Pathways of Life http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/forums/1 en-us Copyright 2006, Yuku feeds@yuku.com (FeedMaster) webmaster@yuku.com (WebMaster) Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:14:03 GMT Yuku Feeds 1.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Yuku http://static.yuku.com//feed/bypass/images/button-yuku.png http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/forums/1 Yuku - free hosted forums and profiles 88 31 {pics-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (nz 1 vz 1 lz 1 oz 1 cz 1 ) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0 )) Search Search Domain q http://yuku.com/search/direct/ <![CDATA[ My Immortal ]]> http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/9352/t/My-Immortal.html My Immortal

I stand by your graveside

With tears running down my face

The pain is... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (demonrobber) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/9352 Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:20:30 GMT <![CDATA[ Spotted Bones ]]> http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/9350/t/Spotted-Bones.html Them bones

Them bones

http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/9350 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:22:29 GMT <![CDATA[ Terrible Turkey ]]> http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/9349/t/Terrible-Turkey.html

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Hundreds of turkeys here on the farm,
But one of them is causing me... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Jim AKA RapidFire) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/9349 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:51:33 GMT <![CDATA[ Sonnet to a Sadone! ]]> http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/9348/t/Sonnet-to-a-Sadone-.html Sonnet to a Sadone

Oh callow Youngone, you've debauched the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (PoeticPaul) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/9348 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:40:36 GMT <![CDATA[ Stars bend over her small bed ]]> http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/9346/t/Stars-bend-over-her-small-bed.html listen to her breathing slow.
Do you see the dreams behind
her gently-feathered eyes
- are they of a gentle kind?

Snow drifts down outside my window,
all the world is my soft pillow;
my thoughts are trees within a forest
frosted with glittering ice
- a fairyland in the dark night.

Listen to the winter slowly melting,
listen to the leaves unfurling
from new buds.
Listen to the flowers... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Willowdown) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/9346 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:43:32 GMT <![CDATA[ The Value Of My Tears ]]> http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/9345/t/The-Value-Of-My-Tears.html The Value Of My Tears
(My Husband Died)

My tears feel like big words
made to say with love to you

They come in sudden gushes
emotional and tenderly yours

I have no reason to explain
never try to give any alibis

They lie there on my cheeks
the conversations lost to me

I whisper "My husband died."
to honor the value of my tears

So that strangers nod and try
to smile through their own tears.

... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Cottagerose) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/9345 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:38:12 GMT <![CDATA[ Mary and Sarah ]]> http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/9344/t/Mary-and-Sarah.html singing in the courtyard;
Mary of Shells
laughing by the seashore;
Mary of Silence
in the bird-haunted forest
Mary of Dreams;
I lay my head on your lap
Mary of Madness;
it is hard to distinguish
exhilaration from sadness;
Mary of Figures
I caught you counting daisies
- have you reached the edge of Heaven yet?


Sarah of Sorrows
searching for certainties
in melting yesterdays
and... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Willowdown) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/9344 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:36:41 GMT <![CDATA[ Storm - Willowdown and trinimade ]]> http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/9342/t/Storm-Willowdown-and-trinimade.html she is breathless and expectant,
full of passion and promise,
restless for activity and release,
burdened with the tensions of her journey
over mountain and sea,
proud and furious,
playful and wild
- where is the suitor to woo
and win this turbulent bride?

Heaven help the groom who tries to tame her,
Who can know what will bring her to her knees;
Maybe a wind with gusts to match her own,... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Willowdown) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/9342 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:50:02 GMT <![CDATA[ Partnership - trinimade and Willowdown ]]> http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/9340/t/Partnership-trinimade-and-Willowdown.html That there is still that sparkle in her eyes,
Tell her that shes lovely in the morning
That shell be lovely til the day she dies.

Dont tell her that she used to be good-looking,
Dont tell her that the neighbours looking fine,
Dont say that her ideas are old fashioned
Or that her viewpoints are hard to define.

Love's no gaudy bauble given lightly in youth
Thats tarnished with the passing... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Willowdown) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/9340 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:47:28 GMT <![CDATA[ Poem for Caitanya ]]> http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/9338/t/Poem-for-Caitanya.html the seven yellow goslings
when you're an old man
and I'm long buried?
Will you remember
the skeletons we made
from old black paper
or how you smudged the Tree
I painted on the wall?
Will you remember,
with grandchildren on your knee,
the fate of Sion y Glyn
that great prince of boyhood
and his fondness for nuts,
like yours for nuts and raisins?
Will you remember Mr.Grumpy
or... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Willowdown) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/9338 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:16:17 GMT <![CDATA[ If Tears Should Overflow (for Willowdown) ]]> http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/9336/t/If-Tears-Should-Overflow-for-Willowdown-.html If Tears Should Overflow
(for Willowdown)

If once again the banks are damp
with none to soak away the pain
I will dry one eye till the waters
flow freely again and you remain

Your tender heart recognized me
the mother whose hands lie softly
upon the shoulders of my child
always there for a child of Osisis

Let those whose eyes overflow
drop their love tears into the Nile
I will sweep them along their way
some tears... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Cottagerose) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/9336 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:05:55 GMT <![CDATA[ Lord of the Castle. ]]> http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/9335/t/Lord-of-the-Castle-.html - deep beneath its seven levels of catacombs
a little gnome is repairing a broken clock.
Where is the Lord of the Castle?
Snoring in his bed!


The stars are playing chase between the constellations.
Look! - there is little Sammy Seraphim
Hiding beneath Andromeda's skirts.
Deep beneath Butterfly Castle,
an army of frogs in suits of Pond-crust armour
Are hopping about with... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Willowdown) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/9335 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:21:29 GMT <![CDATA[ A Personal Psalm ~ RC ]]> http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/9334/t/A-Personal-Psalm-RC.html O Lord ,
I sing to you
Of the sights of creation
Seen but felt unseen

And to the beauty
Of Zion's
Living waters and brooks
That I have been given
The pleasure of drinking

Left now to know
Its healing power
Inside my deeply calling
Spirit
And now healed heart

DarkwingGoth
Copyright © 2009
All Rights Reserved ]]> feeds@yuku.com (DarkwingGoth2002) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/9334 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:57:00 GMT <![CDATA[ The Prince of the Morning looked down ]]> http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/9333/t/The-Prince-of-the-Morning-looked-down.html the Prince of the Morning looked down;
with the Sun in the West and the Moon in the East,
on his face as a smile and a frown.
One followed the other,
as trees turn to gold
and green fields to hay,
as children grow old and maids become wives,
and sailors in White Ships cross oceans so wide.


From his Castle of Sleep and rare Beauty
the Prince of the Evening looked up,
to where all the stars of the River... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Willowdown) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/9333 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:22:55 GMT <![CDATA[ Keeper Of The Heart ]]> http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/9332/t/Keeper-Of-The-Heart.html Keeper of The Heart

Awareness and acceptance
like the keeper of the Nile
she rules with tender hands
sometimes a sweet smile

No commands, only laws
made to ease their stay
to the end of life's journey
to love patiently is her way

She too will walk this mile
her sons to ease her sleep
to reunite with these parents
who hold her now to weep


sylvia sammons spivey
Nov, 2009
For my daughter Tanya... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Cottagerose) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/9332 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:44:52 GMT <![CDATA[ The Little Bird that Carries the World. ]]> http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/9331/t/The-Little-Bird-that-Carries-the-World-.html is sitting in a tree,
tomorrow he must make a nest
with twigs and bones and all the idle thoughts
that momentarily pass through the fragile brains of men...


The little fish that drinks the oceans
pauses briefly in his thirst.
Oh, how he would love to sleep
but the sea keeps filling up with tears
and liquid songs that poets sing
to ease the burden on their hearts,
with rivers of blood... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Willowdown) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/9331 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:21:54 GMT <![CDATA[ Manners Mangled! (A Rantogram) ]]> http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/9330/t/Manners-Mangled-A-Rantogram-.html Charm is the preserve of the nerd;

High standards sadly lamented!

feeds@yuku.com (PoeticPaul) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/9330 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:46:32 GMT <![CDATA[ Primeava. ]]> http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/9329/t/Primeava-.html chased figures of mist and earth
over the newly formed continents,
giving the names of their heart's imagination
to rivers, mountains, forests
and the various tribes of men.

I saw the children of men raise temples
to your passing shadow,
to the broken fragments of your fallen beauty,
occasionally taking root in soil
or, rarer still, mortal flesh and mind.
I watched them bury their dead in barrows
... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Willowdown) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/9329 Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:06:04 GMT <![CDATA[ Only Red Roses (Must Read Award) ]]> http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/9327/t/Only-Red-Roses-Must-Read-Award-.html Only Red Roses

He sent a dozen red roses to his papa's coffin
A papa who had whipped him black and blue
and sent him away to make life on his own

He still looked like the hippie he had been then
now, he was older and thinner, gone bald, sad
clothes from the seventies hung on his frame

He didn't seem to notice his flowers were alone
nobody else had felt drawn to let the weary man
go with sweet memories surrounding him

He... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Cottagerose) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/9327 Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:34:14 GMT <![CDATA[ What do they know of my love? ]]> http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/9326/t/What-do-they-know-of-my-love-.html the missile-broker, the merchant banker
the saint and the sinner
the seeker, the screecher
the whiner, the weeper and lonely midnight creeper;
the debutante, the dilletante
the doctor or the dreamer
the scientist, the satirist
the sex-starved sad old schemer;
the politician, the statitician
the mother or the whore
the footballer with golden balls
the bouncer at the disco door
the sergeant-major, the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Willowdown) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/9326 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:08:03 GMT