so i think that my winter blues are over. i was re-reading my blog and looking back at my poetry and other journals. (ok so im not only a bibliophile im an obsessive writer as well) and my mood is definitly on an upswing. i better not say any more, i know ill jinx it.
but before i go all happy go lucky on you (i know that would freak you out liss) one last bout of lamentable poetry (not mine but well fitting to my retrospective mood) ok so not the last of it we all know i can excape the written word about as well as i can escape breathing. (which is not very easy i have discovered) (the editor is not letting me use line breaks and spacing the way it is supposed to so instead of going slightly crazier, im just going to leave it and get over it)
When You Come To Me
When you come to me, unbidden
Beconing me
To long-ago rooms,
Where memories lie.
Offering me, as to a child, an attic,
Gatherings of days too few,
Baubles of stolen kisses,
Trinkets of borrowed loves,
Trunks of secret words
I CRY.
In a Time
In a time of secret wooing
Today prepares tomorrow's ruin
Left knows not what right is doing
My heart is torn asunder.
In a time of furtive sighs
Sweet hellos and sad goodbyes
Half-truths told and entire lies
My conscience echoes thunder.
In a time when kingdoms come
Joy is brief as summer's fun
Happiness its race has run
Then pain stalks in to plunder.
To a Husband
Tonight
when you spread your pallet
of magic,
I escaped.
Sitting apart,
I saw you grim and unkempt.
Your vulgarness
not of living,
your demands
not from need.
Tonight
as you sprinked your brain-dust
of rainbows,
I had no eyes.
Seeing all
I saw the colors fade
and change.
The blood, red dulled
through the dyes,
and the naked
Black-White truth.
How Can I Lie to You
now thread my voice
with lies
of lightness
force within
my mirror eyes
the cold disguise
of sad and wise
decisions.
Mourning Grace
If today i follow death,
go down its trackless wastes,
salt my tongue on hardened tears
for my precious time's waste
race
along the promised cave in a headlong
deadlong
haste,
Will you
have
the
grace
to mourn for
me?
Passing Time
Your skin like dawn
Mine like dusk.
One paints the beginning
of a certian end.
The other, the end of a
sure beginning.
Poor Girl
You've got another love
and I know it
Someone who adores you
just like me
Hanging on your words
like they were gold
Thinking that she understands
your soul
Poor Girl
Just like me.
You're breaking another heart
and I know it
And there's nothing
I can do
If I try to tell her
what I know
She'll misunderstand
and make me go
Poor Girl
Just like me.
You're going to leave her too
and I know it
She'll never know
what made you go
She'll cry and wonder
what went wrong
Then she'll begin
to sing this song
Poor Girl
Just like me.
Insomniac
There are some nights when
sleep plays coy,
aloof and disdainful.
And all the wiles
that I employ to win
its service to my side
are as useless as wounded pride,
and much more painful.