OPEN MIC ENCORE

OPEN MIC ENCORE - Part One
October, 2002

TIME SPENT ON A FALL DAY

DON C

THE SPLENDOR AND MAGNIFICENT OF A WONDERFUL FALL DAY. WARM YET A TOUCH OF COOLNESS COULD BE FOUND IN THE AIR. THE TWO FRIENDS SAT WITH THEIR BACKS TO THE PECAN TREE, EATING AND TALKING LIFE. FOR THAT BRIEF MOMENT, TIME IT SEEMED WAS STANDING STILL. LAUGHTER MIXED WITH SOME SADNESS WAS WHAT THEIR CONVERSATION CONSISTED OF. MUNCHING PECANS, ENJOYING THE WARMTH OF THE SUN AND THE COOL BREEZE THAT CARESSED THEIR FACE, WHAT ELSE COULD THEY BE IN NEED OF. TIME HAS PASSED, AND YEARS HAVE SLIPPED BY. THEY NO LONGER STAY IN TOUCH, LIFE'S CHOICES HAS CAUSED THEM TO GO IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS. WHEN A WARM WONDERFUL FALL DAY HAPPENS, I OFTEN THINK OD THAT SPECIAL DAY WITH MY FRIEND.

~#~

Being 62

George Daily

Like life

This Autumn stream

Flowing over rocks

Carries beauty

As it passes.

~#~

ENOUGH
Bryan Armstrong

Do you ever feel that you're not enough

And are you kicking down the rough

Are you Flying under what you should be

Now you're starting to worry me

A star is born in a far off place

A wonder lost in you're space

For lost ambitions to be who you are

Because they all look very far

Is the curtain falling or is it already down

Are you still lost or were you finally found

I guess in the end it's really all up to you

And what you choose will be what you do

Now will you grow up or give up the fight

Is it goodbye or goodnight

Is the sun going to set or will it rise

When you collect the final prize

~#~

LIBERATED

AUSTYN NJOKU

And as gloomy darkness recedes

Like a rearwards staggering giant

Acute vision returns like

A long lost only surviving child;

Light floods my very dead heart

Revives and frees my stale soul;

I see the clouds so evenly part

Many white-winged fairy beings

Slowly descend and encircle me;

I feel light and pure like a dove

As innocence pervades my being

Sailing through silky convolutions

Spread like white endless lily gardens,

The air is painted with wet perfumes

And choruses from hidden cherubs

Lure and urge me gently on and on

With white soft wings flapping by

On my left and on my right side

Forming pathway to infinite whiteness;

I feel joy overflow the entire cosmos

I feel filled with warm sated peace

I forget to remember to look backward

Earth becomes a black blob so far away!

~#~

PLATINUM MOON

Nancy Neel

Twilight earth, dusky face,

Darkness spills across its face.

Platinum moon, lustrous light,

A perfect orb hangs in the night.

Majestic moon, colossal mass,

Reflecting bright as polished glass.

Grateful eyes, humble thought,

Standing small in this moonlit spot.

~#~

Alone

left out and confused

I'm missing you.

Lonely

Trying to be there

but no one seems to care

Where are you?

I need your hugs

your laughter

our talks.

Tell me I'm wrong

Everything will be alright

in the end.

Sarah

~#~

~Enchanting Angel~
katt diaz

Like a puppeteer you have control

Of my heart which you have stole.

You bind me in your chains of enchantment.

With these my reach has gone to it's extent.

Your love and happiness is wanted,

By a soul who wishes to be undaunted.

The way you speak in your vernacular tongue,

Sounds so hypnotic by the way how it's sung.

Sing to me my fallen angel,

About the place which you had fell

From careless hands that had dropped you.

Sing to me saying, "I love you..."

~#~

Sleep

Kris Rowe

Have you swam your green oceans,

have you prepared for your sleep,

did you stop to smell flowers,

have you time left to weep?

Will others remember,

did you touch someone's heart?

Did you revel in wickedness,

were you doomed from the start?

Your night is upon you,

pray to be blessed,

ask for forgiveness

as you lay down to rest.

The soldier is night,

and your guide is silence...

Dream now; you are weak,

follow lacking violence.

Do you drool in your sleep,

does it drip, just like wine?

Do you wish you could stop it,

do you wish it was mine?

~#~

YOUR NOBODY GIRL

wendy savage

What lives on in you

where no spark remains

passion and drive have long since vacated

your barren uncultivated plains

you're a cold empty house

with no fire in your grate

no plans shape your future

just a dead leaf in the wind of fate

Inherently cold you're emotionally dead

callous to the bitter end

your heart left when your brain wasn't looking

never to be seen again

my endless stream of childhood tears

left unwiped by your hand

wanting to bathe in the river of your love

but abandoned on hot arid dessert sand

so easily you ousted me from your life

with no vestige of guilt or sorrow

no more than an extra on your stage

not even a memory in your tomorrow

~#~

Love is against me

I am Jo Black and only that, I will tell you no lies,

U need know nothing more than I so love your hazel eyes,

I am here to watch over U, just like another blues sky,

If I was any closer, and you watched me too, I would take you to another high,

I am the arms that embrace you, and a shoulder for you to cry,

I am a shoulder so lean on me, and tell me what your heart desires,

for I am you're angel of love and war,

Jo Black, a servant and squire.

I hide beneath your shadow at night

holding U asleep,

for I am you're angel of love and war,

Jo Black, a servant and squire.

Love is but life as a challenge you seek,

it holds you high and embraces you when you're weak,

Should I ponder this retched earth,

and find that you release me from this curse,

beyond the flowers and over the trees,

at night I fear you hold the keys,

I pray to the one that knows and who sees,

that you live a wonderful life next to me.

~#~

A drop in the ghetto

There used to be flowers,

Where now there is mud.

They grew near the river,

That's now flowing with blood.

There used to be pride,

And they've taken that too.

The men with crooked crosses,

When they branded you.

There used to be weekends,

when the children played.

Now they line them up,

In a twisted parade.

There used to be a name,

People called you by.

Now your a number,

Waiting to die.

There used to be hope,

But that's still there.

It's all that's left,

In the stench of despair.

Berni Weisskamp

~#~

Born to fly free, like the wind.

Dancing with the ripples and the tide, a violent storm erupts from deep within the sea.

Yet the angel doth not stir, instead she cries.

Crystals cascading from her deep green eyes, to drown the whole world.

Lightning crashes, while yesterday dies.

It's intentions fall are no more.

Angel weaves her words, she lays her dark veil on the world, to shield us from her soul.

She lies her dreams upon the edge of a knife while she dances in heartfelt flames.

Radiating confusion as she watches her pretty dreams fall, crying once more as they lie broken and twisted on this dirty red floor.

Why don't you fly away pretty angel?

As the worlds engulfed in her tears, she cleanses herself in pale blue calm.

She leaves the worlds pain behind, as she starts out on this dusty road.

See she's learning to fly, but she has no wings, and coming down, it's the hardest thing.

As I watch her leave, I write down the story of of a little girl, who chose to be an angel.

Jessy Burns

~#~

"Gulls"

E. William Martin

I hear them

And I know

They can hear me.

My thoughts

Halting from the hotel

Of where we used to come

Sitting under sun

Glowing

Wearing dark and naked sky

Spinning like a top

To some bronzed man.

~#~

MEMORY

John Fleischman

I'd do anything for you to be "the one".

Well, almost anything.

And I don't mean "the one" as in forever after.

You know what I mean.

I want you to show me what it's like, to set me free, and to make me feel wanted.

I need you to be patient and playful.

But most importantly, I need you to care.

Comfort me with your hands.

Seduce me with your breath.

Heal me with your lips.

Everything I need you can give to me.

I'll surrender to you, let you do it your way.

Even if it's not what had been in my dreams.

For one night only, all I am belongs to you.

Leave me with something I'll remember.

Anything at all.

A kiss.

A smile.

Corruption.

Fingernail marks on my back.

It's all up to you.

One night.

Just one night.

~#~

STORY

Maggie Parks

From an unknown source

On a cold empty day

Falling into my life

Like a shadow that crosses a wall

We begin

Carving a space

Of words that spill

Sentences that collide

Plaintive sighs

Emptied with restless hope

Your voice reaching me

With a sound

In the night

We where just a story

Of a loved worn book

And this is where

We end.

~#~

Escape

My only escape is my own little world. I used to go there all of the time. But she took away my world and replaced it with something better. Now, she is my escape. Her laugh is the best. Her smile's the greatest. I escape into my mind where she's always there. I dream of her when I'm upset. When I'm hurt. When I need to escape. She is perfect. I've said that before. She's the perfect escape. I can be annoyed with family and friends. But, I could never be annoyed with her. As I write this, she is sitting right behind me. I escape from my worries and she doesn't know she helps me. someday she will. I wonder what her reaction would be. Then I get scared 'cause she might get angry. I hope not. Cause I know she'll find out. She's my Escape.

Mark Bass

~#~

once upon a time
Jennifer Birdsong

the princess

the only person to understand me

the only one to love me

forgot who she was

and to my surprise

forgot me

fallen like the princess she once was

I fell to the ground

broken

never to rise again

unloved and neglected

like a ugly hag

sadness swept over me

with a sharp dagger

plunged into my chest

I lay fallen on the floor

in a pool of blood

no one loving

no one caring

forgotten for all eternity

~#~

Walking on the beach-

sun sets, leaving tired eyes

to embrace the moon

shahed

~#~

Alone,

Every night...... in a dark room

longing for someone to remove this gloom..

Apart, away in another dark room.....

not close, but far we are...

There is someone feeling me.... loving me..... holding me....

Although..... we've never been together before

Saba

~#~

WHISPERING WINDS OF LOVE

By Sandra L. Wagaman

Lo, and I heard the whispering wind

Sound out your name

Like the lonesome wail of a far-off train whistle

As I rested beneath creations clouds of consciousness,

And its feathery fingers

Tickled my inner-being while the

Drum of my heart beat out the rhythmic pattern

Of the love I felt for you.

Whispering ever so softly, the wind enveloped my soul

And held it captive for too brief a moment

Like it suspends a flying kite

Then plunges it to the ground as if it

Couldn't be bothered with so small an object.

~#~

UNSEEN
SANDY BAILEY

THERE IS NO PEACE IN MY HEART

I HAVE YET TO SEE LIGHT IN MY EYE

I KEEP SEARCHING FOR THE PROFOUND

YET I AM WHOLLY EARTH BOUND

THERE ISN'T A PLACE IN THIS UNIVERSE

TO BE FREE, A SOUL SUCH AS ME

THE LIGHT I SEEK MUST COME UNIQUE

I SEEK THE YET UNSEEN

~#~

Sitting here by the window, watching the rain falling onto the ground

I think of you again, Why am I always thinking of you?

This must end, tonight is the end, It’s over..

I fell for you, I fell in love with you, And how do you repay me? You use me, You abuse me, You treat me like crap. What am I to do now? Keep my love growing? Keep surrendering to your touch? Each time you call it tears through me, When I hear your voice I wanna die...

Destruction… is what you remind me of, Hate… is what I feel now..

We could have been so happy, But you couldn’t stay, You had to find another

I don’t need this anymore, I don’t need you, I thought I couldn’t live without you, But I can fight, Fight all that my emotions throw at me

For I can find someone better than you, Someone who’ll respect me

Who’ll love me.. The rain reminds me of tears, All the tears I’ve cried for you, All the times you hurt me, But this is the last time, The last time I’ll cry your tears, For this is the end, This is goodbye..

Goodbye to what we had, Goodbye to all I gave you and wanted to give

Goodbye to all the pain, Goodbye to all my love, Never again will I need you, Never again will I love you.. I hope you’re happy with your life, I hope you’re glad with how it ended, Did you think you could drag me along forever? I guess you were wrong, Now it’s your turn to cry..

Samantha
~#~

Vision
imobannon

i can see us veronica-

in that house

with that ocean

and those mountains for a view

i can see us dancing

to some slow song,

sweet jane

or,

i don't know.

and there's a boy

he's 10 years old and strong

he plays football

and chess

says he wants to be like me

and two beautiful

little girls

olive skin

fair eyes

with your smile

your mind

i see us together

even in separation

you in the garden

me in the garage

both of us

tinkering

content

the way things might have been

if i had asked

while you were still listening.

~#~

Why

Kristine

I am here! Oh, please come back!

I cry myself to sleep, wishing you are by my side.

Wanting to hold you in my arms not wanting to let go

Oh why did you go?

I am here with tears in my eyes,

Just wanting you home.

Why did you go?

Oh why?

~#~

"HOW??????????"
AHYEINNE LOPEZ LAVIGNE

LETTING YOU GO IS NOT EASY
FOR I'D LOVED YOU AND YOU HAVE MADE ME CRAZY.
IT IS VERY HARD FOR ME TO LET GO OF YOU
BECAUSE ALL MY LIFE ALL I WANT IS YOU.
HOW I WISH THAT SOMEDAY I'LL BE YOUR BRIDE
BUT IN TRUTH I KNOW IT'S ONLY A WISH AND ONLY A LIE.
OH! HOW CAN I PASS THIS THROUGH..?
BECAUSE LETTING YOU IS JUST ONLY BEING HARD TO DO...........

~#~

In Love with you

Ingrid Kirby

in the midst of a october sky, I think of you.

Wanting to hold you

feel you warm skin against mine

Embrace in your arms

gaze into your endless eyes

kiss your tender sweet lips....

As i take a slow breath I fall deep in love with you.

~#~

Am I Running Away?

Lora Joy Cabanilla

With every rising sun,

I believe that there's hope

That everything will be alright,

And suddenly, I wake up

And the new day has just been gone

I must leave every dream and fantasy

'Coz they will never be reality

The hope that I hold in the

depths of my heart,

Turns into frustrations, as I,

go to every walk of life

And then I realize that,

the only way to depart is to simply say,

my long and last goodbye.

~#~

The little girl a bit too insane

Icing over her secret pain

She knows she doesn't belong

She always tries to be tough and strong

She takes her knife and goes upstairs

When she cuts herself her anger flares

She curses God for her despair

No one seems to notice

No one seems to care

Alone in her room it's her own pain she bares

Isn't it isane?

This little girl was happy once

This lonely girl is now gone

Isn't it insane?

I wish that I could help her

But she screams to let her be

Oh my God--how could this happen?

How could this girl have become me?

Jenn Creasy

~#~

My heart is like a glass,

fragile and first class.

There is no heart that is low or high,

There is only first, As well as mine.

My heart can shatter,

but that does not matter,

because what is done, can't be undone.

Noel Rojo

~#~

True Friends

Charity Johnson

At my funeral

You were my only true friend

You were crying

You were dying

Inside

Wishing that i was still alive

But this was meant to be

It was my destiny

To be an angel

Sitting on your shoulder like a tangle

In your hair

And I will always be there

You know life isn't always fair

I wish everyone would care

As much as you do

I love you

You are my only true friend

~#~

Musical Awakening

Sandra Tockey

I listen to music

for it stirs my emotions.

The notes all run together,

and forms an awakening

that comes out of my fingers

in the form of words.

It arouses my feelings,

enrages my soul,

for it is inside me

that the words are formed.

~#~

Tortured Soul

Pheonix

He sticks needles in his arm, one for each lover who has done him harm,

He can feel no pain when he is already being tortured.

A drop of blood for each lovers' sake, in addition to his heart ache,

How much more could he take, his sanity being blurred

Every razor, every knife, every girl he couldn't make his wife, oh his conscience stirred,

His heart filling with an immortal despair, The gleam of a knife raised into the air, bluntly his fate occured.

~#~

"DEATH"

Jon

Vengeful strains rain pain to the people

KKK clan meetings to hang the feeble

hatred burns in unjust cause

the devils voice whispers to us all

cause some will die by evils hand

cause evil controls the will of man

and man will do wrong as long as he listens

to deaths lost way deaths only mission

to take the life of those who live

but never repay the ones that give

give themselves to others trust

but thin death strikes down the just

the people must rise and realize there place

go to the depths of hell and close its gates

face your fears the time is near

when death will be struck down by his own spear

death thinks he's winning but its not what it appears

for this is the end of deaths long years

~#~

I like Whiskey on the rocks.

I like rum with my coke.

I like jack with my lemonade.

I like vodka with my oj.

I like marlboros for breakfast.

A can of copenheagen for dinner.

but there's one thing, that I really wanna.

and that's to smoke some Marijuana

Erick E. Severns

~#~

we have been through our good days

we have been through our bad days

We have had our laughs

We have had our cries

We have had our good times

we have had our bad times

In the end we will all have each other

Brittani

~#~

The meaning of life to me.

BILL BRADY 30-10-2002

LIFE is the most wonderful thing given to us, and as an individual I decide its path.

As it appears to be mysterious everything is plain to see.

With friends they are all around you, patient by your side.

TRUST is something we give naturally but we must learn not to be so judgmental

as we were all once the same.

With LOVE if you are willing, give as much as you can because it will return to you much greater as if it were a gift.

So to me LIFE although can be confusing, its destiny is to be decided by ME.

~#~

Though the miles be many, and the road be long

My light ne'er dims, my hope doth wax strong

That I should find thee, Love, when I awaken

Some sweet nigh morn again. I hearken:

The beating of our hearts I number

As time twixt Lightning Flash and Thunder.

Glory be! The sum it dwindles fast!

Naught heralds thy return to me at last.

Eric Lovett (...Missing my wife)

~#~

Friendship is leaving

When you leave, will you care?

Will you send me letters?

Will you keep in touch,

And hold with me your trust?

Friendship too strong to lose,

Tears too hard to stop.

Will you be there for me?

Like I was there for you?

To cheer you up when your crying,

to hug you when your blue?

Please stay a little longer,

And tell me you'll miss me too.

By Sarah Jane Edwards

~#~

My Love for you
Andrea Lopez

My love for you is o so true

Every night and day I think of you

My love for you will never end

Ill always love you even if we are just friends

My love for you seems so unreal

And just by saying I love you explains exactly how I feel

Crazy but i think god blessed me with an angel from above

And just to show you i really care i writing you this just to show my love

please never leave me cuz i really do love you

Especially every little thing you do

to my love ruben i love you babe

Alwayz'n'froever your Girl drea

~#~

God, y u let the devil produce kokain, it's seduced my friends brain's

I hope u can C, I kan not let this be

It's time 4 me 2 step up

I ask all 2 understand im bekum'in uh man

So it's time 4 me 2 rise & clear these Lies

Kokain, uh product of the devil

It seeps in my friends brain's, make's em' feel level

God, Alleviate Lucifer's hate & inaugurate my pear's clean slate

This Kokain' explains Y this pain remains

God, my Unique Soul's conflicted for my Dawg'z R addicted

Lord, 4 the life of me, I kan not C, Y u don't notice

The devil's got they life in that strife & there's no bliss

Well this man wont take-it

Show me that thing, Ill brake-it

Here me lord, no more, I DON'T GIVE UH FUK

Im fed up, please lord C that my friends R stuk

Jesus Christ pick em' up

Fuk the lies & Madness

These R desperate cries from Sadness

SOON, 1 by 1 my friends turn to the gun, BOOM

Now u kan find this Souljer on the boulder stare'in 2 the moon

God I kan't understand why kain's on this land

I ask all 2 perceive my art

Kokain's uh produkt of the devils deceitful heart

At the start I didn't know yayo would rip life's apart

I would have stopped them then, b4 it dropped 4 men

Kokain, put out from Lucifer's lust

Listen, as I Bust these absurd words my cheek's glisten

Emotion's Hard 2 speak, tears fallin' down my cheek

Dear god, please lord, My spirit feel's week

These Here Tears aint madness im writen

Kokain aint no game 4 my friends, there soul's R fighten'

Y u depressed, when I ask that they blast bak

Please, holy spirit, no lies, these my cry's kan u hear it

2 those who left take uh deep breath bekuz u escaped death

Things turned bad bak here & Lord knows I aint shed my last tear

I pray every night for the next day 2 B light

But for them, my dear friends, the kain's in they brain & it's dark

Left uh gaping hole in they intricate soul

I kant do no more, 2 many life's R tore

Last night I was kryin' & my tears reached the floor

My essence was dyin, flyin' out the door

I love my friends oh so Much

But they have my deepest trust so I must not speak

Just watch em' fall deeper each week

God, the stake's kokain creates bekum'z steeper each week

I want 2 ask them 2 stop the emotional violence

But it's un-fair, lord I swear my soul's been silenced

So I pray 4 u 2 help them get through what the kokain's about 2 do

When the clock strikes 11 and they soul's lifted 2 heaven

Judge them not as if they were addict's

Please c that was just they mind's habit

Understand - these boy's never became uh man

Please Lord watch over my friends

I now give my beloved krew up to u

Peace & luv

~**Chubz Written**~

~#~

ANXIETY

K. Christensen

There are demons that live in me I defeated one today,

They take control and run your life won't let you out to play.

I don't know where they come from but they'll consume you over years,

They thrive and grow more powerful from feeding on your fears.

If they gain you you'll be lost, inhumanity will take place,

Everyone will criticize with disgust upon their face.

One by one you'll find out who your friends are not,

Disregard their unawareness, do not feel distraught.

It will make more fuel for demons to suck away your breath,

A terror that burns out of control, you may question peace in death.

Death can't overcome them, they'll follow even past,

Find a way to conquer and be freed from them at last.

Hold a piece of valid self and nurture it with truth,

You may have to search to find it maybe back to early youth.

There are no magic remedies in a bottle on a shelf,

Only you can find the love that lives within yourself.

I promise a recovery a victory beyond compare,

To gain control and find your breath a solution to despair.

~#~

being friends is the hardest thing to do when you know in your heart he's the one you've always been wishing for, the one you want, the one you need, the one you'll never stop loving

Julianne

~#~

Only God Knows

devildog

I hear the songs

I see the shows

And heard the fairy tales of love so dear

Where does it come from

I don’t know

Who does it come from only god knows

I hear the songs

I feel so low

I see the shows

And I want to know

Where’s my special someone

Where am I loved

I’m loved at home because of blood

But where’s the love I see in the shows

I want to find that someone

I want to find the one who cares

Where will she come from

How will I know

Only god knows

~#~

I LOVE YOU

ASHLEY SHAW

I LOVE YOU

WHY CAN'T YOU SEE

I LOVE YOU

WHY CAN'Y YOU RESPECT ME

I LOVE YOU

BUT YOU' RE NOT READY

I LOVE YOU

I DON'T WANT TO

I LOVE YOU

SO MUCH IT HURTS

I LOVE YOU

~#~

Do you ever feel that you're not enough

And are you kicking down the rough

Are you Flying under what you should be

Now you're starting to worry me

A star is born in a far off place

A wonder lost in you're space

For lost ambitions to be who you are

Because they all look very far

Is the curtain falling or is it already down

Are you still lost or were you finally found

I guess in the end it's really all up to you

And what you choose will be what you do

Now will you grow up or give up the fight

Is it goodbye or goodnight

Is the sun going to set or will it rise

When you collect the final prize

Bryan Armstrong

~#~

WAS IT A DREAM

Eartha L. McElveen

Funnel clouds amidst a late night storm building with intensity . . .

Lightening pierces the dark sky illuminating every hidden crack and corner . . .

My heart begins to race with the force of a hundred thoroughbred horses. I relentlessly struggle to slow the pace, but it was out-of-control.

My arms are limp and my hands shake as I pace the floor wildly and then like a hunter stalking his prey, I crouch to the floor.

Suddenly a horrific feeling of helplessness and fear comes like waves of an ocean at high tide enveloping everything in its path . . . washing my dreams away.

My only escape from the turmoil was to sleep. When I awoke, I couldn't remember why I was so afraid?

~#~

I feel the heat, the soft whisper of a sudden motion,

I'm lost in you, your movement against the fallen stars,

Its sad to say but I think we will never be again,

Cause tonight I just may find the strength.

I put my soul on the line, my very self, all I am,

When before I can even close my eyes you destroy me,

The gun is loaded and if I get a chance...

Be here tonight and hold me tight cause if my finger shakes I just might..

And if I cant be this then I cant exist Ill just pray I wont feel a thing.

I face the sky my long time friend and tears stream down my face,

Their made of lonely depressing pain and streaked with a little fear,

I know this is wrong but I cant go on with one more beautiful day,

If I could only fall asleep and never wake up, be carried of inside of my dreams.

This is it, the thought's grown on me, Finally pushing past the odds, I hope it's not to loud, I dont want that.

And if I had it my way, they would never find me here,

Goodbye to today, I never got to see forever.

Stephen Talbot

~#~

SILENT SUFFERINGS

Yasleh Rita Ayu Mat Yassin

I screamed!!!

Nobody heard!

I cried!!!

Nobody saw!

I am surrounded

by people who are

squeezing me dry.

I am suffocated

by their needs, wants,

and desire.

I screamed

and they ignored me (nobody heard).

I cried

and they turned away (nobody saw).

~#~

Thinking of You

-Kryston Haag

Up all night, thinking of you

Praying that my dream will come true.

Hoping in time we'll be together,

Knowing in my heart

I'll love you forever.

He'll lead you closer one day at a time,

One of these days, you will be mine.

You don't believe me, who's by your side

Claiming that she loved you the whole time.

~#~

Deep in the depths of the forest, lives a mysterious figure that surfs the night under the moon. I warn you, your curse arrives soon. I sit near my night light, writing starry eyed. But something is happening: Street lamps are cracking, people are panicking, but I'm just sitting there- shedding one tear. Disasters are happening this year. I mourn for those who run and hide, cause I just bring out what's inside.

GeraMeyman

~#~

SPIRITUAL ENLIGHTENMENT

composed by: Bret Culliver/aka Cry Baby

AS THE MORNING DAWNS, ANOTHER DAY BEGINS

WITH OUR HOPE & DREAMS, WE'RE ALIVE AGAIN

WE GIVE PRAISE & GLORY, FOR THE TRUTH THAT IS IN HIM

FOR W/OUT THE BELIEF, OUR LIFE CHANCE WOULD BE GRIM

WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE, FOR GOD PLANNED IT THAT WAY

TO BE JUSTIFIED IN OUR FAITH, & WORKS IN EACH DAY

THERE IS NO LIMIT, TO THE LORD'S ABUNDANCE OF LOVE

WHICH DESCENDS FROM HEAVEN, LIKE ON WINGS OF A DOVE

~#~

Just Because
Susie Bohannon

Why do you love me I love you just because,

you are the love of my life, you have made

me so very happy. And I smile and say its

just because. I think God every day for

putting you in my life. When I get down

on my knees at night I ask God why he put

you in my life he whispers in my ear

just because,

~#~

The stars seem brighter

The roses sound beautiful

The wind plays with my hair

Picks me up for a ride in the clouds

My heart soon stops

My humble body tumbles down to earth

Faster then the speed of light

Lands in a field of morning glories

And its all born again.

vera

~#~

LOVE

TERESA FORTUNE

Love is misunderstood

But understanding.

How can love come with such a price

But yet not be bought?

How can love be so simple

But yet be so confusing?

People say love heals all

But yet it leaves so many wounds!

Loves color is red

But yet leaves my heart so black!

Love is the opposite of hate

But yet causes so much of it!

Maybe love was never

meant to be understood!

~#~

Earth Bound Child

Earth bound child hides in the mist.

His head is in the sky

And his roots are in the ground.

I will keep you safe,

I will keep you innocent

From this hell which our enemies call home.

You long to be free of the barriers

Which keep you in my arms.

You begin to hate, the one who keeps you safe.

You long for the smell of freedom.

Child understand, I vow to teach and follow the old ways,

Thus you shall too.

I fear the enemy will twist your mind,

And steal your innocents.

I blind you for your own well-being.

The pain and anger grows with in you.

You begin to plot your freedom.

That freedom though seems so far away,

But again you are blinded.

My followers may be abandoning me,

But I still have you, my child.

Your mind is strong though,

And I fear you may drift from my arms.

So I shall take away that window,

From where your ideas flow from.

You stand up, cry and fall down to your master’s feet.

You can only just remember the idea of freedom,

But now you cannot imagine it.

This confusion lays fear in your heart.

Normality starts to fall back in place for you and I.

My hands yet again cover your eyes,

To keep you safe and innocent forever.

I hold you tight in my arms once again,

And I remind you,

That you are an earth bound child.

By Danielle Kriegler

~#~

The Acceptance of the Inevitable

AV Fenton

Happy are they that contemplate

Nature's intricate scheme of things

And, in their minds, they can relate

To the inevitability concept It brings.

The acceptance of the inevitable:

That Nature never changes its ways

And what has been by It acceptable

Will continue to the end of days;

Its path was set from the beginning,

Its components intricately related,

Its mechanism immune to tampering,

Its destiny refusing to be deviated.

It looks upon all the human effort

To meddle in laws they cannot change

And knows that what's of real import

Humanity has no power to rearrange.

The wise quietly observe and ponder,

Unmoved by the frantic bustle about,

The futility of this labour and wonder

If the others will ever find this out.

~#~

Who knows what I’m going through,

Through this infinite darkness,

When I question whether or not

I will see the light again.

Oh how I hope just to get a glimpse of that light

That ever hopeful and radiant light

What have I already given for that light?

How much more will I give for it?

What else can I do?

Where can I go from here?

I can’t move,

I can’t breath,

I can’t see,

Without my light.

Do you know what it feels like to be lost,

To be lost and not know the way out of anything,

Not knowing if you’re headed in the right direction,

The direction that will lead you to that ever glowing light.

Oh how that light shines,

Never fading, never dull.

What I would give to hold that light?

When I get that ever so precious light I will never let it go,

Not let it escape my grip,

A grip that would take all my strength

But still would not be enough,

My strength alone cannot hold onto that light.

Greg Van Buren

~#~

HEARTBREAK AND TEARS

by: Jennifer Clewis

Heartbreak and tears,

That's all I can remember.

What was wrong with him?

Could he not see my pain?

I hear the screaming,

I remember the pain.

Why couldn't he stop his violent actions?

Why did he violate me so?

Those horrid nights come back to me now,

Remembrance of the innocence he took.

I feel his hands run over my body.

As I lay on my bed, I try to ignore the feeling inside me.

The overwhelming sickness is growing stronger each minute.

Thank God he is leaving, fixing my clothes.

Now come the tears I can no longer hold back,

Trickling ever so softly down my face.

He got his pleasure, and he gave me the pain.

I lay there wondering what I did to deserve this disgrace.

I wake up the next morning, such pain I have not known.

"No!" I think, "All this was a nightmare!"

Those nights of fear and pain, so easily forgotten,

Until I discovered them again.

Now I see what happened to me,

I realize my dad was not so.

He had no heart, for he couldn't have,

No, he didn't, his actions prove it.

I feel relieved to not have that "secret"

To know my family is there,

And to know that man I called "Dad,"

Can never disgrace me again.

~#~

Ticking Bomb

Lacey

I can't let go of this pain inside

I'm like a bomb waiting to explode

I have to hold on to this pain in side

It's al I've ever known

If i suppress it, it will leave

At least that's what I hope for

But be careful now, don't step on me

Anything could make me blow

Please God! Help me! I have to let this go

I can't go on a ticking bomb, it's to out of control

~#~

If only, momma

by Diana Rivera in 2001

Whisper to me, momma words of love you never spoke

Whisper

And choke your anger

And strangle that which lies within your cerebrum

And stab it

And leave it for dead

Whisper to me momma the things I never heard

The things I needed to hear when just a child was I

Whe 15 years old was I

When I awoke to bloody wrists and painted thighs

It’s too late now, momma

I bleed too much now

All the time now from my wrists and other places

Whisper to me, momma and do not shout in anger at me

Early in the morning

Late in the evening

Do not shout at me

Creepy crawly things lurk inside my mind and grow

Into my soul

Low and Behold!

I have grown

Tall sunflower shining in the glistening sky

But you deny me Momma

Momma

Momma you call me a dandelion

Momma I’m not a dandelion

You call me a dandelion in your grassy life

And you blind your eyes to the world outside the cage you built outside yourself

Inside your mind

Whisper to me, momma and put down the hand that abuses me so

Often that I have begun to like it every day before I awake

And twice daily on the holidays

Whisper to me, momma soft and tender

And put the gun that does not kill but tortures

Me and nails me to a cross to crucify me

Momma

Momma stop it

You squeeze my heart

Too tight

It bleeds

And I clench my fists in anger

Momma I think I may be a Jew

I think I may because

Because I think that you are Adolph Hitler

I’m looking in the mirror, momma…and I don’t see what you see

Momma

Momma if only

Momma if only you loved me

The way I do you

~#~

Forever On

by james quinton

life like time

will always move on

everyday a different song

what you had

you can never get back

don't let your world collapse

those who you love

will die one day

so don't hold back

if you have something to say

what you had

you will never get back

don't let your world collapse

life will always move on

forever on

let go of fear

and hold onto what's dear

the eternal wisdom

that's in our heads

trapped by the distance

of our voices

don't let your world collapse

what we had

we'll never get back

life moves on

forever on

~#~

Safe Harbor

D.D. Delaney

In the halls of justice and law

I've seen the gavel fall

on the heads of the innocent.

(My very own head has its lumps.)

From this I learned

the State is one cruel Mother.

Once giving life,

She loves to smother

it out, with glee.

Better to lay low here with me,

my love,

than climb the tree

of society.

Forget vanity!

The only safe harbor

is insanity.

~#~

TRANSPARENT

-Nicole Kleppinger

My song to sing...My final note on the subject of you

I thought it was, at least

over a year ago

But somehow you remain, creeping in when least expected

I saw you last weekend...you looked...SO GOOD!!

(Marine man...mmmhmmm)

It's been so very long

Your eyes actually lit up when you said HELLO! To me!

I saw it with my own eyes...and that causes me surprise

You're just supposed to be a friend of a friend now

An acquaintance with personal history with me

I still recall the way you kissed me...and made me...

weak in the knees

Oh, how I do hate that.

I wish I could not care about you

not care if your smile is sincere, or forced

not care if you have found love

not care...if you'll be okay

That won't happen though, because I always care

I've always cared in fact

I don't want to lament about a love that never was

that could one day...be...

I need to live my life here

while you're there, wherever you may be

Protecting us all...and protecting your heart

Because that is what you do...I see through you

But tell me...do you see through me?

My Final Note on the Subject of You...maybe

Open Mic Encore - Part Two

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OPEN MIC ENCORE - Part One October, 2002

OPEN MIC ENCORE - Part One
October, 2002