Archive for August 2017

From The Inside Out

  And he will tell the tale of the girl With the sad eyes Whose love would come to know pain As her victory or her demise He will talk of her beauty Of how the gold in her chest tarnished to a dark rust Of how her sanity unwound With her father’s last breath…

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No Day But Today

  She had a laugh like her father’s A cackle that carried on the wind She was rich in passion Fierce with drive She had sunrise on her eyes And nations on her mind This is what he made her for She would never know All the ways he knew her All the ways he…

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Poets’ Definition of Love

  “For an instant, from a vantage point somewhere in space, I felt myself expanding at the speed of light, ballooning, exploding to the outermost limits of existence until I was the universe. Nothing separate remained. I had become everything. I was Consciousness, recognizing itself; I was the pure light that physicists equate with all…

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To All Future Lovers

To All Future Lovers, If you’re going to love me with one hand Don’t love me If you’re going to love me with half your heart  Don’t love me If you’re going to love me with three words Don’t love me • If you’re going to love me Love me with your chest, your arms…

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Time Will Heal Us

  Time will heal us She said Time will heal everything And she took her stick And drew a line in the sand That is your space She said And this is mine ~ Alyssa Noelle Coelho

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Summer, My Dearest Friend

  Oh Summer, my Dearest Friend For your season brings me But a week of endless midnights When the sun falls fathoms beneath the earth And the stars rise to their glorious constellations Your moonlight whispers to me Through squeaking cabin doors And lonely white sheets And I follow your call into the darkness… Where…

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Home

“Home is not in another human being. Home is not in the action and reaction. Home is not in the seasons. Home is not in the resistance.  Home is not in the perseverance. Home is not in the memories. Home is not in the faith. Home is not in the hope. Home is not in…

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Farewell

I saw it happen I watched her sitting there Toes in the sand, eyes on the water. I saw her soul in all its weary I watched her fingers recoil, Hair curly and wild in the midnight air. I saw her give it all away I watched her chest rise and fall Whiskey on her…

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