‘Poetry Partners’ update — The skeptic’s kaddish

Just over one month ago, I launched a poetry sharing initiative here at the Skeptic’s Kaddish, called ‘Poetry Partners’. Since then, I’ve been grateful to get many poetry submissions, and more continue to come in. Thus far, at my rate of posting one new Poetry Partner’s poem every Friday, I have had the privilege of […]
‘Poetry Partners’ update — The skeptic’s kaddish

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Requisite

I walked in a million waves

That crashed on barren beaches

Waiting to be quenched- once

Finding only remnants of lives

I lived but inside secret dreams

And I bore a thousand sunburns

Standing next to you but you

Were just some passing moon

I believed was sent to guide me

Eventually, I came to realize

You’re not the source I’ve needed

And my life grew darker- again

It’s defeating when even lies, lie

But you believe them…to survive

Reconciliation

It was a heart-wrenching epiphany

To be staring face to face at- truth

So long I’ve subsisted without you

Only at that moment had I recalled

Things that mattered to you at all

I’m uncertain when my care faltered

Or threshold I must’ve tripped over

I’m overcome by overdue guiltiness

And today of all days the bill is due

I’ve no excuse- just my humiliation

More broken promises are fruitless

I’m duty-bound to offer up something

In practical purpose, I must be better

Answering to a mirror… more often

Pensively

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I’ve discarded too many things

Over the course of my lifetime

I dare say the greatest was, me

Liken a colorless harden cover

That blends into the mundane

There’s a great deal to discover

Beneath the essence of myself

A half-lived life, half-lived lie

Often peeking through the pall

Trying to determine which side

Is reality and which is fantasy

Not that I really have a choice

Or mystical ticket for the other

But if I did, I’d live it all…truer

Daydreams

My days were becoming a blur

I needed a break from doldrums

Time was an unwanted guardian

I chose a ferry ride across the river

April winds swirled upon the water

Subtle change of pace for difference

No person in mind or destination

Upstairs to a near-empty upper deck

Sun gleaming off the watery surface

Then she turned, faced my direction

Life paused and I became breathless

But when she smiled, life is renewed

After three years we’re still having

The very same …first conversation

Alter

Sometimes I just have to escape

Change something even if briefly

Everything is better when I hear

Pitter patter of those raindrops

Reminding me of your footsteps

Coming down past wooden floors

Walking in darkness of my dream

Sliding in beside my sleeping body

And I can feel the warmth of yours

Intertwining within my heartbeats

As you wrap yourself around me

We slowly wash the world away

And there’s nothing more we need

Baby, come rein me… in all reality

Exclusivity

When brilliance becomes grays

The foreboding head front winds

Tries to play like big bad wolves

We’re all our affirmation together

When raindrops became icy pellets

My love cast itself like our shelter

Betwixt the lightning and thunder

In the silence before the clapping

I’ll be there, loving your darkness

Embracing together all your pieces

Shrouded by mere moonlight glow

Long after those frightening storms

Neglecting to raid us of each other

I will hold on longer …to love you

Anecdotally

Betwixt one’s life and death

Waffling in love or madness

Nearly a full lifetime is spent

Off or be it on tenterhooks

I reached my own conclusion

You’re the only real breath

My soul needs…to breathe

Concurrence

I fail to fully understand

What is really at play here

I think of you and suddenly

My days blend into one another

I’m not sure if I’ve even slept

Out of the blue, a week passed

It’s like a mind-boggling blur

Getting lost in thoughts of you

Divides me from daily numbing

An ethereal elixir- for my life

Oh, just these little pieces of you

Make such a difference for me

Reinforcing my belief in something

Breathlessly beautiful… rescues me

Contributors

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Meet my heartaches my dearest beloved

Where wild cherry’s grow uninhibited

Where lush meadows are like mattress’s

And we can watch animalistic clouds fly

While nestled close to each other’s hearts

As easy breezes breathe life to our embers

While roars of hunger mean naught of food

But rather the carnal craving for us as one

When we’re but wrapped only in sun tinges

And our kisses cause slow mountain slides

Far away from the mundane of pure insanity

Others tend to mis-colorize- the world with

Let us be the shower that reins our heaven

To bloom like flowers of love… left unfound

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