Tammy M Darby: Favorites

Mar 2016 Tammy M Darby

youth

Mar 2016 Tammy M Darby

Michelle Garcia

youth

there are still words knotted in her stomach,
tangled cherry stems waiting
for shy hands to unravel them,
the pungent scent of fear dancing slowly
in a dimly lit room where you
cannot see her

but you feel her,
innocent, blameless—

a soul with runs always sneaking
down the sheerness of her tights,
the one who revolved her days
around messy diary entries crammed underneath
the mattress she grew up dreaming on

and right now,
you can feel the weight of her eyelashes
fluttering against the warmth of your cheek
the desperate wings of an injured butterfly that knows
that there still exists something called love
drifting soundly down a river of juvenile apathy

it is at this particular moment in passing time
that she decides to dedicate her youth
to the one with enough courage to hide it
in the pocket of his brown overcoat

tell her you love her
before you grow old

#dance #dancing #young #light #innocent #youth #child #naive

Mar 2016 Tammy M Darby

love's colors

Mar 2016 Tammy M Darby

Thomas P Owens Sr

love's colors

the colors of love reside in you
i am black, gray and midnight blue
sun meets moon at daylights wake
yellow skips along ocean’s break
clouds of black soak waves of green
raise a rainbow briefly seen
my lover dreams in night’s caress
of flower petals and wedding dress
while in the shadows
i sleep content
the color of her love is meant…
for me

Mar 2016 Tammy M Darby

In the End

Mar 2016 Tammy M Darby

Phil Lindsey

In the End

In the End, the Faithful were rewarded,
But there were just a few.
In the End, most screamed with terror,
As the guilty always do.
In the End, there was a final vote,
And we thought consensus ruled,
But in the End, the voting over,
We discovered we were fooled.

In the End, we ran for shelter,
There was none there to be found;
All the Faithful had secured it;
For they were Heaven-bound.
As the flames lept all around us,
We begged forgiveness from our Lord
In a Hell of our own makng,
With riches saved we can’t afford.

For the riches we were chasing,
Stole the goodness from our soul.
All the gold and all the silver
Melted into worthless coal,
And I stood and watched with sadness
Knowing I had had my chance
As the flames lept all around me,
Hell’s eternal damning dance.
PwL 3/19/16

#sin #hell #armageddon

Mar 2016 Tammy M Darby

the deaf will not hear - haiku

Mar 2016 Tammy M Darby

Daniel Pierre McClenaghan

the deaf will not hear - haiku

last night a blackbird
singing his heart out for Spring
none paused to listen

Mar 2016 Tammy M Darby

Arranged Marriage, Hyderabad

Mar 2016 Tammy M Darby

Jhilmil Breckenridge

Arranged Marriage, Hyderabad

Walk with me, with calloused feet and weary eyes
Walk with me, through crowded marketplaces
Where they bargain over the price of love
And bodies are sold for a song

Walk with me, dusk is far away still
Our anklets are shackles, our souls a shroud
The market is a sea of sharks today
Their gleaming, moist teeth threaten and lure

Walk with me, my love, my heart, the air in my lungs
Let’s breathe freedom one last time
Where the tinkling laughter of a child is still heard
And the nights are still scented with jasmine

Walk with me, as our prices are fixed
For the sway in our hips, or the curve of our lips
Walk with me, dusk is approaching
And the auctioneer’s hammer is about to fall

https://pankhearst.wordpress.com/2016/03/17/fresh-arranged-marriage-hyderabad-by-jhilmil-breckenridge/

#love #longing #marriage #india #arranged #ghazal #jasmine #faiz

Mar 2016 Tammy M Darby

A True Hero

Mar 2016 Tammy M Darby

Gareth

A True Hero

A knight in Shining Armour
Is no hero at all

For a true hero's Armour
Will be battered and Worn
Through trials and tribulations
Triumphant stands tall

With blood on his hands on sweat on his brow
Head and shoulders he stands above all

Mar 2016 Tammy M Darby

Mother Multiverse

Mar 2016 Tammy M Darby

Paul Butters

Mother Multiverse

The greatness of Nature cannot be denied.
Her grandeur is plain for all to see.
Such sheer determination can only be admired.
See that tiny ***** on yonder rock face:
Some miniature plant has taken hold
Where nothing else could live.

We know that Mother Nature rules the Earth.
But what about the stars?
Billions of exoplanets wave at me
In my mind’s eye.
For life right here can thrive in boiling acid
And solid sheets of ice.

What scope for life is there out there,
Amongst the swirling galaxies
And gassy nebulae?
I tell you now:
There’s almost ENDLESS Opportunity
For life to evolve
Around this Universe
Alone.

Yes, she’s much, much more than “Mother Earth”:
More “Mother Multiverse”.
Mother Nature multiplied a million, million times.
Imagine That.

Paul Butters

#nature #mother #space #universe #grandeur #multiverse

Mar 2016 Tammy M Darby

The Stained Girl

Mar 2016 Tammy M Darby

Dhaye Margaux

The Stained Girl

She is the stained girl,  a diffident dreamer
Who looks for the sun and the rain together
Her  panache is to craft blissful memories
Festooned with vivid thoughts, her accessories

She is the stained girl,  a feeble believer
Who relies on a happy ever after
Yet scared to be seen from her cheerful facade,
Something that would charge her of being a fraud

She saunters in the midst of the piqued storms
Resounding the hues of the jaundiced norms
Like a bird highlighted with vibrant plumes
To fly around the walls of perplexing rooms

She wears the best maquillage, old and new
To make everyone away from being blue
She offers her hair, those gilded strands
Yet they exploit her gift with their vicious hands

She is the stained girl who seeks for uprightness
Yet pain has shaped her with creased faithfulness
In front of a looking glass, there I see
That magnificent, stained girl looks like me.

*Stained here is colored or painted.

For the Picture Poem This contest 5. Thank you for bringing back my muse.

#love #dream #poem #life #hope #color #mirror #picture #bird #stain