ENCORE II
December, 2004


UNCOMPLETED PUZZLE
by Marcia Schechinger
I am an illustration groping for a sentence
about us
Senselessly chattering about daily humdrum
Pretending to be alive, existing for a child
now born
and the so called Jones's next door
Wailing in my head while smiling to the world
Where is my perfect match
who defeats life's puzzle
The one that curves and shapes
to my special design to complete me
I am an urban sightseer
too weary of coffee break talk
and neighbor dogs yapping
in every backyard
I turn out the light to your familiar face
as I say, "I love you"
another night in a row
Then dream of mountains and seasides
not completed

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If I lose you
By:  B-I
         What I'd do is all I can say! A long lasting love that has to slowly fade away! I guess you can say I'll miss you tha' most! Not saying I'm sprung because I'm not:just in love and most people question that! But I know why! Your sweet and tender to tha' kiss, but what I don't understand is why I'm left to go through this! If I lose your love, your will, your trust....your sweetness, your kiss: I'd probably break down: my life's pointless. You might as well say I'm a throw a uncontrollable fit! Everybody thinks your not right for me! I love you, I love you, is all we can say! A long lasting love that has to slowly fade away! You will always be in my body, my mind, my dreams, my heart, my soul: just like a fen! But my love for you is inevitable, my love for you runs contagiously through me! If I lose you there's nothing to do! Since I can't forget you, I'll forgive you, and I'll
                               GET YOU BACK!!!!!
                                                                             

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BLACK FLOWER MAIDEN
By: Sarah Hooper
 
She breathes death on men who seek to find
a woman who is tempting and divine
 
She ruins them from the inside out
she makes them want things I wouldn't doubt
 
Then more an more engrossed they'll get
they'll do things they will regret
 
she's not just an image can't you see
she's finally degraded the human being.

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JacQui Rose
kellyann Bennington
You are so BEAutiful
A sparrow of my Wing
Always looking out for others interest
A Child of God
 
You Walk with GRACe
and dignity too
Wonderful at knowing what to say
and what to do
 
It's the way you accomplish the small things
That Lead you to Rejoice in the Greater
gift of life
 
Your beauty is Majestic
Like a sunrise on a calm morning
Always thoughtful caring
 
Jacqui Rose always knows when you are down
She is a friend ..the best to have
 
A leader or follower it does not matter which
She will cause you to abandon your thoughts and Dream
and play with her

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A HAIKU
by Michael Williams
 
Wardrobe stands open,
hangers empty, suitcase gone,
your note says: "Goodbye."

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"Tourniquet"
Danny Chivalan
An immediate moment.
 
here I lay with tears on my face,
feeling nothing but pain!
 
I am an unwanted figure,
someone enduring nothing but fear.
 
How did I survive the pain that anguished and squeezed my heart till their was no more,
My heart stopped.
 
My right atrium cant pump no more as I lay hopeless near your feat not wanting to live at all. But I had to face it!
I had to go threw what I call "Immure".
I felt nothing but anger!
Just wanting to rip his heart out and yours too!
I wanted for you and him to feel and live what I have lived in the past year.
 
Sometimes I still hide in the shadows of my past, dark and insatiable,
lost and not reachable.
I was one of your victims, I once was haunted by you and laid unhappy.
Now I am your fear, your tears and your tourniquet.

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Its the same routine
wake up, shower, head outside.
Start the truck. Drink some.
The head of the Nutmeg state.
To live thus is life must be great.
And he's driving on,
passing pigs taking radar.
Stops behind busses,
eyes dropping, another sip.
It starts to rain, drip by drip.
It seems kind of hard
never known the outsiders.
Never had their luck.
Always working overtime,
time in half- not in this line.
And shades drop some more.
The caffeine has lost Its kick.
Seeing these visions,
sun setting in the mountains,
kids giggling at fountains.
He than hears sirens,
peers out through the pouring rain.
A little boy lays.
Blood fills the streets around,
tragic in this little town.

Bryce Yachaina 

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IT WAS LOVE WE NEEDED
djHouston
When those two
planes slammed the twin
towers were
swallowed whole
in a gulp.
Bones and mortar spewed
a spectacle
of men and women who flew
like birds...
911 landed
and the carnage thumped
thumped like rain.
 
Torrents rammed
down into dunes;
the redeemed, phoenixing
remains draped
in that shade of horrible
gray.
 
But before the prayers
in the east
were ever trampled
by our Wild, Wild West
or was custom
for humans to die
round the world
squarely in our vision
like beasts:
way before those middleastern boys
strapped to blow
up like bombs...
we needed it!

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Remembering Masood
(By Esfandiyar Khan)
 
I woke up this morning
Darkness all around me
Got confused for a while…
Forgetting where I was.
 
Deep silence… in the room,
Like someone died
A sudden thought struck me...
Am I dead?
 
Mused for a while
Trailing the same thought
Told myself to get up or people
Might think I really am dead.
 
But what does it matter...
To them - to me?
And went back to sleep!

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Can you hear the screams and cries as everyone one of the 46 million die?
A baby's life was slain and yet you say it felt no pain.
When you said there were no more options, that beating heart stopped then.
Did you hear the baby say, "I never even disobeyed."
"I thought you knew I loved you mommy, I thought you felt the same."
"Apparently I was wrong, since you're sending me away."
I feel my body shutting down; my breath is getting shorter,
I grasp to hang on to life, as I only fall farther.
On angels wings I will sleep and rise above the sky,
And now the words I have to say, I love you and good bye.

Kathrine Lewis

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The ancient and holy ways.
Mattias Kroon
Hear the voice from the Holy.Be careful in your next steps in your life.
Will you bring harmony into your life?You´re told to walk on ancient ways.
 
In any case you will have your own days.Days of defeating your own, inner
strife in your life.The wisdoms of nature are learning us something.Every-
 
thing has it´s cycle of life and death.Your own choice in the life is a
matter of life or death.A choice of bread, without too much butter.
 
It´s a matter of taking somebody out of the gutter.I hope the spiritually
blinded will see the light, and not the night.
 
I wish you the bless of blessings, and the right light, in sight.

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HIDDEN UNIVERSE
Maria Cristina Azcona 

Truly alive, my heart
waits to reach  the night,
 
While my fairy wings try to command my flight.
 
Floating over pink clouds
and yellow trees,
My surroundings seem
too  small to me.
 
War seems little
and without reason to fight
Compared to high values
which are totally right.
 
Hatred seems to be
 the mask of vanity
While love appears to be
the route to charity.
 
Human souls float like myself
In a cotton like universe.
 
Come and visit me in this tent
Where the money is inexistent.
 
Only a crystal palace
made of dreams
It waits to be felt and seen.
 
The way to reach this place
hides in your own heart.
 
Close your eyes and think in anybody else apart.

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I Forgot
Tiffany Evans
My heart cries out,
With quiet tears,
Longing for closeness,
To the Holy One.
 
I know he's there,
Beside me still,
Though within,
I wonder where.
 
He whispers softly,
In my soul,
Letting me know,
He still waits.
 
Late at night,
When silence falls,
I remember when,
It was me and him.
 
Now sweet tears,
Stream down,
I'm sorry,
That I forgot.

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POSSESSION
By Suzanne Smith
 
She stands alone in the rain
Her heart is breaking, full of pain.
He took her soul into his possession,
and left her broken with no concession.
 
He was so cruel and gave her no peace.
She thought he could have been cordial at least.
She cried and screams rent in the air
Because of the love that wasn't there.
 
Now she stands soaking wet,
And wishes that they'd never met.
But as we all know, wishes don't come true,
when your heart is hurting you.
 
She may one day be whole again.
Her soul may someday release the pain.
But for now she is torn apart,
With a ripped and breaking heart.  
                                                                 

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ONE'S OASIS
Dennis Lohfink Jr.   
Things can go from being so terrible, wanting each day to be your last. But there's always a little something there to keep you going. And as you travel through life there's that one special thing that separates you from the world, that you can't let go of. Being a stone things pass you by, but being a feather you carry yourself with the help of the wind. You'll always catch yourself on something. you have to put effort in order to catch that. Without effort your candle is just going to be blown out. One day it might just burn like the sun. Some people just judge by the appearance, but the ocean doesn't look deep till you look within. But always be cautious about those who are there to leave you stranded. That's when it gets its worst. All worked up for nothing, just to be cut off the life line. Sometimes its hard to get that life line back. You just have to keep you mind open, and look forward, not into the past. Not that the past is always bad, but you might dig up something you don't want. Stay in you straight line and stay afloat and you shouldn't have anything to worry about. Think positive in all you, in your choices you make. Never take in you negative thoughts cause it just brings you back to earth, where people can be so cruel. Then eventually your swarmed and can't get up. Never ask questions where questions aren't needed, cause somethings are just best left unanswered. Cause the answer you seek might not be the one you get. Slowly but surely the decomposing sets in and there is nothing left. No search for questions or answers cause you so ate up it will only make things worst. Look within to find your answers, they might not come right away but eventually they sink in. It's like breaking the surface of water you don't know what's there till you look for yourself. Instead of listening to others to tell you what's there, they just might be wrong. Cause opinions are a terrible thing to follow.

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PEACE
layDsayD
Blankets of satin , white heat ,glass sweats on a bed side table. There is no brilliant  sunset or calm before the storm. It waits .quietly watching. I some times can elude it as I have tonight. But I know it is patient. And soon I will gently lay my weary head in its bony hands

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She’s a sad case.
I feel sorry for her, yes I do.
Thinking the way she thinks,
Acting like the fool.
Loving a husband, supporting a husband
That doesn’t really care
That if really questioned and challenged,
Would not even be there.
For her.
I have a husband who treats me like a queen
And she is jealous of that fact
I really seriously think she’s jealous,
And that’s why she is so impossible and mean.
She’s jealous that she can not recreate
This so called love and satisfaction.
When it only took a few times of liquor
And wild passionate action.
She’s jealous that I have much more
Than her husband can ever give or take.
She’s just so, so jealous
That to him ­ she tries to be happy,
But she is just a fake.
Yes, she’s a sad case.
Sad, and so true.
That this ugly woman is even ugly in the inside,
And that woman, is you.

Lisa Canfield

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It's caving in,
All I've come to believe.
You've changed as well,
Can I trust you still?
I'm starting to doubt
What you claim to feel.
It doesn't feel real anymore.
Nothing's going right,
No matter how hard I try.
The hope that it'll get better,
Is all I've got now.
    - Sarah Tueting

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A lonely man sits
and stares into the empty void
A life of no purpose
or meaning
He looks out the window onto a busy road
 
As he stares
Thinking empty thoughts
A world goes by
Not knowing or caring
For this poor mans wants
 
He sits and watches
Tries not to cry
But the tears
They still trickle from his eyes
The eyes of a sad man
 
He turns from the window
Back to his T.V
Sees nothing there nothing to see
Between the tele and the window
Nothing much changes
So to sleep our man goes
And dreams and dreams

Andrew Hillier

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Busy Mother Nature.
Haiku by Jim Naulty 

Spring. Forbearance.
 
Talcum powder dust.
Somnolent, enduring seeds.
Wait the first cloud's tear.

Summer. Choir Practice.

Caterpillars die.
To compose the thrushe's song.
Summer symphony.

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car full of innocent lives
happened so fast,what a devastating surprise
 
the sirens were so loud, and paramedics were moving so fast
looked at the car that took one major blast
                           TRAGEDY
tears fell from my face, I just wanted to come to reality
what's going on, everything was draining from me, including my personality
 
felt so much pain from head to toe
what is wrong with me, take that tube from my throat, just let me go
 
I can breath on my own, why are you doing this
the paramedic said, son, don't move, your injuries are severe, I was out cold, the pain overtook my very last wish
 
why am I here, let me go back to my normal life
I don't belong in this hospital, I felt the pain in my heart as fresh as a cut from a knife
 
tears shed my my eyes
I was not at all ready for this next surprise
 
my mom an dad explained everything that happened
and all I could think of is if anyone else was hurt, than they told me the bad news, I didn't believe it, the looked so serious, than I realised it was, they weren't laughing
 
I didn't think I could possibly feel anymore pain
I thought all of this was just a dream, it was just way to insane
 
mom and dad sat bed my bedside until the day I left that hospital
it's been the worst thing to go thru, but things are getting easier now, although it didn't seem at all possible
 
I'm trying my best to move on
it's hard, but I have to, I can't live in sorrow, it's just now where I belong

                                          By: Anthony Jacob Hoffa

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“The Tears”
Ashley Copple

We take this life one day at a time
Don’t focus on the years
It doesn’t matter how many you have
What matters are the tears
 
The tears are to tell you how much I care
How much you mean to me
That it doesn’t matter what you’ve done
Your heart is what I see
 
Let them wash away your sins
And all the pain from your eyes
Have them wet the knot of love
So that none may undo the ties
 
They clean the glass to the windows of your soul
To make the world more clear
They help release the feelings we hide
And wash away the fear
 
Their warmth will help drive out the cold
And make you feel alright
Their salt will cleanse you of the thought
To give up on the fight
 
They flush the body and the mind
So that you won’t fail to think
So when you choose to swim or not
You won’t give up and sink
 
Now even if I sit and cry
It’s more will for you to live
Because I do the best I can
My tears to you I give.

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Why???
Nancy Chairez 
 Why do guys do so much childish things?
 Why pretend that they have never seen you before?
 Was it so bad to have been with you?
 Or is it just something that they do?
 I guess we would never know.
 
 God, Oh God, why then did you gave us to them?
 Was Adam really the only "perfect man"?
 Was our sin to have tempted them?
 Or was it to have trusted men?
 Were we to blame for our on sorrow?
 And if we were, then why are we still hurt?
 Is our punishment to love them so?
 Or is that our truly sin?
 Are paying by suffering their detestation or real punishment?
 Or are we Just to blame?
 Why? Oh, Why?
 Do we get so hurt?
 Will we ever really know,
 why men do so much childish things.

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Why does it hurt so much
         To lose the one you love to touch
Pain goes to the core
         And stabs your heart
NEVER AGAIN
I cry
I scream
But I can’t wake up
I’m stuck in this nightmare
 
I open my eyes
         Only to see
Pain and my very blood
         Draining from me
 
I fill the void with poems
         I fill it with painful songs
But they don’t fill
         Where the one I love belongs
 
The world is beautiful
         It is ugly to
Horror fills my halls of pain
         Where the one I love is no more
 
The tears won’t stop
They come again
When I open my eyes
Today
 
Without the one I love
         My heart is strained
It wants to stop
         And never beat again
 
Shame
Pride
A closed door
Calls my love who is no more

Timothy A. Greenlaw

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A mother and father i thought we could be
but i lost my baby and i know how it is for you to see.
but this i would never lie
lie about some poor baby for no reason that had to die.
i wish i could prove it but the answer if left unknown
i wish i was a couple of more weeks so i could have started to shown.
it was a few months ago but still it is really hard so i write poems while i sit and cry
i blamed it on my self for ages but then i thought to my self maybe it wasn't the right time
you know what makes it really harder than , i loved darren so much
we could of had a family, but there's no baby to cuddle or touch
i really wish i had an answer to show
so the you wouldn't judge me as a liar and then you'd all know
16 and been through this all
try to act happy but all these tears do is fall
a teenager that thought she was going to be a mother but didn't get there
is some think hurtful and i think it is really unfair
and even harder when you know you deserved to
but whether you believe it or not it is up to you
like i said this i would not lie about my poor baby for no reason had to die

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 Plea for a tortured soul
Dee van der Vyver 
I know you can see me
You look at me from the corner's of your eyes
Waiting until I pass you by.
For I am nothing but a lone wanderer
Wanting to belong.
Harsh words and ridiculing phrases
Stab at me from your hearts.
Why do you hate me so?
Am I too strange, too different?
All I want is to be loved.
To be set free from this darkness.
Please...
Just Care for me
Call me your own.
Save me from the darkness
I have been trapped in.
Care for me.
Still my trembling hands
For I am very afraid.
But I have lost all hope
I shall be lost and alone
Until time finally
Ends.

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Life's Voyage
  Lloyd Pettis
Through wind and rain though they prevail
Across Life's sea I now set sail
Across Life's sea with its unseen depths.
Through the cold wet nights that inward crept
From days to months and months to years
Life's sea I sail to conquer my fears
Now I sail I'm homewards bound
With no more fears, new strength I've found.
No longer a child so weak and frail
For the sea of courage I have now sailed
The sea of Life is what I grasp
I've found Life's purpose, Life will last.

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You can physically take it away,
but you can never remove it.
Needless to say, a beautiful array,
of words well chosen, to be well spoken are put on display.
Memories embroidered are the dues that we pay. Embracing the power of beauty,
A quest of dismay manifesting life like a bird of prey.
Balance is essential while love engages the flight of the stages and society re-arranges the truth with minimum wages.
A book cannot be read without the turning of pages.
confronting the fear this sound I hear,
a hero is near,
Concealing my mouth while revealing my ear.
My eyes  fill up as i shed a tear.
A vision of a crystal as I look in the mirror,
A direct reflection of your atmosphere,
is more than a reason to remain sincere.

Anthony Ducharme

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When I May Unarm
         G David Schwartz 
 
My grandfather lies on a hospital cot
Wishing for, praying and saying he’s dead
My sister fights beneath the Cemo machine
Trying to preserve what her life has fled
My father is an accommodate of ash
From dust to dist those beneath suffered and bled
And me, who lives in my head
Feels pulse and monitors life
Soar to the stars and brother
To the moch and shape and knife
Me who lives in the sounds of waves
Crashing on beaches I carve
It might only be when earth
Disappeared that I will starve
It may only me when earth
Crows large ears that I might unarm.    

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The Real me
By: Lisa Rotella
Let my skin peel away from me
To show my soul that lies inside
It’s all covered up in the lies and betrayal
No one has seen it ever before today
 
I look around the room wondering
Do I even dare try for a day
Just to let out the real me
The one who fights to free
 
My soul believes in right and wrong
But my mind has it all confused
With all my thoughts and lies
No one really knows what matters
 
Do you think you know me at all
Am I lying to you all right now
You’ll never really know
Cause I’ll never tell you if I am
 
Look me in the eyes today
tell how you feel about all this
Could you still be a friend
Or are you gonna walk on by
 
Does this make things different
Maybe you think we can’t be friends
Who really knows anymore
But sometimes I don’t know if we are
 

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When did cloud turn to rain
and sleek ankles thick as sausage
become puddled blobs propping toes
All this plodding over dull streets
desperate to contain what little remains
of youth and cheer
in vigorous affectation I waddle

Matthew Graydon

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Another betrayal, my dear, sweet friend
In You i trusted, to help this nightmare end
Who are you, I thought i knew, Lust fills ur eyes, Fed a plate of lies
Friendship is nothing, no not to you
Do you feel the remorse of what you cannot undo
Am i blind just because my eyes are shut
what is the blood without the cut
Am i deaf just because i cover my ears
What are the screams without the fears
Am i mute just because i refuse to speak
Where's the destination if there's nothing to seek
Lonely and tired, nothing more to await
Who are you? you were my mate, who is she
The replacement of me, Anyone but her, no, not a friend, Sympathize no one, don't pretend, His want is nothing, its completely fake, Don't live my life, My Eternal Mistake
Am i blind just because my eyes are shut
What is the blood without the cut
Am i deaf just because i cover my ears
What are the screams without the fears
Am i mute just because i refuse to speak
Where's the destination if there's nothing to seek
Dying under this unfamiliar skin, my body is limp, but your still living within
Catch my breath, just to have you rip it away, Streaming tears call for you, turn around, walk away, Choose my friend, I am now your foe, You've gone too far, Don't stoop that low, A million days will not erase, Your beautiful face, Only a friend can take my place...
Am i blind though my eyes are not shut
Why am i bleeding? where is the cut
Am i deaf, even though i can still hear
Why am i screaming? there's nothing more to fear
Am i mute, because you wont hear me speak
The adventure is done, I have found what i was out to seek

 

-Amy Harrison-

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A MANS DREAM LIVES ON
ANTHONY WAGNER
 
A mans dream lives on
Representing the culmination of ones life
Representing hope, love, happiness, and success
Providing all the necessities needed to survive tough times
To celebrate happy days, to overcome difficulties
In essence providing life
 
A mans dream lives on with his wife
His companion, friend, and confidant
His necessity needed to overcome difficulties
His reason to survive tough times
His Love
 
A mans dream lives on in his children
His children provide him with love, and hope to succeed
And with that comes happiness
With that comes family
And without family there is no dream

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"Us"
emi walden
Two tiny little letters
forming one single syllable
a cozy little pronoun, you and me.
My lips, my tongue, my breath
have not uttered it in so long
nor have I been a part of it
until now
until you
We sit and talk
meaningless talk
that moves us nowhere
yet we continue to babble
our little lovers' lingo.
We touch each other
as if to make sure
we are real.
But are we real?
We are real in bed
in our bodies
but those bodies
we will shed
like old skin
to make room for the new
So, what remains?
The babble won't sustain  us
And I suspect we know it.
I  suspect we fear it.
Perhaps we're fragile you and I,
this little "us" we've become
So we whisper softly
into each others' ears
because anything louder
might shatter
us

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Some say its not worth it,
They just don't understand,
its my mind, let me think,
all I need is a little hand.
 
Is it worth the crying?
That's what's being said,
I'd rather be crying,
Then feeling so dead.
 
I love him so much,
He is my life,
He's much, much nicer
Then that damn knife.
 
Sometimes I think,
it'd be better off if I weren't here
and I kept praying "why me God??"
And it all came clear.
 
He opened my eyes,
And then I saw Shawn,
we were constantly on and off,
but those days are gone.
 
He's staying with me now,
as a part of my heart,
I'm glad we're together,
I knew he was mine from the start.

Tiffany Mullinax

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Baby Blue
Kelly 

 
If nothing else, you'll have a name, You're my Baby Blue
For you stare down from the sky at a life I could not give to you
When you come to understand what I've stolen away from you
You'll loathe me as I do, my innocent Baby Blue
If you can't feel these tears that fall are for when I'm crying with you
Thinking of a child you'll never be, my child I never knew
It seems the times weren't in your favor, so what else could I do
I saved myself by letting you go, my expendable Baby Blue
If you haven't heard, you're in my prayers and the words I say are true
I wish that you could take my life and have me suffer for you
I want so much to make it right for with every breath I rue
But how could you forgive my carelessness my bleeding Baby Blue. . . .

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   I REFUSE
                   Kristina Marie Sickles
 
I will not
Let life pass me by
Even though it seems to
No matter how I try
 
I refuse to give up
I refuse to fall down
Even if I drop
I'll get up off the ground

Because I am Zxey
I will not bend
I'll not do as you say
I refuse to let you win
 
I will not be burned
No matter what you do
Because I have learned
I do not need you

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Rebirth
Wendy L. Lane
 
Stale angel kisses upon my check
Grace has departed from the weak
Clouds drift by my decisions last
One ray of sunshine on my future’s cast
That I should know the path to take
Much thought is given for the make
Twist out and in of consequence
Down many roads of reminisce
A motionless shell stands at the break
Which is the path that destiny take
Both are the same to my simple view
Beyond eyes reach stands the color blue
Step with sureness, stride confidence strong
Deep within you know where you belong
Shadows past will linger not
If by GOD'S hand your path is sought
Family and friends relations last
If you don’t stray away from the path
Each step glides easier than the first
Your soul is welcomed into rebirth

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dazzle me with Your blushing lies
and blind me with Your delusions
lost amongst Your sunset highs
to draw my own conclusions
while my Santa Fe boy
flys after ghost perfume
her translucent poison
it weakens His defenses and
leaves me choking on my sadness
she who questioned an ocean
blind to Your deceptions
i held out for soft summer rain
You stole away my innocence
how do i ease this pain
give me my memories
and pretend to love me no more
bleed it all out for You
and pick myself up off the floor

Rulana Skye Williams


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Sometimes
the water is bare and cold
when,
in fire the swirling rings shimmer red
and dim in the cool night sky
 
Sometimes
there is soil embedded in the
swirls of alabaster cold fingers
that set to spin green waters
 
lying on his back
it is easy to imagine the fingers
rough with living
stiff with winter's breath
 
sometimes
he will whisper
and see God's breath in the
fog
 
and it is still his own,
wounded
and walking
in the frost and mist
 
still alive.

Maribel Vega

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My Pain
Jessica
I miss the way we used to talk and how we could say anything;
Now you're gone and you've moved on and now to you i'm nothing.
I got too close and I fell in to what I thought was bliss;
Now all I can do is think of you and sit here and reminisce.
It cuts like knives deep in my skin and I know the pain is real;
My broken body is covered in scars that remind me no to feel.
It's almost impossible to let go of what you and I once had;
It still seems like it's not over how could things have got this bad.
You said forever we'd be together but how could it hurt like this;
I feel like i'm falling to my certain death into this dark abyss.
All you wanted was to see me break into pieces on the floor;
Is this what I get for loving you more than anyone else before?
I never thought you would hurt me or even make me cry;
And now that we are finished all I want to know is why.

 

-0-
Worrying, anxious in fear
Not all, but most here
 
Told to do so
By those who say they know
but they don't know
please tell them so
 
Psychological devastation
on an innocent nation
 
Cruelty at at worst
against a country's best
 
Found guilty dear
 paul kay jr

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Enough
Jessica rowan

Enough grounding,
enough pain enough pounding in my brain.
Enough sounding like I'm going insane.
Enough sitting out in the rain.
Enough wanting to cut a vain.
Enough making my eyes drain.
Enough killing enough death,
enough trying to catch my breath.
Enough thinking that I'm the best,
enough time to give it a rest.

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  "TOMB of CHAINS"
                      BY: Wendell Wayne Thomas 
 
Bonds of love inside a musty crypt
Forever without a word
Remains of treasures once so full
Now only vague memories of what was
 
Left to search the empty plateau
Unyielding souls quickly descend
Crumpled, hidden, broken spirits
Sounds of murmurs, music that never ends
 
Where long ago the castle was
A pile of rubble lay
Where once knights guarded tender hearts of maids
Two bodies, two souls, two lonely tombs lost beneath red clay
 
Tears they weep upon these stones
For two last echoing cries in vane
Buried deep within these cold cold walls
Forever we are...... "CHAINED"  

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Pretty on the outside
Down on the inside
Surrounded by pink flowers
She’s secretly suffering on the inside
Appearing happy and laughing
She’s silently weeping
Looking like a tanned goddess
She’s using spray tanner
Acting brave, strong
She just wants to give up
Giving the impression that like she doesn’t love you
She can’t stop thinking about you
You wouldn’t think she has issues
She tries so hard to seem normal
Don’t be deceived by the wrapping
 
Written By Maia Nichols

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SYMPATHY
carlyb

she cries slowly but only when someone's there to watch
is she truly sad?
or is it all for attention
i don't want your sympathy, looks like she does
so cry bitch cry cause that's all you have inside
she looks like an idiot sitting in the corner
but it works
they love her, they talk about her
oh no what's wrong with jenny now?
who the f*ck cares what's wrong with jenny
you're a waste of my time, you and your tears

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You croon-confusing croons
and croon-a subtle tool
Your presence in my brain
makes me go down the drain!
 
In the likeness of Michaelangelo's
you paintings paint, parodying pathos
Daring like Guilbert Yvonne
in innovation.
 
Who will gripe? Your parents?
The Good Book? Oh, who knows!
 
One moment as hurricanes, raging
the other as mute as meadows green
So deft at ruse
is this untrue?
 
Little Bride, what thee ails?
It isn't your coming fate!
Your undemure face
and capricious plans
foreshadow that.

MICHAEL SYLFAD AFOLABI,

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When We Get There
Charlotte Cline 
The red carpet will be there when we get there,
Specially laid out for us,
And oh the crowds and oh the people,
How they'll make a fuss.
 
The journalists will be there when we get there,
And the cameras with their clicks and the flash,
We'll be greeted by hundreds or thousands,
And maybe given a sash.
 
Walk slowly and gently when we get there,
And a pen remind me to find,
There'll be children desperately begging,
For their autograph books to be signed.
 
There's plenty of time 'till we get there,
Remember to smile my dame,
You'll thank me a lot once we've finished,
The long walk to fame.

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MASQUERADE
Crystalynn Harris

My flaking soul divine to freedom's lost
I found that catastrophic toils-they serve no cost.
And in the effervescent waves of pain,
Comes the droning of my hearts proverbial rain.
So in the darkness I sink to nameless faces,
Some so distant and others that protrude
From out of the shadows of the willow tree
Into the sky of my darkest moon.
I feel the danger of my loving sin slice skin,
Through my heart and out the window into the Wichita night.
My dear temptress of the fear I feel inside,
Turns my head in a smoky wave of white.
Enter soul, on the left side of the stage,
And bury me inside the curtains of the show,
Exit freedom, privileges and shame,
And kill me in the fields of Love Unknown.

-0-

my name
my clothes
my hair...
 
 do you know who i am?
i am the unwanted
the "different" one
 
im stronger than a bear
faster than a cheetah,
more powerful than a pack of wolves
 
i no longer hide in the shadows
and come out at night
i stand alone
 
do you know who i am?
i am independent
i am me!!!

jessica winterman

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AMY'S MASK
Cyndy Little
 
A sea of endless thoughts flow freely,
through her shattered mind.
A dream of peaceful solitude,
Lay buried deep inside.
A life once filled with vibrant color,
Now plays in black and white.
A pain filled past now hides her,
From the dying light.
Confusion still lingers
Like a thick cloud of black.
She wants to be held,
Surrounded with warmth,
But the past she runs from,
Only catches up in the night.
She finds herself over-compensating,
Trying to hide her unrelenting insecurities.
Only over-analyzing, and over-thinking.
She clings on to everything within reach,
Trying to prove she's here
Trying to prove she's real
The need for attention consumes her
A once sweet girl now becomes almost mechanical.
The same movements with every man,
Searching for approval,
Searching for love,
Not seeing the beauty all around her,
Ignoring the beauty inside.
Not knowing the world sees through her,
And can see what hides inside
Friends she's made
Slowly turn away,

DISGUSTED BY THE MASK SHE WEARS......

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Now this is a story
about a little girl
always in a hurry
to take in the whole world.
Growing up
without a father at home
She's a bit fucked
and her hurt's overgrown.
She's cut and she's carved
and she's drunk and she's done
all the fucking things
and she has become
a lost little girl
in a fucked up world.
 
You left me alone
to bring up myself
you put my whole childhood
up on the shelf.
And ill never forget
and ill never forgive
how you weren't there
and i'm left to live,
locked up, iron clad,
And i'm left to choose.
You aren't my dad,
and I'm done with you.

Bethy Labrecque

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Can you see
Sasha

Can you see
 The ocean  
 Waves churning
 Can you see
 The sand
 Blow in the wind
 Can you see
 The dolphins
 Jump in joy

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WHY SHE KEPT HER HEAD DOWN?
A Poem By Natasha Nixon
She hated her life.
She hated her past.
Why she kept her head down?
They always asked.
 
Not speaking because of fear.
Screaming threw tears.
Why she kept her head down?
Because this pain would always be here.
 
Shutting out everyone.
Not letting nobody near.
Why she kept her head down?
Not even she could see the answer clear.
 
Guys that use her.
Girls that hate hate the way she acts.
Why she kept her head down?
Not even she knew the facts.
 
She wouldn't let no one see.
For the pain she kept in her eyes.
Why she kept her head down?
Because she wanted to hide the lies.

 

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