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Avalon burning

She was the final sorrow before Avalon fell. Yet indeed Avalon fell. Oh! Queen of childhood dreams how shall my honor renew. Oh. Innocence buried. Rotten crow feast and rusted armor cannot defend your brilliant crown. I scream to God it is she who wears the halo of thorns. As I suck air from the rip of the spear of destiny as it weaves fate into my twisting guts. Only a lost for you now....Read On

Added: 09 Dec 2019 | Category: Poetry | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 92 | Tags: flames  

Adagio

From A Rocking Chair

Home is where my inkwell stood on the promenade of my desk with its echoes of the past and dark roses in her hair of memories we shared so silently from a rocking chair So silently, would you be there? if I closed my eyes in dreams as the dawn awakes with a song from heaven's blue sky in the dew of the mist and rainbows of love With its echoes of the past and perfume in the breeze a brocade...Read On

Added: 09 Dec 2019 | Category: Poetry | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 99 | Tags: love  

Gaurav009

The Optimist

Optimism isn’t always impractical

A misfit character,   A misunderstood hero,   ' All is well ' was never his motto. Sadness never abstained from him.   Bitterness was a frequent flyer.  The biting sting of heartbreak,   Drenched often in his pool of thought. Cynicism was obvious,   He chose a smile instead. Perspective helped. With death he realized,  Came the value of existence. Mind traversed in new dimensions, ...Read On

Added: 05 Dec 2019 | Category: Poetry | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 133 | Tags: hope    

Ghostreader

The Fun And Glorious Chocolate

Whose chocolate is that? I think I know. Its owner is quite happy though. Full of joy like a vivid rainbow, I watch her laugh. I cry hello. She gives her chocolate a shake, And laughs until her belly aches. The only other sound's the break, Of distant waves and birds awake. The chocolate is fun, glorious and deep, But she has promises to keep, After cake and lots of sleep. Sweet dreams...Read On

Added: 03 Dec 2019 | Category: Poetry | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 103 | Tags: laughing  chocolate  friend     | 3 Comments

Adagio

The Boogie Woogie In My Gin

Clinging to me as darkness falls, with a clatter of echoes, as a shadow crosses your eyes, like a prism on a carousel. For it's just the twilight, of angels calling with sweet tea, brought to you, by Heaven Inc., or the boogie-woogie in my gin. With love's harmony and kisses, beneath cherry blossoms of Spring,   and butterflies with wings of gold, forever in my arms, I hold. For it's...Read On

Added: 02 Dec 2019 | Category: Poetry | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 87 | Tags: love   | 1 Comment

tonyal

Let's Go Liners

Once a Liner Always a Liner

Twas the night before the big game  And all through the town  All the people were cheering For their team to win the crown   Which side of the river  Will be the big winner  Whose gonna go home  For the best tasting dinner    Rovers of Easton   Black and red to the end Will the trophy go with them  Or will they be on the mend   The Liners of Pburg  Bleed garnet and gray ...Read On

Added: 28 Nov 2019 | Category: Poetry | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 136 | Tags: football  rivalry  high school  thanksgiving day   | 5 Comments

Time

An unbroken bottle

I found a note in a bottle. It must have floated halfway across the sky. Who knows the wonder in such a journey. I have been alone all my life. Try to understand how my hands trembled as I uncrumpled the edges. Return to sender was all it said. It was agony to realize it was my handwriting. One thing kept me from going insane. My signature was...tier stained    ...Read On

Added: 27 Nov 2019 | Category: Poetry | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 69 | Tags: bottle note  

Adagio

Butterfly Tattoo

Now in my ink of suede black where my lusting mind bellows and angels dress in denim like a mademoiselle with a chignon With razor-sharp creases and high heel stilettos with a butterfly tattoo on the inside of an ankle As a scent rises of Christian Dior like almonds and wintergreen as we kiss the night away on the dark side of heaven Before giving in to religion going to heaven's cotilion...Read On

Added: 23 Nov 2019 | Category: Poetry | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 80 | Tags: love   | 1 Comment

Survivor

All That Matters

It's really all that matters, don't you know

"I adore you" The words were spoken heard and accepted with gratitude and delight Not always offered aloud in the past even when understood within the trust of a heart in need The adoration of a chorus of friends and lovers from life that passed sincerely revealed The latest to be tendered this approbation in words as the solace of destined sublimity and jubilant embrace The embrace...Read On

Added: 23 Nov 2019 | Category: Poetry | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 126 | Tags: poetry  free verse  friendship  love  memories   | 5 Comments

Time

What I see in people

I see an old man who does not speak. I wonder what vampire stole his voice. Is his breath next? I bet he was a poet once. Who is to tell, not he nor I.  I see a young lady with the mind of a child. I have no idea if she is cursed or blessed. I have nothing but charity for her. I see a soulless one who has no grace. What can I think of him; save only God knows. Then borrowed deep...Read On

Added: 19 Nov 2019 | Category: Poetry | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 115 | Tags: seeing  things   | 1 Comment

Adagio

Dressed In Johnny Coat

I'm so sorry, but the morgue is closed, but send in the twilight so that I can see, where has the bouquet of pine cones gone, by way of the cadavers in the breeze. As I lay here on a slab of marble, waiting for a formaldehyde needle, all dressed up in my johnny coat, with a tag on my toes, "Oh Tweedle Dee!" Because I'm decomposing from within, this decor depresses me so, open the...Read On

Added: 17 Nov 2019 | Category: Poetry | Avg Score: 4 | Words: 117 | Tags: dark   | 1 Comment

Adagio

Two For A Toddy

These living bodies that we wear that in a new dress we appear destined for the skipper in the sky pale the shade in our veins Entombed with a white bouquet so fast we wither in our grave catching the early worms in our darken maze As we sleep in our coffin deep free from the flesh at last no part remains a selfsame part but the pain is gone Let him who loves you think instead you...Read On

Added: 13 Nov 2019 | Category: Poetry | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 95 | Tags: dark love  

Adagio

If Only

If only, my dream wasn't loneliness, and the stars were chandeliers, if only, visions of you in my teacup of dreams, if only, for a moment, please.   But dark is a lonely demon, if only, left to fester without psalms, for the truth is in the Good Book, if only, you would come upstairs. If only, in my memory you not age, and my mind doesn't grow cold, if only,   up with the dawn of you in...Read On

Added: 11 Nov 2019 | Category: Poetry | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 85 | Tags: love   | 1 Comment

redwriter

Deep in my Heart

reliving a beginning

So deep within my heart When did that implant begin? That haunting smile On lips of such promise? Or the subtle depths Of those laughing dark brown eyes So sensual when the time was right? Maybe your mobility caught the eye   The lilt and the sway. Of hip and thigh. Then add delicate gentility of touch When fingers first intertwined. While that lustrous raven black hair Swayed...Read On

Added: 07 Nov 2019 | Category: Poetry | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 112 | Tags: touch  delicate  lustrous  early  caress   | 3 Comments

Adagio

Brigadoon By The Sea

In all my dreams of sleeping You will be there next to me In our Wee Willie Winkie Of Brigadoon by the sea   A shadow's twilight Beneath the sovereign oaks In the hallowed woods Of a lovely meadow green In your arms of open alms Of Brigadoon by the sea  ...Read On

Added: 06 Nov 2019 | Category: Poetry | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 50 | Tags: love  

Adagio

Beneath The Coo Coo

Soft and sweet they are, your lips of crimson for a kissable at midnight in the land of holly by the sea of blue tides, the color of your eyes     as your breath takes me away beneath the stars In flew the coo-coo of our happiness   From a jar of golden moonbeams a distant far   on clouds of dreams of woodwind harps   and love letters in the sand dated 1979 For a kissable at midnight in...Read On

Added: 03 Nov 2019 | Category: Poetry | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 104 | Tags: love  

Survivor

Meg's New Sonnet

The odor of love fills the air

Her natural scent imbues him with a need, As blooming flowers in the fields of May Intoxicate his mind and heart, indeed, Refreshing, craving on a summer day. His natural scent creates a homey clime It make his body feel so safe and warm. Aromas linger from their pillow time At night, in dreams, she's safe within his arm.  Addictive passion rises to new heights. Fierce love, desires to...Read On

Added: 03 Nov 2019 | Category: Poetry | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 99 | Tags: poetry  english sonnet  love   | 3 Comments

fuzzy1954

Scots Greys Forward

Wake to fire and thunder. As the earth trembles. Coffee and hardtack. Light blowing rain. Bugles calling. Rattle of drums.   Orders barked. Mighty mounts. Hoofs pawing. Saddles await. Cheering troopers. Look to the sergeants.   Shakos pulled down. Power kept dry. Sabres flashing. Horses at the walk. Greys wheel right. Churning mud.   Sound of battle. Time to be joined....Read On

Added: 31 Oct 2019 | Category: Poetry | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 88 | Tags: war  napoleon  

Adagio

Worth His Salt

Sleepless nights of sins, angels fanning winds, as I lay awake with shadows in dreams, perhaps in the bowels of hell, I dwell, whispering, dark rivers of my heart. In narrows of my mind running through veins, of a chatoyant moon lusting for green eyes, without shame into the despair of vassals, Tragedy her name, deep as the oceans. With passions risings in the ink of my well, Tragedy rocks...Read On

Added: 31 Oct 2019 | Category: Poetry | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 220 | Tags: love  dark  

rune

The Lies

When every time ... whatever ...

Miss you Every moment that I'm with you Happiness lights up my heart The daily smile and laughter That I used to fake becomes real Adore you Giving out sweetness all the time Receiving words of care from you Grows within my romantic soul With a smile every night as I sleep Love you The lonely tears I used to shed Dried up from your loving words The insecurities I used to have  Vanished...Read On

Added: 31 Oct 2019 | Category: Poetry | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 131 | Tags: thinking  rune   | 5 Comments

starlight4ever

My Love For You Is True

True love

My love for you is deep my love for you is strong my love will keep you going to the place where you belong   My love for you will never fail my love for you will uplift my love will keep you satisfied never lost or alone or cast adrift   My love for you will keep you my love for you will save you my love will keep you safe and warm my love for you is true   My love for you...Read On

Added: 29 Oct 2019 | Category: Poetry | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 205 | Tags: love  strength  courage  forever   | 3 Comments

Adagio

Until, You Are Warm Again

The night was chilled against your pale skin of midnight calling feeling your breath a deeper shade of lust in my veins as my fingers slipped between your folds The moon was yellow like an old cur dog as rime ice hung on the pumpkins of vines all in a row like ducks with a widow's veil of winter's frost   Feeling your breath like tentacles caressing conjuring promises of promiscuity atop...Read On

Added: 28 Oct 2019 | Category: Poetry | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 138 | Tags: love   | 2 Comments

rune

A Comedy

Sometimes life...

When I was young and loved humor Comedy was a movie that I knew  Where I would be laughing out loud While watching with glee the whole time Growing up, that belief had changed Comedy was a funny stage play Where you could watch people act While the ending was comically tragic Life has been sometimes like that It started with laughter and smiles But the ending was now so painful Even...Read On

Added: 26 Oct 2019 | Category: Poetry | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 105 | Tags: thinking  rune   | 5 Comments

Time

Light in my hand

Are the fireflies dead? I have not seen them since I was a child. Are they wounded? Are they leaving us like the butterflies? Do you think they are fallen angels or faeries? Oh, how they danced for me weaving living lightly through my fingers. Like the butterflies do they weave chaos in the afterglow of the Aurora Borealis? Have you watched two dance in a jar? What joy they brought me...Read On

Added: 26 Oct 2019 | Category: Poetry | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 112 | Tags: work  

Survivor

She Waves At Trains

What's not to love

My lady is so naive she still waves at trains whenever they pass by just hoping that the engineers might see and someday, perhaps, to make her day they'll pull the whistle loudly just for her. Just for her. So shy is she in normal ways but those fellows are quite far away, so she feels free, so free to be the funny young girl she'll always be. She'll never change. She rattles on about...Read On

Added: 25 Oct 2019 | Category: Poetry | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 226 | Tags: poetry  love poem  free verse   | 5 Comments

Time

You have to know why first

In sorrow we pay our deepest respect. There is tragedy in joy. Numb in endless ways. Find solace in bright stars. Find as the shaman say the face of your buda. The cost with out is one bright penny. Some play at humanity some ride the light. Tumble with me. See hope shine. Walk with these few words. Do a kind deed, perhaps. I know time holds us like a straight jacket. The earth...Read On

Added: 24 Oct 2019 | Category: Poetry | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 105 | Tags: work  

starlight4ever

Sweet Sunrise

Eastern Skies

  Sweet Sunrise of the Eastern Skies my heart beats fast for your sweet sighs   I long for you but you wont hear me time and place keeps me far away   Your beautiful eyes your wonderful body as you dance and sing for the world to see   I am smitten by you I wont ever hold you or look into your eyes but in my dreams I will   Each time I see you my heart beats faster and...Read On

Added: 21 Oct 2019 | Category: Poetry | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 129 | Tags: korean  love  dreams  heart   | 3 Comments

Adagio

Fleur-De-Lis

Remembering the days, fleur-de-lis, when the winds of October whistled, and leaves turned to brown before touching the ground. Turning to mulch to keep you warm, as you sleep in a garden of stones, with winter peas, as green as your eyes, but the lily is still there. The one with petals that made you smile, as we made love beneath the blue skies, and the Milky Way is now your...Read On

Added: 21 Oct 2019 | Category: Poetry | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 76 | Tags: love   | 4 Comments

starlight4ever

Fire and Ice

Fire and Ice for two

She was perplexed and in pain she had spent a great deal of time writing a love story to her man and he had said nothing about it   She was waiting on the terrace in her pretty white frilly lace dress sure to please him when he arrived home from work that day   Her heart was filled with fire deep desire and passion and he seemed oblivious to that but she hoped things would change ...Read On

Added: 20 Oct 2019 | Category: Poetry | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 485 | Tags: ying and yang  fire  ice  romance  mystery   | 3 Comments

starlight4ever

The Ghostly Mist

White Mist

I wrote this before but now its more real more real than ever before the white mist came by one night and scared me right to the core   I gulped hard and fear gripped me as the mist went to and fro and before it changed direction I ducked down way below   I looked back up to see it go and then flip around and come back the hairs on my neck stood out outside the night so black  ...Read On

Added: 19 Oct 2019 | Category: Poetry | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 233 | Tags: ghost  mystery  mist  ectoplasm   | 4 Comments