Intangible

 

 

"I try to remember a kiss

and I get only sorrow

and yesterday's faded away

now there's only tomorrow"

(Psychedelic Furs' lyrics from 'Angels Don't Cry')

 

***

 

~ Intangible ~



I am the night and you are the moon

I always came out for you

but you played to your own tune

 

I engaged the stars to help me see

and searched for a face I once knew

you called on the clouds, to hide from me

 

indigo, midnight, fade to black

my hue deepened by morning's dew

as I realized you weren't coming back

 

early fire, ashes now

we couldn't see it through

perhaps we burned too bright, somehow

 

together forever, that's what we planned

I don't know what was ever true

you didn't leave me anything that I can understand

 

so here we are, tragically strewn

you live in me, and I for you

I am the night and you are the moon.

 

(c) Dahlia Ramones: January 24, 2016

 

 

 

 

This was written for Blogophilia

Week 49.8 Topic:  I am the Night

Bonus Points (Hard, 2 pts): Incorporate a lyric

from the Psychedelic Furs

("you didn't leave me anything that I can understand"

from 'All of This and Nothing'

(Easy, 1 pt): Mention early fires

 

 

 

 

 



Winter's Heart

 



"A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe

and leaves before she is left" ~ Marilyn Monroe

 

 

~ Winter's Heart ~

 

 

the starkness of winter

enshrouds a landscape

that knows one season

weighing down a heavy heart

 

perennial dreams lie dormant

waiting for a chance

to break through the staunch silence

that blankets them

so anxious for another chance

so easy to ignore

 

but sometimes, winter never ends

 

and summer was nothing more

than a passage of time

its days inconsequential

because they were numbered
counting down to the moment

they would be swallowed up by winter

 

And what was once called beautiful

Is now discarded

a forward-thinking dream, forgotten

absent a promise of Spring

but a promise, sometimes doesn't mean a thing.

 

 

(c) Dahlia Ramones:  January 22, 2016

 

 

 

 

This was written for Blogophilia  48.8

Topic:  "Starkness of Winter"

Bonus Points (Hard, 2 puts): Include a Marilyn Monroe quote (above poem)

(Easy, 1 pt): Incorporate purgatory (I did not)

 

 

 

 

 



The Absence of Words



 

~ The Absence of Words ~

 

A well-worn path cuts through the night

heart to moon, a love to make right

going nowhere, Hope runs aground

and silence is the only sound

 

A favorite song, clear yet haunting

evokes memories, now taunting

like words without meaning, they drown

and silence is the only sound

 

Don't think of all that could have been

just vow to never try again

for not all things lost can be found

And silence is the only sound

 

A well-worn path cuts through the night

and silence is the only sound.

 

© Dahlia Ramone: January 3, 2016