OPEN MIC ENCORE III
June, 2003

Also check out:
OPEN MIC ENCORE I
OPEN MIC ENCORE II 

GROWING UP
Wayne Kendrick
It seems that with the passing of time, we as a country have lost most of that "innocence" of the bygone days.
I was thinking the other day:
 
1) We got our first air-conditioner when I was about 12, it ran only during the hottest part of the day, the attic fan ran at night.
2) We never ever locked our house
3) The only thing ever stolen in those days were watermelons from someone's patch (I was a regular culprit)
4) The only gang we knew of was "Spanky and our Gang" on Saturday morning TV.
5) You were really excited to get just plain old KIDS tennis shoes (low or high tops)
6) The saying "Making hay while the sun shine's" meant exactly what it implied.
7) You mouthed off to your teacher, she tore you up, then the principal had his turn, and when you got home there was a reception committee (Mom and Dad) with belts.
8) The worst abuse a kid got was having to select the willow switch you were going to get "whooped" with
9) Kisses from a young girl was relished, not expected
10) A drug problem was: you were feeling bad and grandmother was coming over with the bottle of "Castor Oil"
11) Hand me down clothes were really looked forward to, especially if your cousins were city kids
12) Drag racing was you and your best friend filling two wheel barrows with manure from the barn and racing with them to see who got to the dumping spot first
13) If you disagreed with your parents, you kept it to yourself, but still respected them
14) We did not always have everything we wanted, but we had everything we ever really needed
15)  Hunting, fishing, trapping, and skinny dipping was a prerequisite for normal boyhood development
16) Young girls actually strove to and took pride in cooking home cooked meals and making their own dresses
17) The only curse word in the movies was "Frankly Scarlet my dear, I don't give a damn" and even that made us blush!
18) Sneaking a beer from your Dad's ice-chest was something he did not immediately interrogate you about, he just let an upset stomach and headache do the punishing for him
19) Mosquito's were worth fighting off to see a drive-in movie
20) Soap had a multifunction: cleansing a foul body and a foul mouth
21) A wake-up pinch or a kick to the shin was still a common practice on church pews
22) A neighbor in need always found out he had more friends than he thought he did
23) When you got a little older, you realized that your Mom, Dad, and preacher actually had a pretty good sense of humor (and you prayed that GOD did too)
24) No matter how bad you were or what you had done, Mom, Dad, and JESUS forgave you and still loved you
25) You told your parents that you would never say anything like that to your kids, many years later you realize you sound just like your parents! (Hey they could not always be wrong)
26) Your Dad put you on his knee when you two were fishing and he said "Life just does not get any better than this" and he was 100% right!
 
They say you can never go back, I have tried, but the times are different. Well, maybe the times are the same, it's just the people that are truly different.
 
Looking back, I tried to teach my daughter by the old code. At times things were strained. Well, I have discovered that the times do change, but if you do your job right with your kids, things will come full circle. My youngest told me one day that I was really hard on her at times, but she understands now that she was on the verge of making some very bad decisions. She thanked me for what I did.
Full circle? I like the sound and feeling of that.

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HOW TO TREAT OLD MAN TIME
BY DANNY GILL
 
Do not look but twice on the clock
For time won’t wait for any one, flesh or phantasm
Drive your full attention towards it,
And it will take a thousand millenniums,
To move one minute
Direct your unflinching eyes to another chore,
And it will take the snap of a finger,
The stroke of a hand to move hours
Let this be known, time is a double edged sword
It’s the most powerful panacea, while
Being the most deadly disease 

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A CHILD UNWANTED
Jackie 
They say you don't struggle in life until your old and torn
I struggled for life since before I was born
My mother tried to kill herself to get rid of me
A drug overdose failed and shewas stuck having me
A child unwanted I was born
Two parents and a six year custody battle both said they wanted me
One told the truth the other just lied
Six long years filled with anger and anguish
And one parent left standing by my side
One truely loved me and the other just lied
The hurt, the pain I deal with til this day
I feel like a child without a name a child unwanted
My heart is always filled with pain
A pain knowing I was born to a woman who truely never wanted me
A woman who was with my father for his mony got stuck having me
A child UNWANTED

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Confused
 Viktor G. Grigorov   
 
My eyes are crying,
My soul is dying.
But who cares what I feel, do you?
When I am saying I LOVE YOU
It seems nobody’s interested in my story
That lead my path of the glory
Doesn’t matter anymore to me, my life is as simple as yours
There’ll be always closed and open doors
I hope you’ll never forget my feeling to you, how much you mean to me
My dream to be with the person with whom I wont be able ever be.
My final words to you girl that I really adore
That I hadn’t told you ever before
Darling, I love you, please never forget
That i love you just like that!!!

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SPRING`S ROSE IN BLOSSOM
"Mother" Marie Gibbs
Antonio Cassone
A spring`s rose in blossom
You have not withered
We have not lost you
Yet, we have gained an angel
 
Your sweet cooking provided us nourishment
Your uninhibited spirit enlightened those whom you touched
Your laughter gave us encouragement
And your wit always made one think
 
The fact that you left us is real
But our memories of you will always live in the heart
I knew we`d be friends
Right from the start
 
And when I was hungry you fed me
When I was sad you made me laugh
When my spirit scorned, you embraced me
You always had an open-door policy
 
So, when winter`s night falls
I will think of you as that spring rose
One that flourishes, smells fragrant and fresh
A true earth mother, whose endurance and power still grows
 

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True Friends

Ravi Rajan
Ever been alone in a dark room?,
filled with fear and gloom,
your mind refuses to clear,
your heart crampled with fear,
The darkness chokes your numb senses,
you become desperate to break all fences.
A feeling comes; you don't know why,
you feel you are about to die.
 
And then you see a glimmer of light,
dispelling the darkness with radiant might.
Hope again blooms into you like a flower,
your mind gets a new lease of power.
Forgetting all things you so sorely lack,
you are back again on the life track.
 
True friends are like that glimmer of light,
never let them go out of sight.

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Once Again
Valerie Pena
I gave you my heart
I gave you my soul
I gave you my thoughts
I gave you my present
I gave you my future
And what did you do?
 
Broke my heart
Set my soul free
Scattered my thoughts
Confused my pesents
And lost my future
 
Please can you
Put my heart together once again?

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On one freezing New York day,
my cousins friend wanted to play.
My aunt and cousin got in the car,
there wouldn’t be trouble, they weren't going too far.
The roads were empty,
the ice was slick,
death was coming, way too quick.
 
Without a warning, they lost control
Did they hit some snow, a rock, or maybe a pot hole?
They slammed into a tree on the side of the road,
Everyday I wish, god please, send them home.
My aunt Diane died right away,
but my cousin Melissa would live just two more days.
 
I lost two people from black ice,
within to grueling days, to be precise.
Even though they are gone from this earth,
they are still in our hearts,
All because that day, the ice ripped us apart.

Laura barnes

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grief               
Victoria Campana

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Upon a bleeding heart I cry,and sadness plagues my soul.Could this be the way I'm meant to be or is there something more.

How is it that I became this thing? A lifeless creature without a cause, and yet everything is new to me,I don't recognize the dawn.
Merciful death,how you love your precious guilt.I,ve walked with you at night.Passing feelings of emotion,that make me feel unright.
But true it is, I don't remember any life before this,nor any kiss after that.I walk at night lonly trying to remember my past.
There is no more to say to you,my new life should be but clear.Walk with me and you will see, my endless trail of tears.
Should I remember any thing,I'll but let you know.For in this time of grievness,I would like to be alone.
The nights are mine to walk on,join me if you like. Do not be frightened by what you see, I swear to thee, its only in my mind.
This is the end for you and I, we shall go our seperate ways.Go and tell the world the news,make fire with your pace.
Go hence, creation of God.Go out and face all that you fear,I'll be right here as I've always been,crying under here.

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A Welcoming Of The Strange
Jeffrey Reed Thompson
3 Cinquain

Strange girl
Dear - from Peru
Receives past three letters -
Four new parables . . . I am left
In doubt.
 
Strange girl
Liked Indian
Goes to her school so true,
With new preambles - and surely,
I fly.
 
Let’s bless
Her from Peru -
Be honest and sincere,
As if all things stem from that life
I trust!

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The Enlightment
Sabrina Halaine Peek
As one wonders;
through the stages of their life.
Enlightment!
As one wonder;
through the lessons of their life.
Enlightment!
As one wonders;
through the paths of their life.
Enlightment!
As one wonder;
through the history of life.
Enlightment!
As one wonders;
through the lines.
Enlightment.
 

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I had a smile just for you,
When I see you walking down the road...
Need for the light,
To guide you straight for the right way...
I stay here just for a while,
Keep watching you standing there...
Until your time has come,
Leaves me and really walk away...
But I have no realized that you'll never comeback,
Just say goodbye to me...
In the island of hope I'm being alone,
Waiting for you to pick me up,
Brings me to the line of happy with you..
It impossible moment could be happened to me...
My days so blue,
And my nights too cold...
Dear,...I'm cold here and going to frozen without you...
I've forgot to tell you at the time you beside me,
That I love you very well...
Now I missing you like standing in the dark,
But I think I can't taking good cares of you someday...
Gosh...how could I expected you are together with me...?
Event in another day I don't know where  you are...
Maybe you'll be happy elsewhere or with someone else...
But this time,...please stand by me,
I really need you so...

Ramma Alhaz

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Gay
Callum Johnson

Opium should be the religion of the people.
Recreational like a doll house
And with the silver bells so erudite so rude
Let the world sigh their forbidden, intoxicating smoke
In a trance of worship
In a revelry
Wrought in fire, hot as hallucinogens.
Give me opium then let me die.

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I LOOK
Amy hughes
  Everytime I look at your face
theirs nothing to explain
cause this love for you
will always be the same.
 
 When I look in your eyes
I know each time when
you look in mine that the
love you have for me
will guarantee i will always
be the one of your dreams.

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Hush Beyond the Nexus
Myk Barry
Calm falls in this place of sanctity
One last requiem sounds in the breeze
When did I leave my rotting soul
There among the pine trees
 
Putrid waters cascading
Down the mountainside
There she walks among the pine trees
Look into her eyes
 
Wishing for something more
Than this gentle death
 
Every step causes loss of purity
Reaching for these tangled memories
That fade away like a dream
 
Quiet down, lift me up
Tell me that you love me
Make me think that I mean something
Then throw me to the ground
 
Praying for something more
Than tears of little meaning
 
Trapped among these pine trees
Bring me out of this seclusion
Tasting how it feels
To once again be alone here
 
Pouring all away
Weeping now for any savior
The bitter taste of fear
Lets me look a little closer
 
Wishing for something more
Than this gentle death
Fin.

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3RD TIME
Brian Watkins
 
This is for the times we never had
For the friends you want to be
Because its hurts when I don't see you
And it’s worse when I do
This is for the break that never came
Made me feel like it was just a game
For all the fun times I thought we had
All the indecision that made you mad
For the long anticipated kiss
That I will forever miss
For the morning that you knew
That we were through
Because I had a lump in my thought once more
All the sadness to the core
For the note that explained a lot
All of which I forgot
And back to you I came
For two days that weren't the same
Only to have my heart shattered
Three times my heart was battered
This is for the anger that was never there
The one I refused to bear
This is the poem you always wanted
Even though all I write is sorrow
It’s not about your beautiful hair
Or even how much I care
But for the times I never knew

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Hurt
Amy Fadder 
I try to talk to you,
But you won't listen,
I know that you don't care.
But it hurt's to see you laugh,
While i sit here and cry,
You told me you will never give up on me,
I believed you,
Now look at me,
You hurt me mom,
You hurt be bad,
One day I hope that you can forgive me,

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THE ULTIMATE TEST
by: Michelle Anderson
 
You put yourself to the ultimate test
and now they lay you down to rest.
All the butterflies and the bees
and then a chill, a sudden breeze.
You wanted to prove that you did know
that life was nothing but a show.
You wanted to tell everyone what to see
but you should have just let it be.
You decided what you should do
you found a way for people to believe it was true.
You went upstairs and locked the door
and two minutes later fell to the floor.
I want you to know what you did was wrong
but truly kept us going forever strong.

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I'LL ALWAYS BE YOUR FRIEND
Andrea Santos
 
We are friends, yes we are friends
That's how everyone sees us together
That's how you see us together
You know that i mean everything i say
I'll be here when you need a shoulder
I'll be at your side when you're down
I'll be the one you'll come running to
When everything around seems to disappear
I'm saving all my strength for you
To give you hope whenever you need it
And if you're still wondering who i am,
I'm the girl who truly loves you
Masquerading as your friend
If that's the only way i could get into your thoughts
If that's the only way you could see me through
If that's the only way i could keep you
Then i am and will always be your friend

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“PASSION”.
Edmund Forte
The beast, crouched, wide eyed,
Tensed to pounce on his unwary prey,
The lovers in their innocence lay
On a Sunny Honey Day
 
Raising goblets of rich red wine
Their mouths and lips full
In each others praise
In sun dappled shady scene
Lying still, their tinkling laughs
Drifted through the lush green grass.
 
Hissing snarls from the beasts jaws
Gape eyed, glutton malice
For the scapegoat prey
Slithering forward, silent
Bared claws gripping soil
To rip asunder
The human hearts of all.
 
Lulled, by warm breezes, caressed
Each so gentle touch aware
Sweet perfumes of their love
All senses invaded
Whispering soft soft sighs
In that secret mossy glade
 
Then, Pouncing fast
With full blind fury
Spitting out shrieks of venomous hate
Sinews, claws unleashed
He laid the scapegoat  hearts to waste.
 
Kissing gently
Dewy eyed
The lovers arose
And  silently
Stole away.

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"True Love Never Dies"--
Sarah Sophie

By the way he smiles by the way he stares I can tell he truely cares.  He can tell me looking into my eyes he will love me until he dies.  I know it's true, I have the same love for him too.  It will never die, aslong as i'm alive.  No one can change the feeling I feel. No one will ever understand, it's so unreal.  He feels the same, he told me so.  This is the true love I will never let go.

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Tomorrow
Darren Mckoy
Yesterday I had shed all my last tears,
Tears of sadness and frustration that
was built up for years.
Yesterday I laid all my pain and troubles to rest,
Fueled by strength and determination
I was able to bury those memories with confidence.
And today I seek to restructure my life,
I seek to heal my wounded wings and prepare to fly.
So no longer will I fall, No longer will the
Vultures of this world prevent me from standing tall.
For tomorrow it will be time to break free,
Time to make a change by starting inside of me.
It will be time to help others break their
shackles of yesterday,
As I seek to guide them along life's journey
Day by day.

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teacher ,teaching,
in the room,
children playing,
learning too.
days go bye,
minds grow wide,
aging  fast,
before the eyes.
time to tell,
kickball plays,
dogging all ,
the rainy days.
lunch bell rings,
bellies  full,
nap time comes,
dreamland rules.
waken up,
feeling fine,
listen to,
the nursery rhyme.

Geoffrey S. Holt 

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A friend found me
Ben Jimenez
I've spent some time alone in need of friendship in my life,
I've wondered how to meet a friend that's true and really nice,
I've wondered what it takes to make someone a real true friend,
and just how I could keep them this way until my end,
but now it seems that I no longer need to be,
in search of any friendship cause a friend has come found me,
my mind races with some thoughts of who, what and where,
this person is in their life and if they've time to care,
I shall not ponder on any thoughts of failing as a friend,
cause I shall do my very best to be a friend to them.


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AN INTERTWINED SOUL
05-17-99
chunsa517
 
It is not simply that I miss you.
Your hands. Your kisses.
The weight of your body on top of mine.
 
It is that I still feel you.
Your tongue touching mine.
Your lips on my neck.
You inside of me.
In a dance which makes its own rhythm.
 
As I walk through ordinary life,
my insides still move in an extraordinary dimension
where life is beyond words
and has entered a realm of actions and sighs.
 
It is worst in the late afternoons
when my body prepares for you on its own volition.
When the hour strikes,
my body responds to an internal heat
which no glass of cold water can douse.
 
What hurts most is not that I miss you.
It's that I still feel you
but you aren't here.

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You Are Not Him
Rene' Bennett 

I know it is wrong, it can't be right
as you hold me into the night.
It is him on my mind, him which I see
the warmth of your body is him touching me.
As I look in your eyes darkened with gray
your cold beating heart has made me this way.
Life is not changing so it must be me
rotating seasons I just can't see.
Show me a smile, I'll show you a tear
tell me of laughter, I'll tell you of fear.
Standing in shadows alone in the night,
hiding in corners away from the light.
Looking at you, looking at me
no, you are not him and never will be.

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BABY BLUE TEARS
TERRIBLE BABY BLUE TEARS
WHAT SHOULD I DO?
BABY BABY BLUE
WHAT HAS THE DARKNESS DONE?
WHAT HAS THE DARKNESS DONE TO YOU?
BABY BLUE TEARS
MEET ME HERE....IN A THOUSAND YEARS
BABY ALL ALONE AND SO SAD
BABY IN BOX
BABY IN A BOX SLEEPING WITH A FOX
THERE IS NO SENSE IN THIS
BABY BLUE IN HER ARMS
TEN MORE TIMES TEN MORE TEARS
TERRIBLE BABY BLUE TEARS

R.SIHLER 

{Welcome back - we've missed you! jr}

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      RED ROSE
HARINI SRIDHARAN

 

Your folds never unfold
The mystery of your scent
Your lovely red petals
Symbol of eternal love triumphant
Your blood red petals
Outshines gay green leaves
You symbolize a lady me lady
Closed as a bud you are a girl
You bloom as a lovely woman
But still holding many secrets
Your petals red but white in roots
And your thorns add awe and beauty

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Waiting.
Alison
I sit here waiting in your silence.
Waiting for you to open your eyes.
Waiting for you to notice i'm alive.
Waiting for one glance.
One word.
One...touch.
Just to let me know you understand what's in my heart.
 
And i go on waiting.
For you never see me
The way i see you.
The way the sun shines
with everything you do.
My heart is raw.
For there are no glances, no words, no touch.
So i'll go on waiting in your silence.
Waiting for you...to let...me in.
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Black Woman

Deborah Jones
Am I incapable to give or receive love
Do I dare ask for respect
That is long past due me
Simply because god made me a Black Woman
Should I wear my heart on my sleeve
For all to see like a neon marquis
An advertised decree that
I to can love
I am an embryo of Black Womanhood
With nappy hair and skin tones the colors
Of the rainbow the earth and the sun
When I am grown and mother a child
And feel my baby deep inside my womb
I will accept it as a semblance a sign of grace
That I am able to love
If I don't run a marathon and cross the finish line
Like Wilma Rudolph Jackie Joyner Kerse and Flo -Jo did
I still can love
When I get the blues but I dont sing like
Billie Sarah and Ella did I still can love
If I idolize peace justice and equality
But I don't march like
Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King
I still can love
If my words dont flow like the poetic prose
Recited by Sonya Maya or Georgia Douglas
I still can love
I still can love  

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"Endgame"
Sebastian Clark
Red rivers of life stream their way down
Into crimson lakes without a sound
Streaks of color assault my eye
A bloodstained blade alone does lie
Beside the slice of sharpened steel
Now in the light, he is revealed
A man that's bloody, rotting, dead
He died alone all night he bled
He stained the room struggled to live
But he meant to die and die he did
Killed not by gun, or sword, or stone
He died of loneliness alone
Abandoned by everyone he loved
He blamed himself for it because
He kept being told how easy it was
To live this life without a love
When he reached for you you beat him back
His pleas for help met with attack
He slit his wrists, his last resort
From pain he couldn't seem to sort
I look still closer into his eyes
Only to jump back in surprise
The face of the one who'd ceased to be
belonged to noone other than me

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SATURNINE LADY RETURNED NOT
necip kose

the suns repetition for twilight curse my seconds to refeel the day
my Lady in black ceded me alone
i've complicated the ways of regret to wonder who won by this separation
creeping her to back on yesterday
dimmed tomorrow obsessed my feelings
as i'm following my direction
i am supposed to weep deeper
never had i wanted to have
i've loved searing more than reviving
the tide between love and hate is the weird enigma of mind say
nowhere i could drag this confusion
even i became paler of her sight my mental vision can't deny that
she had intruded in me irrational
she was my nonsense tendency
her saturnine entity seduced
and spelly visage introduced
never seen i wanted to see
i've loved gloom more than pleasure
saturnine Lady will return not...

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WHAT  MAKES YOU LIKE THIS?
(for Jayne)
David Harkins
What makes you like this?
       
I wish it is because
You live your life
With magnificent carelessness.
        
You believe
It is because
Your mother’s threat
To lock you away
In a metal institution,
Where you go bed alone,
Is what makes you like this
     
Only they know -
Your family -
The real answer -
How your granddad
Abused you -
What your mother calls,
Just interference -
Is what makes you like this.
        
It is past midnight
And you lie here,
Beside me,
Unable to sleep.
                                                   

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    Galadriel, Galadriel where art thou?
    Under soil till and plow?
    Your wood is overgrown with neglect.
    Why do so many of your kindred reject?
    They will not go to Valinor,
    Do you go? Do you slumber, do you snore?
    Do you walk in a mystical place?
    Why can't we see your face?
    Do you walk in shadow, under moon?
    Will you make yourself preasent soon?
    Do you rest never to be seen again?
    Do you abandon all but your den?
    Have you gone where none can follow?
    Where things are dark and bacteria wallow?
    Don't leave us now, unguided
    In us you confided.
    Galadriel of the goldon wood,
    Have you gone where none could?
    Your wood is empty your rule over
    You call to us and we feel the lure
    To look for your kingdome
    We all wonder, humm

Sarah Gingrich

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My World
Eric
You walk past me playing with my toys
And yet you are blind,
You see nothing of my world,
Neither a flower nor a star…
 
You, now an adult, have forgotten
How to enter that world where everything is wonderful,
You are full of worries and concerns about my future,
Yet I assure you I will manage.
 
In my world,
Heroes fight devious dragons
With their slicing swords and piercing spears,
Rescuing pretty princesses.
 
You have no hero
And sink even deeper
Into that pitch-black pit of despair,
That fits itself round your throat,
Like the hangman’s noose…
 
In my world,
Stars sparkle and smile at you, while
Flowers flourish and fill the air
With the fragrance of happiness.
 
You have grown up and right out of this world,
But that doesn’t give you the right 
To blunder into the delicate fabric of my dreams
And rip them to shreds.
 
Remember:
You once had dreams,
You once had the innocence of a young earthly angel,
You once were a child…
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I wish i found the words

To make everybody change their minds
Have them all take a look inside
To alter them
Maybe get them to cry
 
I want to be remembered
From intelligence and wit
I want that one great statement
I need to b reassured
Remembrance
 
Signify my life
Transform people
 
I just want recognition
Not fame, no spotlight
But bright
Very very bright
To have said that one thing right

Caitlin Pratt 

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HAVE HOPE
KARA
From the mistakes I have made
and the decisions I've faced,
I've always been able to learn something
from the outcome of it all...
at the time it may not seem right,
but in the end it'll turn out alright.
So keep your hopes, don't let it end,
you may face some things,
you know you won't be able to defend,
just believe in yourself
and in the end,
you'll have more happiness,
than from when you began

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The Prey
Mahfoozur Rahman

In the dingy north west corner of a stiffled room
The blue-green spider scuttled across her web
Towards the snared little weevil that shook and shivered
In anticipation of what laid in wait, and I watched
The glad fruition of patience and perseverance, save
The glimpses of a jade-blue sky that strayed aloft,
Athwart unbroken dreams over the cracked tin-roof.
 
The disguised serpent of time slithered away
Over the carcass of a dying day, and I convulsed
Encapsulated in a leaky thimble of reality, as memory
Poured away to collect in the urn of gathering gloom.
 
Within the maze of the spider’s web, in between
Her gleaming eyes and the twitching weevil
The night entwined the day in a loveless embrace.
Flashes of lightning rolled across the parched plains
And winds gathered around the coconut palms asway
And I was helpless, held captive by the unfolding dance
Of love and death, as the spider kissed her squirming prey.
The darkened day of finite grace finally laid in rest
And my world sank in a tumultuous sea of infinite grey.

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"3 AM"
-Janice Bernette Cruz
caught
by your piercing
eyes
i froze like
ice.
each moment, i savor.
from your
unforgettable smile
to your
lingering scent
that left your
soul
behind.

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UNDERSTANDABLE
Joanna Marie de Jesus 
The quiet corner of that coffee shop
Told me I could stay
Where I could watch you
Where I could be with you.
 
I then ordered a mint tea
You took the same
Now, that was understandable
We both liked it, didn't we?
 
The old watch in your pocket kept ticking
And I was restless in that corner
I knew it, of course, you were waiting for her
There she was, so shy yet so bare.
 
Like in the movies, you smiled
Your eyes danced as you pulled her chair
Wait! You never did that for me!
I trembled in my seat in agony.
 
Yes, i know, we were off a long time ago
What I saw was perfectly understandable
I finished my tea and held a last glimpse
Sigh...I guess I better leave.

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life is merely give and take of love
love is true and
life is the ultimate truth
if not true it is not love
and if not the truth it is not life
 
illusions here are many but fights never ending
pathways are numerous
and choices never ending.
 
love and life
being a lake of tears
has laughters resembling stars
not so small as they seem to be.
 
love never dies
but life faces death physically
if you place yourself in a heart
you live forever .
yes, love life and it loves you.

kanika agrawal

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STRONGER IN THE END
Marisa Anne Reed
 
Treat others, How you want, That's how you act, This is how i feel; I am hurt, Because of you, I am here, Why i feel this way, because of you, the words you say; beat me down, crush my soul, take my spirit, and run it away. i feel this way, because of you, I'd always hoped, you'd be there for me, not for yourself, yes, & you were there hurting me, i was on the outside, looking in, but still i was lone, and you would win, make me hurt, i let you win, i was weak; not anymore, i still hurt, my heart aches; but i can take you on; anyday, anyway. your words are just words, spoken from an ugly mouth, but now i have a shield, i am callused, from the past, you cant get through, now I have you, don't lie to me, your strength in my pain, ive got it now; you cant win again. my honesty my faith, my knowledge and my trust, i trust you too much, but now when you hurt me, i move on again, give me pain, i have no shame, im moving on, and here you are, still right there, but here i am, moving on,!
  so hurt me again, i have a shield, i trust you, i'm here for you, so hurt me now; im moving on, coming with me? change your ways, itll be okay, i have my shield, my honesty and my trust, my knowledge of you, your words never hurt anymore, thanks for making me stronger than you, ill still help you; how's that for pain? im moving on, & this past caused by you, pain caused by you, you caused my hurt, you make me stronger; stronger in the end

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( dreams)
jesus  muerte

 in dreams  i could be what i want to be but in reality i know  it will never be.  in my thots in my mind i em ready  to go on whit  my life to do to become  to know to understand. but  in my hart i know it could never be.in my dreams  i could be  lawyer a doctor  a policemen but with my life i know that could never be.in dreams i  fine true love.  in dreams i have people to love. but with my life that will never be.in my dreams i wish they will never end but i have  to  wake up and then it all ends. so i guess the perfect world  the perfect life and true happiness all relied on a perfect dream.....

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Little Girl (Part 1)
Karol Rubiano
 
little girl pick yourself off the ground
there is still tomorrow to fight for
there is still sorrow to vie for
there is still love here for you
when nothing else will do
and when there is no one
you still have the moon
you still have the azure ocean
watching over you
you still have the sun
warming your disposition
you still have the heart in your sleeve
don't be so blue
don't turn so mean
little girl pick yourself off the ground
destiny embraces you
take it's hand
when it offers it's rays
it's nothing but hope
that wont leave you astray
daughter of destiny
leave your worries behind
when they consume you like fire
when they leave you feeling like a fresh bruise
when nothing will feel like tomorrow
and change is the only hope
take that road less traveled
and when it rains
walk under the rain
feeling glad
and when they lie
tell yourself I will survive
sing
sing
that song
until you cry.

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Sweet Pea
Brittany Wolf
I want you in the morning
From the moment I wake up
I want you to cuddle on
So I can feel your soft fur
I want you to bite me
So I can get your food
I want you here
I want you now
I want you alive

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Many babies are born each day,
While many others die,
Why does it have to be this way,
Can someone tell me why?
 
Why do people have to die,
Why did Grandma have to go,
What is happening to them while I cry,
What is god trying to show?
 
"Where do we go when we die?"
I asked my mom one day,
Do we float up to the sky,
Or does it happen some other way?
 
We go to heaven, she told me,
A place that is perfect and nice,
A place with angels, and clean seas,
Where we are with Jesus Christ.
 
Soon everything started to make sense, to why people had to die,
And why death had to be,
And I realized that one day I would float up to the sky,
One day it would happen to me.

Jen H. 

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I being who I am, is no different form you
We might have different names, clothes and styles, but basically were the same
If we ere cut the same, we’ll bleed the same, Might die at different rates but
The blood is still red & will never change
So why must your respect change when you address a different skin tone?
No race is superior over the other because we are each other’s own
God gave us all special gifts
Gifts that if not received we will never be able to achieve our dreams
I dream of Martin’s dream
A dream of total freedom from Racism
A dream of serenity of peace
For you to judge me by my acts and match with my history…
Is because you believe your smart
My approach to you is no different form many others for
I consider as my sister and brother
My pride will help you see clearly that my love is sincerely pure
But before you start to participate in speaking out against
My Unique…mentally
You will soon see that your color is nothing sadly but
Hate.

NaNa Wilson


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THE RIVER'S BOY
By Missy D.
 
The river ran
Deep like veins
Brushing swiftly on the bank
A river where stones skim the surface
 
A boy sits at its shore
A young boy
His face is calm
And glistens softly with color
Though, somehow he seems lost
He doesn't belong
An outsider
 
His reflection dances on the water's surface
But his expression is blank
It will never change
He'll never leave that river
It was where he was found first
And will stay forever

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Lonely nights,          Regretful Reflections
thinking of our wrongs and rights,
"I hate you,
what you yelled at one of our last fights.
The insights I had made me mad,
how can i be glad?
You on the phone with Dad telling him I treat you bad.
Since a lad,
I loved you now our love is up in flames.
I'm sure your friends played a part;
I'm not naming names.
On one the cutest dames, you were.
Remember last December I bought you a fur.
Not it's all over in a blur due to a slur.
The purr of a cat Matt;
My only companion now.
Make it without you, how?
When I had you I'd smile saying Wow.
Looking across at an empty chair,
Makes me cry when I chow.
 

Jamada Burns 

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                     LOVE IS LIKE A FLOWER
                       BY:TANYA SZAMIER

  Love is like a flower
  Blooming in my heart
  Everyday it gets a little bigger
  But never shall fall apart
  Everyday a petal grows
  Until the flowers full
  It takes up all the space it could
  But wishes it had more
  Now this flower has taken my heart
  Just the way you did
  If this flower ever dies
  My heart may never live.

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Trains of the Holocaust
Alexis
Foul stench of burning flesh,
Vile smell of trash and sweat.
These thing s made many forget,
Of the world before those trains.
 
Loved ones being taken away,
Never to be seen again.
These things made many forget,
Of their life before those trucks.
 
Rock hard beds,
And little food,
May not have been the best.
But they didn't dare protest,
For fear of a shot in the chest.
 
Six years passed,
And few survived.
While the ones who did,
Had lost family and friends.
 
It's over now.
But do you ask,
Will this ever happen again?

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Reach your Goal
lilballerjr
If i don't achieve my goal ,
I’ll stumble and some how lose my soul
If label would know who i was the start to sign,
There will be never be a  life like mine
Everyday living life to the fullest not knowing what happen the Next day,
Coming to school every one saying the hi and hey
This poem is for the children like me trying to get there
Every day stressing and think about if you care
But my parent keeping telling me to keep trying
Every day when you fail you just wanna run and try to hide
Trying every to be the best as i can but keep failing
you feel like your going to fall just like it’s hail

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What is a poem?¿
Is it the sound of music or the way you write or say something.
What is a poem?¿
ME telling you what to do, is that a poem? or you saying the lyrics to a song.
What do you think is a poem?¿
Maybe the way you say I Love You!
Poems may be used as many different things and adventures.
I am a poet, we all are poets, poets from God.

Rubin D Johnson

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Two Years Gone By
Jessica Hope Duncan
               Life used to make me wonder.
               All I think now is the world is nothing, but a book.
               Everyday we must go paragraph by paragraph.
               If you do not want to be a book that sits on the shelf you must remember to be imaginative.
               People do not just breeze by in life no matter what the say.
               Life has speeded up for me.
               A love that wraps itself around the cover of my book has showed me how to turn the pages.
               The words he adds to my book makes my body tremble with joy.
               All the hatred and morbidity of the paragraph before are lost with this new found love.
               On to the next chapter.
                It has been a year and the book is all about growing inside and out.
                Learning from the sentences that anything can happen.
                Cities are placed in the book that can not be named for the fact of wrong doing.
                 The love is still there.
                  Next chapter
                An exotic paradise with excitement is added to the book.
                Extreme new adventures are swirling thier way into the chapters.
                An extreme move comes underway.
                 The love has grown.
                 I sit back now and watch.
                 Two chapters flipped through.
                  It's just two years gone by.
              

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Daydreams lies
ms.blue
wasting my time on daydream lies
well don't worry love. i am saying good bye
late night calls, there all gone
laugh, kisses, hugs and rubs
none from me
i'm leaving you alone
4 there no plac for me with love
the trip is over,i awoked from my dreams
I 'm going cold turkey
no looking back , not even a grieve
wasting my time on daydreams lies
asted my time on love

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ANSWERS
Tina Rugala
Something about your eyes melts me inside
I could gaze into them for days and days
Your demeanor makes me feel that I am not worthy of your affection
Am I
Is my cry
Why do I crave your approval and praise
There has got to be a way to find out what it is I seek
If I could just peek into your brain
I must know what it is you feel when you look at me
Don't hide or hold anything inside for the time is now
The suspense is to much to bear
I care, but do you dare to share with me
I am digging too deep and I toss and turn in my sleep with thoughts of you and your hypnotic stare
Just tell me you care
My perception of self is relying to heavily on your intentions
Calm my fears of rejection with a few sweet words

 

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Awakening to What

By Derek Gilbert
 
The rain is falling
The piter-patter is calming
The world is awakening
But awakening to what
 
Awakening to war
To death
to
The end

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OPEN MIC ENCORE I
OPEN MIC ENCORE II 

 

 

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