Poetry

[eveningstar845]

beautiful poem

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love - Anais Nin

[onyxsundrops]

Thanks SJ and Eveningstar845 for the feedback.



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Go on



I awake to the beat of a scream

Sweat beads upon my forehead

What seemed so real in dream

Vanishes from the side of my bed

My heart races, rapidly thru my chest

Struggling to return to sleep

The good die; blessed

Yet I cant fight a weep

Words crowd my sanity

Malt beverages quench a thirst

No longer apart; reality and fantasy

Why wasn’t I first?

The television stares thru static

Pictures rupture my memory

Rats scurry beneath the attic

Life and its poetic tyranny

Photo frames, flipped to hide the face

Dust gathers upon the empty bed

Lonely teddy bears stare through space

Silently awaiting the dead

Broken stairs rest with a creak

Chipped paint like confetti upon the wall

Candles flicker, trying to speak

Lavender burns; ashes fall

Skin sticks to the sheet

Dents; where she once lay

I, in my bed; numb from crown to feet

Struggling to make it another day.





Yvonne

[SJ]

Amazing writing

[onyxsundrops]

Thanks SJ.



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Pain



Cold against my breast

piercing

against the brick

I am beautiful

I am falling in love



Your steel

shining

comforting in my darkest days

burning in my sleep

I am falling in love



You enter my soul

breaking

tearing

haunting my words

I am falling in love



Visitor

you come often

yet I have not seen your face

have only known your touch

clinging

I am falling in love



Brightening the blind

your blade

cuts deep

shining

I am falling in love



Crimson memories

atop my clothing

mindful of

spilling dreams

you are careful

and

I am falling in love.

Edited by: onyxsundrops at: 3/7/05 8:59 am

[eveningstar845]

Beautiful poem.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love - Anais Nin

[SJ]

Lovely poem

[onyxsundrops]

Thanks for the feedback guys.



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Under your spell



Invoked by the beauty

I can’t get you off

my mind, my fingertips

beneath the thoughts

you see

your smile left upon my lips

you have devoured me

kidnaped my sleep

and I surrender my blinks

to your memory

where you have stolen

my chance to weep

your exotic eyes

cater my beating heart

swallowed by empty skies

you have spread my soul apart

and made yourself the laughter

inside my tongue

and the moan and sweetest purr

vibrating from my lung

my blood is filled with delight

lonely in your pity, in your comfort

it flows, but not right

blocked from passions port

layered within your caress

betrayed within your eyes

it is true, I confess

I have tasted your dark cries

you are alive

glueing the broken word

love is for what I strive

because within your spell

I am captured.

[SJ]

Great poem

[onyxsundrops]

Thanks SJ.



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For Me



Fingers fall before they touch

the pale cheek of the sun

reckless in color, vibrantly lush

wet, trembling tears run

-but you are not crying for me



Sprinkled with uncertainty

longing for your companionship

summoning the absence within me

wiping the answer from your lip

-but you are not crying for me



Staring at the calmness of little

drops dancing in regret

in young hearts, old and brittle

memories tiptoed when eyes met

-but you are not crying for me



Swallowing. Find your voice

tell me. tell me. no, wait

breathing without choice

hope crumbles from the weight

-but you are not crying for me



Forgotten in your eyes

moving. realizing. hiding

deny the wildness in my eyes

rippling. dreaming. deciding

-that you are not crying for me





Yvonne

Edited by: onyxsundrops at: 5/23/04 7:15 am

[SJ]

Wow,amazing poem

[onyxsundrops]

Thanks for the feedback SJ. It's 5-something in the morning here and I haven't/don't plan on going to bed today, so I decided to write instead. It's a bit strange, but I hope you guys like it.



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The Dead



Shadows beg for color

shivering in the frozen eyes

roses and beads, pray for the other

for the emptiness over the cries

catch a glimpse of the still heart

imprisoned within sleep

whispers push the mournful cart

full of the dirt that weeps

for the sound of pain, left to cover

dark hairs with dusts’ of gray

rotting with smiles when flies hover

smothering decency with decay

raw with silence and sound

no tongue to tell fragile fibs

or gasp when love is found

beating against steel ribs

gaunt faces stare from the crowd

burned by envy’s gleam

misery’s snivel echoes loud

amid the nails beat into the dream

taste bleeds, tied to the bedpost

dripping into the wine of memory

offered to the lips of dark ghosts’

resting against the Yew tree

under the shade of death

intimate confessions drift into tomorrow

black books snatch away the last breath

lapping at the blossoming sorrow.





Yvonne

[eveningstar845]

Great poem

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love - Anais Nin

[SJ]

Like that poem,great writing

[girlfriends actually]

These are great poems. My fav so far is Pain.

[onyxsundrops]

Thanks eveningstar845, SJ and girlfriends actually for the feedback. I was going to post another one, but I haven't written anything new and all I have are old ones. Anyway, hopefully the mood will hit me and I'll write something soon. Thanks again.



Yvonne

[onyxsundrops]

Western Eyes



She awakes bare

lonely

unworthy

she is beautiful

she is dying

and I want to caress

those eyes of fire

clinging to fresh darkness

lost in her desire

and embraced

beneath redemption

where dreams chased

her smile

through every dimension



but she is dying

burning in temptation

she is closer

fading

in front of my imagination

pleading in my vein

she is sweet

sour

and dying in my pain

fighting

destroying

she is losing control

falling to love

entering my soul



she is hollow

unreal

this is the beauty I know

blinding

yearning to fill

the dying space

that numbs

erasing

what we were

for when night comes

fading

I will die with her.

[SJ]

Great poem

[girlfriends actually]

Really great poem.

[Renee85]

Hi Yvonne, I just caught up in all your poems. I'm sorry I missed so much (it's never going to happen again) but I just thought I should pop in and tell you how much I love your poetry and that I haven't forgotten them. I can't decide which one I like the best but I really like Confessions. Great job!

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"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul." -Judy Garland

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." -Mahatma Gandhi

[onyxsundrops]

Thanks SJ, Girlfriends actually, and Renee85(glad you liked confessions) for the feedback.



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Blame



I wrote to escape you

to scribble in a new face

to remold you into what I knew

for love to reclaim its place

my excuses are stained to this paper

leaking from my pen are tears

retracing the smiles until meanings blur

and I am left foolish among my peers

so many times we tried to reconnect

but you scream and I betray

now the pain outweighs the respect

how can we ever trust what we say

clear in your eyes, I am below, yearning

disguised in my heart, you are above

hidden to ourselves, we are burning

before we know the meaning of love

so spout your wild promises

and I will only believe the lies

accept my eager kisses

though you see the truth in my eyes

searching in vain, for something deeper

together, we are wrong, flaws unseen

so tired, together, we’ve grown weaker

the happiness is over, only lived as a dream

I learned your ways by watching you

haunted by each imperfection in my sleep

forgiven by the only prayer I knew

twisted by the beliefs you keep

so read these words with your own truth

crumble the paper but the hate is the same

forget my inexperience and tainted youth

forget me, forget us, forget the blame.

[SJ]

Great poetry

[eveningstar845]

Great poem.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love - Anais Nin

[girlfriends actually]

Really great poem!! I especially like this part



my excuses are stained to this paper

leaking from my pen are tears

retracing the smiles until meanings blur

and I am left foolish among my peers

[intricate mirage]

Great poems Yvonne. I especially loved 'Blame'. Intense and mind blowing. Keep on writing, and I'm gonna be around to keep on reading



Cass xx

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My whole life I've loved only one person, that person was you

[onyxsundrops]

Thank you all for the comments. Strangely enough I haven't been in the poetry mood. I might write down lines here and there, but nothing worth making into a poem. Anyway, thanks again and I'll hopefully have something to post soon.



Yvonne

[barnabasvamp]

It's human nature to place blame, and it's always a difficult thing to deal with. Nice work.



BV

It's the passion in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

Edited by: barnabasvamp  at: 8/10/04 2:59 pm

[Wired vixen]

Yvonne! dude you rule at these, do not stop! i love them all, keep em arollin'



Stace xXx

[little miss 666]

hi there.....*Bell claps*



Oh man, *on the verge of passing out* these, like ALL off these are really good! My absolute favourite one is Pain. You just captured the 'pain' no pun intended (rolls eyes... im such a bogan) of being in love like perfectly. You know when someone writes something and it just touches you? Well, you did that with that poem. I thought it was just soo amazing. The way you choose your words is soo clever, like, so many hidden meanings and they flow so perfectly.



Well yea, that's enough of my babble haahaha, i tend to go off on tangents sometimes, its dangerous when there's no one here to stop me lol. So yea, keep writing okay?! Your poems get me through the boring/busy/depressing/tough/most any type of day



-Bell

Internet girls are cool ... they got strong fingers

[onyxsundrops]

Thank you for the feedback, I'm happy to know that you're enjoying the poems.



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Desert



Your death made me a woman

born from a child’s fairytale

released into the desert

of torn paths

and shallow waters

drifting

in your wishing well

forgotten

with the delicate misery

folded so closely

against the fragile tears

that shelter the thorns

of my resistance

and suffocate the burden

of truth

so easy to hide

who wore the mask

so hard to find

the broken hope that struggles

to ask

the solid caress

to gently touch the small dreams

that crumble less

when left in the streams

of sand

brought to the surface

delivered by the pale hand

that pushes down

and pulls the grain apart

eager to remold

and swallow up my sinking heart.

[Wired vixen]

Wow.......



'Desert' is powerful, the last line really helps you to feel how you felt when writing this, well done!



Stace xXx