Vintage Lies

 

 

They weren't particularly clever

the words you laid before me

yet I was blind to your endeavor

to lure me out to sea

 

I hadn't time to raise my guard

so quick and earnest you appeared

I gave my safety no regard

as the shoreline disappeared

 

I basked in adoration

in the gentle waves of your caress

you spoke with such elation

I saw no reason for distress

 

our future seemed so flawless

as we swam together in bliss

me on the back of your promise

tenderly sealed with a kiss

 

cerulean waters and crystalline dreams

white freesia breezes on our skin
is love as simple as it seems,

or did it ever really begin?

 

your presentation, so appealing

was intended for different eyes

to win back another's feelings

you hooked me with your vintage lies

 

treading water, I was suddenly alone

not knowing why you had gone

all your lies turned to stone

and I struggled through the dawn

 

I called for you, begging to know why

but you were nowhere to be found

you couldn't even say goodbye

you just left me there to drown.

 

 

(c) Dahlia Ramone:  September 24, 2017

 

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This was written for Blogophilia

Week 31.10 topic:  Vintage Lies

 

Bonus Prompts:

Hard (2 pets): Incorporate a lyric front the rock group Genesis *

Easy (1 pt): Include a scent (freesia breezes, fifth stanza)

 

* "Because you never said goodbye"

from the song More Fool Me)

(last stanza, and I paraphrased the lyric)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Abundant Heart

 

 

 

 

 

~ Abundant Heart ~

 

Build me with love, strengthen me with hope

shape me by the colors of diversity...

 

 

you'd risk your life to fight for me

and help to keep our country free

a Soldier foremost, no place for labels

honor knows no gender identity

 

love who you will, I'll bake you that cake

to celebrate joy is never a mistake

A common thread, a simple right:

to live and love in equality

 

abundant hearts should not be denied

protections redacted, Lady Liberty cried

when we deny the American Dream

we've closed the door on humanity

 

inward, not outward, is where it begins

see the beauty of color on different skins

we are different and we are the same

unite and embrace in mutuality

 

build me with love, strengthen me with hope

shape me by the colors of diversity

 

what was lost by ignorance and hate

will always be found again by love.

 

(c) Dahlia Ramone:  September 10, 2017

 

 

 

 

 

This was written for Blogophilia

Week 29.10 Topic:  Lost and Found

 

Bonus Prompts:

 

Hard (2 pts):  Include the word "Inuit" or "Eskimo" - I did not

Easy (1 pt):  Incorporate a favorite color - Diversity

 

 

 

 

 

 







The Bucket Moon

~ The Bucket Moon ~

In indigo dreams, I carry you
a vision, transpired by moonlight
into something I can hold

there is no space between us
perchance, there never was
celestial eyes have always seen
that which we never could

in between breaths
the breeze softly sighs
rippling moonbeams
across the sky

contentment echoes through the night
as stars gather in gratitude
simpatico with the moon
and I know I have been blessed

I look into my bucket, past the moon and the stars
and the rippled moonbeams
there, in my indigo dreams,
I see you.

(c) Dahlia Ramone: September 4, 2017

This was loosely written for Blogophilia
(I say 'loosely' because I did not write on topic)

Blogophilia Week 28.10 topic: "Tell us about your summer"

Bonus prompts:
Hard (2 pts:) Writer's Choice
(incorporate words given by friends)

Easy (1 pt:) Writer's Choice
(write about the moon)

I was given sixteen words by friends.  I used the following ten:

indigo / vision / transpired / moonlight / space
perchance / moonbeams / gather / gratitude / simpatico