Holiday Sale

The murmur of voices
And buzzing of lights,
People shoving their way
Through the store like packed mice.

Kids fight over toys
As we get run over by carts.
Bumped in the aisles
Eww... A horrible fart!

Like a madhouse at high time
Confusions amiss,
Contusions are probable
In a crowd much like this.

Someone yells sale
And we're flooded again
Trampled by people
The woes here don't end.

Safe with the groceries
As we head to the car
Something is wrong
We didn't park out this far.

Lost in the haze
And caught in the tide
Hoping to spot
What may be our ride.

There's one next lot over
Oh darn it's not ours
We don't own a plymouth
Where the heck is our car?

Over there in the middle
Surrounded by carts
Threatening to damage
What's left of our car.

Carefully we pack
The trunk till it's full
I sit in the driver's seat
Trying to cool.

We head into traffic
Oh gosh what a mess,
Rush hour's a picnic
Compared to this quest.

Safely at home now
We're mostly intact
Though somewhat we're shaken
Thank God we are back.

Fadedspirit 12/19/2008

Thanks for all of your comments! Y'all truly know how to make a person smile.

I know I haven't been around much lately and I'm hoping that'll change soon. Hopefuly after the holidays everything will calm down.

Interlude

Perception strains the eyes
As reality srikes a heart,
Busy as we go
While we stumble in the dark.
Forgetting bits of time
Losing what we may
Rushing to and fro
With senses somewhat frayed.
Always there is something
And nothing done just right
Searching in the dark
While searching for the light.

Never it was closer
Yet always was the same
Waiting for the moment
We'd attempt to stop and wait.

Now stopped among our hurry
With heavy laden lids
Tired eyes are burning
Crashing in the drift.
Memories now are churning
Kneading into dream
Waking to a sunrise
Not real as it should seem.
Taking flights of fancy
Up to skyward bound
Spirals send us crashing
Where only oceans may be found.

Waking up to grog
Another weekend here
Time to stop the rushing
And hold a loved one near.

Now bestilled and silent
A moment comes to pass
Thought is now a drift
As the light within is cast.

Fadedspirit 12/11/2008

Ahh, very cool there DKW and hello kitty kitty to the panther.

Hee hee Thanks DKW, G'morning.

Imagination's Treasure

Remembered days of playful youth,
Where thoughts had catered
To imagination's many dawns.
Wondrous adventures began here,
Where one's imaginings
Became life for a time.

Can you tell me
Where they all went
And why these memories lay in ruin?

Perhaps they were spent as a cycle
Or maybe maturity has wrought it's price,
Upon the growing youth to adult.

Where have the keepers fled
Of adventures past
And wonders still unknown?

Have they all grown too old
To uphold the joy of youth,
Once unbound
Within their once brilliant hearts?

Remember the sounds
Imagination brought,
Through the mind of the beholders.
Seek within the heart buried deep
And unravel the ties that bind.

For if you're never too old
To hide the thoughts
Of imaginations past,
The youthful heart of the adventurer
Shall find what joy
Was never forgotten
Within the treasures
Collected in time.

Fadedspirit 12/11/2008

Once and Now

Once I saw the future taken away,
Lost to my dreams again.
Cried my tears in rivers so deep,
Made a promise to pray for me.

I never knew what dreams would come,
Through this journey in life I take.
I stand beside myself in thought,
And recollect the dreams I've made.

Saw the future ebbing back to me
Thought I'd lost it in obscurity.
Insanity found it's hiding place,
Felt the warmth of a gentle friend.

Hopes are found, not all is gone,
Found a dream to keep.
Dried the rivers that forged a creek,
Kept a promise to believe in me.

It amazes me now,
In all of my dreams,
I'm right where I need
To be.

Once I saw the future taken away,
Now I have the future of a brighter day.
While in this journey of life I'm called,
I stand through the storms that roll.

I walked along the darkened streets
Until the sun arrived to shine on me.
A dream I'd thought, never real,
Took by surprise and smiled still.

In all my dreams, most all came true
Joy and smiles and loving too.
A heart of care, an angel's keep
After all, this life's been deep.

Fadedspirit 12/4/2008

Silent Witness

I've never been the type
To keep a silent tongue,
Yet now I stand in silence
For now the pain has come.

Each day a new crime rises
Though the criminals
Aren't really new.
Their actions aren't expected
That's how they get to you.

Within this mortal plane
They exist in every spot
Yet within their moral pain
There's something that's been lost.

They take without a mercy
And steal what's never theirs
While they stab the hearts of victims
They'll never know or ever care.

They don't know the cost
Of losing something dear
They don't feel the pain
As eyes begin to tear.

Still yet they all are playing
A game misunderstood
While writing out the details
Within a little book.

Each thing they steal away
Gets recorded on their soul,
Each tear drop that they cause
Is a witness
They'll surely one day know.

Once they close their eyes
And think they lay in rest
It's then they'll wake in darkness
While their silent tongues protest.

Deceptions fade like liquid
As their book of life is read,
Spoken by their souls
And witnessed by the dead.

No sentence will be rendered
No cell will hold theim locked
Yet justice shall be served
By the terrors in the dark.

Fadedspirit 12/1/2008

Two

Swaying to the music
Dancing in the air
No one to impress
As we pass the night
With care.

Whispered words of tingling
Tickling in your ear,
Together in this silence
With nothing left
To fear.

Your eyes beheld in wonder
Those stars, they seem to sing
Speaking unsaid words
Yet I understand their mean.

Two hearts slowly beating
To a rhythm all their own
Perfecting what they have
And sharing what they sow.

Though nighttime seems to fall
And morning seems to break
We feel ever closer
With this chance
We seem to take.

Fadedspirit 11/21/2008

Very nice write. Remember that hope is the strength and buoyancy needed to walk upon the waters deep.

Excellent write brwnkimba, Your words always seem to bear treasures and honesty. Thanks for sharing.

Nice write A64WOODY.

Nice write jimz.

I really liked the imagery and multiple meanings in this one. Nice one s1owhand.

Thanks ArtGurl.

Awww, thanks Mystique. I'm glad you liked it.

kc, I was almost sure they'd have one by now.

DKW...hee hee Thanks. Once in a while I just gotta let it out...

Aww, thanks LAMom.

Very nicely done my friend. COuld be a subtile dual meaning here which shines easy upon one's heart. Excellent write kc.

Thanks my friend, I'm glad you liked it kc.

Lover's Union

Ahh, to die in thine arms
Only to be revived
In the divine essence
Of mine angel.

Gentle teardrops
Fill mine heart to overflowing
And quench the need of wonder
For what I have so hungered for.

Thine tender heart beckons
This haunted soul to dance
Into the land of life
Which rejoices at your feet.

The heat of a thousand fires
Could never scorch this soul
Or brand so deeply
As thine kisses upon mine lips.

Thou hast commanded a faded spirit to life
As you speak joy within this void,
Commanding it's heart to beat
And to you be joined.

Binding together
With innocent heart
Thine voice washes away the pain
And leaves me in awe.

It is you, my love,
Adored by angels
Unfettered by fate
Whom brings light unto this world.

For you alone have braved the crypts
Long forgotten in this darkened land
And have brought forth again a life
From the corpse of what once was I.

Thine humble servant I am
And to you a love shall grow
From within this lighted heart
Forever to live within the walls
Of your divine love.

Fadedspirit 11/20/2008

Ahh yes Mystique42, it's usually cozy n warm there.


Thanks jimz. peace.

Thanks kc.

Awww, thanks LAMom.