Category: Poetry
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SOUL OF MY SOUL My soul yearns For your return Because you are Soul of my soul Without you here Life is bitter-cold In the next life I will search And I will seek Stand upon Mountain peaks For you are Soul of my soul And my heart Cannot mend Until I find You again…
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CIRCUS You are not Barnum or Bailey And I am not a circus You cannot parade me around For people to see me with you Though I am a fine specimen I am not an animal on display I will not prance or preen At your pleasure Nor for the voyeur’s eye to see I…
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in continuity separate you from methough death mayI know that there will come a daywhen I will againsee your faceand I’ll remember youcause time can’t erasethe beautyof your soulyou are heart of my heartthe other half of my wholethough death mayseparate you from meour love lingersstill, in continuityno matter the spaceor the timeI will always…
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SHE DRIFTS The soul of my soul Has flown away My soul now wanders Night and day She drifts in And out of time Hoping that she Might by chance find Or even see A glint of his shine Maybe then she may Cease to pine For the soul of her soul And heart of…
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ON MY OWN I didn’t have a voiceCause, I didn’t matter I was lost in the meleeThe chit and the chatterOf whose-its and whatnots And the going-onsOf a teenaged motherGranddaughters and grandsonI was lostI was left aloneTo learn about the worldOn my ownNo one to hold my handNo one to guide meSo, I made doBut,…
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FOOL’S ERRAND Do I dare be a fool For the sake of love Is my love for him foolish Or is it the notion that he loves foolish It must be the latter Because my love is pure It was given freely And without expectation The idea that he could love me And pursuing it…
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WISHES COME TRUE If words could make Wishes come true I’d build a house Just for you Painted white And trimmed in blue If words could make Wishes come true You’d offer your hand And I’d marry you Something old and new Borrowed and blue If words could make Wishes come true You wouldn’t be…
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LAST YEAR’S FORTUNE COOKIE Last night, I dreamed a dream I was somewhere In the in-between Where angels trod And souls meet The place I go In my deepest sleep My soul walked along As souls do And who do I see Before me, you With a kiss You said goodbye I stood there confused…
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THAT MAN I don’t want the love of a man I want the love of That man Yes, him I know he is broken And battered and bruised I know he has been Pushed around Neglected and used All his life He has never known love Because the “love” he has experienced Always came with…
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REFLECTION Who is this woman Staring back at me With pained deadness In her eyes She couldn’t be me This mirror deceives And surely distorts I close my eyes To clear the haze But when they open There she remains A lost and listless soul I still don’t recognize her For the light in her…
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