I’m a fragrance
buried in bloom
longing for release
My soul is wailing
unclothed before thee
yearning for cleanse
I’m an onion
to be peeled
layer by layer
My fruits are ripe
taste thyself
beckoning its thirst
I’m an old soul
walking the Earth
for all eternity
My spirit is seeking
exploration of character
conquering thy labyrinth
I’m of complexity
fancy consumption
hungry for understanding
My desires are extreme
craving love and patience
a worthwhile journey
I’m the curious child
and feisty cat
hanging on a hot tin roof
My eyes burn of fire
with reckless abandon
for whisperings of love
I’m a woman of passion
longing an equation
of mind, heart, body and soul!
Written by L.M.P.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Monday, December 6, 2010
A flower for Kat
Life is all about the path you choose
remember it’s a rollercoaster
filled with ups and downs,
even though the scenery changes
the people along the way
make the journey memorable
Like the seasons we all change
remember to live with passion
never never never regret…
dance when no one else does
remember to write
memories should never be forgotten
Enjoy every kiss
you never know whether it will be the last
Make the most of every moment
with family, friends or lovers
whether near or far away
Sometimes you’ll be alone
other times you won’t
but never let life get you down:
LIFE IS LIKE A FLOWER
bit by bit it falls apart
but with time it blossoms again and again,
Kat was our beautiful flower
she will forever bloom in our hearts, minds and souls.
Written for Redbubble Project: "A Flower For Kat" who passed away at 23 years old. Kathleen Collins was a beautiful soul, friend, artist, writer and poet.
remember it’s a rollercoaster
filled with ups and downs,
even though the scenery changes
the people along the way
make the journey memorable
Like the seasons we all change
remember to live with passion
never never never regret…
dance when no one else does
remember to write
memories should never be forgotten
Enjoy every kiss
you never know whether it will be the last
Make the most of every moment
with family, friends or lovers
whether near or far away
Sometimes you’ll be alone
other times you won’t
but never let life get you down:
LIFE IS LIKE A FLOWER
bit by bit it falls apart
but with time it blossoms again and again,
Kat was our beautiful flower
she will forever bloom in our hearts, minds and souls.
Written for Redbubble Project: "A Flower For Kat" who passed away at 23 years old. Kathleen Collins was a beautiful soul, friend, artist, writer and poet.
Monday, November 1, 2010
We Cut and Bleed The Same Color
*Specially written for The Anti-Racism Poetry Event for World-Poems Net group on Facebook*
Don't fear my skin,
open your heart,
and let me in.
We must learn and teach,
take the olive branch,
it's a loving reach.
Erase the fears,
and add in hope,
for better years.
Let's respect eachother,
for we cut and bleed,
the same color.
Let's respect eachother,
for we cut and bleed,
the same color.
Be open to my culture,
step out of your anger,
and embrace my color.
Respect all of me,
let's hold hands,
and sing in harmony.
Time to end the hate,
and learn from history,
before it's too late.
Let's respect eachother,
for we cut and bleed,
the same color.
Let's respect eachother,
for we cut and bleed,
the same color.
Don't fear my skin,
open your heart,
and let me in.
We must learn and teach,
take the olive branch,
it's a loving reach.
Erase the fears,
and add in hope,
for better years.
Let's respect eachother,
for we cut and bleed,
the same color.
Let's respect eachother,
for we cut and bleed,
the same color.
Be open to my culture,
step out of your anger,
and embrace my color.
Respect all of me,
let's hold hands,
and sing in harmony.
Time to end the hate,
and learn from history,
before it's too late.
Let's respect eachother,
for we cut and bleed,
the same color.
Let's respect eachother,
for we cut and bleed,
the same color.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Bagging A Burden
Destiny gone bad,
it's dragging us down,
with the devil gone mad.
Another empty shell,
one for the book,
and shot to hell.
Save the sympathy,
shelter the storm,
and don't bleed me.
Sratching a soul,
bagging a burden,
and out of control.
Scratching a soul,
bagging a burden,
and out of control.
Free your fears,
medicate the pain,
and save the tears.
Another lost soul,
taking a life,
and filling up a hole.
With no love train,
we're trapped,
in a life of pain.
Scratching a soul,
bagging a burden,
and out of control.
Scratching a soul,
bagging a burden,
and out of control.
with the devil gone mad.
Another empty shell,
one for the book,
and shot to hell.
Save the sympathy,
shelter the storm,
and don't bleed me.
Sratching a soul,
bagging a burden,
and out of control.
Scratching a soul,
bagging a burden,
and out of control.
Free your fears,
medicate the pain,
and save the tears.
Another lost soul,
taking a life,
and filling up a hole.
With no love train,
we're trapped,
in a life of pain.
Scratching a soul,
bagging a burden,
and out of control.
Scratching a soul,
bagging a burden,
and out of control.
Friday, September 24, 2010
Blind By Ignorance
A corrupted human race,
preserved with prejudice,
a shameful disgrace.
Bound by false belief,
a tormented tragedy,
empty with grief.
An unsettled score,
damned for violence,
let's make love not war.
Blind by ignorance,
the world's plague,
served with indifference.
Blind by ignorance,
the world's plague,
served with indifference.
Bullied by bloodshed,
evil acts of cruelty,
with a million and one dead.
An ugly circumstance,
full of hatred,
suffering the consequence.
Consumed with angst and fear,
waiting on peace,
while shedding another tear.
Blind by ignorance,
the world's plague,
served with indifference.
Blind by ignorance,
the world's plague,
served with indifference.
preserved with prejudice,
a shameful disgrace.
Bound by false belief,
a tormented tragedy,
empty with grief.
An unsettled score,
damned for violence,
let's make love not war.
Blind by ignorance,
the world's plague,
served with indifference.
Blind by ignorance,
the world's plague,
served with indifference.
Bullied by bloodshed,
evil acts of cruelty,
with a million and one dead.
An ugly circumstance,
full of hatred,
suffering the consequence.
Consumed with angst and fear,
waiting on peace,
while shedding another tear.
Blind by ignorance,
the world's plague,
served with indifference.
Blind by ignorance,
the world's plague,
served with indifference.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Suggested Reading
It's my pleasure to give you an inside view of the many great books and novels that shaped my life and left an impression on me through the years. My tastes vary from one extreme to the next.
**everything written by Hemingway**
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
A Brief History Of Philosophy From Socrates To Derrida - Derek Johnston
The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered - R. Eisenman & M. Wise
700 Sundays - Billy Crystal
Memoirs/All Rivers Run To The Sea - Elie Wiesel
Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil - John Berendt
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Complete Works of Shakespeare
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
Emma-Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane Austen
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Dune - Frank Herbert
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
Ulysses - James Joyce
The Inferno – Dante
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
Germinal - Emile Zola
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Possession - AS Byatt
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Charlotte’s Web - EB White
Tuesday's With Morrie - Mitch Albom
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Watership Down - Richard Adams
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
**everything written by Hemingway**
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
A Brief History Of Philosophy From Socrates To Derrida - Derek Johnston
The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered - R. Eisenman & M. Wise
700 Sundays - Billy Crystal
Memoirs/All Rivers Run To The Sea - Elie Wiesel
Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil - John Berendt
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Complete Works of Shakespeare
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
Emma-Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane Austen
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Dune - Frank Herbert
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
Ulysses - James Joyce
The Inferno – Dante
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
Germinal - Emile Zola
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Possession - AS Byatt
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Charlotte’s Web - EB White
Tuesday's With Morrie - Mitch Albom
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Watership Down - Richard Adams
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Monday, March 22, 2010
Heart For Haiti
Through destruction and despair,
with doubt and uncertainty,
there's hope and prayer.
Many unaccounted for,
keep the faith,
hear my roar.
With blank empty stare,
cries of anguish,
remember many care.
There's much desperation,
but with heart and hope,
brings much compassion.
Don't fret or give up,
many love you,
with their sugar cup.
Many seeking refuge,
nowhere to turn,
keep the courage.
Living without hope,
nights of silence,
we'll help you cope.
With nothing to spare,
take my healing hand,
I've got a pair.
with doubt and uncertainty,
there's hope and prayer.
Many unaccounted for,
keep the faith,
hear my roar.
With blank empty stare,
cries of anguish,
remember many care.
There's much desperation,
but with heart and hope,
brings much compassion.
Don't fret or give up,
many love you,
with their sugar cup.
Many seeking refuge,
nowhere to turn,
keep the courage.
Living without hope,
nights of silence,
we'll help you cope.
With nothing to spare,
take my healing hand,
I've got a pair.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
The Rush
Chasing shadows of time,
blood runs through my veins,
foolish ideals walk a thin line.
We swim against the tide,
shake up the dream,
broken boundaries, no pride.
Empty faces at my command,
massacre of greed,
political warfare on demand.
No rhyme of reason,
we're running on empty,
man and machine, open season.
Fictional tales of rearrange,
gunshots ring out,
thunderous cries of change.
blood runs through my veins,
foolish ideals walk a thin line.
We swim against the tide,
shake up the dream,
broken boundaries, no pride.
Empty faces at my command,
massacre of greed,
political warfare on demand.
No rhyme of reason,
we're running on empty,
man and machine, open season.
Fictional tales of rearrange,
gunshots ring out,
thunderous cries of change.
Buried U-Turn
Life's fixations on truth and lies,
behind dark thin walls,
loneliness burrows heaven's skies.
Fairytales of a perfect lie,
Summer barbeque in December,
crystals of Christmas in July.
Untold story without reason,
sealed off forgotten maze,
riptides in a rainy mean season.
Sealed doors in one's mind,
dishing dirt under pillow talk,
justice in crime very unkind!
Copyright 2002
behind dark thin walls,
loneliness burrows heaven's skies.
Fairytales of a perfect lie,
Summer barbeque in December,
crystals of Christmas in July.
Untold story without reason,
sealed off forgotten maze,
riptides in a rainy mean season.
Sealed doors in one's mind,
dishing dirt under pillow talk,
justice in crime very unkind!
Copyright 2002
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