Take Two
With A Shot Of Jack
Tangled elbows and tender knees
Tastes of loves sweet aftermath
Our kisses burn and only lead
To smoke and whitewashed ash
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Desperately traipse familiar paths
Cares to the wind, with tattered maps
Wanting for more than we can have
Momentary hearts, relapsed
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Ghosts reappear and fade away
As we deny mistakes we’ve made
Dipping our toes in muddy lakes
Thoughtlessly delve, until we wake
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Shadows and dust, of fragile flesh
That pleasure makes
While spirits mesh
Defying fate and common sense
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A fabled front
Unending wish
Hearts want what they want
Under false pretense
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But, life is a dream
Time breezing past
A fleeting scene
Mere happenstance
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And we the pawn in nature’s game
Taking a chance at fantasy
The need to know intimate plans
Enabling hope’s finalities
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Then moving on to new romance
Defying fates and second take
In love and life’s unending dance
Like it was ever ours to make
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Kelli Sheckler-Amsden
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As drizzled flakes begin to float And autumn sails it’s colored boats Down puddled paths on city streets Riding the breeze from slumbering trees Bare and exposed to winters chill Dressed in the first of winter frills Beautiful crystal chandeliers Begin to form as heavens tears Cascade to earth, a cleansing breath A sinking soul, unlike Macbeth As tiny,tender tinsels beam Encase the flowers, limbs and leaves Sparkling frosted, frozen sleet Tapping the ground, like marching feet Declaring war, welcoming change A swift, purposeful, turn of page Twirling in circles, above the land A perfectly, peaceful pirouette The seasons simply, sensational dance Frozen in time, held in a trance Glistening under moonlit folly Creating the finest sights in foliage
By Kelli Sheckler-Amsdenabout a year ago in Poets
Comments (4)
Well-wrought! It recalls to my mind this line from The Beatles song Helter-Skelter, which is supposed to be a throwaway song about an amusement park ride, but somehow reads like a life lesson: "You may be a lover but you ain't no dancer"
This hit me so hard as it felt so close to the truth. Loved your poem!
That's beautiful, even if a little sad.
Sometimes everything tastes better with a shot of Jack. Great poem.