It is not the beard you crave But the lips behind it, The kiss It shook empires In its youth, bitter thing Rendered golden in that Midas way where Men breathe Never seeing a Kiss is never just a kiss It knows not the contours Flesh bone and blood The Sin One weary heart Coaxes [...]
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No Kiss
Posted in Poems, tagged Body, Galford, Heart, Humanity, Kiss, Love, Lust, Men, Mind, National Poetry Month, No Kiss, Observations, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, People, Poems, Poetry, Reflections, Romance, Sin, Thoughts, Women, Youth on April 12, 2011 | 17 Comments »
Asylum
Posted in Poems, tagged Angellic, Asylum, Binding, Body, Claudio Mufarrege, Decay, Flight, Forgotten, Humanity, Insanity, Mental, Mind, Mortality, Observations, One Shoot Sunday, One Stop Poetry, Photo Prompt, Photography, Photomanipulation, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Prison, Reflections, Spirit, Thoughts, Trapped, Unknown, Wings, Writing on December 19, 2010 | 14 Comments »
You bind me But your walls, your halls they cannot hold me Body broken but the spirit Rise, swimming in the deep Recesses of the forgotten— Mind: sole reality of prison You forget, but this soul knows, It reaches through your gray decay And in the darkness spring forth wings To flight, unknown, and [...]
Of Frustration
Posted in Poems, tagged Anger, Creativity, Frustration, Madness, Mind, Observations, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Pollution, Reflections, Solution, Struggle, Thought Process, Thoughts, Writer's Block, Writers, Writing on September 28, 2010 | 20 Comments »
Writhing serpent of my dissolution No solution To your pollution Of my ever-yearning soul No more grim atoll Might ever seize upon my whole— My life, my life! They call upon the fife Thrusting its notes upon the edge of a knife No travail Might ever prevail Above the madness that assail My spirit wails, [...]
Existential Freedom
Posted in Poems, tagged Body, Cerebral, Creativity, Existentialism, Freedom, Humanity, Madness, Mankind, Mental, Mind, Observations, People, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Reflections, Rise Above, Sleep, Slumber, Soul, Thought, Thoughts, Writing on September 13, 2010 | 15 Comments »
Existential elation The night’s revelation Soul’s sweetest evocation Mind longs to improvise To sleep, yet rise Above the lies Until we admit The body is unfit— Do not think to hear it To bear the broken madness Never fail to aggress This fairest stress To break the blind That stalks the mind May yet free [...]
Quotes for the Soul
Posted in Quote of the Week, tagged affection, Body, Dalai Lama, Desire, Existence, Faith, Famous Quotes, Growth, Humanity, Inner Peace, Kindness, Life, Love, meditation, Mind, Peace, People, Prayer, Quotations, Quotes, Reflections, Religion, Respect, Soul, Spirituality, Thoughts, Well Wishes, Wisdom on August 22, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Today, and to start off this week, as I find myself in something more of a reflective mood, I leave you with a few quotes from someone I personally admire very much: the Dalai Lama. May you all have a wonderful week to come! “I believe that the very purpose of life is to be [...]
Upon the Precipice
Posted in Poems, tagged Arrogance, Body, Condescension, Courtship, Desire, Destruction, Dreams, Earth, Life, Looking down, Love, Lust, Mind, Observations, Obsession, People, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Precipice, Pride, Pursuit, Relationships, Romance, Self-destruction, Sky, Soul, Spurned, Thoughts, Writing on August 13, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Eyes open to the brink I stand Broken upon the edge And though the sky is beating down You are still above me Always looking down. Stretching for the dreams Beyond your clouds I burned within the strain This arrogance has wrought, And as the fire surged I took it for desire Obsession blinds Focus [...]
Set Me Free
Posted in Poems, tagged Adulthood, Body, Business, Childhood, Daily Grind, Drama, Dreams, Existence, Feeling, Feelings, Free, Freedom, Growth, Humanity, Imprisonment, Individuality, Lies, Life, Mind, Mortality, Mystery, Observations, One Shot Poetry, People, Perception, Plot, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Reality, Reflections, Reveries, Salvation, Society, Soul, Space, Thoughts, Time, Wilderness, Work, Writing on July 28, 2010 | 32 Comments »
Set me off into the Black far beyond the stars set me off into the Wild far beyond the wilderness. Set me free of mortal hearts and weighted thoughts, so low, so low, and break these chains that bind me to this coil— what life, what prison now is this? Press the suit and straighten [...]
Simple Pleasures
Posted in Poems, tagged Cerebral, Community, Creativity, Desire, Ecstasy, Expectation, Flirtation, Flirting, Human Nature, Humanity, Illusion, Lust, Mental, Mind, Nature, Need, One Stop Poetry, Passion, Personality, Pleasure, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Poetry Wednesday, Poets, Reflections, Soul, Thought, Thoughts, Writing on July 14, 2010 | 25 Comments »
Bated breaths beget the faintest smiles– Caresses on the back Coax featherlight illuminations of rasping heat Winding in the darkest places of the Mind. Illusory Ecstasy Lies locked behind the Pleasures of the Soul. Such devious ruminations on the Nature of Expectation. My latest contribution to the wonderful One Shot Poetry Wednesdays! Once you’ve had [...]
Morning Elegance
Posted in Poems, tagged Appreciation, Beach, Birds, Body, City, Coffee, Contentment, Creativity, Dawn, Day, Environment, Fog, Happiness, Joy, Lake, Love, Lovers, Mind, Morning, Morning Elegance, Nature, Ocean, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Reflections, Rest, Romance, Running, Sleep, Sun, Sunlight, Sunrise, Thoughts, Time, Waking, Water, Wild, Woodpeckers, Writing on July 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Star-crossed lovers lie Snoring in the sand Waiting on the rose-tipped caress Of dawn’s fair light, But the sun catches like Little crystals in the waters And they are sleeping through The glitter and the glare. The runner’s smile Warms the streets as they rise Amidst the shadows of red glare— Early to rise And [...]
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