Smooth
As the listening night
Explores the silence
Of a passing breeze
Along a curious sky,
And I continue to fall away
Tapered fingers
Touch upon a half-smile
And downward look
For the undertakings
Of your Musing nature
Smoothing my mind
Across innocent thought,
I sit motionless
Amidst the realms
Of wonderment
Until the sweet desolation
In the absence of your voice
Begins weeping our tale,
And the stillness
Stings away
Any lasting movement
Caught fading
From my distant eyes
- 'Anna DeVine
(featured in the poetry forum 02.16.09)
Sated Fondness
My love, I constantly ache
To remain here wrapped
Within the calming refuge
Of your protective arms
And familiar warming scent
But these strings my loyalty
Had attached to your trust
Now violently pull you away
From my fragile self-struggle
Towards your newest horizon
And the one heart that we had once
Shared as sincerity's completeness
Has been ripped - in two
Yet leaving only one
To dream for complacency's
Idled portions of sated tears
And contentment's false laughter
But my pride has shouldered
This knowing blame my love
So rest not your worried head
Within the slumbers of doubt
For tomorrow's sadness
Will awaken a new world
Somewhere hidden inside
My all but silent mind
Where awkward indifferences
Become restrained subtleties
And I may wait and listen for the rain
From our once lost skies of gray
To come inundate me
With the gentle song
Of your fond memory
From love's forever kiss
Never to be whispered by you
Yet always to be heard in me
- 'Anna DeVine
(added 02.16.09)
Resurgence
As my achromatic clouds churn
With the thrashing heavens,
Swirling water beneath my feet
And somewhere meets up with the lost
Found treading water in-between
The raging wind and spoken land
Worries worthwhile rise with fall
From here or there; as to keep watch
On the eye of my storm beckoning rest
From an understandably reluctant plateau
Faintly, I hear the slighted waves
Crushing the weight of this soulless night
Mimic the voice of my only love
Thus chilling this familiar sound
Now known to me as simply - A lonely place
I assess my ridiculous, yet apt refuge of isolation,
A mournful emptiness haunting aimlessly
Amid this ghost-like stretch of desorption
Claims pouring down as clouds of understanding
Proves that there is no horizon or silver lining to be seen
Just the beautiful unity of elementals
Even still, I cannot help but smile
As the sea and sky continue to deny one another,
And an eerie feeling of calm intensity
Expresses with certainty that joy can always recall
Comfort in knowing that once, my Homesick
Was found to be with me in the here and now
Aye but alas, sadly all things must come to an end
Except of course the knowing silence
Flowing effortlessly from our endless reveries
- 'Anna DeVine
(added 02.16.09)
Leukemia is Fookin' Stupid
Silence plagues my Poetry
As rhymes decline to beat
Reaffirming that my mind
Should just admit defeat
And since my creativity
Has nothing cool to say
Shows just how uninteresting
My life is every day
I'm obviously emotional
Confusing love with me
As squishy tears I can't control
Mock who I used to be
Chemo helped me shed the pounds
I didn't have to lose
So now my skinny ass will rhyme
What random thoughts I choose
First I wish to say some stuff
Oi!, here's where I reveal
Some thoughts about leukemia
And how I truly feel
Fookin' dumb ass cancer
I hate yer stupid name
No sooner do I mention you
Reactions are the same
First the look of horror
And then the 'sorry' face
Pity's really empathy
That's faltered far from grace
Apart from my anxiety
Two certainties I know
My loneliness and cancer cells
Are sucky things I grow
And lacking life's reality
Proves I cannot decide
If tears that fall from constant pain
Means crying's justified
A hostile, pissed off, candy-ass
Aye, that is me today
But ask me in an hour or two
Who knows what I will say
Well that was pretty ugly
But I hate to 'sugar-coat'
Oh, I forgot to mention
In this rant that I have wrote
Doc said: 'Pollyanna,
I've got just what you need
No, not the cure for cancer
Instead I offer weed'
THC, cannabis
Ganja in a pill
Pot prescribed to remedy
What cancer didn't kill
While seasoning adds flavoring
To any boring treat
My being stoned, I've gotta say
Enhances all I eat
- 'Anna DeVine
(featured in the poetry forum 02.06.09)
Density
Along the cobwebs
Of residual dreams
Lost in the corners
Of my mind
Adheres the beauty
Of verdant love
Shifting through
Chromatic splendor
Delicately brushed
With the grace of
Watered silk
Once soothed upon
My tired brow
As inspiration's
Caressing touch
It now enslaves me
To the endlessness
Of lonely searches
Through the broken colors
Still seen screaming apart
Between each blink
Of my tired eyes
Seeking the kinder eyes
And musing smiles
Once offering provisions
From the reservoir of dreams
For my troubled cares
To drink in the comfort
Of sleep within rest
For contentment's cruel touch
Of warmth and laughter
Though but a breath
Has left its
Perpetual sorrow
Aching
For my forever
Homesick
And as the haunting
Of my restless mind
Grows intensity
For the temporal
Darkness of
Immensity
Remorse arises
And beauty sets
Turning dim with
The forever shade
In vain...
I call upon
The weary dawn
Still
Yet never gone...
...And wait
- 'Anna DeVine
(added 01.26.09)
Solidarity
My reality arrives
At a mundane world
Where zombies aimlessly roam
In a paddock whilst machines
Fulfilling their duty of
Whispering me without
Pensiveness or passion
Now entombed in an existence
Forcing me to exist in
The purest form of ugliness,
A daily nightmare far worse
Than a mere awareness
To my nostalgic emptiness
And though I take it all in,
I'm still left unaware
Of what it all means
For I am a dreamer
Whose only enthrallment
Comes from haunting
The lost world of the imagination
A ghost, existentially vague
I see no other way to be
Now that I must deepen the need
Of having to be me
- 'Anna DeVine
(featured in the poetry forum 01.26.09)
Traces of Cabernet
My Love,
Let's walk along our forgotten beach
This time holding hands before
The bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon
Has been shared between us
Since trust and loyalty have
Shared far more than subtle wine
Or intoxicating afterthoughts
And as the laudable Moon
Still known to be our only witness
Trails along the settled sky
Of the night's darkening vagueness,
Will you help me search along the
Granular path for our favored past
Where we may seek the comfort found
Within taking our heart's first steps?
As to rediscover
The traces of our
Lasting impressions
- 'Anna DeVine
(added 01.15.09)
Abstracting Grace
A taste of Love's lost beauty
Sits on the tip of my tongue
As an abstract expression
Elusive to the enhanced illusion
I've fashioned to contemplate
The consignments of grace
Have exiled the mundane
Throughout the misery
Burning behind my eyes
In that life in-between worlds
An imaginative escape
Has grown through
Knowing silence
In the garden of night
An Idea
An Image
A Dream
A Poem
- 'Anna DeVine
(added 01.15.09)
Our Mutual Wine
Upon a lustrous
Midnight surf,
Cabernet Sauvignon
Spoke crystal clear
To my clandestine
Fondness of you
Intimidation,
Which held silent tears
In secret captivity
Disillusioned,
Upon revelations
Of our mutual adornment
While the laudable moon
And its intensity
May have been
Our only witnesses
It felt as if the entire world
Watched as your hand
Touched mine,
And for the very first time,
Our dreams fell for reality
In the one moment
Love found courage
And was moved to speak
Aloof distances
And sad reserves
Of silent sentiments
Traveled a lifetime
A Poetic moment
Of equal proportions?
Perhaps...
Or maybe it was just
The bottle of wine
We portioned equally
- 'Anna DeVine
(added 12.16.08)
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