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111 · Apr 2022
Oceans
BTW Apr 2022
Oceans
22 January 2022.  

In the infinity of you,
I find unending joy,
Calm as each wave,
Wash me pure.

Holding me under God’s sky.
Pain and sorrow find no hold.
Your courage true bold..
Your strength purest gold.

You leave not one behind.
Share, love, never blind.
Other find you angel fair.
Precious, gentle, rare.
Growing strong in your care.
110 · Jun 2021
Leave Me In My Corner
BTW Jun 2021
Leave Me In My Corner
19 June 2021

Every prediction always off.
Even close there’s a loss.
I can’t keep you boss.
When my future easy toss.

I can’t see all your way.
Some days I need to stay,
In my corner, keep
away.
Have yourself a lovely day.
110 · Nov 2024
Casual
BTW Nov 2024
Casual
17 November 2024

Too much pcpcorn,
Netflix and tabled foot.
iPhone case sworn,
Anxiety *** to boot.
110 · Feb 2021
Early Feb 28 2021
BTW Feb 2021
Early Morning
28 February 2021

Start of another day, end of a month,
Quiet. Still no-one on the street.
This is my time of rest.
You are always in my thoughts.
Comfort, fun, surprises, peace.
Always loving you.
This new year is a blessing.
Grateful for you, your care and love,
The excitement of you!
Always loving you.
109 · Dec 2024
Suspicion 30 December 2024
BTW Dec 2024
Snake hidden in the tree of my own thoughts,
Its coils around my knees constrict my steps.
Freedom falters,
And the bread of love turns bitter in my hands.
Each word I speak falls lifeless,
Like a wounded sparrow,
Plunging into silence.

Why do I cry?
Is it you who steals my freedom,
Or the shadows in my mind
That blur your face
And whisper doubt where trust once grew?

A storm brews in my spirit,
Paranoia’s tree taking root,
Its branches thick with imagined truths.
Am I the snake?
Is it my hand that tarnishes love,
Leaving only fragments of what once sustained us?

Still, I cry—
For love, for trust, for clarity.
For the sparrow’s flight,
For the bread unbroken,
For freedom to feel whole again
109 · Mar 2021
Enlightenment, Courage
BTW Mar 2021
Enlightenment, Courage
4 March 2021

In extraordinary times,
Cherishing the ordinary.
109 · Sep 2021
Hope
BTW Sep 2021
Hope

24 September 2021



I wish you joy, new days to thrive on earth.

Love’s richest purse, styled in tender verse.
Life free of pain, happiness profound,

Sun matched treasure patch, I have found.

Moon, southern breeze,  charmed morning free. 

Gentle skies, greenest leaf, high on every tree.

Past tests were set uphill, sweated every day.


Search hours spent, ungentle sway.

Others felt your smile of angel salve,

For them, lives grateful had.

You were levered promise, tomorrow's ever gift,

Ode of poetry song, spirit slow, swift.



Karma dressed others less than we,

Others broke, lost and toked for calmer seas.

Memory, hard times, failed to sail alee.

No sweet honey, sour cease to please.


I wish bold hours, trouble to the past,
Lifelong comforts, you deserve at last.

No wants left me drown.  Wept, I found you.

Whole, kind, soul filled. Sweet and true.

Struggle never leaves, you bequeath your strength,

Amazed, grateful wonder, fate still bent,

To spend my life, new with you.
Heaven hope's scent.
108 · Sep 2023
Rising
BTW Sep 2023
Rising
Dawn's Delight in Verse
Sept 12, 2023

In the morn's embrace, the sun so bright,
It soon challenges snow, a thunderous fight.
Yet I rise, a stumbling, graceless feat,
Upon my restless, ever-creaking seat.

A pillow, faithful but in rodeo style,
Carries me forth, mile after weary mile.
Shoulders tense on the edge of day,
As my hip complains in its stubborn way.

In this daily race, my manhood I seek,
Lost, perhaps, in the midst of the week.
I contemplate time's eternal clock,
In search of rest, my sanctuary, my rock.

To the bathroom's icy rim, I'm led,
A tightrope walker on an ice rink, I tread.
Yesterday's fiery win, now a fading taste,
As I brush, lost in the cosmos' vast space.

Reflections of a tongue's wild escapade,
In history's footsteps, my fortune laid.
Rabble and chaos, ashes, and soot,
In life's grand theater, we play each part.

Praise be to the gods, whose fate we share,
In pajamas, we rely on threadbare wear.
Each day's adventure, a comedic embrace,
With laughter and stumble, we run the race.

Life's unpredictable script we recite,
As we navigate each twist and each fight.
In this grand comedy, we find our place,
With humor and grace, we embrace the chase.

Written by BTW
Finished by Quadgpt.
107 · Apr 2021
Living in her grace
BTW Apr 2021
Angels
7 April 2021

How did I find an angel?
Her smile and gentle gaze.
Every day enlightened, her amazing ways.
She loves me, shows every day.
How did I find an angel?
I’m living in her grace.
107 · Sep 2023
I heard you
BTW Sep 2023
I heard you
9 Sept 2023

You spoke with your eyes, time past.
Dreams that died,
Broken on the pavement of life,
Driven wide.
Who holds the truth of winter,
The pain of summer?
You spoke with your eyes.
Colours of fall, wonder’s resound.
Promise, spring thunder heart’s pound.

My love, I hear you. Heaven’s long.
107 · Jun 2021
Imagination
BTW Jun 2021
Imagine
17 June 2021

Imagine a life without imagination

Monotone colours of  life relations.

*** only for procreation.

Missing the best sensations.

Dull flags for empty nations,

Cheese and pasta saturation.

Recreation swings not slides,

Only seeks without hides.

Teeter totter,, no mouth wide squatters.

Worse not doing what we naughta.

Imagine not  gives me fright.

Seeking nothing out of sight.

Dreams without Alpine hills,  

Movies without monster thrills.

Credit cards, no monthly bill.

No whoopee catch me pils.

Story books of history,

Without what could be.

Imagination should get more credit,

There, glad I said it.
105 · Jul 2021
So Much More
BTW Jul 2021
So much more
22 July 2021

Many sites not yet seen,
Lived only in my dreams.
Places I’d wish to go,
Loves I wish I’d sown.
Magic in the mid of night,
Angels who touch is light.
Soon running out of time,
Trying to spend that one last dime.
Adventures waiting at my door,
Aching still for so much more.
Only lions hear my roar.
104 · Nov 2021
Tides
BTW Nov 2021
Tides
16  November 2021.

Bless our morning sun.
Waves sweeping my shore.
Rhythms of you.
104 · Jun 2021
When you are away
BTW Jun 2021
When you are away
19 June 2021

I see you in every rainbow.
Taste you in each summer shower.
Immersed in sweet wet flow of you,
Falling from your tower.
104 · Jan 2022
Absence
BTW Jan 2022
Absence
20 January 2022

Empty hedge you bear no fruit,

Richest soil, no *****.  

Leave worthless suit,

Stilled endless bloom,

Held short by thoughtless root.
103 · May 2021
Essence of Gods
BTW May 2021
Essence of Gods
2 May 2021

Eyes of your children hold the essence,
Of the Gods you deny.
Gentle, sweet, unbroken trust,,
Waiting to hide in the dusts,
Of life of your pride.
Gift of youth soon lost as you wander,
Paths long waiting for your eyes.
Hold them close and strong.
Soon they will be gone.
103 · Aug 2021
This Song I Write For You
BTW Aug 2021
Song I write for you.

17 August 2021.

My quiet voice never hides
The power of my love
This song I write for you

The strength of my arms
The iron of my soul
The commitment I hold
Will keep you whole

You’ll know tower of  my love
The power of my heart
The passion we hold every day
My heart never hides
This song I write for you

From mountain to shore
Valley to hill
I sing of our love
With all that I have

Basso to trill
My love thrills
To the wonder of you
This song I write for you
103 · Jan 2022
Quiet Time
BTW Jan 2022
Quiet Times.
19 January 2022

Your footsteps, whispered song,
Basement stairs too long.
Rustle of your clothes.
Crackle of flexions,
Sniffle of your nose.
Colours you chose

Your hand on my pillow,
The rattle of your keys.
Hinges of the door tease.
Silent morning sun,
Sliding o’er the snow.    
Love the things I know.

Shadow of that moonlit tree,
Where you head could be.
Waiting for those quiet sounds,
To set me free.
102 · Apr 2021
Overwhelmed
BTW Apr 2021
Overwhelmed
11 April 2021

And now I find I am overwhelmed by you,
Your youth, your beauty, your life before me.
Outside my class he said, while you lay in my bed.
I crave your arms, your grace, your quiet,
And fear my times alone, when your mind and care,
Seem to be in another place.
How do you have such power as you smile?
How do you know a man so well?
102 · May 14
Returning
BTW May 14
The Returning
13 May 2025

There is a hush beneath the stars,
A pull not forward—but back.
Not to undo, not to forget—
But to arrive where we began.

We scatter like seeds on wind-blown hills,
Chasing wonder, chasing will.
But always, always something calls—
A whisper older than the fall.

It isn’t youth we seek again,
Nor glory, nor the roar of men—
But balance in the turning tides,
The place the river meets the sky.

The trees remember. The rocks still hum.
The quiet knows where we are from.
And love—unchanging, yet undone—
Draws every soul back to the One.

So let me walk this last long mile
Not with regret, but with a smile.
For what I am has always been
Held in the arms of the returning.
102 · May 2021
Your Day
BTW May 2021
14 May 2021

Some mornings empty,
Your soul and music fills you.
Make today your day.
102 · Oct 2021
No Where to go.
BTW Oct 2021
Watch her crying.
Her dream dying.
Life twisting her dry.

Always standing alone,
Strangers filling her home.
Hungry hands fondled her *******,
Taking her owned she had left.

No where to go, only frost.
All treasures long lost.
No one to listen her cost.
Empty, her bucket tossed.

Each day was the same.
No hugs, only pain.
No promise let her live.
Born only to give.
102 · Aug 31
Injection
BTW Aug 31
Injection

Strange how we missed the connection.
I’m not worried about vaccine. Pollo, small box, measles, chickenpox, sat in my classroom with me. It works for me still.

I worry more about words.

Who has put what in your mind?
101 · Jun 2021
Upside Down
BTW Jun 2021
Upside Down
27 May 2021

Today.
My world seems upside down.
Like being on the wrong side of town.
I can find my way home, but not in a dream,
Stopping for ice cream and peace.
Deep breaths thru my skin to my soul.
Noises, sounds, you - strange,
Hold me.
My world, upside down.
101 · Jul 2021
Pictures
BTW Jul 2021
Pictures
17 July 2021

Precious moments hold eternal,
Notes in my love bold journal.
So many ways remember you,
Kept our dreams, our lives two true.
When a second quickly lost,
Pictures precious never tossed.
This morning spent some time with you,
Closely held each day renewed.
Photos where we traveled light,
Image faint in dimming light.
Image shows my hungry plight,
Holding you so ever tight.
Time now darling moves right slow,
Loved today our picture show.
100 · Jul 2021
Lone Comfort
BTW Jul 2021
Sitting Alone
14 July 2021

Sitting alone, early morning.
Early sun, my deck,  stroking each leaf.
Warm tea still waiting, it’s own zen moment.
Unstirred.
My chair rocks starting unwakefullness.
Distance thunder holds an oil by Manet.

I, sit alone, early morning.
100 · Aug 2021
Unlucky Pirate
BTW Aug 2021
The Unlucky Pirate
10 August 2021

Born needs that poke and pry.
Hungered treasure other eyes.
Will to take, till love died.
Happiness fought from ding-a-lings,
Diamonds, bracelets, golden ring.

Other vultures heard her sing.
Many others just like her.
Picked partners she made purr.
Close, not smart enough,
To get away, with other’s stuff.
Began to treat her ruff.
Trouble followed everywhere.

Damage she left didn’t care.
Tried to blame cards and stars.
Attitude like one from Mars.
Nothing ever got her far.
Could never jump, that big bar.

Grab pirate’s top cigar.
Now hangs from pover-tree,
Still swings so needlessly.
Envies all she has lost.
Can’t acknowledge, just because,
Little brain, mostly claws.
Never found her Santa Cause.
100 · Jul 2021
When You Are Not Sure
BTW Jul 2021
When You Are Not Sure
24 July 2021

Doubt hindered my progress.
Opportunity at the margins.
Now I may have less,
Than I should bargain.
We took a risk and won.
So much undone now done.
Let’s take the chance.
Come close, let’s dance.
So cute in those pants.
Let’s take a chance.
You had me first glance.
A tribute to my wife. Love should always be young.
98 · Jul 2021
Spirits
BTW Jul 2021
Spirits
6 July 2021

Lifted from ways of worldly life,
Below tension’s daily strife,
Peace in isolation, selfless care.
Moments world fully aware.
Lone connection eternal love,
Not down, not here – not above.
You been there times before,
Somehow, something, closed the door.
So many struggling hurt and pain,
To find a place to be again.
Spirit waits to show the way.
We won’t waste another precious day.
98 · Aug 16
When
BTW Aug 16
When?

August 15, 2025

The. beginning or the end?
It’s  both. Each holds the other.

Let go.
98 · Jan 2022
Sweet Tea
BTW Jan 2022
Sweet Tea.
29 January 2032

Sweet tea,  fill my awakening.
Silk leaf, hold wonder high.

Stir silver spoon, glisten emerald.
Daylight come, fade from shadow.

Dream, prepare gifts  for this day,
Heated, soften each bud lusting release.

Savour this moment,  heaven.
Sweet tea of morning, lie in my bed.
98 · Jul 2021
Wakening Ten
BTW Jul 2021
Wakening Ten
10 July 2021

Special day of 10 still free.
You are here in love with me.
Journey we will each day take,
Waiting as you my love wake.
Filled with love, we found our way.
Never lost our memory day.
How do I live life with you?
Ten gifts you bring my truth.
Beauty, gentle, empath, youth.
Sweet days, love maze, humor wiles,
Loving smile in handheld miles.
Tradition holding with our pen.
Two ten wakens me again.
97 · Jun 2021
Humidity
BTW Jun 2021
Humidity
9 June 2021

Fog on the windows,
Replicate in my brain.
Morning risings from my bed,
Wet with sweat unlabored.
Everything creaks and I croak,
Like an old bullfrog grumbling.

To sleep in a warm bed,
Once the heat of another,
Was welcome.
Humidity spots instead.
97 · Dec 2021
Inevitable.
BTW Dec 2021
24 December 2021.

Inevitably, comes,
At an unsettling pace.
Time for the beach.
97 · Aug 2021
Yes I Can (Haiku)
BTW Aug 2021
20 August 2021

I can love you more,
I can give you more than need.
Yes. Yes. Yes I can.
97 · Aug 2021
Sunsets
BTW Aug 2021
Sunsets
12 August 2021

In those quiet moments of reflection before dawn,
We said goodbye.
Was there time before the last yawn?
Was there one more time to try?
How natural the sunset on each horizon.
While the fire still fries,
That day is done.
97 · Aug 2021
Your Dreams
BTW Aug 2021
Your Dreams
24 August 2022

I slept. hand on your breast,
Bare ***** pressing your back.
Your dreams filled my night.
96 · Aug 31
Love injection
BTW Aug 31
Injection

Strange how we missed the connection.
Needles never troubled me—
childhood illness passed me by,
a faint shadow in the schoolroom air.

But words—
they slip like secret notes
folded in a desk,
or whispers caught behind a door.

You are that childhood romance,
immature, unfinished,
yet irresistible in its longing—
still wondering
who, what, I want.

Music trembles through the air,
and roses bloom too early,
their scent drifting
into every moment of us.

Each phrase you breathe
is an injection—
a slow pulse under my skin,
a fever rising to my lips,
a sweetness I surrender to
again,
and again
96 · Apr 2021
Snow
BTW Apr 2021
Snow
21 April 2021
Crystal on green glass.
Patterned reminder of life infinite.
Who should deem prettiest?
95 · Feb 2021
This Morning
BTW Feb 2021
This Morning
25 February 2021

This morning got up aching for you.
Last night our love was so true.
My dreams heart felt I knew,
Last night our love was renewed.
This morning brings another day.
Time for you to stay.
Coming to stir you and play.
Love you to wake up that way.
Those hours we spend in our bed,
Have truly stirred up my head.
Love got up aching for you.
Each morning true sweet for you.
A little country'
95 · Aug 2021
Dying
BTW Aug 2021
Dying
18 August 2021.

In his father’s eyes,
He saw the future dying.
94 · Aug 2021
Wishing
BTW Aug 2021
Wishing
11 August 2021

Wishing no pain or sorrow.
Joy and love for all tomorrow.
Pictures past of times we knew,,
Always bring love renewed.
Let me live blessed today,
Sharing with you wishes I prayed.
94 · Dec 2021
Lonely Souls
BTW Dec 2021
12 December 2021

Cold early morning.
TV weather warning.
Often a shadow at dark.
No room at the park.

Moon hungry eye,
Lonely enough I sigh.
Most quickly pass by.
We'll do better, July.

Christmas time lies near.
Left only one beer.
Cards still hang from last year.
I hear that old carol song.
Where I somehow went wrong.

Only one smile is my wish.
One dollar in my cold dish.
Here each day is a loan.
Nothing i have is my own.
Crowds packing gifts all go home.

Once I  had a name.
93 · Aug 2021
Fish Market (Haiku)
BTW Aug 2021
The Fish Market (Haiku)
12 August 2021

The fish market,
Centers of love making,
Whale tale pain.
92 · Aug 4
Losing It
BTW Aug 4
Losing It

Aug 4 2025

It keeps you present.  
Defines my soul.
Yet fragile, bent.


Belongs to me.
Shone socially.
Aging seas.



One morning stormy.
Next warmly day lit
Not for me.


Change leaves you behind.
Careless words don’t lie
Simply grind me,
Last one dies
91 · May 2021
Upside Down
BTW May 2021
Upside Down
27 May 2021

Today.

My world seems upside down.
Like being on the wrong side of town.
I can find my way home, but not in a dream.

Stopping for ice cream and peace.
Deep breaths thru my skin to my soul.
Noises, sounds, smells - strange, hold me.
Hold me.

My world is upside down.
91 · May 2021
Logistics of Social Costs
BTW May 2021
Logistics of Social Cost
Thoughts of my morning.
24 May 2021

It costs so little to set aside the commodities of prejudice and prejudgment.
Yet we all carry the burden and the expense of their weight.
They are a specific inheritance from suppliers, including our ancestors and history, that we need not treasure. They are not ours. They are weapons developed by others. We have all felt their pain, seen their power, triaged the damage to our common good, counted the increasing prevalence of use today.
Moments of reflection on how we negatively assess the actions of others using those stereo judges, would save us from distributing hurt, anger, and pain to others. Who sent us our pain? Why did we buy it? We can be more diligent with the “goods” we sell and keep on our self shelf.
Who stole our laughter, our peace, our humanity, our care, our tolerance, our forgiveness, our respect, our acceptance of difference? Traded them for anxiety and fear?
This is the time and opportunity to examine our values and to share love and respect. We have the tools. They are also commodities. They are being misused.
Let’s spend less on protection and more on prevention.
If you’re not sure how, follow a child or a puppy.
Such a low cost for such an amazing reward.
Love you.
Not hard to say.
91 · Jun 2021
Never Again
BTW Jun 2021
Never again
25 June 2021

Breaking rules of life inhuman,
There’s always evil doing.
Vowing stay this evil plight,
Truly terrible, common frights,
We moan, speak the game,
Never, never, weak again.
History, context set the bar.
Action of change and war!
Back then, we knew best,
Today still, some hearts rest.
Feel the pain of our past,
Damages forever last.
Once again, new in news,
Injustice, power choose.
I doubt we can truly change.
Stand up, hmm, feel the pain,
Is it ever, “Never again”,?
91 · Mar 2022
I should help you
BTW Mar 2022
Not your fault
5 March 2022

I saw your courage.
I saw your pain.
My prayers are not enough.
90 · Aug 19
Open Love
BTW Aug 19
Open Love, Open Lover
Aug 29 2025

Love, unlatched, flows wild and free,
A tide swell
eternally.
No walls, no bounds, no narrow gate,
It greets each soul, disarms all hate.

A lover stands, both near and far,
A mirror, a flame, a guiding star.
Not just one face, but countless found,
In whispers soft, in earth profound.

Love is the echo, love is the call,
The rise, the stumble, the grace in fall.
It grows and moments shared and still,
A force beyond fleeting will.

Oh, lover, come hands unclosed,
Let fear dissolve, let hearts expose,
For open love, no chains tether

A union fierce, yet light feather
Through time, through joy, , through joy untold,
In open love, we were young, we are old.
Not mine, not yours, but ever ours,
A sky unending, full of stars.
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