ENCORE III

~*~

TO THE ONE I LOVE

emma b.labrador

I don't know when I start loving you

I don't know when my heart start feeling

With feelings just for you

I don't know when my mind start

Centering thoughts only of you

I just know that my heart, my mind is full of you.

Oh, how much I love you

If you only knew

I do really care for you

And it hurts me so

Knowing you don't feel the way I do.

If I could only go somewhere far away

And start to live a life away from you

Then I could start forgetting

And if time is on my side

We will remain just friends.

~*~

Dedicated to my long awaited fiancé
greg sangel

Love equals pain which in turn makes us stronger. As we run from problems, we run from pain, that also causes us to run from love. The fear of getting

hurt is greater than the fear of death. Even if we try to make it work, we can never seem to get it right. once in awhile we find the one that makes every thing alright. Once in a while we get lucky. This is my once in awhile, I will not run anymore.

~*~

yesterday, i looked out my window,

and i saw you,

pruning your garden,

i saw you,

Yesterday, I was walking down the street,

and i saw you,

pruning your garden,

i saw you,

Yesterday, i was getting the paper,

and i saw you,

pruning your garden,

i saw you,

Yesterday, I looked out my window,

and i didn't see you,

pruning your garden,

i didn't see you,

Yesterday, Iwas told that you weren't going to be seen,

pruning your garden,

I didn't see you,

Today, I was sitting on a bench on my porch,

and i didn't see you,

pruning your garden,

you were sitting next to me instead.

briana telford

~*~

Melissa’s World

Dedicated to my friend Mel who fell pregnant at 14.

By Rachael Armstrong

Your world is falling down around you,

There’s nowhere to run and hide,

But if we hold onto each other,

We can hold up the sky.

But now the sky is getting heavier,

And we are losing our grip,

Alone we’re holding the weight of the world,

And the world is starting to slip.

Now you call in your family,

And together hand in hand,

Your world if lifted right back up,

Now we all need to understand.

What is happening to your world?

Why is it falling apart?

With so many people who want to help,

You don’t want to play your part.

You need to tell the people close to you,

Your problems and why your sad,

Cause they are the only ones,

Who can turn things to good from bad.

Your friends are always here,

To lend a helping hand,

But please tell you parents,

They will always understand.

~*~

Does death hurt ?

Nitin

I heard once

mum said

Death Hurts

It scared me off

I was scared of it

I used to do nightmares at

nights

Trembling and Sweating

But then i discovered

something else

In the Dark

In the Night,

Love...

It hurts more than death

It kills more than death ever does

It takes up your soul where death

can t even dream of taking you to

Love hurts

It kills

~*~

THE MOON

Durlabh Singh

The moon

Oh catch the moon

Put a noose in its nose

Bring it back to harness

The icy wilderness of the noon

Sprinkle it with flowered dew.

Catch it before it runs

To penumbra of sun hide itself

Oh run and run to recover

From suffocation of grief & bart

Stiffen its dust with tears

Or the ceremonial flood

Of the tidings of the present

The anti poetic

Peregrine of the sedged cart

The olibanum of crushed heart.

The moon

Oh catch the moon

Catch it till it runs

To the hilliard mansions

The septic pun

Where the master of hounds sleep

With his metallic face

Turned to the wall

Where under the greenish shadows

Shines the dool

The moon

Oh catch the moon

Catch it before it runs

To the penumbra of the sun.

~*~

Break Away

Hayley Oliver

Why do I adore you?

Is it because you make me feel like I am special?

Do you inflate my confidence when its hard?

Is it because you make me feel like my brother does, like i am growing and your already there and you like what you see?

Is it because you are something I shouldn't have, something forbidden to me?

Does it make me feel special when you kiss me and leave

A whisper of what we could have, but cant

Is that all you felt you could give me?

Is that all I can handle?

Maybe you are right

Did that make me feel special?

Why do you adore me?

Is it because I let you escape, let you fly away?

Is it special to you?

Is it a blade, dangerous but enchanting all twisted

Do you want me, or is it that you don't want anyone else to

Your face when I walked in with italian flavour, it didn't suit me

Was the kiss a release, or the ignition

Did that make you feel special?

~*~

The One I Loved

Joel Shields

i loved her with my whole damn heart

but she just grabbed it and broke it apart

it hurt me so much all i let out was a sigh

and started wishing that i would just die

i will never be able to be myself

cuz i will be thinking of her and nothing else

as i write this poem the tears come to my eyes

and stream down my face as i begin to cry

there is no recovering for me

i said this once before, why cant u see

that i will never love again

that's right, this is just simply the end

~*~

Pain
Davina

My head is throbbing, I feel a beat like a constant smash to the head.

I close my eyes and clutch my ring tightly.

please go, please please go

Silence.

A dog barking continuously, muffled voices, it wont shut up.

Pain.

It hurts so bad, im now seeing faces, faces seen never before till now,

a young woman reciting

Mary had a little lamb, little lamb

Blurred.

An elderly woman, her mouth taut, eyes bright

mouth the words

This way my dear this way

She leads me to a hole, all around is black.

I can only make out her withered figure.

The hole is rimmed in gold, patterns of some unknown language

and within the deep black mist I notice a bright miniscule white dot.

Months Pass.

I strain to open my eyes.

I can’t do it.

Something so simple is now difficult.

I am lost yet to be found.

~*~

Emotionless Tears

Brian Coover

Coils and blisters

Savage of the mind

Burned and tainted

Make your life the hardest of times

Malice and wraith

Pleasures of the flesh

Seething blood and emotionless tears

Cold stare through the soul windows

Skin and bone

Twisted and torn

Veins and mundane

Eyes of the customs

Dares and intrepidness

In vain dances and vogues

Terrestrial motives and stereotypes

Cataclysms to an end

~*~

GONE FOR GOOD
Olamilekan

It was painful parting with you my friends yet

It's more honourable to give than to get

Though you're all gone but it's for good

To start a change beginning from your neighbourhood

Like God in whose image I was made

Who loved the world so much that he gave

Therefore release you with your vision

On a mission to revive our dying nation

I encourage you to go all out dear friends

To survey the walls of Nigeria to make amends

I need you but the nation needs you more

For her past glory for you to restore

A mentor of mine sang with tears in his eyes

'It's our time', our time to rise

And I see the change beginning in their neighborhood

That my friends have gone for good

~*~

Often I question myself, why is my world this way and why does it stay? We're growing apart. The walls have already been torn down. Although I know what I feel in my heart, I keep asking when did this start? Will it end or stay the same? It's like losing control of yourself... Just another day. The cage is closing in on me. I know things I say, I don't really mean to when angry and in rage. But the love we don't engage is the cause of this phase. Sometimes I hate you. Why don't you leave? I'll be in pain either way; If you go or if you stay. My friends insist I'm crazy for wanting to be with you. But how would they know all that I'm going through? Maybe I am just crazy and don't know what to feel. Love is a thing I didn't mean to make real. I know I need you and I do believe you when you say it's mutual. I never thought I'd crave another human being quite this way. It makes me joyous when you fulfill the wonderful things you say you will and help me stay warm throughout the !

cold, lonesome nights. Thus, you are my one and only light. I'm sorry that I confuse you so. I suppose I just really don't know. But I will not let go. Maybe I should surrender and let fate carry on over these train tracks, though they might lead me back over the same lumpy hills. It's out of my own free will and sometimes when it seems we can't proceed any further I guess our love will guide the way. I know you probably blame me for having so many emotions blended in my head, but it's a feeling many go through. This is a battle we may not lose, for we can gain strength enough to improve.

Jasmine W

~*~

The Silence of Death

Katherine Johnson

In the silence of death,

When nobody breathes,

A new life is thrown forth

Into the arms of an unwilling mother.

It cries, it yearns,

It dies.

Too young to understand.

Killed by itself.

In the silence of death,

When nobody breathes,

I died.

~*~

FRIENDSHIP

by: wendylane l. lemeric

Friendship is a thing that lasts forever

between two people that share it together

a lovely thing that is treasured

and forever it will be remembered.

Friendship is a promise made in the heart

even though people are destined to be apart

it is unbreakable by distance

it is unchangeable by time

Friendship is a fun thing to share

to a person who really cares

it is always on the go

when the pace may seem slow.

Friendship is silent... it is unwritten

it does not need to be spoken

it is just felt by heart

and is not made to be broken.

~*~

TOGETHER

Roy McWilliams

If there was ever a past life

were together then.

If there is a future life

will be together again.

But for now all

have is the present and every second that

are apart a million stars

die

and choose rules

supreme.

~*~

A New Look on Life
Jessica Hellams

I stand back

and pull myself

away from the world.

With mild amusement

I watch what goes on.

People

Their always trying

To out do one another.

Trying to do their best

Saying life's so hard.

But yet, they have it all,

They look down at the lesser ones.

Laughing at those beaten down.

They come and go

Whenever they want.

Always trying to stand

And rise above the weak.

What's their point?

If there so sure of themselves

Then why do they need

To stand on others?

Are they scared?

Afraid that if they aren't there

The world will fall?

Ah, but look, on of the lesser

One's rises up.

Lifted up by love.

Respected because of their

Concern and care for others.

Those who are high

Begin to fall.

And they become

One of the lesser ones.

They learn the true meaning of life

And that life will always change.

But we can survive

For the cycle will soon start again.

~*~

there (with you)

britt spano

(with you) I am walking down the busy streets

parting ways betwixt and between

the money monsters, drunken beasts

the beautiful blondes, the cancerous, the diseased, the breasts, the tans, the teeth, the venomous, the miniskirts.

The Japanese waving their "tourist" flags synonymously with their cameras attached to their skulls.

The English with their sweaty brows.

The children with pointing fingers and reflections of castles and towers, and rollercoasters, and all the bright lights in their eyes.

The bleeding hearts of wealth lost, lust and love of a small taste of crime.

Mass civilization encompassed by ethereal beauty.

Slaves existing under the materialistic fabrics of the daily life.

In a hole, in the desert, in the sand, near the palms.

Under a cloudless sky and on the sun-scorched pavement.

A culture dictated by ATMs, Fast Cash, and black jack.

This is where I left my heart.

Under the bright lights, in the slot machines.

With you in the desert.

~*~

HURDY-GURDY

Marcelo Posse

In my house

Writing riddles in my yard

10 little Indins cadaveric

Gnomes

Fall short of dead poems

Gone poets dumb-mobs

Sweeping out all dull rooms

Broom the skulking naggers in their

Skulls.

At the shrinker

The dumb-dumb-crowds walk barefooted

Not me! I had an happy childhood

6 feet below 6 feet yonder

2 doll-gnawd-clowns

One DEVIL one ANGEL

No kinder than strangers

Grinde

~*~

That's the way it goes...

Sue-mari L. sauer

And it’s sad but that’s the way it goes

Something that only shows

In the words of a poem that nobody knows

And it’s sad but that’s the way it goes

Something that only grows

In the hearts of the spirits that nobody knows

And it’s sad but that’s the way it goes

Something that only glows

In the minds of the people that nobody knows

And it’s sad but that’s the way it goes

Something that only flows

In the soul of a man that nobody knows.

That’s just the way it goes…

~*~

JOYE JOYCE JOYCECUTIEPIE!!!

WHY ARE YOU SO BEAUTIFUL! AND I DON'T NO WHY!

YOUR SMILE TAKES MY BREATH AWAY!

AND YOUR CUTE SMILE MAKES MY DAY!

YOUR CARING NATURE FEELS YOU'R AN ANGEL!

WHO HAS A KIND HEART AND A SOUL FULL OF LOVE!

A FRIENDLY GEM LIKE YOU IS RARE TO FIND.

WHO HAS A INNOCENT SMILE AND A COOL A MIND!

MY HEART ALWAYS POUNDERS ON YOUR EVERY MOVE!

PLEASE TELL ME O'JOYCE,IS IT MY OBSSESION,OUR FREINDSHIP,OR MY LOVE!

THERE CAN BE THOUSANDS OF GIRLS ,BUT YOU ARE THE BEST!

AND "LETS MEET AT LEAST ONCE, BEFORE MY SOUL GETS REST!

DILEEP MANIKRAO SOHNI

~*~

DESTINY

~Cassiopeia

One man's pick of destiny can turn another man's into Hell,

One man's time of betrayal can put another man in a cell.

One man's wrong move in life can cause another man pain and strife.

The world is so undeserving, screwed up in every way,

Yet we're given more and more to work with each and every day.

We send off our elders to make room for our children

But the children don't want to stay.

We tell the kids we love'em, we say we're not above 'em

But we really don't give a damn.

Destiny's a long, hard road but we could walk it,

If only we could choose the right path.

The whole world knows that we've gotta choose now

Or we'll die in the aftermath.

One man says to another, "Peace to you and your kin,"

That man turns around and uppercuts him in the chin.

Well you can say you'll love 'em or you can say you'll shove 'em

You're never gonna know what's right.

The whole damn world's gone down the drain, it's all just one big fight

You can argue with someone you care for

And they'll die the very next day

And that one last "I love you," is somethin'

They're never gonna hear you say.

You see, sarcasm brings a little truth into life

It's the necessary pain and strife.

This isn't something to laugh at;

It wasn't meant to make you cry

But remember my little saying,

It goes, "Just before you die..."

~*~

SONG

By Joe Duvernay

Mook to jugglo in flashes.

My paint enhances,

The throb and the dance are same

In trances claim a new Rage

Call it Rock and slam a friend,

As tutored tempt and trained

Open hand to slap sane

And otherwise be sainted.

"The ages have been

At work on it,

Man can only mar it."

Presidents spoke, speak

Now and when we left

Hear the strain, what sense

To say these things of nature

Ours to ply uncharted waters

Done so long ago and now

Wan waste records on ledger.

I.C.P.(Insane Clown Posse)the band,

Theodore Roosevelt the President

Anatolia the Turkey

Sophia the Church Built by

The emperor of Rome Justinian,

Turned long since Mosque and museum.

Archimedes' wheel,

To inveigh the lot

A shank and leer of spent

Shall quit the spot

So lengthy upending, flap open

Cannot top ours in this time of sweat

You say it's the `arc of implication'

Can Armantrout, may inveigle;

We so much sing songs without.

~*~

Angel Wings and Cloudless Days

Jason Suptic

Peaceful rest comes not to soon

for pure reasons I can't explain.

Thoughts of heavenous angels falling to the ground

Make something beautiful seem plain.

One angelic spirit falls on to me,

but I realize it one hundreth of a second late.

The one captured glimpse of her eye.

The one hundreth of a second I failed to realize,

makes everything seem ugly.

I blink my eyes as I feel something enter.

As I open them I begin to comprehend what it was.

Looking around at all the new sites,

I found it was her eternal lustful sexuality,

resting in a non-sensual loving eyesight of the world

I realized I gained her wings.

~*~

DISTANT

Laura Lee Van Haun

Your current distance, causes this resistance,

reluctance, to allow myself to wish for your

indulgence, unsure of your true intentions,

for they could just be inventions of this

imagination. Often in solitude, I recall the

way I longed to be the object of your affection,

while pretending that this befriending was all I

was intending, restraining from relaying to you

how your eyes seemed to contain the crystallization

of perfect droplets of rain, and the way their

ability to hypnotize engulfed my mind. Pondering

why we never explored the possibility of

progression after expressing our confessions,

you claim it was due to my coinciding relation,

which I had no hesitation in informing you

that it was ending, that question no longer matters,

as still I live without your joyfilled laughter.

~*~

Graveyards

Satish Bahl

Amidst the chill of silence,

the kind and the arrogant,

The thinkers, the lovers,

the pious and the wayward

rich and poor

descend into the dullness of their graves,

Dust to dust.

The birds fly above mindlessly

but the snails leave tell tale marks

where they roamed on the gravestones

Marking their new territories.

Their trails shine in bright sunshine

while the pansies laugh

and the roses

sway in the fitful breeze.

Graveyards are where.

differences are forgotten,

grief for the stricken

And the departed

blends everyone in a holy communion

where one does not think of own loss

but becomes a participant in someone’s,

life’s final episode.

~*~

so many things to say

so many things left to do

all i can ever accomplish is running around in circles

because im completely lost with out you

you who makes my world turn from light

to blue

which is one of my colors i might add

adding you and i would make a nicer two,

or so i believe

believing in my dreams which have lead me here,

to tell you the truth i would rather be there at your side

while we sleep

sleeping in each others arms will chase away my blues

as well as yours too, just think of what we could dream together

two sick minds lost in each others void

void the matter where everything else matters

but these are all the things we already knew,

then why do we keep so far apart

why must the chemistry we share come unglued

or is there any chemistry to be shared,

and if so why do i feel so lost,

why am i bleeding my self to you

i'm forever lost

and would rather be lost in my world

where things get lost with you

raven_poe

~*~

I compare every women to you and every hand running

Across my back to yours every prayer I say is rooted

In you our lives could be here our hearts are always

There our dreams come fast and unknown spoken on the

Lips of love or on the wings of another flying calm

Across the sea with hope for faith and change even

If I'm not great I'm great to you and you to me

Running around could never be just walking and

Admiring the leaves how they beat and fall and color

All rain they do fall from tall fathers greater gifts

Are in hands not boxes with dancing words not wallets

In the song of another in the arms of a mother I still

Say my greatest gift was the first day you held me

Not anyone around just the promises and hopes of a

Mother to a child...

Eric T Jorgensen

~*~

DON'T LET ME FORGET

Adriana Garcia

Don't let me forget my library book

That's two years overdue

Don't let me forget my book report

That's late by a week or two

Don't let me forget the dishes

That are piling up on the sinks

Don't let me forget the litterbox

'Cause, boy, it really stinks!

Don't let me forget to vacuum

Get the juice out of the floor

Don't let me forget to set my alarm

I don't get tardies anymore

Don't let me forget my homework

I've got "E's" in every class

Don't let me forget that before I skip recess

I HAVE to get a pass

Don't let me forget your birthday

And your other one last year

Don't let me forget that it really hurts

When you try to self-pierce your ear

Don't let me forget to feed the cat

Wear short-sleeves when it's hot

Don't let me forget to tell you that

I forgot what it is I forgot!

OPEN MIC ENCORE I The Love Poems

Encore II

OPEN MIC ENCORE III December, 2002

OPEN MIC ENCORE III
December, 2002