Harlot’s Moon

By Meryl Taylor

This is the most recent in Meryl Taylor’s long series of literary offerings since 1987 when she first published Earthbound as a tribute to Elizabeth Steinberg, a murdered child from New York City. Proceeds went to the World Hunger Coalition.

Since then, SCRAPS, 1988, with New Horizons, in Chula Vista, donated funds to Humane Society; Brown Mare, with Avant Garde, in Missouri, gifted WWF; Big Trouble on Hog’s Back helped Wounded Warriors; and her other works with Xibris aided animal charities across the world.

She was widely published in magazines under pen names in the late ’70s and won contests with her teachers’ help. Writing has been her passion and solace.

Now with her love, Charles, at her side, she reaches out to those who hurt, need to heal, survive, move on, and grow past life that no longer work.

Living in Dayton, Ohio, she writes for adults and children who need to laugh at lives that may not always seem funny.

With a freshly minted PhD, she soars into the stratosphere to entertain and enlighten.

A mother and grandmother, she sees life as a challenge, a tunnel where that light is no roaring train but an opportunity.

To aspiring authors, write on, publish, or perish!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Mar 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781984523983

Meryl Taylor

Day Pass From The Asylum is Meryl Taylor's second large collection of poetry published and ninth overall since 1987. She is also a romance novelist with first title to be released in August in the UK. She is a retired law enforcement officer, equestrian, artist and attributes her gifts to her hellish childhood and the kind people she crossed paths with by chance and by providence (Aunt BeaTisdale) Especially to be mentioned is her late husband who never lost faith and the incredible Todd Gates whose gift for healing and friendship tapped a well spring of creativity that has been a blessing. Thank you dear friend. Part of the proceeds of this volume will be dedicated to the American Humane Society.

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Contents

5-North Birch

New Chances

A Label

A Tear Chokes

A Word

We Are

Adoptions Discord

Again, Again, Again

All Creatures

All I See

All The Rest

All Truths Ways

Allow

I Will Always Love You, Husband

Amen To The Lord!

Angel Tears

Another Gun, No Blame

Arctic Blast

Ascending One

Harlot’s Moon

At Last Love

At My Table

At Such An An Age

Autumn Love

Autumn’s Farce

I Stay

Behold And Fear !!

Belief In Him

Look Beside Your Heart

Best

Beware: Transferance !

Blessings For A Day

Bondage

But For Our Soul, So Lost!

Bullfrog Lullabye

That Day California Broke My Heart

Made Cautious

Changes Nothing

Welcome To Charles’ World

Chasing Laughter

Cheating’s Seed

Chip Off The Block

That Christmas Child.

That Christmas Light

Christmas Offering

A Clattering of Cards

Counting Days to Huber

Countryside, Awaitng Dawn

When Creatures

Dance Me Off My Feet

Oh, Daughter, Mine

Daylight Savings Time

Dearest, Love

Gone Deaf To Many Ears

Dear Friend

Deep Night

A Desperate Sun

Diana’s Tears

My Dirty Dress

You Do This For Me

A Day Not Gone To Waste

Always In Enon

Hi! Kid!

Those

Stars Contraband

Accidental Love

All Family

All About

Remedy Ypour Heart

Anything Of Man

Before Long

Being Heard

Blessings

Abstract Bondage

Breathe Deep, Fall Away.

Company Of One!

Cooks

Dark Trek

Your Own Wheels

See Ya Someday!

My Love, My Best Friend

Diamonds From My Tears

Door#3

Endure All

Epiphany

Eternity to Go

Fates Quest

First Cup

When We Get To The Other Side

God Came Down

God, Let Me

Happy Birthday, Me!

Homage Paid

Home Instead

Knew You Were There

In God

Intent Misuse

Intimate Domain

Know Me!

Lasting Days

Leaps And Bounds

Life Comes Into Play

Life Is Sweet, Too Short

Cherish Love

Man? Will There Be More???

My Dirty Dress

My Love, My Light

No Discourse

No Price Required

No Reward Expected

November, Already?

Obliged To Sail

Odd Thing Of Love

Said: Without End

Hauntings

Once Alone

One

On Blue Wings

Opposite

Our Creatures

Pains, Reversed

Past Perfect

Pasts Reprieve

Perfect Love

Pieces Still Breaking

Pretend

Ragged Past

Repeat

Rehearse Life

Sanctuary

Seasons Close

Secrets Kept

Shadows Keep Up

She

Signs

Sleep Won’t Rescue Me

So Long, Lonely

Some Miss Out

Spate Of Moments

Spring Etude

Into Today

Pleasing Source

Take Down

Thank You

The Key!

My Love, The, Then, There Is Me

This Home

Time Allows

To Heroes And Others

Oh, Love, To Us

Too Lost

Lock and Key

Trust Comes

Trust What’s Real

Try Too Late

Unrealistic Dreams.

All New

Together, When

Pay Homage, Heart

Your Value

A Leaf Falls From A Tree

A Son Is A Son

A Thanks For Giving

A Winter Day

Paper Heart

After

Ahh. In, Enon

Alas, Each Flew

Alas

All of Love

All I Ask

All My Days

My Special Man

All The Men You Are

All Things

And She Loved Him

Apart From This

Ask Our Lord

Autumn Comes Close

Bastard Laughs

Before Miles

Better Days

Birds Contend

Blessings To Us, Now!

Bring Me

Bullfrog Serenade

Do Not Fear, Love Won’t Compare

Changing Seasons

Choose Us

Christ’s Keys

Christmas, Family, Friends

Christmas Rush

C-for Chuck

Closing, Now, Summer Is Done

Coins Of Time

Comforts Of Your Hearth

Coming Time

Connection

Love Contraband

Conversations In My Head

Foremost Corner Of A Broken Heart

Counting Days in Huber,

Crow

New Love

Cusp of Summer

Cusps Of Summer

Day Lillies Remembered

Daylilly Etude

Days Abbreviated

Dear Friend

December Breaks

Exactly Hell

Dotage

Dreams That Get Away

Empty Feeders

En Guard!

Our Ending, For The Best

Enjoy Your Time

Enon Falls

Enon, Now

Enter Chill To Come

Epiphany

Equal Chance

Equality of Bliss

Etchings

Everything

Evil Defines

Garden Paths

Eyes

Fat Butterscotch Wally

Final Bow

Finally

Fooled By

For I Love You So

Friends

Fun House!

Give Me

Glittering Mounds of Snow

Glory! Glory!

God Taught This Heart

God Speed

Gold Reserve

Gold Star Mothers

Good-Bye For Now

Gray Matter

Guardian

Half- Full Instead

Hands of Time

Happiness, Oh! Such Sin!

Happy Accident

That Harlot’s Kiss

Harry’s On That Field

My Hart Belongs Elsewhere

Hearts Forget

Hearts

Heaven In View

Heavenly Design

Hopeless Romantic

Hour Glass

How Do I Feel This Lack?

Husk Of Virtue

I Am Awaiting Huber

I Am Away From You

I’ll Go Back

Am I Losing Huber?

I Am Sorry

I Bid You

I Don’t Exist

I Fear

I Just Called

I Love Fools The Best

I Loved a Man

I Offer These to My Friend

I Prayed For You

I Think Not

I Will, Any Way

I Would Keep This Root

I’ll Make Do

I’ve Loved Birds All Along!

If Not In Our Days

Images In My Head

Important To This Heart.

A Fine Lady’s Bouquet

In Enon

In For A Penny

In For The Kill

Shared Secrets

In Windsor

In Huber

Indelible

It Has Been A Terrible July

It Takes Awhile To Miss Me When I’m Gone

Keep A Merry Welcome

Keep Your.

Keeping Others Out

Keeping Me Around

Knowing You

Lady Of Our Lake

Lady

Tracks Laid Down In Tears

Last Night In Windsor

Is This The Last Of Love?

Last Respite

Lay Me Down In Huber

Leave But Memories

Let This Fall

Let’s Be

Lies

Life Is Short

Lift Me

Live With Prayer

Lonely Searching Done

Love Comes

Love Finally Had Left

Love Has Some Age On Me

Love In Spirit, Here

Take It On The Chin

Love Means

Chance This Love Prolongs.

Love, Recalled

Love Seldom Works For Me

Love, Times Three

Love’s Church

Love Recalled

Love’s To Save

Love’s Waters

Make It Work.

Keep Our C0untry Free

I’ll Make Do

Man Of My Dreams

Wasted Years

Meant to Always Be

Meeting You

Mended At My Hem

Middle Aged

Mixed Bouquet

Moments, Yesterday

More Than You Could Know

My Best Friend Is

My Gleanings

My Heart Has Healed.

My Heart Is Full of You

My Heart

My Last Love Song

My

Nature, Love!

New Terms

Fall Into Warmth Of Arms

Night Falls On Windsor

No No No!

No One Survives A War

None Too Perfect Anymore

Nothing As Of Late

November Holds

Now That I Know You

Now

Observe Weather Elsewhere

October Slides Right In

October Song

Offer Blessing Here

Make A Memory

On Sundays

This Soul

One Week At A Time

One

Opal Moon

Other Rooms

Our Best Fourth Of July

Our Days, Our Hopes

Comfortable

Ours

Outside Looking In

Wistful of Windsor

Over You

Peckerhead

Pentimento

Pink Blossoms

Pity!

Plague Sleep Evermore

Please

Pound For Pound

Prayers Request

Pretend

Promises Holding

Purple Finche

Queen Anne’s Lace

Rain

Rainy Days In Huber

Ready, Sink, Swim.

Repulsed

Reveals

Warmth Of Your Hearth

Richard Bids

Roundball Madness

Scars

Season Comes Full Swing

What Dark Can Do

She Makes Wholesale Claims

She Walks Away

She Will Pass Us By

Sips of Dawn

Snow Is On It’s Way

Snowy Etchings

Someone Sees Me!

Something

Soon Forget

Sorrow’s whim

South With Feeling

Spot of Shame

Spring, Step Up Your Gait!

Stars Are Out Not So Far Away

Where Life May Go

Stay Within His Grace.

Stitching Delight

Stranded Hearts

Strange Settings

Strength Of Two

Such August Days

Summer Days!

Summer In Huber

Sweet Huber

Sympathy For a Night

Table For One

Take It All WIth Me

Take Notice, If You Will

Take This.

Tardy Dawn

Tears Fall, Anyway

Tender Love

Tender Man

That Fleeting Kiss

The Grieving

Then, He Came Along

There Are Times

These Pets

The Shower

Not My Ending

Oh, Love Of One Thousand Hours

Threadbare Love

Time For Love

Tinka, Tiny Quaker

To A Real Man

To Geoff and of His Buddy

To Love

Today is.

Tomorrow Is

Trees Perfection

Trick or Treat

Trust Runs Deep

Truth In Christmas

Truths You Sow

Twine

Two Hearts

Up-ended

Up!

Venus Fades

Vessels Of Passion

I Knew I Wanted More

Abdication

Bullfrog Lullabye

I Am Awaiting Huber

God Granted Heaven Here

Now Seen By Mortal Men

Our Best Fourth of July

Venus Fades

Wasting Days in Huber

Bullfrog Serenade

We Give

Weather, Elsewhere

What Better Time?

What Dawn Can Do

What Love

What Of.?

When I Am.

I Wonder Where You Are

White Out

White Picket World

Who Are They To Judge?

Who Can

Will I See Huber Again?

Will There Be Ears?

Suppose

Huber’s Kiss

Huber, Calls To Me

Winter’s Come To Town

Winter Morning

Winter’s On It’s Way

Winter Morning

Words Your Said

Wrongful Entrustment

Yes! I Am Alive!

You Are

You, Do This For Me

My Love, Elsewhere

You Will Never Love Me, So

Gone

How Much Of You Is Mine?

Opening Days

Nothing Here as of Late

‘Don’t Come Back’

Dottage

If Dreams Be Real

Dreams On Wings

Easy To Like

Eloquent Lies

My Empty Bed

Good Things

Enter, Spring!

Epiphany

Etchings Of My Sadness

Evasive Peace

Extreme Unction

Breathe, Fall Away.

Fallen

Family

A Fantasy Fulfilled

Fates Opened

Fates Relent

Favor A Word

February Come

Freed My Tears

Finally, A Friend

Fool For Love

For Us To Know

Forever Never Was

Friends To The End

Gentleman Of A Thousand Kisses

Give/Take

God Chose Music

Golden Crumbs

A Good Man

Blue, Casting Shadows

Grow Fresh

Halloween Brings

As Long As Our Hands, Too

Hard Facts

That Harlot Moon

Have Mercy On Me!

Sweet Things

He Left

Heart Of Ice

Heartache Tips These Scales

Heartbreak From Virginia

Heartbreak To Great

Hearts Succeed

Document By Heart

Hearts Impede.

Heaven’s Eye

That Sacrifice

Home Instead

Home, Heart, Haven

Hope Springs

Hours Fly By

The Hourly Wage

Hours To Kill

House Of David.

Two Hearts

How I Love Him

How Long Now? A Year?

Hunger The Root

I Feel, I Am

I barely know you, now.

I Cannot

I Cry Less These Days, Now

I drown

I Miss Trains

I Plead My Case

With These Hands

I Suspect.

I Testify

If Not You, My Love, Then Who?

If This Is.

All Afford New

In God

In Pieces

Inside This Heart.

In Huber, Today

Since You

It May Be You, Someday!

Learn Or Repeat

Jesus Is Our Lord

Jesus! Suck It Up !!!

Johnny Left Town

Joy To Share

Keep It Real.

Kiss Rejected

Lake Effect

Lake Erie

Last Of Love

Late January Musings

Learn Or Repeat

A Tear Has Etched

Left To Cry

Less Tragic Than Some Know

Letter To My Love

Life, Death Are Teams

It Is Life

Lift Me, Lover

Line Through Her Name

Little Boys

Little Miser

That Longed-For Kiss

Love, From Paris

Found Myself In You

Love, Exhaulted

Love For Show

Huber, True

Love Is Free

Lesson Learn

Let Love Overide

Love Shorts

Love Takes Root

Lover’s Lair

Lover’s End

Love’s Contriband

Lucky Little Girl

Again, We Are

Made You Brave

Magic’s Blessing’s

Through Men’s Eyes

March On!

March Pounds

Too Often

Messenger, A Nurse

Mind So Clear

Sorry, I Missed You In September, David

Mixed Bouquet

Tender Times Rememebered

Moments, Yesterday.

Momma?

More To Come

Mother, Forever

Music For Lovers

To My Dearest Friend

My Dirty Dress

My Every Dream

My Gleanings

My Paper Heart

My Time Here

My Truest Heart

Mystery Of Elanrda

Mystery

Black Nebulae, Aka Sleep

Night Deepens

Nightmares Of My Heart

No Curtain Call

No Fable

No Fool For Love, No Sir !!

Not So Young

Not Worthy

Nothing As Of Late

October Slides Right In

Of Broken Hearts, I Am

Of Lovers And Of Other Last Things

Oh, My Heart!

Oh, Pilgrim

Saved For Now

Old Friend

Old Glory Hangs, Ashamed

Old House On Hog’s Back

Old Returns

An Older Woman

Finally, Love Found Us

On Trees

This On Loan

On Sleepless Nights

On This Night

Once Alone

Once. Once. Once.

Once Upon A Child

One Dropped Call

One Heart From That Mix

One True Friend

This Unshed Tear

Only Arms

Opportunity To Be A Friend

Ordinary Rooms

Our Family Is Love

Our Future In Store

Our Lord

Owen’s Gift

I Am Afraid Our Time Is Up

Paradox Of Sun, Of Snow

Paris

Participate In Life!

Passion For Life Stays

Peace Of Rope

Perfection In Mockery’s Skin

Pitching Snow Balls

Please Believe

Porcelein Cracks

Time For Pretending

Prisoner Of Time

Promises

This Pewter Sky

Reach That Sky

Real Mc Coy

Repeat

Rhea, Super Hero

Salvation’s Cost

Keep That Boy Inside

Already?

Seasons, Will Comply

Season’s Turn About

Owen Can’t Quite See That Rainbow

She

Simple Life

Since You

Solstice Rains

Some Women

Trapped Within

Sorrow’s Whim

Spirits Lifted, Love

Live For That Splash

Bring Spring

Steady Arms

Sudden Fall

Sweet Buds Because

Sweet People

Sweet Things, So Simple.

So It Goes

Let’s Have A Slow Dance

Take This

Tattered Wings

Yet, Teaches Us To Grow

Thank You

That Man

The Leaving

So Called Norm

The Source

There

Hauntings

This

Grow A Thorn

Those Should Seek

Time I’ve Bought

Keep Time Innocent

Times Make Gems

Today, My Tears

No Tomorrows Bring Fear

Tonight, Age So, Clear

Too Lost

Travel Calm

Truer Love And I

The Unexpected Guest

Up Ended

Up To Us

Voices Never Find

Voices Here Fail

Welcomed Home

We Were. We Are.

What I Am Made Of

What Of Love?

All Love Needs

What We’re Made Of

What Is Gone

When Angels Sing To Me

Why Family Plays

Wide-Eyed Fanny…

Sliding Door…

Windsor Calls

Hunter, In The End

Our Winning Season !!

Winter Blessings

This Winter

Winter Magic

Winter’s Hiatus

Winter

January

Wise Night

With Huber In My Eyes

Word Has It

Words In Play

Worlds Of Words

Wound, Save One Scar

All I See

Christmas Time

Many Mansions, Many Rooms

I Recall

Angels Speed

Mable Smith’s Mayoinaise Cake

Minnie’s Molasses Cookies

Mary Griffins Soft Molasses Cookies

Nana Smith’s Sally Ann Cookies

Donna’s No Bakes Candies

Eleanor’s Chocolate sauce

Big Trouble On Hog’s Back Hill

Big Trouble On Hog’s Back Hill!

Big Trouble On Hog’s Back Hill!

Winged Rescue

Winged Rescue

Last Call

Blue Angel

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Under The Panda Moon

Three Cats, A Blue Parrot, And Us

The Tree House

Do You Want Toast With That?

Magic Come to Enon

Women,

especially older women, are subject to heartbreak.

Often, they are left to wonder whatever became of gentleman.

That Harlot’s Moon follows them, makes rash judgements and curses them to lonely nights.

Dark is no friend to us. Stars peek at our flaws, call attention to our secrets, find out our most lurid affairs…

We’d rather we’re swept away.

Only when Prince Charming comes galloping along, someone equally as hurt as we are by love, can we find salvation and respect.

Dedicated to those hearts lost in Love.

MCT

THIS IS A CODISCILE TO MY BOOK.

POEMS ABOUT VOYAGE TO AN INCREDIBLE LIFE I NEVER EXPECTED WITH A MAN I COULD NEVER HAVE DREAMED EXISTED.

OUR JOURNEY HAD SOME WAVES THAT THREATENED TO OVERTURN US BUT WE ROWED AHEAD ANYWAY AND HERE WE ARE.

I LOVE, TRUST AND TOTALLY ADMIRE THIS AMAZING MAN, HUMAN BEING AND FRIEND.

HE IS MY FOREVER, MY LIFE MATE I BELIEVE GOD HAS CHOSEN ABOVE ALL OTHERS.

(AND I GAVE HIM OPTIONS!!!)

HE IS NOT PERFECT SO IS PERFECT FOR ME.

HIS LOVE FOR INNOCENT CREATURES, HELPLESS ONES, AND OLD THINGS AND TIMES LOST TO DUST AND MEMORY MAKE HIM EVERMORE DER TO MY SOUL.

MY ONLY REGRET IS HE DID NOT GET TO MEET MY DAD, FLOYD, WHO GAVE MY KNOWLEGE, PATIENCE AND COMPASSION, GREATGRANDMA MINNIE WHO GIFTED ME WITH WIT, INTUITION AND FIRE, AUNT BEA FOR HER GIFT OF LOVE AND TRUTH FAMILY VALUES AND BEAUTIFUL GRANDMA LOTTIE FOR HER SWEETNES THAT PEAKS OUT FROM TIME TO TIME. I EVEN WOULD HAVE LOVED FOR HIM TO HAVE BEEN AT HOG’S BACK TO SEE MA AT HER FINEST, EVER THE HOSTESS, FUN AND MAKING FOOD AND LAUGHTER A REALITY.

GRANDPA AL FOR HIS MUSICAL GIFTS, TOO AND ADDICTING ME TO COFFEE AS AN INFANT WHILE I SAT ON HIS LAP AND HE PLAYED HIS DRUMS.

JEFFEY, CHIP. UNCLE RICHARD AND GARY AND UNCLES BILL AND PAUL. SUCH UNIQUE CHARACTERS IN MY STORIED LIFE.

PERHAPS IN THE HEREAFTER WE WILL ALL PLAY CARDS IN THAT HUGE BACK YARD AND LAUGH OUT LOUD, WITH BINGO, TOO.

I MISS THEM AND ONLY IN MEMORIES AND DREAMS ARE THEY REAL ANYMORE.

AND LOVE, YES LOVE IS ETERNAL.

MUGS

5-North Birch

                As days ebb,

                That birch tree stands;

                In mute testimony…

                To a frigid battle she has to withstand.

                Naught but skeletal remnants of her summer self,

                5-North Birch braces herself;

                Against those worst of elements…

                Decades have evinced her steady growth.

                Nubile stripling to elegant landmark-

                Now, wanderers linger under her awhile.

New Chances

                            Old ills, old charms, old happiness,

                            Today, are on that shelf;

                            I’ve left my past behind, you see…

                            I value myself!

                            Broken rings, vows gone by,

                            Taints of older times;

                            Forgotten tears, we used to cry…

                            While poets refused to rhyme.

                            Galas, moments stricken down,

                            Stumbling over feet;

                            Remnants, photos, favorite tunes…

                            Leave us incomplete.

                            New chances come today,

                            Spent with romance;

                            Brought to us to give away…

                            Since we deserve to dance.

A Label

                        I am name, we call this soul,

                        Not a face, we are not whole;

                        Yet, somewhere, in contol!

                        A label, nothing, more!

                        Call out to us in that ominpotent dark,

                        Shadow lovers, light a spark;

                        Some lives always sit in park…

                        A label, nothing, more!

                        After work, no face may tell,

                        Those ragged remnants torn from Hell;

                        Are shacks built, boards that fell…

                        A label, nothing, more.

                        Tallest statues, topple down,

                        Hobos amble, hobbled by a faceless town;

                        Jokes do not make a clown!

                        A label, nothing, more!

A Tear Chokes

                            This night, a tear chokes in my heart,

                            No calm may quell such pain;

                            What navigator, where to start…

                            To discover joy again?

                            Dark takes its toll on such as I,

                            As some nothing overtakes me;

                            Asking, always, WHY? WHY?…

                            What terror seems to be.

                            Simple answers, I have none,

                            Seeking times eclipse;

                            Tragedy filling every cell…

                            No solace for these lips.

                            My fear, alone, now covers all,

                            When hope has disappeared;

                            Just as I feel I may not fall…

                            Empty sentences cleared.

                            Within this ever struggling soul,

                            Such agony is real;

                            Will my survival metes is toll?

                            For now this vagrant will kneel.

A Word

                        It only takes a word,

                        Breaking a bond of tears;

                        Inflection, turn of phrase…

                        Put a crimp in regular days.

                        It only takes a word,

                        Breaking hearts of steel;

                        Formidable, how women feel…

                        Emotions break a seal.

                        It only takes a word,

                        Casual remarks lightly meant;

                        Taken harshly won’t relent…

                        Women are a coin you’ve spent.

                        It only takes a word,

                        Careless slips off a tongue;

                        Old worn out bells can’t be unrung…

                        Stepped in a pile of your own dung.

                        It only takes a word,

                        For a subliminal message to send;

                        Your mouth to recommend…

                        Women take a cue to end.

We Are

                            We are the sum, total of our year,

                            Balance of all unshed tears;

                            Entities, unequaled fears…

                            Adding up to us.

                            We are the quotient of each lie told,

                            Totaling all secrets we may hold;

                            All-in-all, fate will unfold…

                            Adding up to us.

                            We are the positive, negative,

                            Reasons we all live;

                            Answers each has to give…

                            Adding up to us.

                            We are the necessary ills,

                            Gun, poison, that finally kills;

                            One of those angry, bitter pills…

                            Adding up to us.

Adoptions Discord

                        Tainted gifts meant as a balm,

                        Lingered long as I would live on;

                        That shrill, whining call, harpies song…

                        Not, I’ve no discord in my life, today.

                        Well-meaning agencies, the nun,

                        Sees families, non yet begun;

                        I, a lonely child must be that one…

                        Not, I’ve no discord in my life, today.

                        Systems, families trapped in flux,

                        Rich, poor, abuse the crux;

                        Wearing rags, or gowns or tux…

                        Not, I no discord in my life, today.

                        I, a lonely child did survive,

                        That family that saved me, my soul, alive;

                        Plenty of stinging in our hive…

                        Not, I no discord in my life, today.

Again, Again, Again

                                Many miss a blessing.

                                Eyes too blind to see;

                                Hearts hardened by a hurting…

                                In reality.

                                Many miss Lord’s loving,

                                Turn away from good;

                                Wounded by fellow man…

                                Love, misunderstood.

                                Many miss a kindness,

                                Pain, within a heart;

                                Let a wound steal everything…

                                Tear their world apart.

                                Many miss a lesson,

                                Through eyes full of pain;

                                Love is for their taking…

                                Again, again, again.

All Creatures

                            All creatures have a gentle soul,

                            Each spirit, knows a cause;

                            Yet, in a man, it’s not quite whole…

                            Some find peace never was.

                            Our animal friends, are full of love,

                            Their hearts seem to touch us, though;

                            Some great being up above…

                            Tells us it is so.

                            Never know our own dispute,

                            May come full circle when;

                            We feel our conflict, resolute…

                            Referring that urge to win.

                            For every battle we endure,

                            A war ends with defeat;

                            Conquer lonely minds, innure…

                            No one’s alone, complete.

All I See

                        All I see, beneath my tree,

                        An empty box awaitimg me;

                        Heart ache, fear, that will be…

                        Christmas, wrapped up here.

                        All I see, tied up so tight,

                        A ribbon, trussed up in my fright;

                        Hopes, driven out of sight…

                        Christmas, wrapped up here.

                        All I see, a light burned out,

                        A shimmer, dimmed by constant doubt;

                        A cry, building into a shout…

                        Christmas, wrapped up here.

                        All I see, is pain plus more,

                        Ghosts, like many, at my door;

                        All those heats, broken before…

                        Christmas, wrapped up here.

All The Rest

                    Theirs was one love those stars woud keep,

                    Deep in the far reaching skies;

                    She loved him in her soul, so sweet…

                    Felt emotion from pains eyes.

                    Excising sections of her being,

                    Torn off more or less;

                    Portents of what faith was seeing…

                    Was any futures guess.

                    Forever was her only thought,

                    her dying self left out;

                    Heartache was what love had bought…

                    Purchased full price with doubt.

                    Winter’s cold took love away,

                    Broken through her, as its test;

                    Left to wander every day…

                    With tragic passions quest.

All Truths Ways

                    Morning, crisp, new sun invokes,

                    All thought require a space;

                    Quiet minds in states of grace…

                    Sadness, still, in some revokes.

                    When truth assails a waking heart,

                    A tender moment conveys;

                    Each shows a patch along the way…

                    Where we choose evil or to be part.

                    As souls take risks to be broken, some half,

                    That damage often, then, shows;

                    In how a being adopts, it knows…

                    Choices, wanting to cry, to laugh.

                    Whether pains inflict a wound, a balm,

                    Strives ever to be free of strife;

                    Allows no person ruling your life…

                    No one steals those dreams, that calm.

                    So, as we go about through days,

                    Permit no regret to chase dreams;

                    Trust that faith is what may hold life’s seams…

                    Mending all hurtful, truthful ways.

Allow

                            Allow such love grow, exhault,

                            Each heart, its feelings shown;

                            Release what may be seen as fault…

                            For every side that’s known.

                            Allow such faith as to decree,

                            Each side of life well fouded;

                            Renew those vows others set free…

                            For each area trust surrounded.

                            Allow all ill to be aside,

                            Each notion of what’s wrong;

                            Regain that meaning held inside…

                            For sweet things come along.

                            Allow what may seem odd to you,

                            As only nature’s whim;

                            Review those agonies seen through…

                            For all you love of Him.

I Will Always Love You, Husband

                       This day as snowflakes fall,

                       My tender heart turns to recall;

                       How you stood so very tall…

                       That love that spared no fall.

                       Last night you visited a dream,

                       We were, again, a team;

                       Only death, temporary, is between…

                       What ours lives mean.

                       So sweet recollections we perceive,

                       Truest love, forever, to believe;

                       Our hearts, combines, in truth, conceive…

                       What was will never leave.

                       With my dearest I say ‘Adeiu’,

                       Thoughyou left I won’t leave you;

                       What we had not cleaved in two…

                       For I will always be in love with you.

Amen To The Lord!

                    Her withered limbs, this lustery day,

                    Scrapes the sky, giving way;

                    Her leafy arms no longer pray…

                    AMEN TO THE LORD!

                    Her season here has ended, so,

                    This time has come for her to go;

                    There are no more bright colors left to show…

                    AMEN TO THE LORD!

                    Her vestments puddle at her ragged feet,

                    Odd.

                    She was once so very neat!

                    She stands, now, shivering on defeat…

                    AMEN TO THE LORD!

Angel Tears

                            On these grounds, slightest fog,

                            Enviorns, fish, pollywog;

                            Bits of mist upon a screen…

                            Adds to green grass, passing sheen.

                            Some say weather has to dance,

                            For deft for to have one chance;

                            I say something heavens’s way…

                            Must have had one word to say.

                            A tear, perhaps, on angels cheek,

                            Too sad, you say, for one to speak;

                            ’tis sent to us down below…

                            As dew, a damp now, thus, we know.

                            Warmth, will come to wipe away,

                            Angels tears, our dew as day;

                            Breath of cheer will be so new…

                            We will forget all chill of dew.

Another Gun, No Blame

                Some son, gone wrong, killed his friend, his mother,

                Now, Georgia knows such pain;

                This youth, a terror as none other…

                By gun laws, now insane!

                Another gem NRA, is legal, odd truths,

                Surely could be changed;

                On what our leaders do not find deranged…

                When we lable pain as shame.

                Children go to school to die,

                In churches pray to live;

                Not for life eternal just to survive…

                They pass communion in His name.

                Should it be your child, your friend,

                That crime of nonchalance takes away;

                Ignorance is not a crime, just jive…

                Gun control is a rich politicians game.

Arctic Blast

                        Arctic blast, screaming still,

                        Skies, insist, are blue;

                        I hunker down, cover or two…

                        Wile away that storm.

                        Arctic blast, roaring past my rooms,

                        Full flower of tempest blooms;

                        Music fills inches between my walls…

                        As this worst of winter calls.

                        Arctic blast gives no clear reason,

                        For lax preperation for this season;

                        With my music, with my books…

                        Against foul weather rages without reason.

                        Arctic blast still rages,

                        As my tiny heater engages;

                        I will stay here warm as toast…

                        Content at home, unlike most.

Ascending One

                            This Harlot’s Moon,

                            Embarassed, now;

                            Reveals her hidden scars…

                            Stands against her gravity, unmoved.

                            Within His orbit,

                            Quite by mistake;

                            All His stars move to shame her…

                            No more love to care.

                            Her new sun pointing to her crimes,

                            His truths unfold in brilliance;

                            She cringes in shadows, crying…

                            He will not be easy to heal from.

Harlot’s Moon

                        That Harlot’s moon,

                        Embarassed, now;

                        Reveals her hidden scars…

                        He stands against her gravity-

                        Unmoved.

                        Within his austere orbit,

                        She has mistaken;

                        His stars for caring…

                        That light shames her-

                        Now, tears.

                        A new sun eclipses their time,

                        Her mistake was trust;

                        Her truths were not his own…

                        Too painful for him to allow her to heal-

                        He easily lets her know.

At Last Love

                   At last love, denies me naught,

                   A sweet man, such a life has brought;

                   Tenderness our torment brought…

                   What took life this long?

                   At last love, came to my dreams,

                   Answered each of my anguished screams;

                   Was it as long as it seems?

                   What took life this long?

                   At last love, spoke up, I heard!

                   Every silent, hungry word!

                   On those blue wings of his bird…

                   What took life this long?

                   At last love, has understood,

                   What I meant by a man so good;

                   All that I’d waited for was where he’d stood!

                   What took life this long?

At My Table

                        At my table, sun tucked away,

                        Skies assuage to gray;

                        December’s to have her say…

                        At my table, sun tucked away.

                        Tainted snow, now, pushed aside,

                        Pristine, no more points deride;

                        Once, so scenic, looks of pride…

                        At my table, sun tucked away.

                        Tufts of green, where snow clots cling,

                        Corners where bright carolers sing;

                        Holiday to many bring…

                        At my table, sun tucked away.

                        Slate pervades skies above,

                        ’tis a season about all love;

                        Be thoughtful, share what you’re made of…

                        At my table, sun tucked away.

At Such An An Age

                       Playful love, at such an age,

                       Such should grimmace, grumble rage;

                       We, though, happily, engage…

                       Playful love, at such an age.

                       Youth, a devine device!

                       When in tact, useful, nice;

                       We had that gift but twice…

                       Youth, a devine device.

                       Memory, somewhat behind,

                       Oh, if one could but rewind;

                       Such things we could find!

                       Memory, somewhat behind.

                       Simple souls, bodies divest,

                       Lungs, breathe heart gives way to rest;

                       All skill unite, quiet in our chest…

                       Simple souls, bodies divest.

                       Endings, as beginnings, come,

                       Great wheel of life thrums;

                       Hear that beating of those drums?

                       Endings as beginnings come.

Autumn Love

                       Autumn love, happily here,

                       Hands tangled in auburn tresses;

                       Succulent kisses worth remembering…

                       Into Winter years.

                       Autumn love, embrace me whole,

                       Incur no lack in passion;

                       Incendiary whiffs still stream…

                       Ahhh. Just breathe deeply, deeply.

                       Autumn love, Spring in heart,

                       Summer deep in souls;

                       Lingering depths of eyes…

                       Daring visions together.

Autumn’s Farce

                       Song birds, here, today are sparse,

                       All a party to Autumn’s farce;

                       Fanfare, nature bursts with pride…

                       Season’s seeming to divide.

                       Songs are lacking in crisp are,

                       Notes, once lyrical, compare;

                       With some vacant moppets stare…

                       Begging us to care.

                       Singing ripples from one brook,

                       Bid children in all, Come, now, look;

                       Lonely frond beside such greenery…

                       Blooms, add flourishes with all scenery.

                       Sing a long with Autumn’s glow,

                       Best of colors we could know;

                       Temperate winds, spices flow…

                       Teasing winter weathers slow.

I Stay

                       With a minute, time escapes,

                       Traps set by those haunting;

                       Souls, hearts, heal of all scrapes…

                       Banged up by love, I stay.

                       Hold my breath, close eyes tight,

                       Perhaps I’ll get some rest tonight;

                       Sadly, dreams have taken flight…

                       Banged up by love, I stay.

                       Arms wrapped tight, my soul in shreds,