The Blue Vineyard Of Voo Shining Stone

Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Nothing Rhymed Today

Nothing Rhymed Today

Nothing rhymed today

There was no meter or melody

No singing lyric or verse of song

Just jangled nerves and unspoken fears

Left dangling on my keychain.

Cars passed me

In the pouring rain

And never acknowledged the girl

With the gas can and the thumb

And mascara running down my face.

I could have shown some leg

I suppose

But my clothes were plastered to me

Like I had been poured into them

And everything I had was exposed already.

If it had been yesterday

I would have laughed at my mishap

Run down the highway

Danced in the rain and stopped traffic

With the glow on my shining face.

Everything rhymed yesterday

Every word that issued from my mouth

Was finely tuned, in perfect key

Poetry sprang from my fingertips

And car horns sounded like sonnets.

But I have no music left in me

It walked out in your suitcase last night

Winked it's dark eye and said goodbye

And I heard it laughing

All the way down the staircase to the street.

Poetry is a traitor

It makes you write when you don't want to

From places you don't want to revisit

Sing songs so sad they break the heart

And make rhymes of things that will never rhyme again.

©by Voo

August 8, 07

The Giving and the Taking of the Heart

The Giving and the

Taking of the Heart

I gave him my heart, not thinking

About what the man might do

I only knew I had to do it

Not if he was faithful and true.

I handed him all that I had

I put it in his hand

I didn't think of danger

Didn't have a plan.

I only knew I loved him

Only knew I cared

Didn't know if he loved me back

Or if he'd stay right there.

I took a chance I'd never taken

I gambled with my fate

I ran headlong into his arms

I couldn't seem to wait.

Because he seemed so special

So wonderful and good

I didn't want to walk away

I didn't think I could.

So I put my heart at great risk

Not knowing what he'd do

I held my breath and waited

To see if my dreams came true.

Then he smiled a smile big as the world

Which gave me quite a start

And he said I have something for you, too

And he handed me his heart.

And I stood there in the sunlight

As love mended my wounded soul

While he cradled my heart like a diamond

And I held his like the purest of gold.

I guess sometimes you must take a chance

Like I did that fateful day

For why have a heart all full of love

If you can't give that love away?

Only the love of another

Be it woman, child or man

Can fill your heart and empty it

And fill it once again.

For love must be replenished

By a source that's not your own

As you fill up another's heart

Before all their love is gone.

Supply and demand is the way that it is

And that lesson you learn at life's start

You must give out your love if you want some love back

For that's the way that the Lord made the heart.

©by Voo

Oct 9, 2019

7:07 p.m.

Eyes of Night

Fallen one
With eyes of night
You came to earth
To steal the light.

Fallen one
With heart of ice
You heed no warning
Take no advice.

Your wants are many
Your needs are few
That man might bow
And worship you.

But I'm a warrior
And this is war
And though I'm wounded
I'll bear my scars.

For you are evil
Personified
And every word
You speak's a lie.

I've felt your shadow
Upon my dreams
I've felt your touch
Like icy streams.

You tease and taunt me
And promise love
But you don't know
What I'm made of.

My soul is mine
You'll never win
Your wage is death
And your job is sin.

I can't be bought
I can't be sold
Your heart is wormwood
And mine is gold.

So take your whispers
And your treasures all
To the depths of Hades
For I'll never fall.

©by Voo
Feb 28. 2010
8:32 p.m.