OPEN MIC ENCORE I
April, 2004
I Thank you
Timmy Edgar
Life giving all pump swollen and primed
My heart picked you up and helped you to find
Our two energies have now, become aligned
You’re so wonderful & nice, as you allow me unwind
I Thank You
Our aura’s reach out, for each other they grow
Approaching our love without doubt, as you know
Two life’s plan’s together, running in time they flow
My peace, love & harmony, you’re happy, & it shows
I Thank You
You’re so sweet and I just love to hug you too
Your kindness is so rare, your heart so pure and true
See your inner beauty’s so lovely, & this love song is for two
To be so bold as to say my life is enriched & it’s, because of you
For This, I Thank You
-0-
I wish i didn't have to say goodbye
To the man i've come to know
i wish i didn't have to say goodbye
why do you have to go
just when things started to get good
when my heart began to soar
just when things started to get good
you must turn and walk out that door
i know its not your choice to leave me
this has been your dream forever
i know its not your choice to leave me
i just want to be without you never
i only have 4 short months left
to sit and gaze into your eyes
i only have 4 short months left
to lay with you under starry skies
what will i do when the time come
to watch you step onto that plane
what will i do when the time comes
when, now, no one can ease my pain
i wish you good luck where your going
you know im happy for you
i wish you good luck where your going
i'll be right here waiting for you
Lianne
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MIRACLE
Carol Chambers
The biggest miracle on earth is at of child-birth
The woman's anguish and pain followed by her joy and gain,
The father feeble, humble frog in throat
his whole life over his daughter he gloats,
Her eyes shut, her body small
for his family he wants it all
but instead of the bundle of fun
He's stuck away and armed with a gun,
He wants his home, he wants more
But first alone he must fight a war,
To be a soldier, he'll do the best he can
to stay alive and become a family man
This is not for fun or a game
Not when there are five people with his name,
No more a life of what i did's
Time to fight and live for his kids
What is the best miracle on earth
Yes it's child-birth
As he's in the desert dew
His seed inside of you
That tiny body, mini hands,
He laid and dreams on the sands
and wonder if he'll ever see her
His new tiny little daughter.
-0-
Lies be told
Tim Stefan
Time that has been, now is gone
Reflecting the silent color in patterns of hand crafted technique,
Found during those days of sunlight rays, we always thought we’d lost
Never learning from the mind blown memories of crystal & teak
Cause today as they say, is the moment when we fail & leave the rest
undone
In an inaudible whisper that fools like me still seek
For answers in the past to a future
Where there are no reasons to mourn those who bravely die
On a rockfaced podium, hung before all, ripping open the night
To an unfolding screed of airwings spelt on gossamer glide
But, when all the lies be told, all the cleaver tales sold, none of us will
hear
A craven syllogism of patriotism that floats on a dubious tide
Or makes one moment seem to last..
In recollections that leave all the rest to be &
Some go through life w/out leaving any ripples as they pass
Fore what never occurs, never stirs, our debts to omitted history
Like mimes leering at those scarified rocks toward light thru glass
As remnants of the might-have-been, a twice retold story
Of missing sounds & the failed chances to say
Why regrets keep us up at night, or who among us is fast
Forging what is seen, so sheen, no other outcome could be possible
Along routes not taken that still gets to our memories of the past
Stall the pace, nor slow the race, & cannot buy back a single day
Or make it linger & change the first from last
-0-
Love is a funny thing, a hurtful thing, a lasting thing
Love is a horrible thing that will never go away.
I thought I stopped loving you
But I never knew it wasn’t true
I thought I stopped loving
But I never did and I never will.
I tried to convince myself,
To believe that it was true.
I tried to make myself see nothing
Deep down inside of you
I tried, really I did, but it didn’t work.
I cant fight it anymore, I gave up.
Love is a funny thing, a hurtful thing, a lasting thing
Love is a horrible thing that will never go away.
I still loved you all those times.
All those times that you would put me down
I'm sick of it and tired of it
Accept it, for once in your life,
Accept this love that I am giving so willingly.
Love is a funny thing, a hurtful thing, a lasting thing
Love is a horrible thing that will never go away.
I thought I stopped loving you
But I never knew it wasn’t true
I thought I stopped loving
But I never did and I never will.
But I can still try
Can’t I?
And if I cant, then I’ll just pretend.
Sandra
-0-
2:justin
stephanie
let me hear u whisper
sweet things in my ear
let me hear tha song
tha one i've longed to hear
let me touch ur face
and u can caress mine
let me hold u tightly
and let tha time fly by
let me tell u things
i haven't even told myself
let me be urs
give ur heart to no one else
let me be tha one
always on ur mind
let me be that gurl
u never leave behind
-0-
I am Woman!
I am a female, a daughter, an auntie, a mother,
a friend, a teacher, a lover, a cook, a poet,
a writer, a speaker, a granddaughter,
and all of the insight my fellow man needs
to express through me because I am woman!
Paula King-Romero
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MY EYES
By TANYA BEAMER
Tell me what you see when you look in my eyes.
Is it innocent purity or deceitful lies?
Maybe it's remorse for the things I've done wrong,
Or maybe it's sadness for the one who's gone.
Look closer still and maybe you'll feel
The events that have made my life so real.
The ability to pull something from deep within
And to fight my battles and to somehow win.
Can you see the strength that my character holds?
The trials I've been through, they've never been told.
The devils I battle with every single day,
When my heart says give in and just let him stay.
Can you see something deeper, wanting to give?
Wanting more meaning in the life that I live.
I only want happiness to be surrounding me,
For my heart to be light and my spirit to be free.
So when you look in my eyes are they clouded with pain?
Or do you see a joy there that can't be explained?
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You will get through this!
Melissa A. Maher
So I thought that when his heart betrayed me,
I would never be okay,
Well damn I was young and wish then I could have known,
That with time the pain does go away.
My soul, then, filled with purity and hope
Had dreams of a “fairy tale” love,
But it’s reality that sets in, and removes the blind-fold,
That luckily showed me the true person he was.
It’s sad to give your whole heart to someone,
Who takes every inch of love you can spare,
And it’s the “always you giving, and him always receiving,”
That makes letting him go easier, when you start to outweigh and compare.
Yes, he will blame it on you that it didn’t work,
And yes, you love him, so you’ll believe him at first,
But It’s only in time, your heart will know he’s for the worst,
And that things will be okay when you put yourself first.
I know the advice never seems to help, but just know,
That With every strong woman, comes a strong soul,
it’s the bad with the good that makes our hearts whole,
and it’s the “You WILL get through this,”that I know now, but had also
been told.
-0-
Surrounding Mists
butchiesmom
A fog surrounds me as I walk,
It moves with each step I take.
The present clear, the future dim,
The past shrouded by its mists.
When crisis ends the path I walk,
The shroud lifts for a moment.
I turn around, the past is clear,
And I see what the mists have hidden.
Misdeeds compel the path I walk,
Each step, a day I’ve lived.
I smile or cringe at each step taken,
And the mists descend again.
Again, the fog surrounds me as I walk,
Accompanying my journey through life.
Concealing steps already taken,
Mists shrouding the path ahead.
-0-
UNTITLED
LEON LEACRAF THOMPSON JR.
IT'S HARD TO SAY GOOD BYE
WHEN INSIDE I WANT TO CRY
IT'S NOT EASY TO LET GO AND GIVE YOU YOUR SPACE
CAUSE WHEN I DREAM ALL I SEE IS YOUR FACE
JUST NAME THE PLACE,TIME,AND DATE I'LL BE THERE WAITING OUR LOVE IS FATE
YOU AND I BELONG FOR ALWAYS
TOGETHER FOREVER I'M COUNTING THE DAYS
I KNOW IT EASIER SAID THEN DONE
BUT IF I LOOSE YOU MY WORLD WILL BE DARK CAUSE I LOOSE MY SUN
YOU SAID IT OVER,BUT I CAN'T LET IT BE
BIRDS CAN'T FLY WITHOUT WINGS SO THEY AREN'T FREE
I SIT AND THINK WHY I HAD TO BE THAT GUY,THE GUY TO MAKE YOU CRY,HURT,AND
BRING YOU PAIN
I APOLOGIZE AGAIN CAUSE PLAYING WITH SOMEONE HEART ISN'T A GAME
I LOVE YOU AND I KNOW YOU KNOW
THAT'S THE REASON I CAN'T LET YOU GO
IT CAN NEVER BE TO LATE
TO MAKE THINGS STRAIGHT
WHEN DAY TURNS TO NIGHT
LET ME MAKE THINGS RIGHT
-0-
Am I the only one that can see the loneliness in your eyes
You try to hide your life behind your own man made disguise
Torn and trembling you come broken back to me
You’re searching for a way that you can finally be free
You’re so afraid to love ‘cuz you’ve been hurting for so long
You’re afraid that all your pain will never be gone
But you see no colors it’s only black and white
Just wait with me and you will see
That through the dark there is light, there is light
You’re so lost and confused you’re bruised
You’re looking for an escape
It takes some time to heal the pain
But you don’t want to wait
Scared and angry you come running back to me
You think I can heal your pain but you don’t seem to see that
You’re so afraid to love ‘cuz you’ve been hurting for so long
You’re afraid that all your pain will never be gone
But you see no colors it’s only black and white
Just wait with me and you will see
That through the dark there is light, there is light
You know that I feel your pain too, yeh
You need to finally break through
Why can’t you see the damage that’s been done
Please don’t give up you’ve almost won
You’re so afraid to love ‘cuz you’ve been hurting for so long
You’re afraid that all your pain will never be gone
But you see no colors it’s only black and white
Just wait with me and you will see
That through the dark there is light, there is light
soul_sugar
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A Friend Is Someone
Carolyn Weber
A friend is someone who you are
Not afraid to talk to.
A friend is someone who will put
Everything aside to listen.
A friend is someone who will be there
When you need them the most.
A friend is someone who will listen
To your good and bad things.
A friend is someone who will give
You advice when you need it.
A friend is someone who will not
Judge you by what you say.
A friend is someone who will put a
Smile on your face.
A friend is someone who
You will not forget.
-0-
Come to Me
© biskitz4cheez 2004
When everybody has upset you
When the rain outside begins to fall
When you feel you've had a bad deal
And life can't get any worse;
When everybody's out to get you
When the sun for you no longer shines
When you cry and wonder why
Everything's gone wrong;
Come to me
I'll be waiting for you
Come to me
You know I will always be there
-0-
"May Bee Mine"
-"This poem I personally made just for May..(Bee) the one I
love".
Ryan Reyes
Is she mine, if I can count all the stars at night
Is she mine, if I wrote many poems as I could
Is she mine, if I paint her in her innocent smile
Is she mine, if I someone's grants me one wish
Is she mine, if I can be worth for her love
May Bee, if I came that early then she's mine
May Bee, if I only knew that she's waiting for me then she's mine
May Bee, if I'm selfish enough then she's mine
May Bee, if I'm not who I am now then she's mine
May Bee, if I'm the last man standing then she's mine
May, Bee mine if year comes that your free enough
May, Bee mine if day comes that someone pushes you away
May, Bee mine if hour comes that you can go without hurting someone
May, Bee mine if minute comes that when up above tells you that someone
here is meant for you
May, Bee mine if second comes that You and I were destined by god.
-0-
Parody of Andrew Marvell's "to his coy mistress"
Nandlal Kanjibhai Pancholi
We have no time to waste
Dear in Love let's make haste
I haven't time to praise your locks
For my boss at my back stalks
And for sheer platonic relation
Internet erotic sites I can't shun
And I have dates waiting in queue
If you dither
I will select any in lieu of you
My glabrous love should grow
like your painfully maintained eyebrow
And yonder before us lie
A chimney-tarnished sky
Before air pollution retards our respiration
Let our breath mingle each other in unison
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Your scent
(Anne M.)
You can make my day such a sweet one
By only smiling at me the way you do.
And your scent still lingers with me,
lingers with me from the moment you’ve gone.
It lingers from then on all day through.
Yet in my dreams I can smell your scent.
It truly arouses the wish for more
than to exchange amorous looks.
But whatever I wish or dream or intend
it’s only your scent that I may adore.
-0-
HAPPENSTANCE
By Jeanne Kay Juhos
It was only by happenstance
that I came upon the winding path
where the hollyhocks dance,
A heart still torn by winter's wrath,
warily, venturing through the veil
of green lifting, sunlight shifting,
new growth creeping, awakened from sleeping,
Azure blue begat the blooms
of dandy lions, like little suns
circling in merry festoons
where the sparkling water runs.
Now is the moment of the day,
Winter has no power now,
Now is the moment to kneel and pray,
Winter secedes with a bow.
Sunlight purrs all warm and secure,
preening itself in the brook's silver mirror,
Resting, relaxed on a rock of romance,
as butterflies dance with happenstance.
-0-
Will you be gentle in and out like a strong arm robber, and if you want we can
switch it off, with me on top of you like Marvin Gaye 'lets get it on',
because I'm feeling them vibes when I'm next to you, please don't get mad for
the way I think...
Let me know what's going on in that mind, you could be my psychiatrist,
letting you undress my thoughts not even trying to fight it, as you move on
kissing my neck, all you inside and excited, because you are the only one
invited.
You're sweating with a passion, I'll be loving the feeling so much, I'll feel
like crying, letting it out from a moan to a soft scream, my alarm clock goes
off, and I awake from my dream laying down, "why", just in my head a
fantasy, when it should be a reality only just you and me.
Janelle Cordova
-0-
My Passion For You!
BY KELSEY GABERT
WHERE EVER I GO I KNOW YOU BE THERE
WHERE EVER I LEAD YOU TO
YOU'LL BE THERE
ANY TIME ANY WHERE I KNOW YOU'LL BE THERE
CAUSE MY PASSION FOR YOU
WILL NEVER END
I ALWAYS KNEW WE WERE MORE THAN JUST FRIENDS
WE HAD MORE THAN THAT
NOT JUST THE THOUGHT THAT YOU'LL BE THERE
WHEN YOU HEAR MY PAIN NOT JUST THE FEELING OF ME AND YOU
ALONE TOGETHER THE FEELING OF LOVE THE PASSION IN YOUR VEIN'S RUSHING
THREW MINE IS WHAT I WANT CAUSE IT'S THE PASSION RUNNING THROUGH MY VEINS
MY PASSION FOR YOU
IS TRUE IT'S MY PASSION FOR YOU
FOR YOU MY PASSION ABLE LOVE
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Thoughts of you
"I wrote this poem for my father who passed away in June of
2002."
by: Leslie R. Preston
Cold winter wind swirls around me
I never knew that the wind could make you feel so lonely
As I sit beneath this old oak tree
I feel your presence
I turn to look into the sky, as if trying to find your face among the clouds
You have been gone for almost 2 years now, and my heart still bleeds every time
I hear your name
I thought that time would heal my wounds
But as I start yo cry, I realize that I'm only a fool
I'm afraid that this hurt i'm feeling will never go away
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Number 13
Mariahn Scarborough
If I could just…
Hold your hand unselfconsciously
Fall up into the sky of your eyes
Listen to your heart hammer out
The tattoo of your desire
If I could just…
Breathe in your breath
Before I cover your mouth
And taste the bitter chocolate
Fuel of need
If I could just…
Forget my own principles
Ravage your life with impunity
Locking out every thing
But pleasure
If I could just
Love
You.
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IN YOUR ARMS
Diane April
I need you to hold me so I don't fall
Whisper words of love in my ears
But your screaming and killing the fire inside
I call to you but no one's there
The blood pours from inside of me
As I lay in your arms
I close my eyes the fear follows me
Will I ever know a better life
I'm lost again from your lies
And I'm blinded by your deceit
My demons crawl to me
They whisper words of hate in my ears
My death lies next to me
Telling me it's suicide
He calls for me I won't fall down
I won't let go
I'm in your arms
-0-
Beauty must not be cruel____ O maid
for not the least befits this tendency
to those, of the refinedest materials made
but rather suits the ingots alike "clemency"
in the matrimony of souls heavens_decreed
so let yourself from taints alike be freed:
But heavenly ruth make your wont_ O lass
thy graces,then, more burnishedly shall shine
your triumphants even Psyche's herself surpass
Hear ,O, on this raptureous eve of Valentine
with attentions full absorbed in the serenade
by uncared one so dolorously being played
safdar
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Just friends
Todd Farrell
I see your face beautiful and proud staring back at me as if u felt the same
as I look into your eyes I see right past your soul into your hart as first
just friends then it all begins that moment in time seemed to last fovea it
might have been that long but what we had we felt was strong as your looking
back at me I feel a touch so heavenly as if u were an angle you made me feel
so indescribable I felt like I could fly up in and soar into the sky as I
look at you as first just friends then it all begins
your touch your stare that feeling was there as I feel for you I hope you
fell the same way to as first just friends then it all begins I wait around
for you but it starts to get to me this feeling its growing it spreading I
hold it in some time but then I just explode I tell you how I feel and the
worst part you know you thought it was a joke so now I sit here alone as
first just friends then it all begins
my life a mess with you it just the best you seem to turn me round bring me
up as I fall down as first just friends then it all begins no matter what
you do I want to be with you no matter what you say your voice carry’s me
far away as first just friends then it all begins I cant tell you though id
like to but I have to its just I think I’m in love with you.
-0-
heard bouncing against the tangled willow boughs
It weeps , shakes and eerily sways
with the swift currents crawling in from the halcyon sea
The last curlew can be heard
chirping a newfound mourn
as the backdrop bleeds with scorn at sundown
The last vibrant flames of sickly amber have withered away from the sun
And this goddess of light, like a crimson dandelion
is sucked back into the earth
The clamor of its vociferous clash can be heard from planets away
I look, and I see
The atmosphere is now like a boundless sheet
an opalescent cloak, all tattered and worn
with metallic specs of pyrite peeking through
I can see a starry configuration of you
spying from the sky
You converse with the moon
but are you deaf to my cries?
Sundown
-0-
Together…
anupam dasgupta
for every moment of sorrow that I have ever had,
we will create an everlasting moment of joy
together…
for every defeat that I have ever had,
we will win over priceless treasures
together…
and for all the lonely memories in my life
we would experience togetherness
together…
-0-
Rainy Evening
-------sannidhya misra
Big drops of roaring rain
Pelt on the hard ground
Drowning the rustle of trees
Smothering the hilarious winds.
Hapless musings founder around
Dead dreams, dried leaves gush
Down gullies into dark woods lush.
At dusk, moist memories remain.
-0-
To The Star Of My Ceaseless Night
Erica S. Miller
To the distant light
that warms my heart
I look up to you
and breathe...
In the heart of the cold and gloomy night
I lie naked...
as the cold vapor chills my skin
to my flesh
to my being
I lie defenseless
vulnerable and yet
Looking up
to the Star of my ceaseless night
and nothing matters anymore
but my Star...
I yearn for my Star to be close to me,
AND BE MY SUN.
How I truly long for you.
-0-
A MOTHER'S LOVE
Dr. Barbara Zinnamon
IT IS SUCH A BLESSING AND SO DEAR TO HAVE A MOTHER ON THE EARTH TODAY.
MANY PEOPLE DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE PRIVILEGE OF BEING WITH HER FOR WHO SHE
IS. HOWEVER, YOU CAN COUNT ON THE PRECIOUS JEWEL FOR SHE IS PERFECT MOTHER
THAT IS SENT BY GOD. HUMBLE IN HER SPIRIT, NOT BOASTFUL AT ALL. SIMPLY A
WONDERFUL PERSON EVEN WHEN OTHER'S DO NOT THINK SO AT ALL. LOVING, OH DEAR
AND WHAT A BLESSED KIND OF LADY. SHOULD NOT WE ALL GIVE THANKS TO OUR
SAVIOUR FOR WHAT HE BLESSED US WITH. SHE IS TRULY A TREASURE, MORE THAN
RUBIES AND GOLD THE PLEASURE OF A GODLY MOTHER WITH A PRECIOUS HEART OF
GOLD. SO IF BY CHANCE YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT GIFT YOU WERE BLESSED WITH
YOU WERE BORN. HOW ABOUT TURNING TO EPHESIAN 6:1-3 AND LEARN ABOUT WHAT GOD
WANTS YOU TO BE. THEN, THEREAFTER, WHEN ALL IS READ AND UNDERSTOOD, WHY NOT
DO THIS FOR YOUR REWARD AND YOU WILL HAVE LONG LIFE AND JOY. SO TAKE MY
ADVICE AND DON'T BE FOOLISH, FOR GOD IS GIVEN US WISDOM TO KEEP US WISE.
BELIEVE ME IT IS A BLESSING TO APPRECIATE A MOTHER FOR SHE IS THE ONE THAT
BROUGHT YOU INTO THE WORLD. IF!
BY CHANCE YOU DO NOT THINK HER LOVE IS SPECIAL, JUST ASK HER WHILE
SHE'S LIVING AND SEE WHAT SHE WILL SAY. I KNOW THE RESPONSE WILL BE MY CHILD
I LOVE YOU VERY DEARLY, IT IS MY DUTY FOR MY CHILD TO KNOW HE HAS A MOTHER'S
LOVE.
-0-
Where there once was love,
There is now hate.
It flew away like a dove,
and arrived from hell's gate.
I used to love,
But now i taught myself,
Love is nothing,
Just an emotion waiting to sting.
Where there once was care,
There is now apathy.
The emotions are bare,
Where there once was apathy.
I used to love,
But now I taught myself,
Love is nothing,
Just an emotion waiting to sting.
I know it was there,
But twas let die.
Down my cheek a tear,
There wasn't even a goodbye.
I used to love,
But now i taught myself,
Love is nothing,
Just an emotion waiting to sting.
jennifer
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ONE
Donald Foster
With our souls intertwined, many years have gone by
Our hearts are still one, but we parted good-bye
My Soul almost died, with no life in my heart
My breath all but gone from love torn apart.
Unconditional love is my gift just for you,
Our minds bodies and souls are of one not two
Our hearts have been pierced and our minds left numb
But the love in our souls are still joined, they are one
As you look at our son with pure love you will see
That our souls are just one but the lives are of three
Then glance at our daughter who we love and adore
And again you will see that our one soul is four
You will love other men, spend time, laugh and have fun
But the truth to the matter is our soul is still one
When I go to my grave on my deathbed is you
For the soul of us both is still one-not two
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