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Coco
Member
07-13-2000
| Sunday, February 05, 2006 - 5:01 pm
For Mocha... Roses are red, Violet are blue, Yesterday I got such a deal on an aubergine jacket...COOL!!
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Serenity
Member
06-28-2005
| Sunday, February 05, 2006 - 5:43 pm
Coco...is it 'so' much fun or 'sew' much fun? 
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Coco
Member
07-13-2000
| Sunday, February 05, 2006 - 9:50 pm
LOL Serenity...I didn't even think of "so" and "sew"...good catch!
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Sunday, February 05, 2006 - 10:13 pm
There was an old lady from Spain Who was really quite a big pain Whenever she grumbled The football team fumbled And that was the end of the game! Ole'!
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Sunday, February 05, 2006 - 10:14 pm
Gidget, thanks for the kind words about The Most Wonderful Sadness. I have written cathartic poetry before, and since, but that poem is my pride and joy. So glad it resonated with you, and that you enjoyed it. 
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 8:34 am
hahaha
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Bandit
Member
07-29-2001
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 1:54 pm
Karen, My Perfect Romance was just beautiful!
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 4:25 pm
Thanks, Bandit! I'll let you know in a week or so if it's beautiful enough to win a diamond ring...! These are some oldies, but some faves... Always On My Mind Well, I can't say my life turned out in just the way I planned and maybe down the road someday, I'll need a helping hand Cause I'm tired of all the sh!t I've seen and the things I'm forced to do but after all is said and done, I'll be coming home to you. I've had my fill of love affairs and my share of one-night-stands but I just can't seem to find the road back where it all began. And if I need a place where I can go when I have nowhere to go what it all comes down to, you're the only home I know. Cause it's you I met on the road of life and it's you I leave behind and if I stay too long this time, I'm bound to lose my mind I'm looking for the rainbow I'm never going to find but as I walk away, please know, you're always on my mind. I once believed my life would be a fairy tale, of sorts but twist and turn along the way, and I lost that dream, of course. Now somehow, I will make it through the fire and the flame and I'll come out on the other side, but my heart won't be the same. 'Cause I broke a lot of promises, and I told a lot of lies seems these days I pay the price; guess it comes as no surprise But you stood by me through all the good, and you helped me through the bad looking back on all those years, you were the only strength I had. Cause it's you I met on the road of life and it's you I leave behind and if I stay too long this time, I'm bound to lose my mind I'm looking for the rainbow I'm never going to find but as I walk away, please know, you're always on my mind. not tonight, love tell me you need me tell me i'm loved tell me my heart soars on the wings of a dove i won't cry tonight, love i'll watch the world die i'll wait until morning when you're not at my side and then i will stand tall alone with my fear and i'll dream of the past, love of days you were here and when i'm without you i'll learn to go on i'll ignore all the heartache of knowing you're gone and someone will love you much better than i but tonight, though i'm lonely, no, love, i won't cry.
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Gidget
Member
07-28-2002
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 6:47 pm
Hee hee hee Coco and Mocha and Mame. Karen, did you post Always on My Mind before? It sounds familiar. Thanks Merrysea, I plan to check out that link
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Gidget
Member
07-28-2002
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 6:54 pm
I've cried alone at the drop of a hat More than a body should cry I cried so much I think I scared the cat I could see it in his eyes I cried at songs that spoke to me In the car on the way to work I cried for no reason that I could see As if I had some weird quirk I still cry sometimes when I forget To remember how I have been blessed By a beautiful heart who gets That I still sometimes get depressed But more often I cry tears of joy now At the resilience of the heart With an exceptional friend who is showing me It is possible to make a new start. I cry at the wonder that I can trust When I never thought I would again Tears well up for love tinged with lust In the arms of a wonderful man.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 8:24 pm
Lovely Gidge!
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 8:25 pm
Karen, I love, 'Always on my mind'... It's fantastic!
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Coco
Member
07-13-2000
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 10:35 pm
Gidget, thanks for allowing me to post my "Rose are red" poems...I had fun. Maybe I'll try to do some more or maybe even a longer poem. I have so much inside to express and I've never taken the time to try poetry. I loved your recent poem....very deep, but so real. And Karen, I also loved your poems. Always on my Mind brought back some tender moments in my younger years.
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 11:23 pm
Mame & Coco -- thanks for the kind words about my Always on My Mind. In my head there is music that goes with it, hence the formatting of it, but even though I have a guitar here, I'm not musical enough to actually turn it into a song, per se. And yes, Coco, it is reflective of the younger years... I wrote it about five years ago, I still can't decide if the sentiment behind it is towards a boy at that time or the city I was in when I wrote it. Gidget, there's a real possibility that I posted it in the last poetry thread -- it's one of the few (I've written a LOT of poems over the years) that stands out in my mind as something worth sharing. This thread doesn't have to be all about our poems, does it? I wanted to share one of my all time favourites: Dance Me to the End of Love by Leonard Cohen Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin dance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love Let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon Show me slowly what I only know the limits of Dance me to the end of love Dance me to the wedding now dance me on and on Dance me very tenderly and dance me very long We're both of us beneath our love we're both of us above Dance me to the end of love Dance me to the children who are asking to be born Dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn Raise a tent of shelter now though every thread is torn Dance me to the end of love Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely in Touch me with your naked hand touch me with your glove Dance me to the end of love
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Cindori
Member
07-25-2003
| Tuesday, February 07, 2006 - 5:59 am
Karen, Always on my Mind was beautiful, and Dance Me to the End of Love was fab . . I'd never read it before, thank you for posting it.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Tuesday, February 07, 2006 - 7:03 am
Gidge, welcome back ... Karen, those were beautiful.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Tuesday, February 07, 2006 - 8:59 am
right now, it's 9:00am so that means antibiotic #1 time. i am living my life on the schedule of pills. oh joy of joys.
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Tuesday, February 07, 2006 - 9:45 am
Landi ... are you sure your feeling okay?? This is the poetry thread, not "Right Now". Go back to bed honey!!! 
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Gidget
Member
07-28-2002
| Wednesday, February 08, 2006 - 3:29 am
Hey LT! Nice to see you too! Coco.. the only rules are those the mods impose... by all means please feel free to write what you feel. I sincerely hope a lot of people will give it a go.
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Littlebreeze
Member
02-18-2001
| Wednesday, February 08, 2006 - 9:14 am
Today is the anniversary of my father's passing. The day after he passed, I wrote something for him. Being in a very bad state at the time, it's pretty simplistic, the best my mind could do. Realizing this isn't a "happy" poem, I hope no one minds my sharing it. I'm just missing him so much. At his funeral, I read this to him graveside. I was never afraid of a single thing, No matter what the day would bring, If things got bad as I went along, I turned to him, he made me strong. My Dad was there. He never asked for anything, But was always thrilled with the smallest thing, He was a man who was just a boy, He filled my heart with the greatest joy. My Dad was there. His years grew hard but he never broke, Not under open-hearts or crippling stroke, A tiger's courage so deeply ran, At the very core of a gentle man. My Dad was there. Fate threw him curves and made life tough, But he never said, "I've had enough.", Without complaint, he'd struggle back, Up an ever harder, steeper track. My Dad was there. When you saw his face, you saw a smile, His eyes would twinkle all the while, A simple man among the crowd, Yet I looked at him and felt so proud. My Dad was there. He was the light that lit my way, And now my path is dark today, But he's with me now and I am whole, I feel his warmth in my heart and soul. My Dad lives there. I know you're listening. I love you, Dad.
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Cindori
Member
07-25-2003
| Wednesday, February 08, 2006 - 9:18 am
Wonderful, Littlebreeze. I know your Dad loved it. {{hugstoyou}}
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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Wednesday, February 08, 2006 - 10:23 am
That is an incredibly beautiful poem. Thank you so much for sharing it with us.
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Tigerfan
Member
11-06-2003
| Wednesday, February 08, 2006 - 11:09 am
::tears:: Thank you for sharing that Littlebreeze. It made me think of my Momma, God rest her soul. 
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Buttercup
Member
09-10-2000
| Wednesday, February 08, 2006 - 11:17 am
That was wonderful, Littlebreeze 
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Jan
Moderator
08-01-2000
| Wednesday, February 08, 2006 - 11:28 am
incredible, Littlebreeze {{{}}}
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