Farewell youth

Only a flutter,
Remembering the past
And then it's gone.
Never let it surface too long.
Gone are days of youth,
Each and every one.

Miss You

The life we lived
The things we did
All revolved
Around one another.

Time passed
We grew up
Things changed
And so did we.

I miss that life
I miss those people
But they're gone
They no longer exist.

I miss that hope
That anything is possible
That somehow
Things could be different.

I wish that
Life could reverse
So many things
That I'd do differently.

Take a missed opportunity
Turn it into history
Re-write the future
Make us both in the present.

I miss you
I love you
My long lost friend.

Too Late

Gone from my life
but not from my mind
Life has changed
You've lost your shine
Your image
fallen from grace
Is still
One of a familiar face

You are someone
I no longer know
Yet I feel no one
Could know you more
Your gift arrived
You pushed everyone away
Though I tried
You didn't want me to stay

Now on the outside
You seem much the same
But inside I know
Everything has changed
Your sadness began
You turned away
From your friends
From everything

I just hope you realize
Before it's too late.

Invisible

And oldie I dug out of my archives...

Invisible

You cut me off mid-sentence
To talk to someone else.
You ask me about my day
But change subjects before
I can answer.

I speak, yet no one hears.

Everyone makes plans
For things outside work.
But they never include me.
If only they would ask,
I would love to join them.

I bleed, yet no one sees.

People pass me as
I eat my lunch alone.
They wave and say “Hi”
To the girl behind me
No one say’s “Hi” to me.

I exist, yet no one knows.
I am invisible.

Monet Beautiful

You are beautiful
Lovely as Monet could do
Best keep my distance

Life Balance

leading a life
of Following
you Miss out
on opportunities
to Lead.

yet the
Opposite
is also True.

the quest now
is to find the
Balance
to make your
Life your Own.

The way of life

It's the way of life
Isn't it?
To live
To learn
To experience
All that you can?

To enjoy
The big moments
To savor
The little ones?

To regret
The way things happened
Even more
The way they didn't?

To move past
To push on
To grow
Every chance you get?

Learning to accept
The past
And believing in
Your future?

Yes, that is the way of life,
I believe.

New Beginning

Lovely way to clear the air
Past revisited
Perfect way to start over

Same Yet Different

Time passes
Things change
Everything is different
Yet everything's the same.

Passing the same people
Taking the same routes
Breathing the same air
Yet the air is different somehow

Not sure what to do
This feels like an ending
An urge to start over
Almost feels like a beginning

Remembering

Make it go away.
Make the memories erase.
I want to sleep now.

Love From Afar

The man stares,
lonely,
across the crowded
room.
He pines for the lovely
dark-haired maiden
quite
oblivious to his
gloom.

Entranced by her
smile,
he has fallen in
love,
has been for
awhile.
He summons his
nerve
and starts across
the room,
but a man whisks
her away
leaving only a trail
of her lilac
perfume.

So close yet
worlds apart.
So he shuffles home
to nurse his broken
heart.

Garden Affair

A beautiful girl
stands there
solitary on the
terrace.
Slowly dusk blooms
around her.
Staring across the
perfumed garden
she catches his
watchful eye.
Forbidden words
shared only
through a look.
Slowly she raises
her fingertips,
pressed ever gently
to crimson lips,
and sends her
love to him.
A touch at her
side alerts her
to another's
presence.
Rosy blush
creeps into her
cheeks thankfully
masked by the
dusk.
An arm around
her bare shoulders
guides her
ever away
into a life
she does not
want and farther
from her
garden lover.
Inside
her heart breaks
into a million
tiny pieces.

Haiku

Noontime sun so hot
The sprinkler is a reprieve
Water dances on my skin

Summer Evening

the evening
breeze kisses
my skin

the cricket
serenade echos
in my ears.

I relax with
a cold glass
of lemonade

as the sun
sinks slowly
past the horizon.

Afternoon Storm

Sitting here
with the rain
pouring down
around me,
I close my eyes
and let the rest
of my senses
take over.

The scent of
wet grass,
The splash
of the rain
dripping into
the puddles
at my feet,
The cool wetness
against my skin.

A peaceful
feeling glides
over me,
as I let my
mind fall into
this beautiful
afternoon storm.

Weekly Word Prompt: Rain

I've decided that I'm going to do a weekly word prompt. What this means is that I am going to pick one word and use it to inspire a poem. Then I challenge each of my readers to use that same word to inspire a poem or a short bit of prose. If you would like to share what you write, I'd love to read it. Simply post it in the comments of this post.

This weeks word is: rain.

Here is just a snippet.

Afternoon sunshine
Glints off the
Rain drops as
They fall to the ground;
Tiny diamonds dancing
In the air
Landing with a
Ripple into the
Sparkling pond.

Life is a Monster

Life will bend
your mind
until reality
breaks,
until your soul
stops beating
and your
heart falls to
pieces.

Life is a
dragon breathing
fire down your
back,
never letting
up until your
happiness is
blistered and
red
and your hope
is a shattered
mess.

Life doesn't care
if you have
wants or needs,
its a ruthless
demon
pressing ever
forward
until life itself
ceases to
exist.

Taylor Interrupted

Beautiful in a
twinkling gown
Taylor accepts her
shiny award.

Kanye is
quite displeased
his deplorable
actions to be abhorred.

Beyonce is
a vision in red
and sets
to make things right.

But with all things
said and done,
it was still a
quite spectacular night.

Where I belong

I want to be where the nights
are crisp and cool
To look out across my land
and witness that beautiful
blue haze each
and every day

I want to breathe
the clean mountain air
to fall into the spectacular
views around me
and forget everything
but that very moment.

I want to lay
in grass, looking up
into an endless blue sky
and know this is where
I belong.

This is home.

Haiku

Summer sun beats down
But night brings a certain chill
Soon autumn will come