http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/forums/18 en-us Copyright 2006, Yuku feeds@yuku.com (FeedMaster) webmaster@yuku.com (WebMaster) Fri, 16 Jul 2004 09:07:01 GMT Yuku Feeds 1.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://static.yuku.com//feed/bypass/images/button-yuku.png http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/forums/18 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 Domain q http://yuku.com/search/direct/ http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3512/t/In-Light-Ephemeral.html
In light ephemeral, I cast my hope
Upon her shining shore without regret
With gay abandon, built a city bright
Unto the very stars, its parapet

I launched my heart, aware of shadows dark
That threatened to consume all sanity
And prayed, instead, that joy would brilliant come
So she would thus desire me breathlessly

How shall I live if she should say me nay
Or crush beneath her feet, my spirits fire
As shadows gathered round me... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (DarkDreamer7) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3512 Thu, 15 Jul 2004 19:48:40 GMT http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3513/t/goldfish-cowboys-and-seahorse-dreams.html

Sing to me wordless in purple moonlight
Of reluctant suitors discovering nirvana
And warriors with broken swords
Walk hand in hand with visionless prophets

Dream catcher liberate my nighttime
In Technicolor visions instead of humdrum gray
Where goldfish, cowboys, and seahorse dreams
Dance the salsa, and waltz across a ruby ballroom
With house cats, Indians, and pelicans with tiny wings

Let me drink iced... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3513 Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:17:15 GMT http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3514/t/Lord-make-me-chaste-but-not-yet.html
Breathes there a man who never fell
when tempted by a womans charms.
Immune to every Jezebel
who spurned the comfort of her arms.
A man who never felt the lust
that harasses young hot blooded men.
Whose veins hold not red blood but dust
a puking puling specimen..
No saint that by his will resists,
forgoes the pleasures of the flesh.
He does not sin and then desist
from practices that will enmesh,
his body and his mind... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (poeticpiers) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3514 Wed, 14 Jul 2004 13:29:39 GMT http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3515/t/The-Changeling.html The Changeling

A bird in a tatty brown trench coat,
shrugged at life, on a cross garden jaunt,
and the screams of a child, just elated,
lit the gun-metal sky, with a taunt.
Howling motorbikes, screwed up the silence,
held it tight, and then threw it away,
on the day I pulled... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Lazeez) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3515 Wed, 14 Jul 2004 13:23:42 GMT http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3517/t/indigo-butterfly.html brush my soul
with mistress night
gifts imparted by the brush
of black velvet wings

Butterfly kisses
of beautiful madness
soul twice gray
as darkness sings
gossamer yearnings
given over to new
moons
altar

colorblind darkness
blue star dances
and the indigo butterfly
once more takes to wing


tjs



feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3517 Wed, 14 Jul 2004 12:49:02 GMT http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3516/t/Ghost-orchids.html Haunt me
With beauty half seen
Between the fog of shades
The scent of long ago flowers
Surrounds me as a most heady
Intoxtent unreal
As I wonder through the valley
Of mist and twilight
The ghost of long ago flowers
Led me further down the
Path in this journey
Where to
I do not know

Tjs2k40714



feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3516 Wed, 14 Jul 2004 12:46:43 GMT http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3520/t/TRinket-Virelai.html
Why are comely maidens fickle?
to keep men on their toes
Love is but a rod in pickle
with which she strikes her blows
Disdain to him is all she shows
to a man thats deep in love
The stronger that his worship grows
the more she feels above
He sees her as his treasure trove
she treats him as a fool
He christens her his turtle dove,
she laughs she is cruel
Should he show her a bright jewel
then she shows interest
and fans his ardour lest... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (poeticpiers) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3520 Wed, 14 Jul 2004 03:51:04 GMT http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3519/t/Settled-Seasons-of-the-Heart.html Day's quiet now.
Birdsong's mellowed.

Sun shyly slides
behind rooftops,
preparing for nightfall.

A few dogs bark
here and there,
exchanging late
afternoon conversations.

Tree leaves hardly move
as day's breezes subside.

From the front porch rocker,
while drinking iced tea
and turning my pages,
I overhear the front yard fun:

"Hey, Dad, catch... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (jantanleo) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3519 Tue, 13 Jul 2004 20:29:15 GMT http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3518/t/Struck-By-Lightning-Thoughts.html Searing my memories,
Welded to turning pages in this brain.

White hot flashes,
Becoming cold and lonely,
Lie dormant in that past.

Yet every now and then,
A spark arises from a smoldering hope,
Though still just a glimmer of a once blinding light.

Love,
Gently thundering in my head,
Bolting now swiftly,
Almost as quickly as it came.

Finding myself hiding in an occasional cloudy dream,
Caught up... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Gruhn) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3518 Tue, 13 Jul 2004 03:06:21 GMT http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3524/t/Maturation.html
Within each man a spark divine.
A fragment of eternal truth
an inborn knowledge that is mine
and has been from my earliest youth.

Some things I know instinctively
I can determine right from wrong
but still the choice is left to me.
I can rebel or go along.

Each choice I make is mine alone
and in the end I pay the cost.
It is my sin I must atone
before I regain what I lost.

Each time I fail each time I fall
it slows my... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (poeticpiers) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3524 Mon, 12 Jul 2004 15:40:05 GMT http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3522/t/No-Twist.html

No Twist

No twist, just kissed
And held in line
No twist, just turn
The stakes are mine
Some peace and warmth
Close up the day
A version to
This life today

No roar, nor bite
Just purr and sleek
Chirp up that... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Lazeez) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3522 Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:43:04 GMT http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3531/t/untitled.html i see all the children out there at play
laughing and singing and running about
come out and play is what one will shout

how lucky they are to have this time
i still can remember when it was mine
to be able to return just once more
to open and walk through that childhood door

to once again to be that young
to have no worries to just have fun
that is what we really all want
not one of us can say we don't

to... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3531 Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:42:28 GMT http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3527/t/Best-Foot-forward.html
One step is all it takes to start
the longest journey you can make.
Lift up your head lift up your heart
have faith in that you undertake
Will lead you where you want to be
although set backs may hassle you
and nothings ever trouble free
If you stand fast you will win through,
One foot before the other place
repeat the action once again
This is a journey not a race
with nought to lose and all to gain
It calls for stamina not... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (poeticpiers) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3527 Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:38:29 GMT http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3532/t/Presentiment-story-poem.html
A narrow track half overgrown
a path thats very seldom trod.
Leads to a spot thats little known
a haven that is known to God.

A holy man long years ago
chose to build his sanctuary,
where the sea winds could freely blow
on his stone cell above the sea.

An anchorite in solitude
prayed soundly for his fellow men
That God might change their attitude
and teach them peace and love again.

For piety he had no peer
not in the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (poeticpiers) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3532 Mon, 12 Jul 2004 05:18:03 GMT http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3533/t/you-were-invisible.html yet I saw you clearly.
You wanted to leave a mark forever
upon the world--
yet your mark was etched forever
upon my heart.
You told me I was a star in the sky
over your hometown--
yet I have felt you watch over me
in the darkness of my night.
You were never invisible, you have
made your mark, and you lit my
way through the darkness.



Tjs



feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3533 Sun, 11 Jul 2004 16:56:06 GMT http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3521/t/Like-It-Fresh-in-July.html Its ready now
piping hot
boiled ten minutes
just like Momma said.

Removing it from intense heat, I observe
the steamy message, a warning, Do Not Touch.

I watch the end of my silvery knife
attempting to guide the slippery,
shrinking pat around the small,
vaporific, succulent, sunkissed kernels.

I smile at the challenge before me-
while tilting and turning the pale-yellow cylinder,
I must try to catch each quick drip between rows
in this... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (jantanleo) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3521 Sun, 11 Jul 2004 16:17:29 GMT http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3529/t/-3-47-AM-remembering-.html and I had climbed to see a
picture of her soul.

I had been chained to sorrow
and was wearing an eloquent
disguise.
I was a piece that was torn
from the night.
She saw much deeper than that...

She opened her arms and caressed
my existence.
A flower in the rough, she spoke
strong; but a softness I sensed.

There was a time she would let
me know what was going on.
But she would never show it to me...

So... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (sanehero) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3529 Sun, 11 Jul 2004 15:09:12 GMT http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3530/t/Friendship.html
At Souter Point above the sea
a favourite place of mine to muse
The quiet here appeals to me
I thought it sensible to choose
to bring my new friend here to sit.
Where we can chat, enjoy the view
and get to know a little bit,
each others way of thinking too.
We swap life stories, watch the birds.
Enjoy each others company
and share our interest in words.
writing stories and poetry.
I think I can safely declare
we make a rather well... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (poeticpiers) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3530 Sun, 11 Jul 2004 13:59:45 GMT http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3535/t/-forgetful-times-.html

a page of photographs, turn
this memory by a cold fire bite.
a mask in the making, then
dawns the morning of the forgetful times.

unknown is where i long to be, with
suede on skin,
sweat on suede, not
realizing i've caused the watercolor hand
of steinbeck, to run the canvas blank.

such were our secrets, here...lost within the rain.
but eventually
our memories fade with the flame,
as the morn of the forgetful times,... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3535 Sun, 11 Jul 2004 08:06:19 GMT http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3536/t/Two-poems-different-but-strangely-related.html Home

I remember waking up to the smell
Of sour-dough pancakes
And real maple syrup
That would be waiting at the table
The smell of coffee
Percolating in the shiny metal pot
That sat on the kitchen counter
I would sit and watch the glass knob on top
As the bubbles of brown
Would break against its surface
My Fathers pipe tobacco
My Mothers favorite cologne
These were the smells of... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (amayhem2002) http://friendlymusings.yuku.com/topic/3536 Sat, 10 Jul 2004 21:55:35 GMT