Steno

Stories often told
Of days when Rain shone
Our sorrow saw no end
Riveting horrors as screams chime


Gloom left flowers Grey
Rising tides kept prisoners still
Afternoon crept home carrying an eerie chill
Powerful greed met great evil at play
Easing calm however laid plan
So yet again yearning for good to land

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A Fool's Paradise

I am alone in myself
Alone in a world filled
With headaches and pains
Waiting for love
Searching for happiness
Alone I thought until you came
Yes, I remember the day
I remember you though strange at first
Filled with secrets and mysteries
The intensity of it all
Grew with each pressing day
So many questions, yet not a spoken word

Alone I thought until you spoke
Not with words falling off your golden tongue
But with the most majestic smile
With the most captivating gaze
From eyes that beckon me to take you
One opportunity I would leap out
But I remain hesitant, cramped in posture
Bound by chains of uncertainty

Alone I still wait
To hold you, to squeeze you
Yes, I won’t
Pondering what to say, to do
How to get
Licentious acts flutter through my mind
With blazing gaze and subdued persona
To hear those words to cease the moment
I’ll be forever a fool in a paradise

Copyright J.R. Thomas

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A Coat of Banter

Your tree limbs have been good friends with time
Stretched over the watery deep
Surrounded by decay, as snow fell in the wintery-times
The earth seemed jaded slow brown in its creep
Up to your strong roots as if dependent
On your overwhelming determination
Not to give up, every minute spent
Giving love whether true, tainted or infatuation
You are a Marvel of creation

The snow’s cold stayed a bit from you
Respecting your perseverance
At times I dream clearly of you
Happy, helpful, caring, steeped in your vigilance
As if you have to do all these things
A ransom you pay for the extra time you’ve spent
Adorning yourself in life’s frills
Giving your all in everything, laying patient
You are a Marvel of creation

In celebration of your days we all came
Flowing in from life’s treacherous chill we resign
Our hearts smiling as we bask in fame
Cause you are of no ordinary design
This rough life seems only to blossom
Your flowerless tree branches
Grasping why we cannot begin to fathom
Giving you new reasons to peer into these trenches
Changing our lives with warmth, if that alone
You are a Marvel of Creation

                                        Copyright May2007 J.R. Thomas

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Moistured Glass

Met in the dead of the night

Alive only by her flashing lights

Oh, and made to wait

Oh, gladly travelled, worthy bumpy ride

So beautiful inside

A step closer in faith

A step closer to fate

Mis-steps and double backs

Check ins and coffee shops

Maseratis and wifi hotspots

Hables ingles y solo negro

Minority seemed so evident

Evidence of a love forgotten

A similarity whose taste to be

Lovingly acquired

Waters away

Arriving to a new day

A life away

What does one do with hours

Three hours alone on a ride to a new moon

A new flavoured moon

Three news today

On a ticket worth more

Than its three months

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