Let's go there now. This island you've built for us. I see see it surrounded not by the sound of the surf but the beating of your heart next to mine. No sun to warm us instead we bask in the glow of love's flame. The sun shines down on our little island and the tropic nights sing our lullaby. Our island. Here. With you. (C) 2019 Penny Wilson Image by Leonardo Valente from Pixabay
Let's go there now. This island you've built for us. I see see it surrounded not by the sound of the surf but the beating of your heart next to mine. No sun to warm us instead we bask in the glow of love's flame. The sun shines down on our little island and the tropic nights sing our lullaby. Our island. Here. With you. (C) 2019 Penny Wilson Image by Leonardo Valente from Pixabay
“My soul feels twisted around, making me
wonder if my heart ever really knew you.”
I thought I knew you like I knew myself. Like my soul is entwined with yours in a cosmic knot. I thought I could read your face like my favorite book. The one with the worn edges, coffee and tear stains. The one I always have handy. But these days, the language and syntax have changed to something I don’t recognize. Even my soul feels twisted around, making me wonder if my heart ever really knew you. The real you. And what hurts the most is that I’m afraid with each passing day that everything was a lie.
© Sarah Doughty
2018
I can’t help but wonder
if my language changed,
or my ability to understand the words.
Unfortunately, some friends
can turn into something
we don’t recognize.
“This is what it feels like to have your heart broken.
This is what it feels like without you.”
I felt the weaknesses like a deep ache, but I refused to acknowledge them. And then the day I felt my heart break in half, my entire world ended. Everything was the same, yet I could sense deeper — beneath the surface — the tides were shifting, the sky was dim, and the stars even refused to shine. Like I was trapped in a permanent dusk with no other souls in sight. I cried into that new expanse, hoping something would answer. But the only thing I heard was silence.
This is what it feels like to have your heart broken. This is what it feels like without you.
© Sarah Doughty
2018
It’s quite lonely when you
find yourself on the outside
of a breaking relationship —
be it a…
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t’was you who taught me ~ to pause and take a deep breath ~ to dance in the rain —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Love sounds
between breaths
of you and me
noises of our fascination
with each other’s body
hands and lips
finding new places each time
eliciting lusting cries
of unbridled pleasure
as silent walls
listen and smile
at our naked gratification
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©MidwestFantasy
November 2019
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I like to think
the many ghosts
that share these
four hundred year old
ironstone walls
and shelter beneath
this grey slate roof
smile indulgently
at my romantic words
and my dark
dominant ways.
.
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© the author writing as Romantic Dominant
Photograph found on the internet, source unknown. If this is yours please let me know and I will remove or give credit.
🎶 “Electronic Emoji
is gonna be a sudden craze
Electronic Emoji
is bound to be the very next phase
They call me Mellow Yellow
But quite rightly
my Muppet enemies
they all call me the Yellow Peril
So watch out Elmo! ” 🎶
~ Donomojo
(The Ballad of Mr. Smiley Face)
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said President Trump’s tweet attacking Yovanovitch was the “wrong thing” to do, adding, “he knows her strength and he was trying to undermine it.”
“Of course presidents appoint ambassadors,” Pelosi said in an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “But people don’t insult people, especially when they’re giving testimony before the Congress of the United States. I think even his most ardent supporters have to honestly admit this was the wrong thing for the president to do.”
Pelosi said Trump’s word’s carry a lot of weight and that he should avoid frivolously throwing out insults.
“I think part of it is his own insecurity as an impostor. I think he knows full well that he’s in that office way over his head,” Pelosi said. “And so he has to diminish everyone else.”
Nancy Pelosi, Us House Speaker, on President Trump attacking (real…
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The Reluctant Poet 