Tag: life
member name: Richard Melendez
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August 02, 2006 11:27 PM EDT --
GIVE ME BREATH
My love gives me breath
To wake and wonder
To stand up tall
Against lightning, thunder
My love gives me voice
To raise when I'm weak
To speak plainly, directly
For those hungry and . . .
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October 06, 2006 07:54 AM EDT --
Dedicated to Amanda W, who has shown remarkable strength and force of will. May all love of life be with you and your thirst for life be unquestioned.
ODE TO WHAT OPPOSES MY DEATH
I traveled . . .
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August 14, 2006 06:44 PM EDT --
THE SMALLEST OF WORDS
P.S.- (maybe this isn't rightly a post script so let's call it a pre script or prologue to the verse)
One night my love seemed to be in a dim and lonely place.
She sat on . . .
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July 24, 2006 11:30 PM EDT --
WINGS TO FLY
Once I had not a clue
Of where my rivers end
Nor how high or blue my skies
No, not a clue of up or down
Nor east or west
Before I looked into your eyes
But now I have these wings . . .
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July 27, 2006 03:30 PM EDT --
SMILE
The cast of your wondrous smile
Will wash sunshine across my face
And that light will show me paradise
For your eyes do guide me truly
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July 31, 2006 04:37 PM EDT --
A THOUGHT ON REALITY
When you dream
Reality disappears
When you feel alive
Reality disappears
When you feel joy
Reality disappears
When you find laughter
Reality disappears
When you find love
Reality . . .
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September 15, 2006 11:06 AM EDT --
NONE BUT FAMINE CAN LAY ME OUT
When the earthquake breaks, it loosens my burden
When the volcano blows, it releases my fire
When the flood waters flow, it cleanses my soul
When the hurricane turns, . . .
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October 13, 2006 09:06 AM EDT --
SWALLOWED BY SEA
Body dove for the waters
Eyes took to the tide
Sweet bubbles of breath
All swallowed by sea
But, o-ooh, would the salts, play as hemlock to me
All turmoil and thunder . . .
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August 15, 2007 07:47 AM EDT --
LOVE’S ROSETTA STONE
To decipher Love’s Rosetta Stone
I have a way to go
Shall I engage my heart in calamity,
spit on it from the start?
Or shall I hope for a carousel,
to swing . . .
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August 01, 2006 10:58 PM EDT --
HOLD TO YOU GENTLY
You would hang on me
Like the glow of candlelight
A come hither longing
In the shadows of fire and night
I would hold to you gently
Whisper the sound of your name
Your tiny stirring . . .
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September 20, 2007 07:13 AM EDT --
A FAILURE TO YOUR COMPASS
You imagine me a failure to your compass
For I am nowhere near where I should be
In weeds I find a rogue devotion to ill defined ground
I struggle and toil forward in . . .
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November 03, 2006 09:17 AM EST --
Inspired from a song by a young Bruce Springsteen and from this line my verse arose:
"Barroom eyes shine vacancy, to see her you gotta look hard."
BARROOM VACANCY
So you think I'm . . .
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June 06, 2008 06:20 AM EDT --
A YOUNG FEMALE ACQUAINTANCE
I will forever maintain an intimate space in my mind
for a young female acquaintance. . . .
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June 13, 2008 08:39 AM EDT --
HONED FOR HOLLOW PLACES
I believe all my life has been honed for hollow places.
I've lived too far . . .
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June 03, 2008 07:00 AM EDT --
AS HERMIT IN THE CHEST
Callie liked the man the first time she laid eyes
on him. He seemed comfortable with the world
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March 15, 2007 09:17 AM EDT --
THE DEVIL’S DISH
The finest crimson heat that Hell can bring to bear
To bring hope to a simmer but only a simmer
If therein lies my hope... will it not be requited?
Unrequited hope, one . . .
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March 19, 2008 06:48 AM EDT --
SHE IS SO SCANT
She is so scant and low of love
As when the stars, no longer starry,
Lay in their dim and their dark
She once was of heavenly body
A body all full of flesh and fire
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June 18, 2008 07:08 AM EDT --
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June 25, 2008 07:00 AM EDT --
AS A WOMAN'S . . .
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July 25, 2006 06:25 PM EDT --
FOREVER KISSED
She'll bring on a kiss
To take in your breath
To draw you in closer
Feel the heart in her chest
She'll bring on a kiss
An appetite's hunger
A playful bite of your lip
Like . . .
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