When Love is Lost . . .

Photographed by a Friend . . .

There was that moment . .
when I realized that I lost you ..
my heart was broken and I choked
on a simple drop of tea . . .
my heart just suddenly broke
and I could not speak . . .
my throat closed like a spigot
on the pipe of dreams .. ..
first there was a flow of joy . .
and then it was just gone .  .
and I knew that I would never
be happy again . . .

Once you told me
that when passion died
a sudden death,
with you,
it was. . .
dead
never to be revived. . .
when it was lost . . . it was gone forever . .

Yet that just feels sad to me . ..
for my passion grows and clings,
like moss on the shady side of trees . . .
seeing nurture in every shadow . ..
I see the rainbows in its mist . .
and the reflections of gold from a sun
reaching around . . . clinging
holding . . . promising . . .
it sings to me in a low melody
running like liquid bubbles . . .
dripping with secret joys and lust . . .
it feels like my beating heart . ..
loving and longing .. ..
wishing .. .. and dreaming . . .

but I should know better . . .
I am not an easy person to love . .
my dreams are often foolish
and selfish . . .

I should remind myself that
I am a grown-up . . .
and wishes are for children . ..
I should remind myself . . .
that I have lost love before . ..
and survived . . .
I should hold my hand over my heart
and feel it slowly beating
. . . . for it hasn't stopped. . .
the blood still drips
like raw tears . .
streaming silent and relentlessly
down my face . . .


but perhaps my emotions are
based my selfishness . . .
for even in the glare of my love,
when I put on my sunglasses,
I can see the shadows of my delusions . . .
for I think you see me as a lost cause . ..
a foolish marionette perhaps . . .
dancing on my strings of desire . . .

I see you
I see what you reach for
and it is what you need . ..  what you desire . .

and there
I should be happy for you. . .
your trails should bring you growth and joy .  .

I don't
I don't bring that to you . . .
and I see that now . .
and I confess that to you with
some trepidation ..

for I know that although
you have fallen out of love with me

you don't realize
it yet . ..


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what spaces do we have
we hold with a grip of death;
one moment we have hope
and then we lose . ..  it slips through our fingers
like sands of time . . . winged and free
yet wind whipped we are wounded
abraded by the erosion of loss and hurt
and yet the passage
of time dulls the pain  . . .
we brush ourselves off . . 
and quickly forget . ..  clutching at hope
which like tiny fragile bubbles
are so shiny and so compellingly beautiful

You grab that tenuous sprite .. .. Love . ..
and watch
as Love dances away . . .
leaving you more lonely than you
ever were before

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LOS ESTADOS DEL ALMA
by JORGESTRADA

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Poem by me:

an ocean grows . . . its torrents
run dark . . . as black as ink . . .
an ink that lines my life . ..
my tears run forth at the bitter knowledge . .
when first it appears . . .
and creeps into the heart . . .
it throws its ice cold darts
to still the flow of joy . . . . .
and yet and yet there is hope . . .
a tiniest gleam . . .  a pearl
once glimpsed . .  in the deepest deep
and the darkest dark . . .
alone and desolate I grasp
but my hands came empty  . . .
and there I see a mirage . . .
a lie I told to me . . . by me  . . .
my dreams flow by like paper
torn beneath the sea
wet . . . so wet with the tears I wept
shredded and falling apart . .
I hold the last rose from
the tree of our life together . .
as the petals fall one by one . .
and what I thought was the dew of love
are the tear drops from what was severed . .

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When Rainbows Fall
by Doemee

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Poem by me . . .

I always ran to where it was brightest
seeking love and joy . . .
I knew that there was warmth
and companionship . . .
above the heights of the storm
and away from the deepest sea . .
I looked for love to find me . .
I looked the most for thee . .
and I did so adore you
I loved you most of all . . .
above the heights of the storm
and away from the deepest sea . . .
where ever there were rainbows
the rainbows they must fall
I knew if I could but catch them
and hold them safe in my heart . . .
I could keep one forever . .
and never see it depart . . .
and though the storms must come
and tear my love to shreds . . .
I still seek that rainbow
that dances alone on the ragged cliffs
above the heights of the storm
and way from the deepest sea . .
for "When Rainbows Fall"
Then rainbows they must fall .  . .
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Sentimientos
by Marcos Cala

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Poem by me:

There is an end to everything
                                              to everything we must say goodbye
there is a heartache in everyone                                          
                                                painful and bewildering
a lonely song . . . it sings its melody                       
to those who feel
to those who hurt . . .
                                                    to those who have memories . ..
there is peace beneath that wind tossed sea                                
                                          but I haven't yet dived down that deep .. .
I still battle those torrential waves                    
                                 at the surface of pain and misery . . .
and yet I know at the bottom                                                
                   I will remember the joy
                                                          of the time we had together . . .
and this terrible pain will become                               
a faded and misty memory
                                           sweetly dark . . .  a distant melody

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A Quiet Light
by Somewhere off Jazz Street

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Poem by me:

And here I am
alone again . . .
the atmosphere so close and dark
no moon
no stars
no heart beats near
the nights are long
so lonely . . .
so very hard to bear . . .
They echo with the sound
of your voice . .
a ghostly refrain to my ears . . .
the memory of your song
touches the tenderness
of my lips . . .
a glimmer for a moment . .
ragged are my tears,
they flow those waves of saltiness
down the curve
of my still cheeks
raw is my aching heart
despairing are my needs . . .
I am but a walking shell. . .
when I move
my bones crumble . . . gray and bleached . . .
thus they scatter to the winds
along the drifting sands . . .
alone I lie . . .
so cold
before the sun will rise . . .

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I am not done here . ..  

for I am not done exploring

that deep dark and lonely cave . ..

where resides

the pain of losing love . .. 

of knowing when. . .

exactly when 

it departed from that object

that is loved by me  . .. 

yet in seeking to cling

I just postpone the pain . . .