or where we are our love will last for eternity....

=0=

An Ode to Friendship
Arpita
           A winter's sun, a candle's flame ;
              both keep burning, is there anything to gain ?
 
           A little bright star, on a cloudy night ;
              outnumbered it might be, it still gives out its light.
 
           A small spark can contribute, to a major fire ;
              just like a friendly man, who all love and admire.
 
           That's the power of true friendship, rare though it may be ;
              shining like a bright jewel, beneath the dark blue sea.
 
           It warms all hearts, it makes all smile ;
              bringing back old memories, in lesser than a while.
 
           Sprinkling fragrance and smile, in your life ;
              it multiplies joys, and divides grieves.
 
           You can be forever friends, from birth until end ;
           because friendship knows no boundaries, no stops and no end. 
 
           God could not be everywhere, that's why he made friends ;
              to make us feel special, all the way to the end. 

=0=

THE SILENT ONES
Akemfua Festus
 
The oracles still sound
As we seek dialogue with the gods.
The dreary intonation of aged drums
Still pierce still the mid-night air
As ancient rites impose allegiance.
Colanuts break in confrontation with the farmers fingers
Redistributing itself in communal harmony.
A thousand orifices feed the hungry grave
As the neck of the sacrificial lamb
Succumbs to the violence of the black machete.
But ancestors do you hear us?

=0=

A single rose, Does this prove my love or simply prolong?
Are the words of affection portrayed in a song?
Is there a book written to show us how to cope?
When love becomes obsession do we give up hope?
 
Is the answer in its petals or even in a thorn?
Is the answer in the miracle of a new life being born?
Are we all so distracted by its scent or silky touch?
Does the redness of its beauty deceive us so much?
 
A single kiss, does this show were meant to be ?
or does it simply blind so we cannot see?
Is there a time a place where love can exist?
Or is this lonely feeling going to persist?
Is the answer in an angel or a pathway in a dream?
Is the answer in your heart or is that too extreme

Sophie Reynolds

=0=

AT THE END
Sandra Striga
 
Oh, my dear Lord
I am at the end of my road
My heart is half dead
Nothing bright is left in me..
 
Oh, my dear Lord
I cannot make one step
Without greatest of effort
Everything in me lost It´s sense...
 
Oh, my dear Lord
Dark is all  as far as my mind can see
No hope is left, 
Useless dreams no longer interest me...
 
Oh, my dear Lord
My soul is tired,  tired beyond rest
Put your hand on me, comfort me, for I am weary
And  can no longer think of  life nor death...
Encore I  June, 2003

Encore  II June, 2003

 

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