Free Verse

Broken Love by:Eloy de leon
created 2/4/07

Walking through the darkness.
No one is around
to help me get across.
I think about you all the time,
And what you did to break me.
I won't go back,
even if it means death.
But you killed me already,
No sense in dying again.
I'll start a new life
Where you'll never find me.
I'm free can't you see that.
But you don't because you need me,
You always did and never showed it.
Well good luck in this world.
You're really going to need it.
Cry all you want,
But I'm already gone.
Even though I loved you,
I won't come back to you.

Free Verse

Awake by Katherine Foreman

My last night as a full-time child
I didn't want to sleep, for fear of
Waking up in a rustle of too-crisp sheets
And a creak of inadequate bedsprings
With a lightly snoring virtual stranger eight feet away.
And also I didn't want it to be tomorrow,
Because then it would be time to do what
I've denied for three weeks of subsistence
And oblivion--ignoring is bliss.
And I saw everything I never did
Lying around me, pieces and steps of the
Success I never got, reminders that
Whatever I planned, I never got far.
But in the middle of these broken promises
To myself, I could see for the first time
That I have not been broken.
And I must keep myself, all that is real,
As daybreak does, and nightfall.
I exist to others, but all I need is me.
I will be the last promise, when all is said
And kept.

Source: http://www.hyperborea.org/alenxa/free.html#awake
Copyright � 1996 by Katherine Foreman.

Sonnet Author:	Tyler J. Mauthe, Canada
Poem	HATEFUL LOVE
	Falling softly from your grasp Your sweet taste still lingers your heart's steel on mine does rasp Worked by your thin red fingers With heat of brimstone and, In agony, we're forged as one I now inhabbit a darkened land, I never get to see the sun And while you flutter above my ground, Forgetting forged we've been, I drag beneath, without a sound Flailing, largely unseen And though may black be your soul Without it's light, am I unwhole

Source; http://www.voicesnet.org/displayonepoem.aspx?poemid=75494

Ballad

"The Emerald Isle"

by Elizabeth Santos

Before the days of knights and dragons on the Emerald Isle it's said
Lived the ghastly Beast of Bristles, some have called it "Isle of Dead"

None have come back from this island, all who tried were spiked and burned
That is why some folks still say it is "The Isle of no return"

It's a place of velvet meadows, lovely hills and snow white sand
What is now the Emerald Isle once was christened "No Man's Land"

All had great desire to live there, but somehow they couldn't wrench
This wasted land from Beast of Bristles' slimy snout and sultry stench

This creature lived a thousand years, a thousand more he would remain
A thorn of hope, a spike of fate, the bristled spear of life's disdain

For dreaded monster, though he be, across the isle he spread his waste
The Beast of Bristles made the isle the earth's most fruitful, fertile place

Every youth had in a vision conquering the Bristly beast
Every one who tread the isle became a bristled beastly feast

The folks had gathered in the hall deciding that a hundred men
Would cross the channel late at night and trap him in the creature's den

A hundred men with swords and spears and catapults to smash his brains
The most skilled fighters, slingshots, rocks, every weapon they could name

They came upon the monster's home, the cavern wreaked of beastly grime
Surrounding it, they waited for a signal in a moment's time

The beast emerged from out the cave, the moonlight shown his ugly head
So shocked were they who witnessed live the beast, more gruesome than was said

The sign was given, the battle cry, the spears and rocks and arrows flew
But spiky bristles by the thousands was a force they couldn't outdo

The dead men numbered ninety nine speared and singed, a warrior's plight
One escaped to tell the tale of beast impossible to fight

Then one young man stood up and claimed the Beast of Bristles would be killed
He'd squelch the fire from his nostrils, leave him eyeless and dequilled

Laughter echoed in the tavern, jokes spread wildly through the town
How could a novice gypsy traveler put a Beast of Bristles down?

So young and thin, no warrior he who claimed the animal would die
They watched him board a little craft with just one arrow by his side

The laughter rose with visions of a scrawny lad upon a barge
With bow and arrow by his side to kill an animal so large

They laughed away the day and night and drank as jokes flew through the air
A gypsy with one single arrow, what a joke beyond compare

The boy, meanwhile was coming close, he gasped for breath in musky stench
The Beast of Bristles soon appeared, the boy hid in a nearby trench

The monster was not fooled at all he clamored in his awkward gate
Knowing what would lie ahead, the tragedy of youngster's fate

He then appeared above the boy, bristles poised to swiftly fly
He opened wide his fiery mouth and fury marked his evil eye

The boy within a second's time shot an arrow through the air
A secret poison gypsy potion handed down to gypsy heir

The bristles of the beast fell off and underneath this spiky shield
There was an ugly wormy creature, not a weapon left to wield

The boy returned upon a barge with ugly monster head in tow
He was the hero of all time, the rest's a story we all know

They settled on the Emerald Isle that will remain forever green
And this must be an Irish tale, I heard it from a sweet colleen

source: http://www.silentwords.com/BalladPoems/emeraldisle.html

Epitaph

AGAINST YOU I WILL FLING MYSELF,
UNVANQUISHED AND UNYEILDING, O DEATH!
BY:Virginia Wolf
Source: http://www.famousquotes.me.uk/epitaphs/21.htm

Lyric

Artist: Frankie J
Album: The One
Year: 2005
Title: Obsession (No Es Amor)

(Check check ...this happened for real ...baby bash..yo.. frankie j.... obession)

Its early in the morning
And my heart is really lonely
Just thinkin bout you baby
Got me twisted in the head
And I dont know how to take it
But its driving me so crazy
I dont know if its right
I'm tossin turning in my bed
Its 5 oclock in the morning
And I still cant sleep
Thinkin bout your beauty it makes me
Weak...
I'm feeling hopeless in my home
I dont know what to do but I think I'm in love
Baby...

[Chorus]
Amor, no es amor (if this aint love)
Then what am I feeling (what am I doing wrong)
Amor, no es amor (if this aint love)
Is this an illusion that I have in my heart?

Now I know you're not my lady I'm just tryin to make this right
I dont know what to do I'm going out of my mind
So baby if u let me could I getchu to say maybe we could ride together
We could do this all nite now I dont care if u got a man
Baby I wish ud understand
Cuz I kno he cant love u right, quite like I can
Its 5 oclock in the morning
And I still cant sleep
Thinkin bout your beauty it makes me
Weak...
I'm feeling hopeless at home
I dont kno what to do but I think I'm in love

[Chorus]
Amor, no es amor (if this aint love)
Then what am I feeling? (what am I doing wrong)
Amor, no es amor (if this aint love)
Is this an illusion that I have in my heart?

I love the way u freaky like that
I love the way u freaky like that
I love the way u freaky like that
Its an obsession

[Baby Bash]
Hold up let me dream
Shorty got me feelin less supreme
Where my candy, where my cream
Got your boy feel less supreme
Hold up wait a minute baby you so damn independent
Loving everything your representing
Got alot of money, I love to spend it
And thats whats up and I dont care what people scream
You're my blessin when I'm stressin
My superfly beauty queen
I'm gonna keep it saucy
Cuz my money know how I do, we go rendez-vous, mi corazon belongs to you

[Chorus]
Amor, no es amor (if this aint love)
Then what am I feeling? (what am I doing wrong) what am I do wrong [echo]
Amor, no es amor (if this aint love)
Is this an illusion that I have in my heart?
Amor, no es amor (if this aint love)
What am I feeling? (what am I doing wrong?) what am I do so wrong? [echo]
Amor, no es amor (if this aint love)
Is this an illusion that I have in my heart?

Amor

SOurce: http://www.slikz.com/lyrics/f/frankie_j/the.one/01.html and www.lyrics.com