Category: poetry

Patience, a Virtue

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Patience, a virtue at fifty-two

In all creative ventures we try

Trying hard in all we say and do

Requiring obstinance be applied.

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Learning new things isn’t as easy

A lot of focus, often needed

Far from our youth this isn’t breezy

As many of our minds, are ceded.

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Moving forward, we must try our best

Steeper the hills of journeys to go

All, have to pass that arduous test

Even now, we continue to grow…

-AAA 07/06/2024

Despair, The Devil’s Food

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Despair is the devil’s food

And he eats it all the time

The further down we all fall

The far stronger he gets.

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Eternal damnation isn’t in hell

It lives in our past as it darkens our mood

Bringing our happiness to sadness

As we face our deepest regrets.

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So, when we ponder and want to have it all

Take a few steps back, pause, and think

Emphasizing all that we’ve accomplished

And cleaning up our own mess.

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Forged in fire, tempered steel, is our brood

Ever climbing, reach the mountain’s crest.

-AAA 07/06/2024

Too Much

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In his thirst for knowledge

He bit of more than he could chew

Now drowning in his porridge

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Life passing before him

And everything he knew

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Now grasping, struggling, for a point of view…

-AAA 07/06/2024

Neglected in Love

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Chew me up and spit me out

Drop me like an afterthought

This is what your love is all about

Leaving someone to fester and rot.

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Take and take and never give

Selfishness your middle name

Not a happy life to live

When the relationship is like a game.

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Lure me back when I fade away

Making me thing you just might care

Manipulations led us astray

When you’re caught all unaware.

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No amount of love given

Will alter this torturous course

A life of misery is what you are living

Wondering if it can ever get worse.

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The only thing to do

Is bring this all to a final end

Loving yourself through and through

Will assure this never happens again…

-AAA 07/05/2024

Lune Series: My Fireworks Display 🎆🎇🧨🎇🎆🧨🎇🎆🧨

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Fiiiiiizzzz zoooom pop!

Beginning my display, don’t stop.

Or lunes, flop.

Craaaack smack boom!

Outsides a smoke filled room.

Playing patriotic tunes.

Sssssft bannnng kablam!!

Fireworks concussion like a flam.

Enjoy, sir, ma’am.

The finales near.

Increasing <pops!!> make it clear.

Grab another beer!!

Music hits peak.

Finale might last a week.

Excitement, we seek.

Here it is.

Constant kaboooms!!!, hard to miss.

Now, we kiss.

Firework lighted air.

Eyes closed, we don’t care.

Feelings are aware.

Firework’s now done.

We leave, as we run.

Enjoying more fun…

-AAA 07/04/2024

To Write or Not to Write

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To write or not to write

Surely a dilemma day or night.

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To rhyme, in free verse of haiku

Just not sure what to do.

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Finding the words that fit the best

Always puts us to the test.

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Just like braving a wild river in a raft

With little else to fall on but our craft.

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Syllables, rhymes, beats in mind

Putting them together can be a bind,

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Shear determination is the rock

In the battle of writer’s block.

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Just keep going, working hard

Hoping it’s met with high regard.

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Ending lines, make them clean

Or else your poem will never be seen…

-AAA 07/04/2024

Overnight Elations

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Sighs and snores as we both rest

Suddenly, warm hands touch my chest.

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Reaching out softly in the dark

Creating an ignition, a spark.

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Wager lips will find their mark

Upon a body, they will park.

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Mutual kisses all around

Matching energies can be found.

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Bodies close and breathing fast

Hoping forever this will last.

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Synergy and sharing we will earn

As our fires of passion burn.

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Goosebumps everywhere there’s touch

Add to the building moments, much.

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The hands on the clock travel fast

All too soon our moments passed.

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Exhaustion, we’ve succumbed to one another’s charms

Falling fast, back, asleep in each other’s arms.

-AAA 07/04/2024

Vinny The Vulture

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Vinny was the sort of vulture

Who is well-versed in culture.

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He reads books quite fast

On societies, long passed.

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He’s also well versed in horticulture…

-AAA 07/03/2024

Fireworks

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F reedom

I ndependence

R esponsibility

E very one

W e are free to express ourselves

O utside the lines, we color

R eward in exchanging ideas and philosophy

K icking conventional in the pants

S avoring our ideas in snd outside our art.

-AAA 07/03/2024

Distant Star (So Far Away)

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Star so far away it is blind

More than us, it left behind.

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Hanging in a lonely night

If only it could shine more bright.

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And not be so very far

From everything, and who we are.

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So distant we can’t detect its heat

Though it would make us more complete.

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If only it could know our plight

And reassure us every night.

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Star, as light years away as can be

But if we use a telescope, we can see.

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It isn’t as unreachable as it seems

Just like all our heartfelt dreams.

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Close your eyes, relax your stare

There it is, just shining there.

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So if others don’t give love, or care

Remember like that star, it’s still out there…

-AAA 07/02/2024

We Feel Therefore We Exist

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We do exist, we’re all standing right here, right now.

Feeling like we’re invisible or out of view in plain sight.

The nonconformists, the unique, the different, the creative.

We don’t quite fit into any mold yet here we are.

This is my tribe my clan these are my people.

Many artists, musicians, writers, highly creative people.

We feel more than most, and we have to live with it.

It’s difficult to articulate how it feels to be different because we all want to belong.

But, we do belong to our own weird oddly dysfunctional group.

We make the stars burn a little brighter.

The flora and fauna a little prettier.

And the universe more filled with wonderment.

We feel therefore we all exist…

-AAA 07/02/2024

Together At Last, My Ideal Manifestation

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Originally Published 04/09/2024

I know you so well I know your taste.

That ecstasy contorted look on your face.

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I know your beautiful scent.

Destinations we came and went.

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New adventures of pleasures await.

Passport for passions with an ideal mate.

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Covered in kisses if you desire.

Bodies entwined in instant fire.

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Any request that you want to make.

Fulfilled with as much as you can take.

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Share with me a deep embrace.

Not a single moment goes to waste.

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Chasing dreams just you and me.

The way it was supposed to be.

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We met on a random distant shore.

Understanding how it didn’t work out before.

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Karmic lessons of our pasts.

Relationships that didn’t last.

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All don’t matter wow.

As we’re together now.

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It’s all no sudden wonder.

That we manifested each other.

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Now silently together in a soft bed.

I caress a weary head.

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Your breathing is very deep.

We drift together off to sleep.

-aaa

eM oveL I

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Art by Lili Zeng

Loving yourself isn’t just ideal,

It is absolutely necessary

We all do have appeal

Not the contrary.

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Knowing your value

Will save your life

In everything that you do

Preventing strife.

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Hold on fast

To all your goals

The bad times won’t last

Though it takes a toll.

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Push on hard

Through the fire

Even if needing restart,

On life’s high wire.

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Be ever present

And live in the now

Drop your past resentment

As you push and plough.

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Reap the happiness

Living your best life now

Share with all who’ll witness

Applied lessons and know-how.

-AAA 07/01/2024