An Unfrozen Heart

Inflexible, intractable even adamantine
is an ice chiseled heart's refrigerated sunshine,
chilling its warmth to freeze its rays
to block Love's penetrating singeing blaze

If gloom within such heart does loom
as an unlived mansion with unlit rooms,
then one ray of Love's illumined heat
will unleash hot breath of Life's light beat,
deicing,... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (namyh) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3289 Sat, 08 May 2004 18:47:05 GMT http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3293/t/On-Your-Wedding-Day-Original-Reading.html

Today

As you are bound together in marriage
Embrace Gods glorious gifts

May each of his soft morning sunrises
Be an opportunity for a new beginning

And, may every brilliant, evening sunset
Shine, in the reflection of your love

Grasp on to every cloud you can
As a reminder of your dreams

And reach for endless raindrops
For they keep alive your hopes

Listen to the distant thunder
As it is his spoken... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (shyflower) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3293 Fri, 07 May 2004 21:43:20 GMT http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3297/t/Be-Still.html Hold your tongue child..
Be still

Twitching as the words fell.
The sting almost sharp as that of a whip.
She eyed the woman before her,
Sighing heavily,
She held her words within.

Think you that I heard not?
your tears reached out and touched me.
Words fell from those lips as you cried,
And I did ache for you.

head lowered eyes raised
she looked up at her

You felt you were alone in the dark.... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (secret desire) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3297 Fri, 07 May 2004 19:02:32 GMT http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3298/t/Reformed-character.html
Hello Ill introduce myself
I am a gremlin not an elf.
I spend my life upon the net.
My only purpose to upset

all your communications.
My wicked machinations
prevent me from becoming bored
as I traverse from board to board.

I have a taste for poetry
which I now find is urging me
to try my hand at writing verse.
Although my friends think me perverse.

I find that I am spending time
composing my own kind of rhyme.
I... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (poeticpiers) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3298 Fri, 07 May 2004 14:36:53 GMT http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3299/t/Growth.html In the garden of forgiveness,
there is a fresh green stalk
with silky leaves that reach like arms
stretching toward soothing sunlight
as the new bud waits patiently.


And beneath your feet
there is the crunch of

discarded, unneeded debris.

jtl04
]]> feeds@yuku.com (jantanleo) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3299 Fri, 07 May 2004 05:13:01 GMT http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3296/t/The-Handkerchief.html

The Handkerchief
I walked down the stairs into the bright city street
to the store for a brew and a smoke
Huddled in a corner of the smashed landscape
was a rubbled human fragment that was broke
He looked like a drab bundle of dirty clothes
torn and shredded at the seams,
littered with the residue of broken battles and
fragments of shattered dreams
He'd begun his... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (namyh) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3296 Thu, 06 May 2004 19:47:50 GMT http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3301/t/The-Anointed-One.html As the storm clouds gathered overhead
We must all walk alone in the rain
In order to discover the pathway to knowledge
Let the rain cleanse your soul
Feel the dead skin being washed away
Soon my bones began to shatter and dissolve into dust
Reduced to particles blown on the wind
Becoming part of the cycle of life
Travelling on the wind currents
I gathered information and insight from around the world
Letting nature reveal... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (demonrobber) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3301 Thu, 06 May 2004 13:55:13 GMT http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3302/t/Forgiveness-Remembers.html tiptoes through the fall,
sits quietly through winters hibernation.

In spring with a skip in step,
she dances toward roses soft scents-

yet, that prance pauses
as she glances behind
when she hears a
faint whisper.

She remembers well
Unforgiveness
and the prick of
the remorseless thorn.

jtl04

feeds@yuku.com (jantanleo) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3302 Wed, 05 May 2004 21:51:30 GMT http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3309/t/dialogue-for-a-kiss.html his sotto deep,
contrasting the green glint
in eyes that love mischief,
and sweep her head to toe,
gentle like, but thorough.

her greeting is softer,
in a tone that belies
the bubble of laughter always
so close to the surface.

shy.
it charms him,
makes him sweep her close
arms pulling her in,
"hey there." he smiles.
waiting for the rose blush,
the eye drop,
the tiny shiver when she feels his... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Gala Of the Garden) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3309 Wed, 05 May 2004 15:08:53 GMT http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3288/t/The-Laughing-Stars-That-Play-With-Your-Heart-Must-Read-.html The Laughing Stars That Play With Your Heart

I have torture on the mind
instead of you.
Self-inflicted I know
and you know it too.
It's the kind that squeezes
body and soul.
And though I fight it I know
it's beyond my control.

The lust that tore you to blood,
if I am not misunderstood,
slashed and hacked a way into me
like a machete.
It left me in pieces
of... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (RoughSeas1) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3288 Wed, 05 May 2004 11:17:08 GMT http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3304/t/sunset-somewhere-Must-Read-Award-.html

some wear
a broken heart
clasped to a gold necklace
to remind themselves I need you
but others sense it pumping neath a breast
now bronzing a memory sipped
from a sunset tumbler
with a heartmate
somewhere

feeds@yuku.com (PunDitty) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3304 Wed, 05 May 2004 10:02:24 GMT http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3295/t/May-in-Oklahoma.html The first written after May 3rd, 1999. The first ever confirmed F6 tornado payed us a visit here in Okla. City. It went right past the headquarters of the National Weather Service in Norman. They got a better look at it than they ever wanted.
The second was written last May. A tornado went over the house as my wife and I lay in the hallway. It ate my stockade fence in the backyard and took about 1/3 of the shingles off the roof. We were VERY lucky. Oddly enough, this is... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (amayhem2002) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3295 Wed, 05 May 2004 03:07:56 GMT http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3312/t/My-Snow-bound-Soul.html
In glacial ice, my heart was frozen fast
For winters chill had captured me in pain
The frosted air encased my hollow flesh
As tears upon my face bled freezing rain

The north-wind blew upon my snow-bound soul
And threatened for to rend my spirit sore
Would madness never end and sorrow cease
Or should I thus be rimed forevermore

A ray of hope escaped the chilling blast
In sure and swift surrender did I cry
The blueness of her eyes... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (DarkDreamer7) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3312 Tue, 04 May 2004 21:49:29 GMT http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3305/t/Where-Do-Poets-Reside-.html
Been thinkin
bout how were thinkin
when were thinkin
who, what
causes us to think
like we do?

Whered we get
that energy, so new?
A poem comes to be
so free, so easily.
Just pops up,
like a piece o toast
browned so beautifully.

Look at what you see
fine tapestry~
words woven
so magnificently~
intricately, intellectually,
sometimes romantically.

Makes me wonder
when thoughts are passed... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (jantanleo) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3305 Tue, 04 May 2004 17:05:18 GMT http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3308/t/Heresy.html Faster and faster in a dance of dizzying circles
Trying to unlock the key to my inner soul
A thousand thoughts are spinning through my mind
I stare at the mirror
But I dont recognise the figure staring back at me
A slight adjustment needs to be made I think
A little re-wiring of the brain
That feels much better
No memories or sense of guilt
I feel euphoric
No sense of responsibility
A feeling of unbounded freedom
I am... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (demonrobber) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3308 Tue, 04 May 2004 13:17:03 GMT http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3307/t/The-Platform.html
My morning commute leads me
down off the mountain and into
the valley, like the mist that
surrounds and hangs on the town.
To the train station I go, early
as usual I arrive to stand on
the platform along with fifty or so
other people in the dark morning
cold. The open ends of the station,
the concrete steps, and the steel
tracks all seem to contribute to the
morning chill. A few people light their
cigarettes, even though they know only
a... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (dangerouslyblue) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3307 Tue, 04 May 2004 12:03:18 GMT http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3303/t/Iraqi-Freedom.html

Iraqi Freedom

ugly
American
you came to liberate
unloosing cultures unforeseen
amidst a thankful populace now free
to share both fears and prefrences
who bid... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (PunDitty) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3303 Tue, 04 May 2004 07:08:39 GMT