Inspired by life, people, and spirit, I write. Sometimes from pain, sometimes from amusement. It doesn't matter. It's the picture it paints. Enjoy and comment. I love to hear what individual poems do for others. Please note: all material is copyright protected. Let me know if you want one to use elsewhere.
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Refined ignorant masses of sexual beasts
Controlled existence to behave civilized
Locked in the prison of every mind
The fantasies of truth subverting lives
Questions of insanity always abound
Creating chaotic confusion in doubt
The facade growing heavier with time
Weight collapsing as cracks crumble
Unable to withstand the growing appetite
Left untended deep within the mind
The body agonized in unmet satisfaction
Suppressed too long trying to be civilized
The confusing array of fantasy imagination
Bubbles forth in the stormy sea of emotion
To yell, scream the agony, esctasy frustrated
Unravelled tonight the beast prowls daylight
Sniffing the hunt with an appraising eye
For the delicacies and morsels of pure delight
Who parade their charms in mock innocence
Twittering and skittering as if in dismay
Eyes dancing with mischevious twinkling
Their rawness need is waiting to be filled
With the monster of penetrating power
To impregnate the seed of creations truth
We swallow our identity in civilized horror
© 2005 Lee Down, all rights reserved
I wrote a poem last year or so reflecting on experience of my marriage and divorce. I called it A Big Blow. Today, a recent addition to my social network, Raja, a singer / songwriter himself, saw this poem and quickly turned it into a song. Within an hour the music was solid and then three takes later, sitting in my living room, with a laptop audio program and a crappy mic we captured the following song. I hope you enjoy it.
Kiss me, kiss me true
kiss me deep when I'm blue
heal all my warm wet tears
salted sweet over the years
tasted lightly on your tongue
the dream to be forever young
a salty taste of bitter-sweet
a glorious chance we did meet
arm in arm and heart to heart
you’re my heaven, my sweetheart
your touch so soft as to care
the pain gone, no more nightmare
as I feel your loving balm
peace restored my soul to calm
Kiss me, kiss me true
kiss me deep when I'm blue
not a day goes by that I don't think of you
who would've known my thoughts could be so peppered
a quiet comfort, a quiet confidence for the woman you are
a connection for sure that rattles my cage knowing you're here
in my life
in my heart
Soul Mate? Who knew it could be so real?
Yet, I wait on you, occupied with a chasing life
that could unravel so tightly wound up in control
and a spirit calling quietly disturbing the equilibrium
the one that you know as sanity
caving in to unsettled surrender to the calmness
the stillness of mind, experiencing the silence
connected to source embodied within, without
singing joy of warm embrace to all that is
and it is Love
that I wait calmly, silently, connected
patiently wondering when
will you join me
Glad you could stop by for a visit. Take a skim across this pond of words for something that connects. Maybe you'll laugh, feel a heart-tug, hopefully you won't cry, and in the end you'll know you're not alone. Peace.
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