Topic: She Said We's Just Old
vivian2981's photo
Tue 12/06/11 08:26 AM
Merry Christmas Sadie...don't expect me to get poetic!laugh

Sharris's photo
Tue 12/06/11 08:29 AM

Merry Christmas Sadie...don't expect me to get poetic!laugh

ah, but you already did...

Yes, Our Very Own

You are poetry
a heart that reaches
a soul that finds
friendship and love
the lasting kind.

SadieLu 12/6/2011

vivian2981's photo
Tue 12/06/11 08:37 AM


Merry Christmas Sadie...don't expect me to get poetic!laugh

ah, but you already did...

Yes, Our Very Own

You are poetry
a heart that reaches
a soul that finds
friendship and love
the lasting kind.

SadieLu 12/6/2011



aw!!! Thank you!

no photo
Tue 12/06/11 08:57 AM
:heart: flowerforyou Merry Christmas Viv and Sadie,,,
May the snow take you into its flight,,as the Spirit of Christ keeps you in His light....:smile:

Sharris's photo
Tue 12/06/11 09:03 AM

:heart: flowerforyou Merry Christmas Viv and Sadie,,,
May the snow take you into its flight,,as the Spirit of Christ keeps you in His light....:smile:

A Blessed and Merry Christmas, Terry.

Sharris's photo
Tue 12/06/11 05:12 PM
First Snow

I can still see the path
even though
cold and frozen
has masked its demeanor of gray
softer more alluring in its impression.

For that single flash
all is captured
to still.
Though I cannot remember where I was
or what I was thinking
I drift to moments of before.
Before life felt
so cold
so quiet
so muted.

Winding, crooked.
This path is still there,
though obstacles of distractions
are sealed in icy fate's
glittering temporal reflection.

Framed in this
it is good to be
alone
familiar
to move
toward
warmth that is waiting
behind faded hues
for
after all
the path has not left us.

SadieLu 12/2011

Sharris's photo
Sun 01/01/12 05:40 AM
The Last Night

She didn’t hear the noises
or see the fireworks
just reminisced
going to New York
watching the ball drop as the count-down
took all her attention
that year.

She smiled
as she remembered the children
banging the pots and pans
they had removed from her cupboards.
Her grandchildren...
hers.

A good life
full of travel
enjoyment.

Sorrows
everyone has those.

Blessings...
staring you right in the face.
I don’t think I will be going on any more trips,
she said with a slight wispy stare.
I think I went by myself that year.
It was the same year I went into the Copa Cobana...
just to see what it looked like.

Boy, did she travel...

SadieLu 1/2012

Sharris's photo
Sun 01/15/12 08:59 AM
It has been said, that...

In a cascading heap
intertwined
revealed is season's end.

Anticipation awaits
while death and dying
relish in complacent denial
accepted in a fashion.
and...If you listen
you can hear
whispers of regret
too soon
too quickly
why now.

Deeply majestic
aubergine
holds silence
where
midnight awe
whispered what could have been...
what is.


Minstrel strums
humming
it is not yet
ended...
I am told.

T'will bloom once more
rouged, garish, plump
while stars again,
sing the night away
enticing hope...
So I am told.

SadieLu 1/2012

Sharris's photo
Sun 01/15/12 09:00 AM
The Last Night

She didn’t hear the noises
or see the fireworks
just reminisced
going to New York
watching the ball drop as the count-down
took all her attention
that year.

She smiled
as she remembered the children
banging the pots and pans
they had removed from her cupboards.
Her grandchildren...
hers.

A good life
full of travel
enjoyment.

Sorrows
everyone has those.

Blessings...
staring you right in the face.
I don’t think I will be going on any more trips,
she said with a slight wispy stare.
I think I went by myself that year.
It was the same year I went into the Copa Cobana...
just to see what it looked like.

Boy, did she travel...

SadieLu 1/1 2012

Sharris's photo
Tue 01/17/12 10:59 AM
Though I open my heart

Though I open my heart to you,
become vulnerable,
do you not think
I have my pride?
For some
it is the only gold or silver they own.
For me,
I do not know any more.
Love needs a place to reside.
How can granite embrace soft
without crushing it?

SadieLu 2012

Teditis's photo
Mon 01/30/12 05:25 PM
Edited by Teditis on Mon 01/30/12 05:26 PM

Though I open my heart

Though I open my heart to you,
become vulnerable,
do you not think
I have my pride?
For some
it is the only gold or silver they own.
For me,
I do not know any more.
Love needs a place to reside.
How can granite embrace soft
without crushing it?

SadieLu 2012


I missed this one...
Very nice,
Hard and Soft compliment each other I think...
sometimes.
The world is a perfect place for the absurd.

Bravalady's photo
Mon 01/30/12 06:29 PM

You Can Sing anything

There's no lesson to the story
when the Blues jump that train.
Her eyes a' cryin while
that red dress cuts a vein.

If only I could tell you
how many times I've sung
on the back steps where the alley
met a cold hearted tongue.

Man, seems can't take how
this lonely feels so dead
but a strut and a riff
starts to clear a muddy head.

Yeh, I'll jump that train
ol' Blues Line Express
an try to keep from rippin ...
my favorite new red dress.

Yeh, Baby...just a story, ya think?

SadieLu/2011


I REALLY like this one.

Sharris's photo
Sat 02/11/12 09:00 AM


You Can Sing anything

There's no lesson to the story
when the Blues jump that train.
Her eyes a' cryin while
that red dress cuts a vein.

If only I could tell you
how many times I've sung
on the back steps where the alley
met a cold hearted tongue.

Man, seems can't take how
this lonely feels so dead
but a strut and a riff
starts to clear a muddy head.

Yeh, I'll jump that train
ol' Blues Line Express
an try to keep from rippin ...
my favorite new red dress.

Yeh, Baby...just a story, ya think?

SadieLu/2011


I REALLY like this one.

Thank you, love it when it tugs a note. Thank you for sharing.

Sharris's photo
Wed 05/30/12 02:41 PM
Rose Petal Parchments

In the silence
even a rose
draped in itself
bleeds to compose.
Eventual as its end reveals,
her petals fall
to dry
to feel.

Quiet hues
fade from sight
penned parchment etchings
cry a heart.
Soon I will look
for you again.
But tears will dry,
I know not when.

SadieLu 2012

Sharris's photo
Fri 07/06/12 04:17 PM
In This Garden

Even the crows are welcomed here
to roost on the hand rails of the bridge
to peck in the lush grasses, cool to the feet.
They are not turned away.

How does a crow mourn, anyway?

They do not tarry as the wind carries
their voice, squawking a pierce
through these broken hearts.

They could not keep a black watch
over the muffled sound of tears
breaking their fall.
No, the released petals of the roses
hold those memories.

Welcomed here, they are to serve
their own purpose of momentary rebuttal.
Gone as quickly as they came.

how... does... a crow mourn...anyway?

SadieLu 2012

no photo
Thu 09/06/12 11:48 AM

It has been said, that...

In a cascading heap
intertwined
revealed is season's end.

Anticipation awaits
while death and dying
relish in complacent denial
accepted in a fashion.
and...If you listen
you can hear
whispers of regret
too soon
too quickly
why now.

Deeply majestic
aubergine
holds silence
where
midnight awe
whispered what could have been...
what is.


Minstrel strums
humming
it is not yet
ended...
I am told.

T'will bloom once more
rouged, garish, plump
while stars again,
sing the night away
enticing hope...
So I am told.

SadieLu 1/2012


flowerforyou flowerforyou flowerforyou ((((Sadie))))

Sharris's photo
Mon 09/24/12 09:16 PM
Pricked

Self proclaimed
giver of grandiose implosions
leaving life motionless
preserved in its unrelieved cacophony...
In your face, in everyone's face.

Coffined beneath articulated verbiage
honed denial,
spurious apology lacking remorse
a bleached perspective
sheeting in the wind
as you parade in your faux innocence,
draped across your heart.

You cannot fool the child
standing amidst the heap of hoarded piles
you call...treasures
walking through steeped gutted pathways
holding on to disappearing hand rails.
Blindfolded, blindsided
hearing only your rant.

No. The child grows truth.
A rose that cannot be denied.
Tears that stain the hand crimson when...
pricked.

SadieLu 12.

Sharris's photo
Mon 09/24/12 09:25 PM
Whispers Carried In The Wind

It was the last time
she spoke of a treasured morsel
where intimacy kissed
leaving their moistened tell tale secret.

A sadness where their truth
would be pressed and dried between
embossed parchment pages.

Permission gave way to reveal
shadows veiling passions
soon to take on a different life.

No longer would tears serve to refresh
to nourish.
Just fill spill
soaking into the furrowed ground
awaiting.

She understood the depth and reach
of our hearts similarly gifted.
Aptly spoken in graceful movement
mercy guided us
piecing together the quiet
as we shared.

Sometimes
this is all we have
those times where understanding comes back
to teach us
wisdom we would not hear
before silence and separation
gave us no alternative.

Eyes closed
lips pressed together in calm
Whispers carried in the wind...
It was the last time
she spoke of
them.

SadieLu 2012

Sharris's photo
Sat 09/29/12 01:38 PM
Why

How does one reckon
this obliteration
a skeletal reminder at best.

Piercing shards
casting reflection to the heavens
hoping to feel
what death cannot
as denial lives on
rattling scratching
while dried petals crumble to dust.

This heart
can bear only so much.
Mourning bleeds
its breath forever
as my tears refresh the rain.

So still this gasping
soundless
formless void
whispering...why
why...

SadieLu 12

no photo
Sat 09/29/12 02:01 PM
that's sure some heavy metal i read in a while ..lucid , precise and awe inspiring...
please don't publish them in a book for a while if possible..i am really broke, and wouldn't wanna try my luck on whether i could restrain myself from stealing it off the shelf...