Crossroads

~ Crossroads ~

 

You left your fingerprints on my soul

the connection, a thousand kisses deep

and I cannot erase the memories

 

because of you, I measured everyone

by how well they thought they knew me

and the results always ended in darkness

 

the night comes on, the moon comes out

and I implore her to show me

the place where I belong

 

She smiles at my confusion

and says everybody knows what they need

once they figure out what 'home' means

 

a person...a place... a sense of familiarity

what puts you at peace

who makes you feel safe?

 

I sift through an avalanche of emotions

and weigh the years gone by

wondering if they've changed anything

 

time can change everything or nothing

but when I close my eyes and think of you

it just feels like going home

 

in my secret life

I am always coming back to you

because you never left my heart

 

we have two choices:

I can leave well enough alone

or you can take this longing

and dance me to the end of love.

 

(c) Dahlia Ramones:  February 21, 2016
 

 

 

This was written for Blogophilia:

 

Week 1.9 Topic:  Two Choices

 

Bonus prompts:

(Hard, 2 pts):  Use three Leonard Cohen Titles*

(Easy, 2 pt):  Incorporate a confession

(you never left my heart)

 

*I used multiple song titles:

Fingerprints

A Thousand Kisses Keep

Memories

Because Of

Always

Darkness

Night Comes On

Show Me The Place

Everybody Knows

Avalanche

It Just Feels

Going Home

In My Secret Life

Coming Back To You

Take This Longing

Dance Me To The End of Love

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Letting Go

 

~ Letting Go ~

 

High on a ledge above the sea, lost in thoughts

balanced on the edge of reality, not the one she sought

she couldn't go back, she had loved for naught

she couldn't go forward, her heart too distraught

 

the awakening came without a sound

a gradual dawning as he stopped coming around

no goodbye offered, no closure found

no anger to carry onto a battleground

 

in limbo on a ledge, and she couldn't understand

how forever turned to never, was that how he planned?

or did she disappoint, were they doomed beforehand?

their time played in an hourglass that ran out of sand

 

words of romance long cut off, only silence in their place

yet she remembered them each time she sought his face

she knew she lost something she could never replace

~ her heart ~ for it still beats for his embrace

 

torn with indecision, she didn't know how to be okay

to see if he was happy, she knew she'd have to stay

but she couldn't continue living in this state of disarray

so she wished him well, let go, and slipped away.

 

(c) Dahlia Ramone: February 7, 2016

 

 

 

This was written for Blogophilia

Week 51.8 topic:  Lost in Seaside Thoughts (I paraphrased it)

Bonus Points:

(Hard, 2 puts): Create a desperate action for your character

(Easy, 1 pt): Mention a Charlton Heaton movie (The Awakening)

 

 

 

 

 



Decimated Daisies

 



"But only in their dreams can men be truly free.

It was always thus and always thus will be"

(Robin Williams)

 

 

~ Decimated Daisies ~

 

Deep in the realm of fairytales

where truth is dreamt and dreams are true

unchained hearts float through the sky

free to love, received in kind

 

suspended in make-believe

we reveled in the fantasy

scripting a life together

you were the pen, I drank your words

 

you painted flowers on my soul

daisies for pureness and light of heart

I would have traded a kingdom

to follow you on paths unknown

 

but fairytales aren't without peril;

our story turned from lush to grey

with the invasion of reality

the pen went dry, the pages bare

 

unchained hearts? a broken dream

echoes in the stillness of your absence

leaving me alone, a soul full of daisies

each with an even number of petals.

 

(c) Dahlia Ramone: February 2, 2016

 

 

 

 

This was written for Blogophilia

Week 50.8 Topic:  Unchained Heart

Bonus Points:

Hard, (2 puts): Use a Robin Williams quote

Easy, 1 pt): Incorporate the words "critic's choice" (I did not)

 

 

 



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

 

 

 

 



Night Echoes

~ Night Echoes ~

 

Beneath the barren moon

the night echoes with sacrifice

and not even the forest breeze

can coax forth the breath

she didn't realize she was holding

 

Footsteps only she can hear

relentless in her head

though his or hers, she isn't sure

she only knows the weight they bear

and the price of silence

 

Death by doubt - of heart or flesh,

the end result's the same

as it feeds on misconceptions;

a slow decline into wasted land

from which she cannot walk away

 

Beneath the barren moon

the sound of footprints fades

resolute, in their departure

and the collective sigh of dreams unrealized
filters out on the forest breeze.

 

© Dahlia Ramone: October 11, 2015

 

 

 

This was written for Blogophilia Week 34.8

Topic:  Night Echoes

 

Bonus Points:

(Hard, 2 pts):  Incorporate an Elmore Leonard quote (I didn't)

(Easy, 1 pt): Include the phrase "forest breeze"