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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...
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...
 
Hope and broken dreamsLove 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"
Timeless LoveSoftly, softly gentle heart
We walk through broken dreams
And let our tears be silent
For naught is what it seems
Silver threads of love remain
They travel through the years
Yet like grains of sand they fall
So far and yet so near
You slipped away my timeless love
Another lifetime bleeds
And yet throughout eternity
Yours the love I need
Sacred and eternal
For your love I reached
Confounded by our ties
Alone I walk this beach
Shore of if's and maybe's
Coast of falling tears
Sun and moon both witness
Pain whose blade doth sear
Remember me my darling
Let hearts not bitter be
For if we both shall will it
New days our love may see
Your hurt is surely echoed
I too feel  pain and bleed
Your words like mine were painful
You denied the love I need
In the storm I called you
Bid you 'take my hand'
Yet the gold upon your finger
Meant promises of sand
Still this soul doth love you
And this heart must still be true
For the love of yesterday
This scribe he will not rue...
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
The Lover's LamentSilken threads of make believe 
The siren voice of hope
 Feeding on a poor hearts need
Til wisdom did elope
Vulnerable and trusting
A precious soul laid bare
Deepest wounds still bleeding
Were offered up for care
A silver moon is weeping
 The stars have bowed their heads
Pain and hurt for loving
The worst remains unsaid
But time doth not grow weary
It's healing shall not fail
The heart that bled is worthy
On calmer sea's to sail
Come the golden sunrise
And God kissed skies of blue
Aphrodite will arise
And give her blessing true...
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...
Home?Across the sea of hope and fear
Far beyond the spires of faith
A memory flickers in the dark
Like a fading, tremulous wraith

Sweet echoes sing unto my soul
With such treacherous siren calls
Tainted love that baits the trap
And beckons the heart to fall

Then like the rays of golden dawn
Rising beauty lights my sky
Through this veil of silver tears
A heavenly rainbow flies

Soaring through cerulean blue
On a mystic chariot of fire
I follow where the colors lead
And splendor would inspire

I feel my spirit soaring
Sacred steed with wings of flame
A universe unfolding
And stardust for a frame

Stars and planets dying
Yet others
The Vampires BalladNight unfurls her silken wings
She paints the skies with lace
And in her blue, bright stars sing
While moonbeams light her face
Hands with magic dust the land
Her jewels we call 'frost'
Numerous as the desert sands
With morning they are lost
Wise owls sing her praises
While wolves they offer hymns
The busy world, it hushes
As if it knows its sin
Listen to her children
Sweet choir of the night
Hear their music beckon
And share my rapt delight
This the world that calls me
"Come rise up from the grave"
This the wonder my eyes see
So full of what I crave
Life and love and splendor
For these I have a thirst
Though some look with horror
Of men I'm not the worst
Immortal and accursed 
Still I dare to love
Though in grief immersed
And hated up above
Still my heart remembers
And yes, I see your face
Memories still linger
This heavens only grace
Crimson floods give succor
But only for a while
For more than blood I hunger
Still pining for your smile
Centuries they come and go
Upon
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...
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...
Haunting Sorrows...Loneliness it echoes
And haunts my every dream
Love it brings such sorrows
Barbed words we can't redeem
So in the night I cry
When there's no world to see
My tears and soft, sad sighs
For what I thought could be
Memories surround me
Eyes closed I see your face
Though I would not be free
For none can take your place
Sweet angel I still hunger
Still wear that silver chain
And sometimes still I wonder
Could love not ease our pain?
Chaos and confusion
My mind it wont be still
Lost in hopeless visions
Of hope that cant be real...
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...
The Echoes of LoveThe wheels of time are turning
Life's tide it slowly ebbs
And the best of life is dreaming
For love is surely dead

Cold, brown earth is barren
The tree's are stark and bare
Wet, brown leaves decaying
Does hope shine anywhere?

I hear the faintest echo
Fading memories of love
Journeying on the wind
To somewhere far above

The strength of youth is fading
Just as the winter sun
Time is undefeated
And some battles can't be won

Loneliness is poison
It seeps into your bones
In my heart a palace
That holds an empty throne

Yet on the tides of sleep
The world of dreams doth reign
I ride a swan to Avalon
Where nothing seems the sam
True HorrorYou touch me oh, so gently
Your tender fingers trace
Exploring every contour
Upon this careworn face

Kiss that's starts so softly
As 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

Dye billowing in the water
I feel your poison spread
Killing all emotion
Your palace is my head

Dragged into your darkness
My heart it feels so dead
Life on autopilot
Addicted to my bed

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Possessed...Place of darkest memory
Enshrouded tomb of lore
Lingering in darkness
The legend of Lenore

Here sat he who loved thee
Neath dust the salt of tears
Love still echoes faintly
Despite the passing years

Dark tomes on dusty shelves
Muddy prints upon the floor
Well meant the dire warning
The Raven's "Nevermore"

Sweet heaven bids me run
Pray and don't look back
Yet I sit upon his chair
Seeking what we lack

For I am imprisoned
In love forever more
I looked upon the portrait
"The legend of Lenore"
Holy LoveA waterfall of sorrows
A lake of falling tears
Behold the grieving mother
Confronting all her fears

She rests a bloody head
In soft and gentle hands
Cries out to God above
At the cruel work of man

Dead mouth that spoke no ill
Receives her final kiss
What crime in truth and love
That he must end like this

Behold his broken body
It points to brighter day
"Father forgive them"
What beautiful words to pray

Hands that healed lepers
Torn and pierced with nails
All this to silence love
And still their hatred failed

Feet that carried hope
Bloodied, shattered bone
And yet in love I place him
Upon my poor hearts throne

Many time
And the moon bled...The moon was gently weeping
Her blood coloring the sky
Scarlet droplets billowing
And the wind was asking "why?"

Below the frost was busy
Painting all with ice
Ghostly pristine beauty
Her touch was so precise

The world wrapped in silence
So little noise to hear
Just a mournful sighing
And the echo of sad tears

The angel of death wept
His task a bitter blow
To carry these poor souls
What shame the world should know

In one arm Romeo
In the other Juliet
Death of star crossed lovers
Earth and moon would not forget

For hatreds bitter blade
Killed the heart of love
And cast the blackest stain
That saddened heaven above...
Slowly...Our world slowly falling
Spinning through the skies
Though we could have saved her
We chose to let her die

Rivers choked with poison
The fish gave up and died
Polar ice caps melting
The bears began to fry

Oil in the oceans
Acid in the rain
Still we burned the forests
Couldn't see the pain

Thought it didn't matter
That we'd all end up in space
Seduced by Captain Kirk
We laid our home to waste

Now poison oceans rise
On burning desert lands
And we all wait for death
Earths blood upon our hands...
Endless LoveI crossed time's endless ocean
Sailed a river of pain
Lived a hundred lifetimes
To see thy face again

Call of love unceasing
The flame that never died
Memories unspoken
From myself I cannot hide

Eyes so long remembered
A touch from long ago
Echoes sweet as honey
Things this heart doth know

Love it reigns eternal
Blooms but with one kiss
My soul thou hath awakened
To love's unending bliss...
My loveSoft enchanted whispers
On silken wings of light
Butterflies like jewels
Dancing in sweet delight

Divine melodic birdsong
Rapturous bubbling brook
Flowers in myriad colors
Magic, if thou wouldst look

Clear sky of azure blue
Awesome flawless frame
To thou who art beloved
On throne of golden flame

In thy light I wander
A child of burnished beam
Cares and woes all vanquished
As if walking in a dream

Thy kiss so warm and sensual
The bearer of delight
Handmaiden of perfection
How I love thy golden light

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Poets Are Born When Hearts Break

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On 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 scars...
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Written while listening to [link] Part of the two hundred poem challenge (Number 22, rebirth) and dedicated to my poet friends, thank you for your inspiration, love and friendship :)
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=Ninefiftin Jan 8, 2013  Hobbyist Writer
The last three strophes are perfect...
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*Gary-thedreamingpoet Jan 8, 2013  Professional Writer
Thank you my friend, that means a lot :)
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=Ninefiftin Jan 8, 2013  Hobbyist Writer
You're very welcome :)
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Mood: Joy =C-Allagash Dec 29, 2012
Hello,

How are you?

Feature here:
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Happy New Year!
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*Gary-thedreamingpoet Dec 31, 2012  Professional Writer
Hi, I'm fine thank you. Thank you so much for the feature, I'm honored that you enjoyed my poem so much and happy new year to you my dear friend :)
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~ancientfire33 Dec 17, 2012  Student Writer
Just amazing, "with such beauty in their scars"...

Such as mystical and fantastical world you have created, I understand for as I am fighting through depression its feels as if that whole amazing process you describe so beautifully in these poem comes to life! :)

Hopefully my heart will heal and rise, composing ballads for the stars! ^^
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*Gary-thedreamingpoet Dec 19, 2012  Professional Writer
I'm glad you find it beautiful, and sorry to to hear that you know the bleak hand of depression too. I hope and pray that you feel brighter soon and that your heart flies on eagles wings :) :heart:
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~ancientfire33 Dec 20, 2012  Student Writer
Thank you and yes I am fighting it everyday, but at least now I have learned to value life as it comes...thanks to it I have grown so much and learned who I am! :)
It taught me never to judge, yourself or anyone, because you can never know their true colors! :D
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*Gary-thedreamingpoet Dec 26, 2012  Professional Writer
You are very wise. People are like icebergs, we see only what's on the surface. Seeing what lies beneath is the most important thing we can ever do. True beauty, true kindness, the ability to truly love, all these things lie deep within a person and until we take the time to know a person we know nothing of them.
I hope your Christmas has been wonderful! :)
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~ancientfire33 Dec 27, 2012  Student Writer
Yes, it is true and sadly at my age a lot of people wear fake masks to try to "fit in" and impress people... Why, it is really hard to find someone that is pure and true! :(

Thank you and I hope you had a wonderful Christmas too! :D
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