Darkness of the moon

in the darkness of the moon

I saw the edge of
the double-sided sword.

It’s edge shinning and sharp

breathless, fright had taken hold
of my heart.

Blinding all compassion –
giving way to a
loud heartbeat.

Recoiled into the safety
of my deadbolt,
fear conquered love
last night.

Sunrise gifts a new day
a new way
allowing love to conquer fear.

☮TheMsLvh © 2012

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Beyond

Beyond
I traveled the edge
into your darkness
where only strength
of love would dare roam

Compassion – my guide
Empathy – my desire
to glimpse through
your stained blue eyes

and see what you have seen
and feel what you have felt
and cried when you have bled

Your lingering visions
frightening to the core
adhering to old
melancholy etchings
of aged distant time

I know…I know what it is
to be alone

Yet, know this truth, my love
loosen away the empty cold

Cast aside those blackened nights
remove all stones, clear the path
your sunrise has begun

I promise

☮TheMsLvh © 2012

Photo Permission by Gary Hart

Submitted to d’Verse 

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for the Love of Humanity -redux

Dew laden palms hang under midnight glow

reflecting lunar diamonds off green spears.

 

soft evening breeze brings forth a dancing flow  

small shocks of light reflect within each tear

 

which falls to earth 

abandoning

its high collective perch 

one small drop at a time

 

cascading journeys sliding southward bound

night’s swirling mist create pools on the ground

 

and with each teardrop’s tiny splash 

an echoed cry through smoke and flash

 

turquoise tattered butterflies stop to view

as clouds dissipate with sun’s mourning dew

 

the path is dangerous but clear

yet they hear the world’s voice

 and know they’re near

 

the shifting paradigm of consciences

will let the light shine on all injustice

 

be free brave little butterflies 

take your wings and expose the lies

 

the soul of the earth has

been assaulted with bombs and gas

 

for the love of humanity 

lay down arms of insanity

 

a global evolution has begun

What a unique time to be in the sun.

 

 

☮TheMsLvh © 2012

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Lesson Relearned – sonnet

Blue china broken on the floor

its’ tiny pieces scattered cost

Symbolic price for all love lost

as I watch you walk out the door

 

and leave behind a shattered heart

of broken dreams of what you did

allowed your mother’s heart be shredded

just take your things and quickly part.

 

And for once again I shall heal

replace old bandage which came loose

deceit and lies brought me to kneel

the heartache of tears runs profuse

 

Away you run, your deeds concealed

spin your tales of secret misuse.

☮TheMsLvh © 2012

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Black Gold – Italian Sonnet

 One of the items on my “Bucket List” is to go to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for New Years.  When I heard of this current oil spill, it struck me in the heart.

 

 

A strangled hold onto the rocks,

not far the blue Sargasso Sea.

White suited sea gulls fly in flocks,

lost riggers join the absentee.

Below off-shore unearthly docks –

engraved with a fire memory.

Eleven deep in waters sail

on grey Horizon’s ghostly tale.

 

A strangled hold into the sand,

metallic rainbows pooled with rain.

While gasping life strain just to breathe,

more waves of death awash the land.

Their greed exploded dark insane

mad currents of black ocean seethe.

 

A strangled hold grips the unplanned

across slick mass in devil’s stain.

Disrupting nature’s primal gland,

injecting to withdraw for gain.

Destruction of earth from man’s hand,

Spill after spill, still no refrain.

 

☮TheMsLvh © 2011

offered to United Poets , dVerse Poets

image: gcaptain.com

 

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• Chevron Corp oil spill – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – November 7, 2011  to present 
• Rena oil spill – New Zealand, Tauranga, Bay of Plenty – October 5, 2011 to present
• Taylor Energy wells Platform 23051 – United States, Gulf of Mexico – September 16, 2004 to present (2624 days)
• Chevron/Transocean Campos oil spill – Brazil, Campos Basin – November 10, 2011 – current
• Esso/Shell North Sea oil spill –  United Kingdom, North Sea – August 10, 2011 – – current
• Yellowstone River pipeline spill –  United States, Montana, Yellowstone River -July 1, 2011
• Bohai Bay oil spill – China, Bohai Bay – June 4, 2011 – June 19, 2011
• Peace River Rainbow pipeline spill – Canada, Alberta – April 29, 2011
• Mumbai-Uran pipeline spill –  India, Mumbai, Arabian Sea – January 21, 2011
• Fiume Santo power station –  Italy, Sardinia, Porto Torres – January 11, 2011
• Mumbai oil spill – India, Mumbai, Arabian Sea – August 7, 2010 – August 9, 2010
• Barataria Bay oil spill – United States, Barataria Bay, Gulf of Mexico – July 27 – August 1, 2010
• Talmadge Creek oil spill –  United States, Kalamazoo River, Calhoun, Michigan – July 26, 2010
• Xingang Port oil spill – China, Yellow Sea – July 16 – July 21, 2010
• Jebel al-Zayt oil spill – Egypt, Red Sea – June 16 -June 23, 2010
• Red Butte Creek oil spill – United States, Salt Lake City, Utah – June 11 – June 12, 2010
• Trans-Alaska Pipeline spill – United States, Anchorage, Alaska – May 25, 2010
• MT Bunga Kelana 3 –  Singapore, Singapore Strait – May 25, 2010
• 2010 ExxonMobil oil spill – Nigeria, Niger Delta – May 1, 2010
• Deepwater Horizon –  United States, Gulf of Mexico – April 20, 2010 – July 15, 2010
• 2010 Great Barrier Reef oil spill – Australia Great Keppel Island -April 3, 2010
• 2010 Port Arthur oil spill – United States, Port Arthur, Texas – January 23, 2010
• Yellow River oil spill – China, Chishui River (Shaanxi) – August 21, 2009
• Montara oil spill – Australia, Timor Sea – August 21, 2009
• Full City oil spill – Norway, Rognsfjorden near Såstein south of Langesund – July 31, 2009
• 2009 Lüderitz oil spill – Namibia, Southern coast – April 8, 2009
• 2009 Queensland oil spill – Australia, Queensland – March 10, 2009
• West Cork oil spill – United States, New Orleans, Louisiana – July 28, 2008
• 2008 New Orleans oil spill – United States, New Orleans, Louisiana – July 28, 2008
• 2007 Statfjord oil spill – Norway, Norwegian Sea – December 12, 2007
• 2007 Korea oil spill –  South Korea, Yellow Sea – December 7, 2007
• Kerch Strait oil spill – Ukraine Russia, Strait of Kerch – November 11, 2007
•  Russia, Strait of Kerch
• 2007 Statfjord oil spill – Norway, Norwegian Sea – December 12, 2007
• Kerch Strait oil spill – Ukraine Russia, Strait of Kerch – November 11, 2007
• COSCO Busan oil spill – United States, San Francisco, California – November 7, 2007
• Kab 101 – Mexico, Bay of Campeche – October 23, 2007 – December 17, 2007
• Guimaras oil spill – Philippines – August 11, 2006
• Jiyeh power station oil spill – Lebanon — July 14, 2006 – July 15, 2006
• Citgo refinery oil spill – United States, Lake Charles, Louisiana – June 19, 2006
• Prudhoe Bay oil spill – United States, Alaska North Slope, Alaska – March 2, 2006
• Bass Enterprises (Hurricane Katrina) –  United States, Cox Bay, Louisiana – August 30, 2005
• Shell (Hurricane Katrina) – United States, Pilottown, Louisiana – August 30, 2005
• Chevron (Hurricane Katrina) – United States, Meraux and Chalmette, Louisiana – August 30, 2005
• Murphy Oil USA refinery spill (Hurricane Katrina) – United States, Meraux and Chalmette, Louisiana – August 30, 2005
• Bass Enterprises (Hurricane Katrina) – United States, Pointe à la Hache, Louisiana – August 30, 2005
• Chevron (Hurricane Katrina) – United States, Venice, Louisiana – August 30, 2005
• Venice Energy Services Company (Hurricane Katrina) – United States, Nairn, Louisiana – August 30, 2005
• Sundown Energy (Hurricane Katrina) – United States, West Potash, Louisiana – August 30, 2005
• MV Selendang Ayu – United States, Unalaska Island, Alaska – December 8, 2004
• Athos 1 – United States, Delaware River, Paulsboro, New Jersey – November 26, 2004
• Gulf War oil spill – Iraq, Persian Gulf – June 8, 1990
• Continued list of oil spills……

Concrete Hive

I heard a voice from years ago:

Solidarity has come of age.

Echoed songs heard throughout the streets

of lessons learned from Gandhi and King.

 

For what had been promised

was a brand new way,

yet the poor received nothing

at the end of the day.

 

So quiet were the thieves

that stole the people’s dreams.

Silently packaged and bundled

then secretly sold overseas.

 

Unknowing, the concrete hive

hand-crafted a perfect plan,

sold our kids as collateral

to live monetary selfish lives.

 

Sworn to serve, embedded with pride,

a young warrior’s blood ran thick –

staining sand of foreign land.

All for black oil in a can

 

or was the repression, depression, taxation

that broke the silent majority’s back?

 

I never thought I would live

long enough to see

a new generation’s uprising,

claiming their voice, now free.

 

“Raging against the machine.”

 

I watched for years, 

the youth blindly squeezed

into the fitted mold 

of a stolen society.

 

Cookies cut by MTV

distracting minds of our youth.

Disregarding the discontent;

ignoring the rumblings underground.

 

Oh! to my surprise when I saw

the young, arm in arm with the aged

at last take a stand. A loud stand!

To finally break free

from the cage.

Peace be with all of you.

☮TheMsLvh © 2011

Image from #OccupyBerkley Riots Nov.9, 2011

Riot Police wanted students off the grass.

For the dVerse Poetics Prompt on idioms: http://dversepoets.com/2011/11/12/poetics-what-did-you-call-me/.

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Dreams of Peace

 

 

“Too much of everything

 

is just enough”

 

A stitch of words that frame

 

my license plate.

 

 

 

A sister’s gift

 

so many years ago.

 

How did she know

 

that I would frame my life

 

around those eight

 

Grateful Dead words?

 

 

 

 too much love is just enough

 

 too much peace is just enough

 

 

 

Were the little girls with flowers

 

in their hair wrong

 

so long ago?

 

 

 

To dream the dreams

 

the world

 

now hungers for.

 

 

 

TheMsLvh

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Unrequited Love – Sestina

This poem was inspired by this beautiful painting which is for sale (see below for link). 

 

 Peace be with all of you.

-TheMsLvh

 

In silent motion I drift seamlessly

between reality’s fine line of dreams;

caught in the labyrinth of wanted love.

Stained corridors of promised fairy tales,

dull years of memories, mutating time –

defacing truth, obscuring my heart’s view.

 

Inside this winding parallactic view,

the melting promised years fade seamlessly.

My heart’s desire wrapped in wasted time,

within residing realms of frozen dreams.

You offered simple masquerading tales –

disguising charm for unrequited love. 

 

Quixotic fantasies entangled love,

wants heightened tantalizing points of view.

Continued to believe your fabled tales –

while time elapsed, unnoticed, seamlessly.

Hypocrisy laughed at my lustful dreams

until it was too late to salvage time.

 

Our carnal knowledge granted borrowed time

to orchestrate an ever-lasting love;

addressed within a gentle poet’s dream.

Emotions askew sealed your slighted view,

abandoning us as you seamlessly

went off collecting souvenirs of tales.

 

Suggestions of love mock your empty tales

rehearsed along the trail of misty time.

With caution you played your games seamlessly;

a temporal affair deflecting love.

You’re not aware I can escape this view

and your attempts to smuggle glossy dreams.

 

I shall relinquish all my vanished dreams;

eviscerate assuming hidden tales.

Forever you will be in my eye’s view

but I release myself from spiraled time.

Until you can feel one platonic-love,

in silent motion I drift seamlessly.

 

And though I view our noncommittal time –

enjoying lust with all your tales of love;

I am exhaling my dreams, seamlessly.

 

☮TheMsLvh © 2011

 

Image Source: Teimur-Amiry Unrequited Love – (Painting For Sale -Asking Price: $50,000 USD)

Size: 16 x 20 in – woo-hoo!

 

 

 

Thank you Ava and “The Poetry Palace Thursday Post Rally Week” for the Perfect Poet Award
I nominate  Mike Patrick for the next award

  Summited to: dVerse, Poets United, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads

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Parallactic  [par-uh–lak-tik] – An apparent change in the direction of an object, caused by a change in observational position that provides a new line of sight.

Quixotic – impulsive and often rashly unpredictable.

Eviscerate – to deprive of vital or essential parts; disembowel.

 

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Endless Rails – Sonnet

 

Conductor please, I’ll buy a ticket sir,

one with a window and reclining seat

of leather, ashen white, to rest my eyes.

 

Caress cut crystal bronzed with fine liqueur –

accentuates heart’s rhythm of repeat;

across split rails of iron laden tracks.

 

Bequeath my soul to wander boundless skies,

eternity unburdened I prefer;

and leave behind cruel visions of defeat.

 

These fleeting images across sunrise –

through railway tunnels never looking back;

on restful rails of vast suspended time.

 

Discover hidden truth for which I lack.

Upon this train, towards endless, I shall climb.

 

 

☮TheMsLvh © 2011

Submitted to dVerse – Poetics – Trai_n_n_n_n_n_n_n_n_s and Real Toads and Poets United

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I Must Surrender- rondeau redoublé

  

 

I must surrender the mind’s hold,

let go the blaze trapped in my head.

Times have changed. Leaving misty old

perceptions of what is, now dead.

 

Raised independent – so inbred,

to never swallow what was told.

To always question – not be led,

I must surrender the mind’s hold.

 

Events have changed my journey’s road;

the day I flew but fell instead.

All my dreams dying – turning cold –

let go the blaze trapped in my head.

 

I never feared what lay ahead,

those days of youth brought suns of gold;

so quick to alter by moon’s end,

Times have changed. Leaving misty old

 

faint memories pulled from the void.

Of better days where I transcend –

to grasp a breath and long behold

perceptions of what is, now dead.

 

Succumb to pain, I hide in bed;

heal mind and body, feel controlled.

New dreams will come a doctor said  –

relax and breath and let unfold.

I must surrender.

 

 

 

☮TheMsLvh © 2011

Image Courtesy of DiegoUnspire

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*Technically speaking a rondeau redoublé is made of six quatrains ended by a hemistich (of exactly the same type as the one in the rondeau form, and built on the first verse as well). The 24 verses, 4 of which are found twice (in the first stanza and as endings of stanzas 2-5) all belong to only two rhyme groups, the tricky scheme of this form is:

ABAB BAB1 ABA2 BAB3 ABA4 BABAh