OPEN MIC ENCORE I
February, 2005

    
When I look at you, you're all I seek
Dancing nights, cheek to cheek
Loving you is like loving rain
There's so little, there's more to gain
Night by night I think of us
My love for you, your truth and trust
Before you go, well you should know
Just how I feel, my love is real
With all the people in my life
Only in you I see a wife
Growing old and living long
Our love remains, true and strong
And when we look at our early years
All the joy, and all the tears
I am the world, and you are my sun
taking my darkness, or love has begun

Jacob George 

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"Love"
-- A. Moeliker
You've caught me in your arms
You've let me fall
I wonder why you've loved
Me at all for so long.
 
The red hair,
Your green eyes.
The pale hair,
Your heart and passion
The size of the world.
 
I love you, yet I
Can't explain why,
 
I try to love you.
 

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MARRIAGE

BY Lewis Hastings
I close my eyes. I see her riding in on a horse and carriage.  She's on her way to start our Marriage.  I see her in white it lets me know I am the one for her, together we will grow.  Times will be good, times will be bad...I'll be there to make her happy on days she may be sad.  Life will never be perfect at times it may seem so, cause when I look in her face I'll see that glow...Something about her something inside that when we're alone the real me can't hide.  Memories come to mind that help me remember we are truly one of a kind.  Forever and always please be mine. 

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THE  FIREFLIES
by  LIP SAI LIN
 
THAT  NIGHT  WE  WENT  TO  THE  SELANGOR  RIVER
WE  SAW  A  LOT  OF  FIREFLIES  ON  THE  BUSHES
AS MISTS  THE  FAR  STRETCHED  DEEP  DARKNESS
LIKE  THE  MANY  BULBS  ON  THE  CHRISTMAS  TREES
WHILE  ONE  OR  TWO  RESTED  ON  THE  WATER
MOVING  ALONG  HAPPILY  WITH  THE  RIVER
WHILE  ONE  FLEW  INTO  OUR  BOAT
MAKING  US  STAYED  STARKLY  SILENT
AS  SILENT  AS  THE  DARKNESS  AROUND
SUDDENLY
ABOVE  OUR  HEADS
INTO  THE  SKY
WE  SAW  A  LOT  OF  STARS
SHINING
LIKE  THE  FIREFLIES
OH , HAVE  THEY  FLEW  SILENTLY  INTO  THE  SKY
DECORATING  FOR  US  “ THAT  BEAUTIFUL  NIGHT ”

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  MY FRIEND
BY ROBBIE HOWARD
i am your sunshine
i am your rain
i feel your laughter
i hold your pain
i love the joy, which lights up your face
it matters not, wherever the place
i'll be your strength
when you are so tired
when you are cold
i'll build up your fire
should you ever feel really down an out
think of me, i'll carry you out
so my friend
i'll always be there
from now till the end
for legends we are legends
my friend
                              

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"when will true love come?
kathia bosques
True love is no where near
so being single should be no fear
Can you hear me clear?
pain is no joke
Your heart can't be healed
because when you get your heart broke
it feels like you been killed

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a sequel to torment...
alpana issar
i have tasted your sweetness ...
you are forever so sweet
think darling think
way back perhaps
another time maybe
go down the memory lane
think back of the time
when we had lain under the shivering pines.
the shadows of the night was our sanctuary divine.
even the moon had seemed inclined to offer us moments
moments of intimacies
that were just yours and mine.
he hid himself behind the wandering clouds
beckoning them from a distance.
"come close, let me wrap up my beams." he said
"give them the privacy they deserve."
and the clouds yielded.
meanwhile the stars they dipped to twinkle
time after time....
 

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Riastradh
caitlin
I am weary of the echoes
Beneath the devestation
Of that love unfurled
In defeaned darkness
 
Death softly shelters
The battleground of desire.

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FALL IN
(Melati Puspita Sari)
 
Walking on the road side by side
When the haze touching the mother earth
Trembling hear I cannot deny
But I do realized, you couldn't be touched
 
Walking on the road side by side
On the love of mountains hills
Trembling heart I cannot deny
I do realized, I couldn't let it grow
 
Walking on the road side by side
Hearing your laugh, like a blossom edelweiss in my heart
I couldn't deny that feeling
But I still realized that you aren't mine
 
Walking on the road side by side
In the middle of the night with the stars above
Steering at you was a wonderful moment
But I realized you only a dream
 
We have different life right now
Let the feeling just as it be
Don't disgrace these feeling with lust and desire
Let love still as it be
 
This feeling is a gift from up above
I knew it shouldn't be there
Let love still as it be
Let love still as it be
Coz it's a gift from up above.

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BACK AT YOU 
dahn shaulis
 
from the skin i was in
underreacting
blind to her source
uncertain, skeptical
thinking, stop thinking about being the victim
unfeeling, indifferent, unthinking, unthinking
what?
 
not accepting her oppression
asserting the validity of her experience
and the experience of other others
a pot slowly overboiling
from the skin she was in
resurrecting the force, her source
hair on fire
mouth on fire
tongue on fire
the passion of others from eons past, yelling to her “you must shout!”
the flood of words
chains loosening,
noose loosening
back of the bus, no mo
drug store soda fountain, boycott the man
blacks only, no
whites only, hell no
walking the street, to let the white man pass
no mo, no mo
stopped and stared at
no mo, she shouts
 
i got the message girlfriend
i got the message this time

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BLIND COFFEE
khalilhanoun
Don't waste your finger
Don't touch the face.
love is so stupid
and my blind coffee too.
 
Why waiting you ?
while i can stand up and fly away
away from my deserted heart
away from your windows and skies..
 
O your lips:
the killing fields.
throne of thousands of demons.
The perfect tools of sadness.
 
For a while, close your body,
release the dreams.
teach your lips how to love.
 
Pain is pink
like your underwear.
pink like my blind coffee.

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a jealous child
wants the strength like you
a jealous child
has felt the feelings you do
a torn child
weeps quite confused
a torn child
has also been used
a lost child
was just left behind
a lost child
has no one to find
a persuasive child
wants this now
a persuasive child
will show you how
an irate child
was open then
an irate child
all started when
my love child
just walked away
my love child
with nothing to say

Morgan D  
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Torn Soul
Jessie Buck-Baxter
I remember his eyes so hard and cold,
Trying to hide what needed to be told.
A story of a life battered and bruised,
Broken, beaten and deeply abused.
A heart that was shattered in more ways then one,
A soul that was torn, a body that runs,
Away from the sorrow, the torment and pain,
Away to a place where it does not rain.
 
I remember his face so sad and alone,
Trying to make a life of his own.
Struggling to push the hurt from his heart,
And find a place to break apart,
From the past that has burned so deep within,
To forget, move on and begin again.

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Soft Life

Jerry Pike
Soft little life coagulates  
across the greenway path  
as frosty pastes white snow-work 
in thinness on the grass
 
Dark harvest moons of winter  
unmeaning, harshly kill  
set frozen ice and steal gods dice 
to gamble shudders chill
 
Sad leafless stalks of browning
snap-rigid, mark the ground
speared out like bamboo fences 
steer doubt into their frown
 
As January sails by, nothing  
no signposts, leads or clues
no tiny shots of wistfulness 
grey days, strum longer blues
 
Until the shoots blow us away
until loves sky bleeds through 
keep warm inside, whatever home 
has captured most of you

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  Sad Goodbye
Amandalynn Gooch   

Im not going to sit and cry over you. Cause honestly im sick of everything you do.
You always yell at me and pull my hair. I think you were full of crap when you said you care.
I no longer want to hear your voice. we are through, this time its my choice.
you always said, "baby please dont leave me." of course i didnt you were my obsession. But i swear i didnt know there would be much pain and depression.
I now clearly see you were always in the wrong. i bet you thought i would never leave you and be gone.
I came to my senses that i no longer need you. I know i can get better and get someone new.
IM getting our of this so i will no longer cry. This is my poem of a sad goodbye.

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Oh, My Love
venesa milek  
Oh my love I love you so
I never want to part from you as long as I live
 
Oh my love I need you so
I'll never part from your side
I swear to God
 
Oh my love Heaven must have sent you
Cause the Gods above you glorify your name as the angels praise you
 
Oh my love you must have loved before
cause you shy away too much
 
Oh my love you sing and dance
As if you died and gone away
 
Oh my love you came to me
As if you were planted on this earth
 
Oh my love I loved you so
You tore it up and left me so

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Misunderstood
-Jasmine Johnson

Here I am in this same ole seat
Thinking about my dreams
How a year ago, even if you said that
This is how things were gonna go
I still would’nt believe you
You look at me and interpret what
You see
Go deeper, deeper, then mabe you’ll
UNDERSTAND
Now that you’ve seen it can you
UNDERSTAND?
All I have to do is stay above
Watching: everything everyone{UNDERSTAND}
Learning: from everything I see{UNDERSTAND}
Waiting: fro the outcome, result, happiness, lonliness{UNDERSTAND}
Working: for the success, fame, power, end of hurt, pain{UNDERSTAND}
Hoping: that one day you’ll understand that I do my best in everything I do{UNDERSTAND}
I want you to realize that making
Myself happy should only make you
Happy
I want you to realize that its my
Life, my business
I want you to realize that my poetry is
Beautiful and it’s that I express
Myself in words I can’t say
When I write my heart opens and gives my
Soul a sign to just be free
UNDERSTAND
This isn’t something that I can expect you
To understand because it’s not you
My words haven’t touched you yet
Pretended if you wanna but I know
I’ve been given a little peace of the truth
Since age 11 and took it with me allowing
It to build and grow to the age of 14
UNDERSTAND
My hurt, pain, happiness, excitement,
Joy, sadness, intellectual ability
         UNDERSTAND
My hype, why I write. I don’t wanna
Be MISUNDERSTOOD
Feel me, don’t be afraid, take a
Risk to this
Unless your hiding something too
Just like me so you’re MISUNDERSTOOD
But trust me, let it go for it will set you free and
They’ll learn, to UNDERSTOOD
For they have no choice
Feel Me
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June
Bluebunny

 

                      A sweet little favor
                        so full of danger
                        My beautiful rose
                        that nobody knows
                          i cannot see
                      the sting of this bee
                          but i can feel
                      that this is for real
                          All i can smell
                      is the blood when I fell
                      I'm proud of my taste
                       cause I'm not a waste
                         is this dove
                         full of love?
                           can it be
                        sent from above?

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AGE DIFFERENCE LOVE:
BY: SARAH CASTILLO
 
When I first met you I was clueless about you, When I looked into your eyes I felt like I had to cry, I knew you cared about someone else, You were with her all the time being happy but at the same time annoyed, You saw me mourning my love for you, But did'nt care,I'm not saying that I regret everything we did, My love for you is everything,But You teared my heart out when I saw you kissing her gentle lips, You lied to me like I was a Dead tree, standing there doing nothing and not caring about all of your actions, I was scared that I'd lose you, I just could'nt leave you because leaving you would just tear me apart, 13 and 18 are different numbers, our age was a big deal, We were always there for eachother and making love to one another, but than now that we are apart for my stupid action, I feel mad and sad, I lost my honor with you because of love not lust, Now my heart is in Darkness and loneiness, Depression is the word for me, Because I couldnt see was inside of me tha!
 t made me hurt so bad inside I felt like I would die, But now I finally knew what was Going on inside, I'm screaming for you back and saying sorry, I wish I can change the past because what I have told my parents about us when you made me terribly mad, the thing is that I cant Change the past. Just still love me like you did before not physically but spiritually, Dont let our love fail, Just because of my wailing bad mistake. I'm Sorry.
 

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Sorry, I was Drunk
Jess G>
I had too much McCormicks, so you came to pick me up
I nearly threw-up in your car
I think I had enough
 
I'm glad that you pulled over because I got pretty sick
I fell into the bushes; you helped me out of it
I think I said I liked you; I didn't want you to see me puke
You said you still liked me just the same
Jesus Christ do I owe you.
 
I wish I wasn't drunk that night, but I liked the way you held me close
and how you picked me up when I fell
and to me that meant the most
So thanks for saving my ass and not thinking less of me
I've got a hang-over, my head's cleared, and I can finally see
I'm an idiot and I'm sorry

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Belonging
by Zarina Coetzee
“For the Freak in me who just doesn’t seem to fit in wherever she roams”.

I long to be held,
I long to be touched,
I LONG simply to belong, only to your touch.
 
I look out and see touching
All the while LONGING for your hands to
Come a- brushing. I learn the exact sculpting
Of your face, eyes closed in the warmth of your embrace.
 
Behold?! Darkness falls, as you
Become a shadow of what I can no
Longer hold. All that I once had is now
Just a memory of everything I WILL never have.
 
A moulded figure, forever imprisoned in the depths
Of my mind, I realise, all I can be is LONGING, for longing
Is all I’ve known about BELONGING.

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HAPPINESS
james ware

I feel like im out of gas
The end is here because of my past
So much, so lately has happened to me
My thoughts of you are only memories
 
The flame in me is but slowly dying
Not being with you I cant stop crying
I don’t know why, or how, or when
But this pain will last till I see you again
 
Maybe your not the one for me
Maybe your not the one I need
Maybe were not even meant to be
Maybe its me, maybe its me
 
You say were perfect as do I
Then why do I always break down inside
So much has happened in both of our lives
It makes me want to break down and cry
 
Your dad left you
My parents left too
We feel so lost
Like there's nothing left to do
But you have me, and I have you
We’ll last forever our love is true
 
Now I know that im not dying
Loving you is the reason for crying
And loving you makes me smile
This love we have will last for a while
 
Now I know that you’re the one for me
Now I know that you’re the one I need
Now I know that we were meant to be
Sorry I couldn’t see, sorry I couldn’t see
 
Now more than ever I want to be by your side
And continue on with a wonderful life
Who's knows what this life will have for us instore
Oh! And by the way I love you more.

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I'M WAITING...
Phoebe Ram
 
This is one day
That I haven't seen your face
Haven't felt your touch
Smelt your skin
Tasted your kiss

Today,I haven't seen your
Slow smile or shadowed eyes
With it's endearing mischief
But I remember it all
And I can hold it in my heart
 
I've barely heard your voice
And what I've heard lacked
That certain something that you
Have for me and only me
But you have stressful days
And I can wait to hear your love again
 
Yet i long for your company
Every part of me screams for you
But i can still smile because i have you
Close even though you are far

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oh how i dream
wishing i could go back
fix my mistakes thats tore us apart
knowing future secrets
i would have realized
you were right and i was wrong
i should have trusted
shouldn't have doubted
should have known u wouldn't lie
but i didn't trust
i doubted
and now i suffer
not a day goes by
that i don't think of you
we lose each day
as i watch in horror
breaking apart
memories being lost
but still you speak
for there's a chance
it's not over yet
it breaks my heart
but u still kiss me
u still hug me
as if nothing wrong
it bring me hope
we can get through this
but being alone
bring hopes to crouch in shadow
alone beings me tears
sleeping weeping
i love you with all my heart
couldn't bare to lose you

Stacy Kline

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Times
urbaby
The times we share are near and dear
The times we cherish
The times we fear
I love the times we're together
And Even when we're apart
No matter the times you'll always Be in my heart

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My Rose
tom mcgowan
 
My tears are the quiet strings of pearls
formed by some kinder, magical Rose.
All my grief flows from its magic-her,
though they are but a winter's gift
to remember her kiss that I stole.
 
My tears are the quiet drifts on new snow,
soft, yet fall swift upon her quilted earth
here all my grief flows from her passion;
a simple grave of sorrow's thrift repose,
tears and snowflakes that fall in frames.
 
My tears are the quiet place I do fall in,
a darkness that starts, looms in shadows,
darker, deeper to grow, in my grief to flow
in the rifts of each petal from my Rose adrift
on a winding rivers flow, swiftly past her now.
 
My tears are the quiet drift of love no more,
this grief flows from my heart's rift once more;
her grave I bow, I pray, I cry why her dear God?
While the clouds above hold their own, I burst tears
we shared along the years, life and love takes from one.

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WIN SOME
By Ed Hart

Mumblin' mews
an' makin' grace
(Henry's hand
beneath the lace),
the lady nibbles cake,
beguiled.
          Suggestin' tea,
she simmers words awhile,
all smiles.
            Bell of button break
reveals what's swell.
He chased. Her fell
into the charmish mode.
Oh, wonderspell
takes Henry for a ride.
A wave...a wand...a wind,
a falcon's dive.
                 Le petit mort,
la mer,
       we is alive.

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Truth
Stacey
I think i have fallen
In love with you
I don't know how to act
Don't know what to do.
 
At first i thought you felt the chemistry
But now I am assuming its a mystery.
 
There was a girl
Once upon a time
You said it ended sadly
But you still think of her
Her face not mine.
 
I'm assuming you said you liked me
Because she just walked past
Trying to make her jealous
Wanting her to change her mind.
 
She's moved on with someone else
This hurts you so
So forcing our issue
Will never go.
 
So tell me now
Now that you have that chance
Tell me the truth!

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I love you forever
By: Brittany Musick
 
I love you with every breath
With all I have left
From the sea’s deepest depths
I love you
 
With all of my hearts strength
With a million miles length
Every time I think
I think of you
 
As long as forever
I want us to be together
Through all sorts of weather
I will love you
 
When no one is there
When no one cares
When love seems too rare
I will love you
 
When everything is gone
When all your love for everything is withdrawn
When hopelessness dawns
I will love you
 
When you are down
And you come unwound
When your hope can’t be found
Remember I love you
 
When you make mistakes
And you are filled with hate
When you are old and gray
I will love you
 
Until the last day
On earth when you are taken away
Even though we will go our separate ways
My love will go with you

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YOU
kimberly mcbride

I've loved you once,twice,and again,
But you just wanted us to be friends.
Knowing these feelings i have for you,
All i want is for my dreams to come true.
Wanting you to hold me each and every day,
But these feelings i have for you are hard to explain.
I know that we will never be,
I just imagine you kissing me.
You'll never know how i feel,
But this is not a dream it is real.
I've tried to be your lover and your friend,
But the pain you have caused me will never end.
I know what i want and it is all true,
All i know that is is you.

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 I LOVE YOU                           
Vatasha white
I Love You
I think about you night and day
I hope the days don't fade away
 
You bring me up when I'm down
You make my frowns turn up-side down
I hope you never leave me cause I need you
 
You make me smile,laugh,and giggle
When i'm with you I get the wiggles
I hope you never leave me cause I need you
 
You won my heart
Your at a great start
 
Don't stop loving me
And I won't stop loving you
 
Despite all the thing you've done
I will always like and love you

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“Silly little questions”
Does your world move,
Every time I pass by?
Do you feel the warm salty tears,
When ever you see me cry?
 
Do you sit and wonder,
Whether or not I care?
Do you want to know.
You need me I’m there?
 
Do you want to know the answers,
To these silly little questions?
If you don’t already know,
Would you like some suggestions?
 
The answers are simple,
Though there is only one.
This answer from my heart is true.
The answer is because “I love you”

Cassie Thorne

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My best friend
Rosemary Nlemchukwu

I am ashamed of myself for feeling this way,
You are my best friend,
The only person that I feel close too even
thought we live different lives,
You are the only person that understands my
feeling, and my anger.
But you won't understand this one,
I envy you, little one,
You have everything that I always wanted,
You're intelligent, attractive, and talented,
Comparing myself to you makes me feel like a retard,
I have no talents that can even match up to yours,
In every subject you excel,
The straight A student, the perfect daughter,
the perfect friend, and the perfect sister,
You have everything that I hate myself for not having.

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Chris Bosh
Michael Scourey
Oh my gosh
Look at Chris Bosh
He's dunkin on the Suns
Like they weigh a thousand tons
His shot is so breath taking
While Toronto's win's in the making
He can easily take you to school
Making you look like a fool
His passes split the defence
Leaving your team look more dence
Making his way from Georgia Tech
His life was a pain in the neck
Carrying his team to the top
Teammates being caught by the cops
Making some big bucks
While killing the Milwaukee Bucks
So look at Chris Bosh, Gosh!

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