Poem: Homesick*

March 17, 2009 By 1 Comment

deep navy purple barely winks at me
from where it spans across this neon sea
glimpsing the wild in its silent retreat
as its edged with the paving of another dirty street
i’ve watched emptiness meander through this space
long forgotten silence is a long forgotten place
deaf to the notes within the song
failing to find where it can belong

the dance is missing from this town
its sad embrace just pulls me down

impatiently i wait to hear the chime
a chirping message telling me its time
while colored dreams and mighty plans sustain
pushing paths against the weathered grain
i watch the feet that carry me along
humming through the notes within the song
and watering the seeds that have been sown
i miss the things i’ve never really known

Copyright TheOrganicSister 2/27/09

*i wrote this a couple weeks ago but only just got around to posting it.

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Poem: We Are All the Same

January 21, 2009 By 5 Comments

We cry when we look

So we look away

Atrocities are easier to swallow

When blended with half truths

And sweetened with righteousness

Peace promoted through vengeance

Like a child’s immature retaliations

“Because they did it first”

And we shake our heads

Wondering at its failure

We rattle our fists

And swear to our gods

and take two eyes for one

Then leave our crumbling gold

To patch the wound

We arrogantly ask our children to fight

Denying all kinship

And diverting our vision

For as long as we don’t look for it

We’ll never have to see

Humanity in the eyes of our enemy.

© Tara Wagner

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Poem: Speak of the Devil

July 28, 2008 By Leave a Comment
a dream sets confusion upon the bedpost
and chuckles
as it drifts beyond the ardent shaking of her head
the once settled dust
in the dark corners of a disheveled mind
kicked up in flurries of phantoms
threatening to tighten their grip on truth
and choke away its breath
 
illuminated and uncomfortable
nude secrets hide behind quavering arms
bewildered by the interrupting bulb
doe eyes wide with uncertainty
shrinking back into crannies of the wall
thinly veiling itself from an anticipated moment
come too soon
 
uncertain utterances whispered in the gloomy eve
lead to uncertain emotions in the dark
and the sun just journeyed on
leaving no comfort within its setting zeal
 
grey and grainy photographs
shake the caverns of the soul
and to the surface arises an untold secret
bringing a quiet commotion still unseen
that wraps its grip around her waist
and pulls her into the inescapable
a confrontation too bittersweet to contain
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Poem: Who are you?

June 4, 2008 By 1 Comment

or more accurately,
who do you want to be?

ask yourself that question.
you don’t need to answer me.

meditate on the image
that comes into your head

you’re not forever who you are now
you are the Future You instead

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Poem: untitled

June 3, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Tremendous language of sound and music
Your laugh caressing my dreams
Your voice a song to overwhelm me
A wild whisper to fill my wings

Give to me your devotion
A delicious gift to drink
Receive my mutual emotion
Sacred kiss upon your cheek

Lay your heart upon my lips
And dance through my embrace
Soul of one cannot endure
Without love’s tender face

[*Old poem found among the rubble and posted with the date which it was written, 10/25/07, Rebirthed]

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