My Woe

[Ivric]

My Woe

 

Oh cursed angel that moved me so!  This person filled me with confusion and woe!  That I mistook love's sweet lips touch for a veil and paradise of green lush.  Instead my heart cries out Banshee melodic rhymes, my head awash in escaping happier times.  Once freed soul stone-weighted in icy, tear-filled seas, ears ringing of echoes of unfulfilled pleas, yet most unsettling still joy once unwavering now stagnant, life squandering.

 

My independence led newly awakened heart away.  Family supports as fear slowly frays seeded doubt of forgotten events.  Friends guide with their intentions met, but life of constant companionship yields to cluttered minds and fields unkept.  Love's instant compromise comes quickly, lack of communication produces total demise.  Feelings of abandonment, isolation, insecurities erode foundations; patching tit for tat, no regards, no hesitations.

 

Aspirations of banded fingers, of forever vows, yet adulterous actions left drifts without plows.  Distrust dissolves love's foundation with angered allegations leading to separation.  Still, difficult are warring hopes, mixed dreams; heart, mind, soul cutting out seams of binding light, white, pure untainted into dark, noir desolate despair.

 

Fighting, keeping one's dreams and norms sacred, unscathed to later be told your head need to reread.  How can you expect to hold high esteem, your wishing star no longer beam?  Thoughts of marriage alongside your missing half, however, this notion daft.  Acquaintances less than our love have leapt over staffs.  All the time, your fear masking laughs.

 

Here lays the problem of my woe, age old question, "Stay or go?"  Suffer well, stay, await for change; or go far, cutting ties, into unknown, strange?  More I wait...hands of fate...seconds making late...chances for my soulmate...

[AC Benus]

Very interesting use of poetry as prose. Look forward to see what you'll post next.

[AC Benus]

Feel free to join us in the Live-Poets' forum. We're a pretty lively and supportive bunch.

 

https://www.gayauthors.org/forums/topic/41190-live-poets-society-–-a-corner-for-poetry/?page=98#comment-706812

 

[Mikiesboy]

I'm with AC, this was very interesting and powerful I thought. Hope to see you at Live poets.. aka Mad Poets..lol    welcome to the site,  tim 

[Ivric]

Thank you for welcoming me.  I have a question.  Are the works within the website copyrights of the authors or the website?

[AC Benus]

31 minutes ago, Ivric said:

Thank you for welcoming me.  I have a question.  Are the works within the website copyrights of the authors or the website?

Authors  

[Mikiesboy]

32 minutes ago, Ivric said:

Thank you for welcoming me.  I have a question.  Are the works within the website copyrights of the authors or the website?

 

1 minute ago, AC Benus said:

Authors  

does that include stuff we post in a a forum AC .. maybe Ivric should take author as soon as possible. 

[AC Benus]

4 minutes ago, Mikiesboy said:

 

does that include stuff we post in a a forum AC .. maybe Ivric should take author as soon as possible. 

Yes, nothing wrong with taking the 'Author' status. Not sure about the forum content....I'm not sure about that 

[FormerMember4]

I read this when first posted. I also read your Prompt 15. I'm looking forward to more. This one intrigues me!

[Ivric]

 @BlindAmbition, what intrigues you most about this piece?

[FormerMember4]

7 minutes ago, Ivric said:

 @BlindAmbition, what intrigues you most about this piece?

What the authors final decision to the rollercoaster ride. Seems quite an unexpected and not so smooth. Not that life is ever smooth. It just brought curiousity.

[Aviana]

#Ivric Interesting, truly....Reading the topic title "My Woes" I was expecting a poem but of course not in prose form....Nicely written... please if you don't mind may I ask the meaning of few lines? You see, it keeps bugging me if I don't get the meaning of something!

Edited July 2, 2017 by Aviana

[Ivric]

@Aviana  I don't mind. Which lines did you have questions on?

[Aviana]

On 6/14/2017 at 1:56 AM, Ivric said:

Aspirations of banded fingers, of forever vows, yet adulterous actions left drifts without plows.

I am not sure what banded fingers mean here...

 

On 6/14/2017 at 1:56 AM, Ivric said:

My independence led newly awakened heart away.

This line too...actually I m not sure y independence would lead heart away 

Again sorry, I know m being nosy...and thankz  

[Ivric]

@Aviana 'My independence led newly awakened heart away', this line is describing my move from where I went to high school to where I went to college.  In that move my past gave way to my future and the feelings that I held inside for so long could be addressed.  Like so many gay youth, I was reclusive until I left home.  I hope that enlightened the poem a little more.  Thank you again.

[Aviana]

18 hours ago, Ivric said:

@Aviana 'My independence led newly awakened heart away', this line is describing my move from where I went to high school to where I went to college.  In that move my past gave way to my future and the feelings that I held inside for so long could be addressed.  Like so many gay youth, I was reclusive until I left home.  I hope that enlightened the poem a little more.  Thank you again.

Ahhh yes...it did...wow...nicely painted!!