LOVES Lost, Learned & LAST: Poems Vol. 3

By Sandra Hodge-Hampton

LOVES Lost, Learned & LAST is an eclectic mix of poems chronicling a journey from unrequited to painful to temporary to final long lasting love.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Jun 24, 2019
• ISBN: 9781543976304

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SECOND

Love Lost

Chocolate Melt

Chocolate melt

now milk

flowing, moving

turning, loving

rich passion

mixed beauty

surprise

High riding

Hot pacing

embracing

tasting

Chocolate melt

now milk

flowing, moving

loving, turning

touching, sliding,

kicking

fingertip licking

kissing

breathing

seething

reeking

Chocolate

breaking

melting

heart piercing

singing

love ringing

fleeing

resistance....

Gone.

sdh

08/26/96

UNREQUITED

Where are you when i cry

When the world has caved in

on me and crushed bones

i use to walk with

where are you when i cry

when streams of pain that

burn my eyes, strip my face

of flesh i use to smile with

where are you when my

trees of thought wither

because all my oxygen

supplied your roots

where are you when i stand

tear stained and naked

in the cold of life, begging for

the tenderness of true

love.

sdh

1/11/97

London, 7:30 am

STILL WATER

I have loved you

half my life but

with all my heart

Yet

All my love and

all my heart is not

enough to quell the

fire of your torment.

I refuse to believe my prayers

for you have fallen on deaf ears

and I pray for you still, knowing

God is listening and His mercy sure.

The inward journey you have now must

be taken alone but need not be lonely.

Take with you love, patience, open-ness,

faith and above all FORGIVENESS.

Let these virtues be strong soldiers in

your battle against the fear disguising

itself as achievement and stealing your trust.

You have within you the strength and the courage

to release past pain, anger and un-forgiveness.

Life is what you choose

you must find peace...

or rest in it.

sdh

6/14/98

South Pacific Sea

Untitled

I was in a fog a haze

my eyes in a daze

my mind in a maze

until

I met you

now I see through

to