World Without Books

World Without Books

What would we read?

What would we write?

How would we tell

The tale of our plight?

A world without books

Would be a world without dreams

Unshared and lost

In an ocean of screams.

How would we know

How our brother man feels?

If we could not peruse

His way and his will?

How would we treasure

Another friend's heart?

If we could not read it

We'd stay miles apart.

A world without books

Would be a world without voice

We'd reason in silence

Not seeing a choice.

For books bid us "Come!"

And welcome us home

And allow us to find out

That we're not alone.

©voo

aug 22, 08

Seeds, Lost and Found

thunderstorm

Seeds, Lost and Found

I do not know why I was never afraid of storms

Why I longed for them, looked for them, prayed for them

Needing to feel that electrical charge in the air,

That blinding white lightning, that menacing roar

That violent thrusting of a great downpour.

Sans umbrella, I would run in the rain

Wade in the water, play in the mud

Dare the Heavens to chastise my defiance,

Fling out my arms and beg angels to dance

For no mortal would, like me, take a chance.

And so I grew from girl to woman

Always searching, always wanting

Always needing, always grieving

Always lonely with no love around

Always lost and never found.

And then I saw with eyes wide open

The strangest thing, the sweetest thing

So like a dream but not a dream

A dream come true like a fond wish granted

My tears turned to seeds and those seeds then were planted.

And I watered  them and I tended them

I cared for them like the gardener of Eden

Sometimes a seed would sprout out of the dirt

And I would watch hopefully with tears in my eye

Only to see it soon wither and die.

Disappointment was the cloak I wore

Dark with despair and disconsolate

Dangerously daring and almost past caring

I ran then from love for I could no longer take

Watching what I thought was real turn to fake.

So I pretended that I didn't care 

Played with the tigers and ran with the lions

An innocent lost in the valley of shadows

Trying so hard to be found in this world

But just a face in the crowd of lost boys and girls.

We had our fun out on the run

Defying death and loathing life

Gothic angels with bent halos

Seeking for shelter or a hole in the ground

But really, just dying to somehow be found.

And then one day after years of dying

For life had evaded and love had perished stillborn

I turned a corner  that I had never turned

And I saw the face that my soul had known

On a plant that sprang up from those tears I had sown. 

The face of a lost boy who wandered like me

Looking for something that he could never find

Standing before doors that were slammed in his face

Stinging from weapons of words to his heart

Our hands clasped as though they had not been apart.

His mouth, my mouth devoured with kisses

His eyes, my eyes would not look away from

His body, my body could not wait to make love to

His heart, my heart heard without making a sound

And this lost girl and that lost boy had finally been found.

In a world of madness, we had found our sanity

In a world of dragons, we had found our swords

In a world of darkness, we had found our light

In a world of lack filled with just empty shelves

We had found that love lived, we had found ourselves.

The lost boy and I who had both planted seeds

When we were just children and abandoned to weeds

When no love would spring up from our careful tending

Now flourished and nourished and scenting the air

He was my seed, I was his, born of dreams, standing there.

©by Voo

11/27/19

12:21 a.m.

Find Me

by Bread

Your Eyes Are Like

Ocean Eyes

Your Eyes Are Like....


Your eyes are like the ocean
Deeper than the sea
And swimming there inside their depths
Is where I want to be.

Your eyes are like the heavens
Up above my head
Sending signals to my brain
Demanding to be read.

Your eyes are like soft rainy days
And sometimes like a storm
Blazing up with passion's fire
To make my cold heart, warm.

Your eyes are like twin mirrors
Hear me, yes, it's true
I see me in your eyes of love
And in my eyes, you see you.

Your eyes are my jewels and my gold
My silver shining sea
And joyous I live now I've found you
And your eyes shine on me.


©by Voo
12/10/19

This Just Makes Me Happy

And The Moon Melted

And The Moon Melted


The moon rose high up in the sky
Without a single sound
The wind like silk, embraced our shadows
Lying on the ground.

Your lips, wine stained, delicious 
Devoured mine hungrily
And your dark eyes of paradise
Made my eyes, Eden see.

The soft waves, ebbing slowly
As the sea it's symphony, played
A dark background with silver gleaming
While my heart at your feet, laid.

Your questioning eyes, my questioning sighs
Asked questions without words
And our hearts in answer, in rhythm shouted
What only two hearts had heard.

Your hand upon my chin, to raise
My face up to your glance
You kissed me softly like a whisper
And our feet began to dance.

For music then sprang from everything
With no musician hidden there
And the night clouds parted, silently fleeing 
To reveal the bright moon there.

The love that shone as night moved on
All of our sadness, shattered
And we forgot our pasts and forgot our pain
Knowing now was all that mattered.

And the moon, knowing much about love herself, smiled 
As you melted yourself into me
And the moon, who loved those dark silvery waters  
Melted herself into the sea.

January 22, 2020
6:30 p.m.
©
BY...........Voo