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Cagedbird
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Posted on Sunday, May 25, 2008 - 06:51 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Family Reunions

A time of: togetherness
A time of love and happiness
A time for watermelon, potato salad
Baked beans, sweet potato pie,
Barbecue, iced tea, homemade ice cream
Corn on the cob, soda pop.
A time for: playing cards, dominoes, horseshoes
Baseball, taking pictures.
A time with: family, parents, friends, babies,
Grandparents, grandkids, mothers, fathers Sisters,
brothers, uncles, aunts, sons, daughters, cousins, in-laws.
A time for: hugs, kisses, photo albums, smiles and laughter.
Remembering the good times and the bad times,
Remembering the fears, the tears, yet
Sticking together after all these years.

© Eve Hall 2002

www.evehall.com
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Carey
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Posted on Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 03:01 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Hey newbie postee Caged Bird,

Nice poem.

I noticed that you are out of your cage and flying around up in here......some fly in and fly out....I hope you land on a branch and take a squat....thanks for posting....some of these folks up in here can be brutal....speaking of brutal...where is CYN-CYN *smile*?

Hi Sisgal!

Hi Sese......is Sese still around?
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Sisg
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Posted on Friday, May 30, 2008 - 01:57 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

The poet...

He says he wants to make love to my mind…
Take his time, feeding me images and words
Like fauna and flora, mental bursts of pleasure
I’ve come to treasure
Birthing new rhymes, a beat I can tap my feet to
Creating lullabies, I want to fall asleep to

Make love to my mind…Seep into my psyche
He doesn’t hesitate, never procrastinates, only regulates
His flow, smooth, like silk, sweet tender etchings
At my door, and I ain’t gonna lie, I want more

I tremble and shake, trying not to wake, trying not to quake
Too soon,
But I can’t hold, can’t stop, won’t stop
The orgasms of thought, birthing mad verse
Food for the universe…and me

His words
His words
Free me

He says he wants to make love to my mind….
And I’m thinking, yeah…one mo time!

SG


Hey Carey!
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Carey
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Posted on Friday, May 30, 2008 - 04:09 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Question is.....

What kind of a person....

What kind of a mind......

What kind of a lover, is behind the displaying of that poem......uuummmm .....I wonder?
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Carey
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Posted on Friday, May 30, 2008 - 10:27 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

The reply....

Although we dance among questioning eyes
and our lips have never meet
I feel no shame for the love I have
I believe in dreams

There is a place
where dreams come true
if only for a while

Ply me with your visions of love
spoil me with you
I wait patiently for your high

Love has gone
love has left
Surely love never dies?

Oh stars, Oh God, what destiny does thine hold
Should I stop this mental agitation
Tell me why

Do I dream as a man...
That wishes on a star
Should I let her walk away

If I so dream
If I may wish
I dream of going back
I wish to take her with me

Then I'd have more ...
More time to spend with her
More time to do it over again
And again
And again

If I could, I would
I wonder if she knows...
Hurt is a man that has a dream,
that doesn't show
I wonder if she knows

I am going to lay down and dream...
Again
And again

I am going to dream of....
Yeah....one mo time!

C

C

Hi!
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Sisg
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Posted on Sunday, June 01, 2008 - 09:46 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Look at you, very nice!
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Carey
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Posted on Monday, June 02, 2008 - 12:30 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Really....? I know absolutely nothing about poetry....not one thing. Structure...pacing...form....zero. I'm running around in a room with no doors.

I was just writing from my heart.

I did however like dancing with you, even if it was merely in my mind.

Even if you are stroking me with your comment, it felt good :-). I wrote another one called ..Voyeur....but I didn't want to embarrass myself by posting something that may be considered wacked or ......or you know...not poetic.

Again, I know nothing about poetry so I don't want to muddy the place.....

For real Sisgal....don't hang me out here....do you think I should post it?
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Sisg
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Posted on Monday, June 02, 2008 - 07:10 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Post it, i would love to hear it!
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Carey
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Posted on Monday, June 02, 2008 - 10:48 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

I am guilty
I am a Voyeur
I call her name ...
Inspiration

Am I really...guilty?
Heart...
What is my crime
I am a Voyeur

Gratified by observing
I steal a glance, a moment
Her style, her smile, her flow,...she goes
She leaves...
Satisfaction

Thief...?
She Gives ME...stimulation
Sensations
I own this joy

Permission is absent, consent not desired
Fear invades me...
If she knew...
I love her
I am guilty
I am a Voyeur

She is my punishment and my consolation...
My prize
My feelings, my pain, I own
Her love is but a dream
I am a Voyeur

C

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Carey
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Posted on Tuesday, June 03, 2008 - 11:57 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

The Rebuttal:


I am captured by your stately grace, your rhythmic pace
Locked in hell, I want to yell....
This vision is mine
A slave of....my mind, I don't mind

I luxuriate, can't wait, quicken my gate...
To open you
I am the the guard, the prisoner, I fight I struggle....
The imagery of you

I lounge in you
I wander, I get lost in you
There's no curfew
I am the gatekeeper

Radiant from afar
Steeped in pronounced beauty
Please come again
You
I can't help myself
I can't, I grin

Voyuer...I think not
Only you
I am captured by your stately grace, your
rhythmic pace
I lust for....
Only you!

C

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A_womon
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Posted on Tuesday, June 03, 2008 - 07:37 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOwweeeeeeeeee! SisG and Carey!!!

I hesitate to even interrupt the two of you flowing the way you are! BRAVO! BRAVO! To you both! MORE MORE!!
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Carey
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Posted on Tuesday, June 03, 2008 - 10:19 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Sisg

They seem to want more.....should we ....ahhh shut the door *smile*?

Voyeurs they are!

But before I go:

I share your pain, I call your name...
Others are around
Yet jubilence be gone, if I am wrong
Before I kiss your lips

Distant...
Be but an instant
If you call...
My name

What a fool I must be
Oh this state of mind
A paradox for sure, not mine to explore
you have the only key

Boxed in, can't get out
Outside....inside
will you let me in?
Beside...
You thrill me

A suggestive wink, flirtatous pose, is that what lover do?
I know
You can't go, I don't belong to you

Escort my love, vanquish my pain,
like a mother to a child...
Lie if you must, that's okay
I'll love you all-ways

A musician said,...
Barry?.....maybe?
"playin' your game"
Baby!

C

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Carey
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Posted on Wednesday, June 04, 2008 - 12:32 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

The Finally:

Your words did not come, your smile did not grace my face, I am left to dream, to hope
I dream...
Moisture from your breath, watering my soul
Narcosis, hynosis...
You, running through my vains


The heart grows...
Palpitations, proliferation, can you hear it... Can you hear me, speak that I may know
Out of control, which way do I go

Driving on lust, hearts going to bust
An antitote...you
You can ease the pain
Speak the perscription, say my name

Procastinate....?
Gloom looms, gravitates
Comes.....Come
If late...my fate
fatality
Me?
Me!

Pride
I can no longer hide
Shame now escapes me
Where will I go

Breath shallows, I am falling, gallows below
Going down, cast me a rope...
Hope...
You!


C

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Rondall
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Posted on Thursday, June 05, 2008 - 09:19 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Y'all be very well versed...nice sharing.

Very nice indeed.
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Sisg
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Posted on Thursday, June 05, 2008 - 12:29 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Oh Carey,

You have been doing it up over here!


Very, very nice....
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Sisg
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Posted on Thursday, June 05, 2008 - 12:29 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

FINE (inspired by MJB…oh and life)

I’m feeling mighty fine
Guess it’s true what they say about time
And beauty in the eye of the beholder
About stepping up and being bolder

Wasted so much time
Trying to be with you
I forgot all about me

That’s some trick you pulled
Some of the best magic yet
Chanting your spell
Spinning your web
Casting your net

Daring me to fall
Had me facing brick walls

Ooowhee got that voodoo stick
That Macho shit
Spinning verbs
Spitting words, like fire and desire
Rick and Teena style
Had babygirl buckwild
For a minute

Now, I’m just fine
You may have stolen my heart
But I got my mind, and it says without a doubt…I’m just FINE

(cue in MJB…..)
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Carey
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Posted on Thursday, June 05, 2008 - 04:34 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Ooooooh, you've been somewhere. Nice!

Fine huh?

Of course a man would probably say:


Trite but yet I'll write
Fine...like sweat wine or just okay?
A sweet sensation pure elation
Yes, I've tasted you...your wine

Gonna be alright...
In the morning
Figuratively...?
Possibly

Buckwild, for a minute you say
Figuratively...?
Possibly
We still have time to play

Your Honor, I plead the fifth
Her heart was a gift
Fair exchange ain't......
I gave her all of me

"Voodoo Stick, that macho shit"?
You tricked me, you sicked me
On you
Stuck like a Pit Bull's, pull
Bonded, wounded, can't lose it
Don't want to
I'm lovin' it
You

Wasted?
Didn't know it, you didn't show it
Like jelly and jam on the side of a jar
Or like New Years...back seat...our car.
Wasted?

Postmarks fade, memories follow...
Tomorrow...make new ones...leave old ones
Can't go back
SHAQ...ATTACK
REBOUND
Fill the lanes
Get Close
Closest to you, osmosis will do
The end doesn't have to be bad.


That's that (MES + LSLH)
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Carey
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Posted on Friday, June 06, 2008 - 01:13 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

BECAUSE


I'm Old School
Wiser by nature
My nomenclature
Frozen in time, big glazier
Cold in love with you

Old School...can you hear me
Tick Tock, like the inner workings of a fine Swiss watch
A clock, locked in time, stuck on you
Entwined
In you

Your voice
Your choice
Verse unrehearsed, a curse
But ooouuuu, drip a little on me

Work it girl
Do what you do, put that thang on me
Can't resist...don't what to
Because...
Am Old School
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Carey
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Posted on Friday, June 06, 2008 - 01:24 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

......Still in love with YOU!
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Posted on Friday, June 06, 2008 - 07:51 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Black Man....

Since birth you have amazed me…black man. You showed me your strength, wrapping your arms around me, encasing me in a love I will never forget or ever regret. So tall like the oak tree, so wide like that ocean, my protector, purveyor of many talents, cook, clown, my own personal entertainment you were to me…and never a day went by when you didn’t show you loved me. By the time I was a teen I recognized you in little boys trying to be men. You were cute, and sometimes a little bit notty, and yet I still found you intriguing whether you wore that MJ fro, or Deangelo styled braids, from ebony to ivory you were the coolest, your swag was unmistakable…who was I to question that mystifying you, that was so you. When you asked me to dance, me barely 14, you almost past 16, bluelights, slow music, I believe it was the Isley Brothers playing…I mean how can I forget, you were the cutest of cutest, the coolest of coolest, and I was sitting with about 6 other girls, more formed, far more sophisticated than I, and yet you chose me. We danced, attached, limb by limb to Sensuality, and then again to “make me Say it Again”…that whole side of the Isley Brothers was off the chain, you smelled like freshly dipped chocolates…and your cheek was so soft next to mine, I thought I would sink through it…and I think I wanted to. By 16 I found love, dark chocolate, tall and just a little on the shy side, but you made me laugh whenever we were together, you had mad respect because your mama taught you that. We would do things, I never done, experience life, being young and in love and I would know what love was supposed to be…even when it didn’t last, black man, you would always remain my dream. I chose you to be my man, my lover, my husband because you were strong, respectful, you had a swagger all your own, and plus you can speak French, which had me curling toes and fingers and sliding deeply…before I knew it I was becoming, had become a woman, and then a mother. Many have come and gone, and yet I still don’t bemoan you…you are precious indeed. I want to ease your pain; I want to love you again. I want to partner with you, I want to uplift you, I want to fly with you, cuz this young lady remembers all that you are, and knows all that you will be…Black man…You are the only one meant for ME!
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Posted on Saturday, June 07, 2008 - 12:35 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Hi Sisgal

Thank you so very much. Posting, playing along, it's been fun. But see, I knew I was in the wrong arena. I've loved your poems, they were so...so...you know. The form, the transitions, the flow. You can tell you are a writer. I am medling in your house. I did learn something from your style.

I didn't give mine much thought, it was purely entertainment...fun doing them. Espeacially playing off of your vibe. I would read yours and hit the keys. But on the real YOU did inspire (he left *wink*) some of my thought. And that mental tease piece was the s**t. I wish I could explain that but I don't wish to embarrass you. A_women will just blow it up *LOL*. But again, you have skills...real skills. Again, THANKS.

Carey
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Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 09:57 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

In his eyes...

I'm beautiful
bountiful
a flower rarely seen
a birthday wish
a surprise gift
a pleasant dream

In his eyes
i glow
i shine
i am placed on a pedestal for all to observe
an yet my adornment does not displease him
for he knows it's only him i serve
Never blind to my disposition
he sees through me

Even when i cannot see
the beauty lies within
he has shown me love again
with a gentle nudge he places me back on track
from the sideline he cheers an encourages
"prepare, and run your race, no looking back"
NO LOOKING BACK and yet remember where you've been
the past is the past, tomorrow we WIN!


In his eyes...I am the prize!

*thank you Carey.
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Carey
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Posted on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - 05:20 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

There she goes



Going deep inside again
Stimulating my mind
Tingling my soul
There she goes...
Again

I was released from jail, locked in hell, she called
I was lost, lost it, couldn't find it...
My way

Like a man chained to the bottom of a slave ship,
death lurked
Death above me, death below me
An impending doom
Waiting on me
She called

Like a slave, shackled, shamed, my life behind me
a distant past
A prisoner, lock in my own mind, never a visitor
She called

No motivation I was lost in utter darkness
She walked in and pass the torch to me
Light comfort kindness
She soothed my soul

Her words
Her likeness
Her darkness
A confluence of bold black and beautiful standing tall, reaching out extending herself to me

Shaking me
Waking me
She said, "WE"

The past is but a distant memory
There you go again
You said it best
Yeah...tomorrow we WIN

There she goes again...MY REWARD!

*Thank YOU Sisg.
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Carey
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Posted on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - 03:27 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

I hope you don't mind


I've personalized your essence
Your presence stays with me
Lingers, fingers my pleasure zone

I dream
Intoxicated
I've waited
I missed her
My Sister
Gal

Apropo...I don't know
But I am loving the brilliance of you
Sharp bright light, laying claim to my heart
Blinded, I don't mind it
Stroke me
Choke me
Hit me with another word shot

My mind is center around you
Inside
Outside
Don't want to be leftout, without
You

My love, our friendship is not ambiguous
Predisposed to go her way, time will be the test
Hope you don't mind!
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Posted on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - 10:14 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Beautiful Carey...i don't mind, at all!

I will be back! lol!
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Posted on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - 10:22 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Life seems lost, when you're all alone
life seems lost when alone
but no life is lost on dreams or visions
life is sustained in all that we wish
life is proclaimed in the future
life is claimed

Don't waste time in what will not be
don't spend your time wishing
Make life what you want it to be
prescribe your happiness, your joy, your WE
it's not as far as you seek
and maybe closer than you see
everything you hope for is in this reality.
So my friend be happy in the now, and the near
be happy in memories and visions
be happy in your future
be happy in your past
be happy for memories of love at last.
I pray you will be Happy.

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