Rainbow Lullaby

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Somewhere

Bluebirds cry

Silently.

Somewhere

Dreams really do

Come true.

Somewhere

The clouds aren’t far

Behind me.

Somewhere

She’s still

Singing.

Somewhere

She has found

The rainbow.

Somewhere

I can hear

A lullaby.

Somewhere

There isn’t any

Trouble.

Somewhere

Beyond the moon,

The stars…

Somewhere

Over the

Rainbow.

Book Love

Books are time machines.
Books are cars, and planes, and submarines.
Books are rocket ships and magic beans.
Books are goblins, dragons, kings, and queens.
Books are beating hearts and things unseen.
Books are marijuana and caffeine.



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Poetic Perspectives on Love

I'm often fascinated how differently people view the same words, ideas and concepts.  I find this especially true with the word love and recently asked several poets to describe what loves means to them.  Perhaps we can get closer to unraveling something so painfully elusive?

Huge thanks to Amber Jerome Norrgard, Regina Puckett, Poppy Ruth Silver, Helle Gade, Brock Gates, Sreya Bremtin, and Susie Clevenger for their beautiful words.

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I will fight against you, for you

Because you mean more to me

than any fight can ever erase

Amber Jerome~Norrgard

Amazon Author Page - Website

Breathes held between

lingering sighs. Tangled thoughts

hemorrhage through loving eyes.

Regina Puckett

Facebook - Website

It is the surrender

that loses light

and yet invites

Poppy Ruth Silver

Apollo Blessed - Website

I walked into your soul

Embraced all that you were with my love

But death is a jealous lover

Now that you are gone

I'll forgive, but never forget

Helle Gade

Silent Dreams - Nocturnal Embers


When hate dies, compassion begins, when a violent urge to take care and be one with another, that is a two side deal, to break free of the curse of loneliness

Brock Gates
Website on Tumblr

Love is energy

And motion over time

Transcending distance.

Love will save us
If it doesn't kill us first.

Broken bottles

Shatter glass

Into a love letter

On the tear stained floor.

Ben Ditmars

You're already here.

I.

midnight rain kisses

shower eye lashes with dew

the sweet love of you

II.

spider web wishes

tangle around thoughts of you

to hold fast my heart

III.

you spoke, i answered

together we wrote the words

that said everything

Sreya Bremtin

Amazon Author Page - Facebook

I came with heartbreak

and you never left my side

through sickness and health

together we stood

facing every storm trusting

faith would see us through

goodnight never saw

our heads lay upon anger

forgiveness our choice

life came with its thorns

but they couldn’t divide us

love defied all odds 

Susie Clevenger

Facebook - Blog - Website

Let the Seed Decay

I dream in ways

my mouth cannot articulate

in ways my hands refuse to write

I am a prisoner inside

and there are bars

the world will never break

because they are made from fear

of death and losing all that

I have hid inside them

for so long.

let the seed decay

and never bloom

it will be better

understood that way.

.

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Spiced Dawn, Eclipsed With Venom (Collaboration with Ben Ditmars and PoppySilver)

She bathed in surreal/resembling a dream/an incubus hallucination/trance, vagary and wrath/in the shadow she dwelt/mystified by death/it curved around her thighs, thoughts and heart/while daylight teased her lips/leaving strings of fire like saliva/caught between the stars/her soul had met its match/had suffocated lives long past/she had seen the doorway/invited him to witness it/he only had to offer her his blood/a simple sacrifice/yet more than picturesque/aesthetic qualities/one might taste/but never know/he would be a part of her/lost within the vast miasma/of her ventricles and veins/there he would swirl for longer than a lifetime/and a day/treason lingered in her soul/smeared with distaste for heaven/she absorbed his apathy/inhaled his sadness/such a succulent whirlpool of transparent fear/ beyond the pale of human skin/passive velleity turned raw emotion/the timbre of a voice/becoming one/within the walls/fingernails dug deep into/the fabric of eternity/and stretched time as it was known/pierced the core/ripped the dreams assundar/death was pungent/spiced with life/merged/they breathed/rapidly/let snakes hiss around their feet/venom writhed through their auras/oblivion never tasted so sweet/or putrid to vainglorious believers/in the craft of celibate demise/souls decay/if day by day/our sins become our passion/and she was more than vice to him/a guilty pleasure/sweet dessert/engorging all his senses/tasting, touching, hearing/more, than even five/he felt her on a cosmic plane/away from earth/she tasted his primal/raw/surge/engulfed him/released him/an orb unto the night/forever in her aura he remained/shone like a star unseen before/when she panged for more/he yearned for more/both/breathed/continually together/forever/continium/they had eclipsed the dawn/

(c)2013 Ben Ditmars and Poppy Ruth Silver

Poppy's Website - http://poppysilver.weebly.com/

Speak to the Stars

If I could echo
One small word
Across the universe
It would be love.
The hottest and most distant
Coldest planets,
Black holes and
Neutron stars will know
A species overcame
Their greed and lust
For that one, small word
If only for a moment
As they spoke to stars.

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