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Acceptance...Sunbeams slowly dying
No sense in asking 'why?'
Darkness overwhelming
The stars fall from the sky
Life it holds no meaning
Heart and soul both aching
Hope? I watch her dying
As my world is breaking
Memories they linger
longing mixed with pain
Through times endless river
They always will remain
When the wounds have healed
The sun, I know will shine
And life it will go on
Though you're no longer mine
Then I will remember
The good times, not the bad
Eyes fixed on the future
The past wont make me sad
So journey on my darling
Find love and happiness
In life's wondrous journey
I too will find my solace
See the dawn is breaking
And hope she rises too
New shores and beginnings
And doors to walk on through
But I will still look back
Eyes filled with silver dew
And thank the tides of fate
That I shared love with you...

Poets Are Born When Hearts BreakOn blue savannah plains
Below a crimson sky
Sings an azure willow
She's simply asking 'why?'

Among the yellow buds
Lay broken hearts so red
Each so very wounded
They surely must be dead

Blue grass bends in sorrow
Green parrots sing sad songs
Elven folk stand crying
For a world so full of wrong

Sunbeams kiss the dying
The moon sends healing dust
Angels sew the deep wounds
Of those who gave in trust

Faery folk bring new wings
And very special gifts
Eyes that see a thousand worlds
And words men's souls to lift

Healed, these hearts are rising
Composing ballads for the stars
Newborn poets flying
With such beauty in their sc

First LoveWhen the Sun has faded
And stars no longer shine
Memories shall linger
And pay no heed to time
Your smile left me breathless
Your face, I see it still
That 'accidental' touch
That gave me such a thrill
Those sleepless, lonely nights
That ushered loves first tears
The beating of my heart
Whenever you appeared
Innocence surrendered
Into your tender arms
First love lasts forever
We hold it like a charm
I will not forget you
You taught me, oh so much
Still my sweet beloved
I hunger for your touch...

AbandonedThe merry twinkling eyes
And ever ready smile
The laugh that rings out loud...
I'm lying all the while
Hear my silent screaming?
Or see my falling tears?
I keep them so well hidden
I've learned throughout the years
My broken heart concealed
Hollow spirit crushed
The scars of hurt and pain
Hope dying in the dust
Flirting over broadband
Or joking down the pub
I'm filling endless hours
And living without love...
In my sight the reaper
Skull and cloak and scythe
Perhaps because I care not
He doesn't try to hide
This world cold and empty
Has brought me endless hurt
I fought and tried and failed
I know the taste of dirt...
Love is all around us
I wish that that was true
But loving hearts are rare
I've found so very few
I've given up on heaven
A lesson I've learned well
Maybe it's because
I'm living in this hell
I watch the children dying
While we're all getting fat
And bombs and guns and bullets
What's the point of that?
Men that will not listen
Preach religious hate
Intolerance and bigotry

Heart SongLove it is a hunger
A powerful, burning need
Love it is a river
Born in a teardrops seed
Love it is a melody
That gives us wings to fly
Love it is a daydream
That's echoed in a sigh
Love it is a Prayer
That heals the hurting soul
Love it is a comfort
It's tender warmth enfolds
Love can raise and lift you
Love can break you down
Love can overwhelm you
So deep that you could drown
Love it has no reason
No logic and no sense
Love it is a marvel
What else is so immense?
Love can climb a mountain
And change a human heart
Love can cross an ocean
That keeps two hearts apart
Love it see's our beauty
And looks right through our flaws
Love if we just let it
Can open bolted doors
Love all things can conquer
For that's what love is for
Love if we just let it
Will show us heavens shore...

A Samhain Wish...Beneath this silver moon
I kneel and make a wish
To hold you in my arms
And steal a tender kiss
Heart, I fight no longer
I follow where you lead
Maybe in the giving
From hurt I will be freed
Mother moon grant favor
Let two hearts beat as one
Loneliness please vanquish
Neath light of moon and sun
Let words bleed together
Poetic hearts run free
Grant that in the joining
New hopes and dreams we see...

Dreaming?Feel the cold embrace you
Silence is deceiving
For in the dark of night
The dead themselves are stirring
Arms raised the warlock's standing
A hellish spell he's casting
Fingers gently moving
Power in his weaving
The earth begins to move
And mottled flesh appears
You cannot scream or run
You're paralyzed with fear
From the bowels of hell
The evil dead are raised
And from their rotting throats
They're singing Satan's praise
Shambling towards you
Deaths promise in their eyes
Terror's chain still binds you
Though a scream begins to rise
Feel their arms around you
The teeth that tear so deep
For now the truth is clear
You're really not asleep

This Boys Ballad...Memories linger on
Like perfume in the air
Words they stay forever
Both loving and unfair
A babe in mothers arms
The fireworks blazing bright
Watching in rapt wonder
I loved their colored light
Flowered shirts and cowbells
Guitars, long hair and pot
Childlike I watched them
This loving hippy lot
They partied all around me
Made love instead of war
Drank and fought and quarreled
For this child such a bore
Then the world it ended
Mum took me far away
Meet your brand new uncle
With him we're going to stay
He beat, burned and used her
Dominated and controlled
Hatred was his art form
Over mum he had a hold
Two long years of hell
Before we could escape
Damage so long lasting
Was this the hand of fate?
Valium and Vodka
The haze that eased the pain
I watched mother sinking
Dark skies filled with rain
Then my Father came home
I cried with sweet relief
Till he took my innocence
And killed my self belief
He left me hurt and hopeless
To nurse a drunken mum
So I became a carer
And not my m

Foolish HeartMy foolish yearning heart
A song of love it sings
With the chill of autumn
Soft falling tears it brings

It has learned no lessons
Nor built a thick stone wall
Lost within your beauty
It cannot help but call

I tried to hold it back
To tell it, 'let things be'
But flying to the stars
It said 'I will be free'

So then, I must tell you
That you're my morning sun
Basking in your heart light
I know the day's begun

Sat here at the keyboard
I search to find a trace...
Looking out the window
Imagining your face

This scarred and gentle heart
Once accepted 'lonely'
Now in the realms of sleep
It dwells upon you only

Time and ocea

A Poets TaleThunder rolls through heaven
And lightening falls like spears
Pain is heard in howling gales
Rain hides the flow of tears

This heart it softly rages
Howls against the loneliness
Yet wears a happy mask
To hide what it won't confess

Hurt in every lonely step
That cold and empty bed
Memories of better days
That echo in my head

Here the battered keyboard
That helps to keep me sane
Words that bleed with hurt
And yet the truth remains

Within this wounded heart
Love to give I've plenty
All around is beauty
Yet my world is empty

Thus the pilgrim poet
Found his haunting voice
The cost by world extracted
That did not give him cho

The FeatherThe world moved around me
And life just passed on by
No one spared a second glance
Or stopped to wonder why?
They saw so very little
They never looked within
As if the act of caring
Were a special type of sin
Perhaps this broken heart
Was never meant to heal
And that tide of loneliness
what I'm meant to feel
Sometimes though the burden
Well it just seemed all to much
And that final clasping hand
Perhaps a welcome touch
But then came my salvation
In the welcome land of sleep
A soft and gentle voice
That begged me not to weep
From the realm of heaven
A tender healing kiss
Tears that washed the pain away
Oh divine and loving bliss
Enfolded in an angels wings
I couldn't help but mend
Knowing on her love
I truly could depend
Was this just a dream?
A foolish flight of fancy?
A desperate hopeful longing
That echoes now so faintly?
Some I know would say
'by dreams you've been misled'
But they've not seen the feather
She left upon my bed...

Mother MoonPain that runs in rivers
Fire ripping me apart
Stomach, cramping, churning
Dear God my racing heart!
Think my flesh is melting
This moonlight, how it burns!
Bones feel like they're breaking
For death I pray and yearn
Strength and freedom rising
How sweet the forests smell
Werewolf, standing, howling
Where my weak body fell
In the night I hear you
My careless, foolish prey
Walking in the moonlight
Such loving things you say
Silently I stalk you
Sweet lovers, you've no clue
Feel my hackles rising
The hunt will soon be through
I know that you can see me
I want to smell your fear
Piss yourselves my victims
And know that death is here
Growling, ripping, tearing
I paint the trees with blood
Body parts are flying
I love death's crimson flood!
Two loving hearts devoured
Fun ended all to soon
Think I'll sit a while
And howl at mother moon!

Romeo's BalladTears like cherry blossom
Keep falling in the wind
Undying love a chasm
Where grieving echoes sing
Mighty wings now broken
Bloody feathers in the sand
Love that went unspoken
Is it dying in my hands?
This world it could not know
Was not allowed to see
The work of Cupid's bow
Or what you mean to me
Love hidden in the darkness
How could it thrive and grow
Longing for sweet wholeness
How could we treat it so?
Love should not be secret
For the rose it needs the sun
How could we be complete
When we could not be one?
So bring my cup of sorrow
It must take me where it will
There will be no tomorrow
For my heart will soon be still...

For YouTo softly touch your face
And kiss your tender lips
Such a sacred moment
All else it would eclipse

To hold you in my arms
Such magic it would seem
Flying among the stars
Such dreams I dare to dream

To share this burning love
To Chase the rainbows end
To offer every hurt
For passion all will mend

Like clothes the world is lost
Such cares we cast aside
Like the moon that's rising
Our love can't be denied

Hands and lips exploring
We gently raise the heat
Sensual waves we're riding
Our hearts like one they beat

Souls and bodies merging
Births fire we can't describe
Would that in this moment
Forever we could hide

Then in gl

The Pilgrims BalladCome thou rolling ocean
Let me sail upon thy tide
Like a lonely Bedouin
In thee my soul shall hide
Far from worldly shores
And trusting in thy arms
Would this my soul adore
When land has lost its charm?
Neath ever changing skies
And winds that come and go
Like the albatross on high
So shall my journey flow
Thy cradle it shall bear me
Through calm and still and storm
Travailing deep and endless sea's
Upon thy restless form
Would then I be delivered
To a new shore far away
Where love and hope are anchored
And happiness can stay?
Come thou rolling ocean
I shall sail upon thy tide
Like a lonely Bedouin
In thine arms I shall abide...

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If your heart were free
If you could see beyond blue
Then maybe you'd see me
But life and love are tangled
Hearts weave complex webs
Broken dreams are cradled
And live inside our heads
So from afar I watch you
Love silent in my heart
Unspoken words a virtue
Though they echo in the dark
Your laugh and smile I treasure
Your kindly words I'l store
And in innocence find pleasure
Sweet soul that I adore
And if perchance you see me
Discern the love I hide
Would rising passion free thee
To sail on sweeter tides?

The birth...You touch me oh, so gently
Your tender fingers trace
Exploring every contour
Upon this careworn face
Kiss that's starts so softly
I'm held in your embrace
I feel your ardor rising
As my very soul you taste
Your passion is consuming
I feel the depth of need
Desperately you hold me
Is this love, or greed?
You suck the feelings from me
Bring numbness in your wake
No mercy and no pity
No care for heavens sake
It's billowing in my blood
I feel your poison spread
Killing all emotion
The dread cold touch of death
Trapped within this darkness
I hear your siren song
Evil and alluring
To you I do belong?
Candle light is glowing
I feel your icy hand
Rising from my coffin
You gently bid me stand
You touch me oh, so gently
Your tender fingers trace
Exploring every contour
Upon this undead face...

The Kiss...Sunlight slowly fading
Sets chained shadows free
Dusk her wings unfurling
Sings praise to what shall be
Comes the velvet darkness
Replete with silver stars
Moonbeams join in congress
And herald what is ours
Scarlet billows call me
They rouse me from this sleep
Death surrenders sweetly
Stone angels do not weep
I can hear them singing
My children of the night
Serenade enthralling
My wolves a sheer delight
Through the graveyard walking
I smile and bless the night
You, my love, are dreaming
Such raptures I incite
To your side unerring
Our love it draws me nigh
Life and death deferring
I kiss you with a sigh
Your dream deftly shaping
I swear you'll feel no pain
Mortal life though leaving
Our love, it shall remain
Scarlet life is flowing
Your blood such honeyed wine
In this gentle knowing
Love, I will make you mine
Now in triumph rising
This hateful dawn I'll flee
One last look espying
In death new life I see...
By Gary Jackson AKA Garythedreamingpoet

At Last...On summers wings doth heaven rise
And banish dread despair
Sweet succor in the dawns reprise
That brings faint heart repair
Purest blue the welcome herald
Burnished by that princely orb
Winters grip at last annulled
Come golden kiss, let me absorb
See, the hand of God is painting
The rainbow is his brush
An end to endless waiting
How awesome is this rush
Joy and colors bursting
My soul at last is free
With love my eyes are gazing
Such miracles I see
Life from death is springing
Green shoots and petals red
Sights that start me singing
At last the word is said
Spring, be thou the sacred gateway
To summers warm embrace
Bring the sweet and longed for day
Let sunlight kiss this upturned face...

JewelMy eyes they see you shining
Watch you walking with the stars
Brighter than the lightning
Beauty glowing from afar...
And my heart gently weeps
I watch your spirit soaring
Soft wings painting in the sky
Sweet raining words inspiring
See your canvass how it flies...
And my heart gently weeps
I see your sadness bleeding
Savage wounds that just wont heal
And know the love you're needing
The unending pain you feel...
And my heart gently weeps
My poet born in sorrow
What beautiful words you weep
High on that sacred plateau
Where none but angels sleep...
And my heart gently weeps

The Sea of WonderStarlight softly beckons
And calls this dreaming heart
Sail with me the heavens
Sweet waters we will part
Mighty planets dying
New sun's that brightly burn
Sights that leave you crying
For more your heart will yearn
Sacred wisps of color
Paint beauty in the sky
Here true wonder conjured
No point in asking why
Eternity is painted
On mighty wheels of grace
Where the hand that molded
The blessed eye that traced?
How poor this poet's art
This wondrous tale to tell
So sad then to depart
In dreams this soul would dwell...

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Hope and broken dreams

Journal Entry: Tue Oct 30, 2012, 6:25 AM

Love it always beckons

Forever out of reach

Like the warm blue ocean

That laps the golden beach

There my soul it wanders

This shore of broken dreams

Living in the shadows

Of 'ifs' and 'might have been's'

Foolish heart stop wishing

Release me from this thirst

Of all the hurts and pains

Loneliness is the worst

To hear your voice I hunger

To see your face I yearn

Pain beyond enduring

My heart will you not learn?

How can I stop dreaming

Or learn to act my age

When this poetic spirit

Pours my heart upon the page

Grey gives way to sunshine

Hope lifts its dying head

I find a grain of comfort

In something that you've said

Sitting on the golden sand

I look out to the sea

rolling blue enchantment

Bids me "dream of what might be"

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Hope and broken dreamsby *Gary-thedreamingpoet

Literature / Poetry / Romantic / General / Traditional Fixed Forms

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It is part of my 200 poem challenge and a little about my hope for better things...

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~WalkinginDreamlight Nov 16, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Beautiful poem.

I loved the free flowing nature of each verse.

Nice imagery in the words.

*Gary-thedreamingpoet Nov 20, 2012 Professional Writer

Thank you, you words are deeply appreciated.

*Delice1941 Nov 6, 2012

This is lovely to read, it flows so gently from one image to another

*Gary-thedreamingpoet Nov 7, 2012 Professional Writer

Thank you my fellow poet

*Delice1941 Nov 7, 2012

*Katragoness Nov 5, 2012

wow. I absolutely love this piece. <3 it's so beautiful and says so much.

*Gary-thedreamingpoet Nov 6, 2012 Professional Writer

Your words mean a lot, thank you

*TheDarkenedBride Nov 1, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

to act your age? you mean 16?

*Gary-thedreamingpoet Nov 1, 2012 Professional Writer

Did I tell you I love you!

*TheDarkenedBride Nov 23, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

hmm, let me think about it... I guess now you did

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