Great Poetry

[Outtahere]

From childhood's hour I have not been As others were
I have not seen as others saw
I could not bring My passions from a common spring
From the same source I have not taken My sorrow
I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone
And all I lov'd , I lov'd alone
Then -- in my childhood -- in the dawn
Of a most stormy life was drawn
From ev'ry depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still
From the torrent, or the fountain
From the red cliff of the mountain
From the sun that 'round me roll'd
In its autumn tint of gold
From the lightning in the sky
As it pass'd me flying by
From the thunder, and the storm
And the cloud that took the form
When the rest of Heaven was blue
Of a demon in my view .

Edgar Allen Poe

Becuz Ed was in my head ...

Doc

[Jackie]

[strawdawg]

     Soulful Whispers


With eyes closed and a knowing smile,
I search needfully among the realm of
dream-lit memories and whispered partings.

Echos from voices not yet found add their
haunting melody as I traverse the hidden
crevices which exist only in that special
world between wishes and dreams.

Mental images float freely....and, then, are
transformed as they connect with emotional
exchanges...sweet memories....a conduit
which leads to you....only to you

I am adrift among that realm of dreams
which bears only your image....a heartfelt
longing to hold you...to be held by you.
A soft sigh as I shed the traces of wakefulness
and I am free....travelling on a nightwind to you
A deep sigh as our souls touch, once again, and memories are freed to emerge from
dream-lit passages....each producing sparks
of passion to light your waking form...to guide
me as my outstretched arms seek yours.

Lips seeking....desperately seeking yours...
breathlessly seeking release as our souls
join amid rhythmic whispers....soft moaning
as we become one.

And upon awakening...

I stretch and smile (our secret smile) as I
whisper your name and reach across crisp
white sheets.... to touch your waiting form.

Sad realization... A single tear is released and
my smile fades as I discover you are not here.

Were you ever?

Soulful whispers... calling for you.

[downbeatplumb]

Spike Milligan

So Fair Is She

So fair is she!
So fair her face
So fair her pulsing figure

Not so fair
The maniacal stare
Of a husband who's much bigger.

If you cast your bread on the water
It returns a thousand fold
So it says in the bible
So I have been told
So I cast my bread on the water
It was spotted by a froggy
and all the bits he didn't eat
just floated back
all soggy

Spike Miligan.

[Jackie]

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Premonition (Robert W. Service)


'Twas a year ago and the moon was bright
(Oh, I remember so well, so well);
I walked with my love in a sea of light,
And the voice of my sweet was a silver bell.

And sudden the moon grew strangely dull,
And sudden my love had taken wing;
I looked on the face of a grinning skull,
I strained to my heart a ghastly thing.


'Twas but fantasy, for my love lay still
In my arms, with her tender eyes aglow,
And she wondered why my lips were chill,
Why I was silent and kissed her so.

A year has gone and the moon is bright,
A gibbous moon, like a ghost of woe;
I sit by a new-made grave to-night,
And my heart is broken — it's strange, you know.

*****

Boru

[Jackie]

[Mr.Obvious]

And you were there

Sheltering underneath
a flickering vacancy sign
stands a lonely Kansas girl.
Red lips, red dress, ruby shoes.
Sad eyes speak: "No place like home."
I lose all instantaneously:
my heart, brain and courage.

[Jackie]

[Mr.Obvious]

Kiss the cook

A knight in white with a lid for a shield
and a steel spatula serving as a sword.
Regard his apron on the battlefield
as a cloak and his toque a helmet of sorts.

His blade chops and dices and cuts
all in his path for his maiden's love.
And slowly he gets covered in guts
though they're pumpkins' sure enough.

The metal in hand, where strength lies
should spread to his mind and in his head
yet the journey demands that he cries
when he faces an ominous onion threat.

And when at long last the quest is complete
and he has fulfilled all his princess' wishes
he still does not get the rest you think he'd need
for beyond lies an eternal realm of dishes.