OPEN MIC ENCORE II August

OPEN MIC ENCORE II
August, 2003

ALONE.

BY Jim Porter

The nights are so cold,

When you have no one to hold.

And the clouds fill the stormy sky.

When there is no one there,

No one to care.

Your eyes fill with water and you cry.

Because when your alone,

And there is no one at home.

You feel so lost and blue,

You feel so down,

When there is no one around,

There is no one to say I love you.

You feel such a fool,

Why was love so cruel.

And why did it have to end.

Silver tears fill your eyes,

like rain in those stormy skies.

And loneliness is your only friend.

=0=

Why Don't You Listen?

Brandy Frietchen

Why doesn't a family always get along?

And why can't love always be shown?

Have you ever noticed how hard it is to say those two mending words?

I'm sorry, are words that can't just be said you have to say them from your heart.

So then, why?, is the question.

Why won't you say them?

Do you not realize the pain that you cause or how much you are loved?

We are all here to help you but you only push us all away and when something is said you don't want to hear.

Life doesn't have to be so hard you just make it hard for every one else when you do not stop to listen.

But don't listen for some one to lead you around but listen because maybe one of these days it may help you to live a little easier.

=0=

Words
Linwe

A word is life

Each one so precious

With out it we could cease to exist

We’d be forgotten

Lost in the endless time of history

A word comes with a sword

A double edged sword

Each edge always used

It destroys us yet saves us

It is loving hate

A word is life

So carelessly thrown at one another

It hurts and heals at the same time

A word is life

A word is human

=0=

Angels flying

in the sky

with falling tears

they wish to die

twists and turns

such violent shouts

wild crowds

and silent spouts

nothing heard

everything seen

and these are the years

which everyone grieves.

Chrissi

=0=

The End

Steve

Featureless wraiths with names we can only whisper man man their stations

like battle hardened soldiers

The malevolent machine, fueled by discontent, grinds guilty souls

Ah! But the light is bright!

Shining through a fog of apathy

"Fear not!" cry the foolhardy

Alas, the spirits are strong, seasoned by terror and treachery

The light dims

The end comes

Not with a crash and a clamour

But with a gasp and a whimper

=0=

ALONE

DEB TANKIENTZ

As the clouds are twisting and turning

I am alone

you can hear me crying

but I am alone

As the sun warms the earth

it forgets me

I stay cold I am not of it's worth

it just forgets me

=0=

WHO AM I

ALICIA SMITH

I AM ME

CAN'T YOU SEE

ARE YOU BLIND

WELL YOU MUST BE

IF YOU DON'T KNOW

THAT I'M ONE OF A KIND

YOU BETTER ASK SOMEBODY

IF SOMEBODY ASKS THEMSELF

WHO AM I

I WANT YOU TO TELL THEM

TO THINK ABOUT IT

THEY'LL SAY

I'M ME

YOU'LL SEE

=0=

Darkness falls, Insanity takes its lead

Awakening the fear inside from which it will feed.

A mindset for destruction, a heart that's filled with hate,

Who will be the judge of her eternal fate?

She plans to do the unthi÷ûable, a gun held to her head,

The voice inside convinced her that she's better off dead.

She pulls the trigger back, sheds one last painful tear,

An end to all those feelings of hopelessness and fear.

The echo of a gunshot and a body on the floor

means she will feel the emptiness and pain no more.

KATHERYN LOERKE

=0=

A wandering soul?
Written By Irene E. Gardner

Most of us know he was sent by God to this earth,

but not all of us know the real reason for his birth.

His life span was short,only thirty three years,

And the cruelty of his death brought forth endless tears.

His ministry here on earth , was to teach us God's Word,

But so many of us refuse to believe what we've heard.

We celebrate his birth with food and drink,

But it is seldom if ever that we stop to think:

Who are you baby Jesus,in the manger under my tree?,

Are you the one who came here to die for me?.

You really must have loved me to have suffered so much,

Then why do I want to flee when I feel your touch?

Why do I find pleasure in this world of sin?,

Is it because i've closed the door and won't let you in.

If you HAVE closed the door friend, why not open it this day?,

You may not have another chance, and it is so easy to say.

Help me to pray Lord as I ask you how,

To come into my heart Lord and save my soul now.

=0=

Whirlwings:
Gilly

Wheeling and dealing and running and crying,

Lashing and crashing and falling and dying.

Wond’ring and wand’ring and trying to kill

The pain.

Running, running, running.

Can’t get away.

Despair, one delay,

And it falls on your head.

Seeing something, groping, failing.

Whirling, whirling, whirling.

Sighing, then crying, then drying up inside.

Emptier, lonelier, faultier, saltier

And none for the wiser.

Tried but fell

Shorter than the flower that struggles

To grow in the rocky dirt.

=0=

One day I was filled with great doom

and was filled with just that

when I heard a great boom

and I fell down flat

then I started to shiver

because of just that

and I hurt my liver

because I fell down flat!

Joni Jones

=0=

"Dark Silence"

Translated from Farsi into English

By Shila Saidian

I have separated from my homeland without any spoken words

The one word that remained in my heart was like the secret that stayed with me

It was the one untold secret that was familiar with my tears

The word loneness was with me in my heart

The human beings were cold

The skies were dark

My only hope was a different tomorrow

I have stood up for humans and Adams

I only wanted the love and kindness

But in the end I lost with grief

So from now and on I leave the meanings of love in god’s hands

=0=

Shadows on the wall

Kristen.Z

It copies me, what i do

It sees me and it sees you

I wave at it and it waves back

it's colour is a shade of black

there's many things that it can do

Just watch it chase right after you

=0=

"Sex"

Based on a true story
Meagan

Sex is fun

Sex feels good

Sex can kill

Sex can hurt

Why do us creatures need sex to live

I never knew sex could do so much harm to the people I love

Sex is to make babies, not something for fun

Well sorry everyone, but I'm going to die

I never thought it could happen to me that I'd ever test positive for HIV, but I guess that's what happens when sex becomes fun.

=0=

COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN.

BY JENNIFER KALESKE.

Insistent chatter;

Vulnerable ears burning,

Ears that hear,

But don't listen,

The words spoken,

Are lost.

Pots and pans flying,

Words flung like debris,

Objects broken,

Electric air,

Incessant chatter;

Mind slowly closed.

A wall built, The words spoken,

Rebound.

=0=

THE DREAM LOST

jessica leigh kelly-

Have you ever had a dream, a dream right in your grasp?

A dream for your future, one in your past.

Just beyond reach, not to far ahead.

The dream of all your dreams, that every night went with you to bed.

You wanted it so badly and so close it was.

You fought for it so bravely, afraid you might mess up.

But it was so far, just fingertips away.

This dream that you had dreamed of, wished for everyday.

So much that when you could not reach it, more courageous you became.

You said that you would fight for it until you dying day.

So on you fought for years, courageously and brave.

Fought away the fears, ignored the things the say.

You fought so hard and for so long that when you look today,

You realize that indeed you won, you fought till your dying day.

Giving up is losing, not competing doesn't win.

You must follow your dreams and always hold up your chin.

=0=

Never shall I awaken

to a bright sunny day

Never shall I be cherished

by a mother who drifted a stray

I'll never feel the touch of a mother so dear

What did she do it out of?

Was it fear?

I'll never hear a song

or a lullaby

or be rocked to sleep as I cry

Never shall I smell

a rose so sweet

or have her her tickle

my tiny feet

Life is so valuable

you see

Why couldn't she just love me?

"Jessica "

=0=

perhaps

Ahamefula Paul

perhaps the difference in our dance

would have been apparent

if we had played a truthful tune.

perhaps the little love we shared

would have blossomed

if we had trusted.

perhaps....

if we had believed

we would still be here..

dancing!

=0=

"Hidden Away"

Trish Redshadow

Hidden away from the world, in a dark forbidden place

Forgotten and unloved am I a disgrace?

Time passes on, Moving fast moving slow

Still hidden away form the people I once loved

Hidden inside nights cloak....

Did they stop caring? Did they loose me?

Or did I looses myself?

There are many doors around me but none that will let me pass

Locked up and alone in this strange and dark place.

I hear the sounds of unfamiliar voices calling me but I can't see them

Who are they? How do they know my name?

Their voices are getting louder, and louder as thought they are getting closer.

I look around but still cant see, darkness has taken over my sight

The voices then fad away, now its silent not a sound in the air

Am I dead? Was that it? Am I lost forever in the unknown?

I feel a gust of icy cold wind traveling up my spine.

Still no sight but I can feel the color draining from my body.

I cant move, I cant breath, I cant see.

I'm cold, lost, confused...where is the light to guide me out.

=0=

you call

you promise

why did i ever fall...

fall into your game

i am trapped to the wall

you were so cold

too cold to get close

never once could you hold...

hold me through the night

why must you yell

why must we fight

i gave it all up for you

you think you're always right

the fights get worse

you slap and you curse

as i hit the floor

i hear a whimper

a simple gasp from behind the door

my child, my innocent love

has witnessed this hatred once more

my eyes began to blur

all my patience and understanding

were there no more

the metal in my hand is cold

though the sweat is pouring through my pores

he looked into my soul

i only tightened my hold

one shot rang out

my grip never altered

why...why i began to shout

it's over

this is finally done

now that's that

I FINALLY WON

Melanie Shaver

=0=

Belief
Kevin

How could my brains contain the roots of a goddess tree?

If this so lonely planet shows me overwhelming misery

How can I balance on this struggle of life after death?

If life has an end without harmony and regret

Why are people as blind as a mole whose eyes are sealed without light?

Or are they really blessed with color and the power to see bright?

But if this brightness was sharp as the tip of the mountains peek?

Then where is their cork that stops these stories to leak?

This leak is a waterfall that blocks the cave in my mind

This water is like a mirror that makes my eyes unblind

This reflects the most logical explanation straight to my brain

It makes me immune to the virus that makes people insane

A virus as infectious as a newborns first sinless cry

Makes even the most stubborn spirit afraid to die

The spirit becomes hopeless and suppresses this feeling in every way

By creating an illusion in mankind so acceptable that it makes him pray

Praying for a so called god, upper mighty and king of this fantasy

Some even call him the father of every living being trapped in this life with me

A father created by his own creation, the believing humankind

His children’s spirits so desperate to put these theories in our mind

So is my spirit wise and did it accepted his upcoming dead

Or is it just lucky that this virus is one of the things that he hasn’t met yet

And if we meet would my mind take the key as a gift and call it a wonder

And will it use it to open these doors to the unreality deep down under

So far I’m uninfected as a cold dark September night,

I seek no energy or time to challenge heaven or hell for a fight

Though I respect the victims of this sickness called religion or belief

With the same sympathy I give to a patient suffering of a terrible disease

Because I see it as a cancer spreading trough our society, trapping people in its net.

But it’s also a plaster that makes people unaware to the true meaning of dead

So waste your time with fairytales printed in your head, living like a slave

Or stay real and live your life free from the cradle to the grave

=0=

the enemy is time

2oo2 Donnie DJ Qualls

your walking in the cold shadow of the moon

you have lost your path and you cant turn back

because you cant bare to loose

the love you have for you

i saw you were running on that lonely trail

trying to get there at long last

but weren't they all laughing wishing you to fail

how much more do you have to take

what more could you give yourself that isn't fake

a smile that mocks , a love that lies

is your laughter for the souls that have died

is this all ,is this your fate

have you journeyed on such a bitter sea

are you trying to drown your iniquity

so you say fair well to all you hold dear

you can never see them again for your lonely lonely fear

rejection is your only vise and your only enemy is time

=0=

Validate my Feelings,

Gordie Buchan

To validate one's feelings to ratify, confirm grounded in self,

Perhaps not always true or right,they arrive when we are small,

now we are big and tall,it's more difficult to discover all,

A journey sure from boy to man let others see this valid reason,

Just in me view that necessity,Please to go,don't agree

Just stop and care till pain subsides, and life moves forward on,

Please see within my sad and lonely place, distance from time and space,The more my feelings validate be,I travel on not looking back

Raking over old and dirty coals, peace, contentment I will be free,

Till continual thought just pass away, to close the door on feeling bad,

Remove the feelings that made me sad.

=0=

X-TASY

Another MIZ_SHUG Original

Take me away

To an unknown place

As you rub my back

And touch my face

Take me away

To where we can't be seen

To where your my king

And im your queen

Take me away

To where we can be alone

Away from all b.s

Like people and cell phones

Take me away

And keep me there

Where we can just chill

In the middle of nowhere

=0=

She is my best friend,

and so is he.

something is different,

between us three.

I can't help but feel,

the way that I do,

I guess something inside me,

always knew.

They love each other,

more than one can explain,

something so wonderful,

comes with so much pain.

I love him,

and he loves her,

how can something like this,

just be ignored?

I guess things,

will never be the same,

I will always feel,

the constant pain.

Years will go by,

they will forget about me,

and they will always,

be happy.

Sarah Guthall

=0=

BROKEN

Chrystayana Brooklyn

I was full of life

Before you came like a thief

In the night

My eyes use to sparkle

When I seen a guy look my way

Before you said "I'm gonna do

what I want ok?"

I loved going out with my girls

Having fun and not knowing

What the night could bring

Before you treated me like a slave

With you as my king

I guess NO is a word you don't understand

STOP is just something you could never comprehend

So the word DON'T must be out of the question

I hate the thought if the feeling of your hands

And those damn demands

That you told me, showed me

So I let you have your way and even

Though your no longer around for me to see

I still see your face every day

Every time my child looks at me...

=0=

Why is it whenever i try to do the right thing,

I always do it wrong?

It just feels like i'm flying with a broken wing,

Singing the same old song.

I made a mistake, I'm trying to fix my life.

Now, here I am, watching it slip away.

The one person I had to turn to was my wife,

And now, I can't even be at home to stay.

My life is falling apart,

I can't catch any of it.

Feels like i'm holding my heart,

Only its not beating anymore.

Where did i go wrong?

Everybody knows including me,

Now I'm alone with nobody to help me out.

Someday I'll find my soul,

I left it back there somewhere,

Now its time I turned around,

Went back the way I came.

Because I know someday,

Things will never be the same.

joshua e slickerman

=0=

We Who Were Once Dead

Aaron Yoder

In the sleeper's graves they rot,

Their lives taken without a thought,

Their beauty taken by the stench of decay,

The flesh moving from the bones' way,

Beneath the stone lie the dead.

Vengeance on the spirit's mind,

Their killer their hands long to find.

The taker of life they seek to kill,

Their flesh refuses to lie still,

So from the stone rise the dead.

A horde of death incarnated,

The hunger of revenge is never sated,

Flesh is what they have want for,

Their numbers rising to more than a score,

So beyond the stone walk the dead.

Their teeth find the source of torment,

Their hunger stopped by his blood spent,

They lumber once again back to the soil,

Where they were meant to stay and spoil,

And to the stone return the dead.

We who were once dead have found

Peace and solace from the King brought down.

God sacrificed him so that our eyes might see,

The streets of gold and the Almighty,

So from the tomb rose the Lamb.

=0=

A Novel Life

sreekanthkopuri

I espy a bright face

with seraphic charm

glossy pink lips

and tenderness of juvenescence.

I feel a divine message

without a sound

there the soul slumbering

unruffled on this

flamboyant flower bed.

The body embellished

only for the soil’s sake.

And the embalmed spices for stink’s sake.

Ready to move beneath

six feet of earth,

The gateway to the eternal soul

for a fresh start of novel life

into the eternal

abode.

The sentiments,

the worldly opulence,

the Earthly fame it doesn’t take

it leaves behind only

the shrieks of

the devastated Loved ones.

The soul makes but futile

Attempts to console

its kith and kin

Alas! that soft milky face

shall only be

food for worms.

Grave is but a fine and

private place but none

I think embrace it

Willingly.

=0=

"TODAY"

by Tiana Nobile

tongues twined

with lies untold

scary mysteries of youth

the reckless and bold

the answers we burn for

the desires too shrewd

death to the sinners

the thoughtless and crude

let's lose this unfair game of woe

the earth seems to be moving slower than slow

the stars in the sky seem not to shine as bright

i pull out my ladder

and climb to the moon

i know in my heart

that i'll meet my destination soon

maybe i can

or i know i will

turn on the burner of all the stars' mighty glow

let's go away for awhile

to this crazy and distant land

let's watch the sky fall and glide among the sand

i want to live on a star

get away from this disaster of life

the wolves are crying from the wounds held at heart

their souls are breaking slowly apart

the mountains are drifting

farther and farther away from here

the flowers' scent seems not too clear

my lips are chapped

my eyes are dry

from the tears i can't keep in anymore

these tears for the dead

the suffering

the hungry

for my selfish face

and annoying persona

let's go live on a star

and not worry anymore

let's throw our cares away

and not live for tomorrow

but live for today.

OPEN MIC ENCORE II August, 2003

OPEN MIC ENCORE II
August, 2003