Footprints
the wonder in your eyes that fine day
imprinting our feet a warm long trail
on a beach one sunset one wonderful may
holding tight and lost from a blowing misty gale
the mischief in your eyes when you softly whispered
those sweet words they still vibrates the smallest bones in me
softly throbs a place in me where a cherub’s arrow entered
we let waves poke our toes a game we played with the sea
. . .
today i walk this beach alone and cloaked for the lack of you
but every feeling of your warmth lay within me enshrined
this beach feels ever the same but lingers the lack of you
memories of our time together still runs fresh in my mind
oh see i cannot find our footprint trial by the sea
so magical in my memories they seemed to be
and this sea ever playful has run silent with shame
i know it did rub off our footprints it is to blame
Innocence Wanted
lost innocence imprisoned cries for times of past
where believing everything is true forever did last
frosted face pressed by this window this pane of cold glass
lay thinking of gold and silver in this land of pale graying brass
gold and silver shining like pure and heavenly auburn
dreamed about sunsets on an emerald grassy meadow
wished to be pure and untainted a child freshly born
to smile and laugh that tinkling laugh when time did allow
run around to steal soft kisses from dew clad grass
then an innocent heart counted time for a day to pass
but not for an end but just for sparkling stars to shine high
to hear silent lullabies light years ago etched in this sky
now here lays this frozen face pressed on cold glass
thinking of broken love lost friends and a betrayed past
counting coins to meet ends of life in pain ever last
dreaming of innocence lost drop by drop as time did pass
The Wanderer
this pale heart weeps
in bitterness enshrined
these feet hardy and tough
through vast distance they walked
now trembles at every step
knees sinking to crumbling depths
these hands gave life
to those now long departed
now holds a stick sturdy
to keep this wanderer walking
these ancient eyes
now clouded cannot see
where lies the key
to unlock the answer
this body lashed in thousands
for heresy uncommitted
to a living hell banished
in eternal pain this crumbling body wails
and in this pale heart tainted blood fails
to keep this wanderer walking
so where lies the key
to unlock the answer
between endless stretches of sand
lies vast oceans no ship ever sails
red sun shines brighter this dying land
alight this fire steams life into vapor
with bitterness this parched throat cries
for unsalted water
clouded eyes see ancient forests dying
trembling feet walks on falling leaves burning
on this ashen ground lay a tired wanderer
in tears vanishing to vapor sizzling
with bitterness this parched throat cries
for unsalted water
where lies the key to unlock the answer
this clouded sight cannot forever see
and time counts in drops of water
needed to keep this wanderer walking
Pantoum: My Lover Sailed Away
smiling he waves from further away
in a ship sailing on sapphire waters
with tears my suffering eyes gives way
beat by beat my heart painfully falters
in a ship sailing on sapphire waters
they all went hunting for gold in new lands
beat by beat my heart painfully falters
i fear he lost his heart on foreign sands
they all went hunting for gold in new lands
he promised fruits from an emerald field
i fear he lost his heart on foreign sands
he is gone for long fear he lost his shield
he promised fruits from an emerald field
i wanted not treasure but his silken touch
he is gone for long fear he lost his shield
fear he met his demise oh i miss so much
i wanted not treasure but his silken touch
but only got wind caressing me these cold nights
fear he met his demise oh i miss so much
ever my pained cloudy eyes see ghostly sights
but only got wind caressing me these cold nights
sleepless in solitude as midnight wane
ever my pained cloudy eyes see ghostly sights
now over the hill i see his floating pale frame
sleepless in solitude as midnight wane
with tears my suffering eyes gives way
now over the hill i see his floating pale frame
smiling he waves from further away
this is my second attempt at the pantoum form, which i think is a great but challenging way for storytelling. ever since i read about it at dVerse – Poets Pub, i’ve been in love with it.
Sweet Embrace
let worlds melt in pattering drops
yet aches these two pounding hearts
may the pain for once blur away
in these soothing heavenly tears
just for one final moment
all memories of yesterdays
let them fade away
let them please give way
just for one final embrace
before reality shatters
our castles of sand
and tears us apart
as a tsunami wave
time shall finally come
when worlds shall make us part
with eyes raining tears we depart
written for the prompt Poets United The Thursday Think Tank #67 – Rain
The Message
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tired thoughts drifting abound
racing home
body stay still lay bound
left alone
among thousands around
blending into black and white
they live their dreams of tonight
blending into this background
those thousands fade away
a text message
a single line to my phone
blurs my world around
leaves me spinning
in a vortex
of my make
written for Poets United: Midnight Snack (003)
The Candle
i become one of the fallen
now let down and forgotten
to wither in the wind and mourn
like a candle about to burn
a candle once straight and firm
on top a crown of fire burned
now lay ashen wax fallen
in a mound liquid streaming
now i become that fallen candle
sorrow i have wrapped in a bundle
a mound of wax in deepest regret
tears streaming yet no one to cuddle
Window To Old Times
when i was younger
i sat by my window
dreaming of sights yonder
shaded by a cooling shadow
of an oak planted long ago
i saw the children play
that sweet boy from the hillside
play ball with friends from below
on a bicycle that beauty their teacher
rides on her way to school
and i saw the old folks gossip
about minute matters
they all brought a smile
and sweet memories to last
times does change so fast
in a moment it shatters
now every morning i open my eyes
the window to my old soul
then i open my cracked window
by that shady oak tree
i linger there wondering
where did the children go
where is their teacher now
does the city treat them kindly
i dearly wish so
this is my entry for Poets United Thursday Think Tank 65: Windows. the first time i’m doing so.
To Fly Without Wings
i woke one autumn morning
a crispy golden feeling
in the air a new dawn flows
and by my window wind blows
trees sway bare with leaves falling
on crystal water sending ripples
sparkling drops splatter around
distorting a mirror of sky above
i look up at the autumn sky
tiny speckles are moving away
in a file of dots further away
i do realize what i do see
swans are finally flying high
i was bound to fly i do agree
if only i had grown wings
that favor was not gifted to me
but i am not sad even a tad
a gift born out of the kernel
is snuggled safe and warm
by me is my love so eternal
springs are for love newborn
nourished in summer days
in autumns when the leaves fall
love grows strong cozy and warm
i look at this spreading field
coated in endless auburn leaves
rustling playfully to wind they yield
i guess the earth feels warm tonight
in its coat of auburn leaves
beside me is my gift my love
my beauty my wings of freedom
the only crowned one in my kingdom
in this new dawn of autumn
i relish every feeling golden
when wind echoes in playful blows
and come up knocking at my door
for wings i don’t crave anymore
because my love makes me believe
i can trace the path a leaf weave
i can fly higher without wings
Captured Motionless
.:in sleepless nights:.
.:i give up:.
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Aquamarine
to a faraway fantasy
to my island beyond
waters soundly blue
take me with you
take me in your wings
to my home of solitude
while i dream of lands yonder
wide eyes awake in wonder
make me fly higher
let me feel lighter
i want to forget
all my troubles
and all my fears
i want to snuggle and cuddle
to whisper sweetness
in my dream of solitude
let my fantasy fly
towards new dreams
to set my eye
i want my ecstasy cry
for dreams of more
make me imagine further
about lands yonder
make me fly higher
let me feel lighter
An Eternal Kiss
his own misty streets to the north
poverty adorns them as he walks forth
the smell of pigs and filth
yet he isn’t the one to loathe
the music of lonely children’s cry
noisy music he was asked to abide
but as he went by ..he knew not why
the cry was there to fall upon, by his side
green wind off the fields way off the city
and sunny solitude,slow floating leaves
upon the clear streams of water held such pity..
for things he hid in his sleeves
fragrant of flowers and browny sight of corn
with his left-over in the fields,
under the cotton-like sky he would have sworn
to the soil of his love
downy flakes of december, eerie silence of the night
had him laid awake with aching sighs
fixed looks in the pages, reflected by the candle light
did never kiss him goodbye
loving endlessly with expecting nothing in return
he might have died million times
rotting in his private shell within her flames he burn..
that shame he was wrapped in was too sublime..
desolated souls outside the window
floating around lost,that he had such pity for
despite his gaze, a symbol of life,
a world of solitary is there to devour
while he clinged to passion with spread limbs
there was things that he would miss
but towards the serenity as he slowly limped
tears for fallen, his eternal kiss
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