List: Love: Monochrome

Love is not white on black or black on white; neither black on black or white on white. How few ever set eye on sight ... and Love ...

In Monochrome, one may grasp but a shadow.

PhotoArt: Myra, 2008 -- Self.One

• Transcript

  darkness
  turns pale to hide

  39 lines, 2 comments, on Feb 6 6:39 AM 2008. In Personal, Loss
• Insignificant

  so small
  a shadow

  21 lines, 3 comments, on Feb 6 7:42 AM 2008. In Personal, Sad
• Recovery

  if i try
  i may lift my head

  29 lines, 4 comments, on Feb 6 7:50 AM 2008. In Personal, Sad
• Knightless Nights

  an ironheart
  flung

  38 lines, 3 comments, on Feb 6 8:11 AM 2008. In Personal, Pain, Hope
• Route

  years
  etched sketched

  15 lines, 12 comments, on Feb 6 11:06 AM 2008. In Life, Personal, Sad, Hope
• Sweet Memories

  He was a weekend drinker. My mother literally put him to bed ... This way we were all safe for a short while.
  Well, this was a Saturday a

  28 lines, 9 comments, on Apr 2 12:45 PM 2008. In Personal, Memories, Lessons of Life. Perceptions, Prose
• ... now the voice is silent ...

  the voice used to walk around
  on soleless sandles

  26 lines, 7 comments, on Apr 10 11:50 PM 2008. In Thoughts, Life, Transition
• Winter Rain

  Winter Rain
  Drizzle ...

  16 lines, 13 comments, on Aug 3 10:00 AM 2008. In Solitude, Silence, Rain
• The Day the Music Died

  globalize decay
  

  17 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 7 1:49 AM 2008. In Society, Decay, Angst
• Otherwise: Stay another Day

  on returning
  to a beginning

  28 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 12 12:42 AM 2008. In Society, Love, Loss
• Life's Jive

  7 lines, 11 comments, on Aug 12 1:20 AM 2008. In Thoughts, Loss, Life
• I thought I saw an Angel

  I thought I saw an angel
  she was draped in simple gown

  26 lines, 7 comments, on Aug 12 3:09 AM 2008. In Personal, Hope, Angels
• Toothpaste

  Two weeks after your funeral
  

  28 lines, 16 comments, on Aug 12 6:34 AM 2008. In Personal, Grief
• Only a lonely Friday ... and a Crying Girl

  The setting was not glamorous,
  neither romantic ...

  23 lines, 8 comments, on Aug 22 3:00 PM 2008. In Sad, Silence, Thoughts
• Softness of Darkness

  She woke at night in haunted house
  and heard a melody of Strauss ...

  27 lines, 31 comments, on Aug 24 8:13 AM 2008. In Love, Dark, Spiritual
• Fingerboard

  Abandoned in this agony and fear alone,
  the anger has left me.

  49 lines, 10 comments, on Sep 9 9:09 AM 2008. In Hope, Life, Love
• Hang Tough

  In solo flight, somewhat apart,
  I know you gently hold my heart

  22 lines, 15 comments, on Sep 11 12:21 AM 2008. In Personal, Love, Life
• Futile

  hush
  and depart

  6 lines, 14 comments, on Sep 16 11:04 AM 2008. In Love, Loss, Agony
• Monochrome

  once my fingertips
  could read your love

  13 lines, 7 comments, on Sep 20 2:48 AM 2008. In Soul search, Personal, Love
• Hidden, to be Found

  Agony in secrecy and seclusion,
  masked as love,

  9 lines, 7 comments, on Sep 22 6:05 AM 2008. In Love, Spiritual, Growth, Meta-therapy
• Knotted

  you taught me so much
  about leaving

  23 lines, 8 comments, on Sep 24 8:17 AM 2008. In Loss, Love, Personal
• Consider Gravitation

  Neither Einstein nor Kashlinksky
  noted the dance of souls

  30 lines, 7 comments, on Sep 27 1:01 PM 2008. In Nature, Love, Universe, Unknown
• Shudder

  We were so young, so clever, sharp;
  we thought that we could grasp

  25 lines, 24 comments, on Oct 1 6:47 AM 2008. In Personal, Pain, Truth, Spiritual, Reify
• In Loving Memory

  wreath of roses
  baby tears

  11 lines, 8 comments, on Oct 9 5:44 AM 2008. In Loss, Irony, Life, Sad, Dark
• Victor turned Loser

  truths traced in action
  deceitful in lust

  28 lines, 5 comments, on Oct 13 3:17 AM 2008. In Dark, Sorrow, Deceit
• Liar

  when did I start to forgive
  liars?

  14 lines, 42 comments, on Oct 20 4:04 AM 2008. In Love, Spiritual, Forgiveness, Creative
• Futile Affair

  At sunset he sat petrified under the palm tree:
  face in tight grimace and head in jolt,

  8 lines, 8 comments, on Oct 22 7:16 AM 2008. In Spiritual Agony, Guilt, Other
• Ambivalence

  caught in her eyes sob scream and shout:
  leave me alone ... no let me out!

  25 lines, 4 comments, on Oct 22 9:49 AM 2008. In Agony, Masks, Society
• Blues of the Misused

  bird to sky seed to soil
  rambling roses

  33 lines, 5 comments, on Nov 27 8:21 AM 2008. In Incomplete, Process, Society, Healing, Art
• Wend

  Grand long novels of science fiction
  and fantasy, in a philosophic,

  21 lines, 7 comments, on Nov 28 2:45 AM 2008. In Life, Pondering, Clarification, Reality
• Green

  when green enters
  the tender heart

  15 lines, 13 comments, on Dec 1 12:26 PM 2008. In Personal, Loss
• John's Poem

  journalist he was
  inquisitive about life and love

  31 lines, 10 comments, on Dec 26 3:29 PM 2008. In Spiritual, Loss, Love
• Liefdeskrif/Writing Love

  nie die drup van hartseer bloed
  maar die omhelsing van soet

  33 lines, 19 comments, on Feb 11 3:55 PM. In Love, Society, Upliftment, Spiritual
• Strip

  pestle and mortar
  ground from a fount

  15 lines, 6 comments, on Mar 5 11:48 PM. In Life, Abstract, Pain, Personal
• Of All Things Lost

  Of all the things lost I remember the blue tea set clearly. It was special. Very fragile, very old. There were six cups, six saucers.The cu

  21 lines, 25 comments, on Mar 6 10:53 PM. In Personal, Healing, Society, Pain
• Open-Heart Surgery

  I opened my heart to you
  after the severance of stab

  19 lines, 10 comments, on Mar 7 12:13 AM. In Pain, Growth, Personal, Love
• Remnants of Rags

  Ah. Small nuances of ancient angst:
  be it concerto, rodeo, museum ...

  29 lines, 14 comments, on Mar 26 9:21 AM. In Love, Society, Reflections.
• Hint

  not in the shield
  you will find the gold

  15 lines, 6 comments, on Apr 24 5:19 AM. In Love, Creative, Endurance
• notebook

  a rough draft
  to open the heart of memory

  24 lines, 7 comments, on Apr 27 1:43 AM. In Love, Loss
• A Winter Awareness

  aloft in winter's bed of iron
  swaying from detached

  15 lines, 5 comments, on Apr 27 2:06 AM. In Love, Loss
• Resurrection

  sorrow becomes sacred
  in its ritualistic

  12 lines, 2 comments, on Apr 27 2:20 AM. In Love, Loss, Death
• Bleeding Belladonna

  the poison inside at last bleeds
  itself in bruise

  23 lines, 8 comments, on May 19 4:14 AM. In Nature, Spring, Sad, Healing
• My Legacy: Asylum of Our Eyes

  That is strange. I once used the very same phrase in a poem:
  "In the asylum of your eyes, iodine stained..."

  27 lines, 7 comments, on Jul 15 9:47 AM. In Love, Spiritual, Suicide
• Crying in the Rain

  Once I wished to be happy eternally
  and I offered stars to the sky

  19 lines, 35 comments, on Jul 15 11:37 PM. In Pain, Solace, Love
• Stark Truth

  Know that I left
  

  15 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 21 2:47 AM. In Love, Personal, Sad
• Wired

  disc
  over truth

  16 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 23 4:21 PM. In Time, Stark
• High-Octane

  sometimes
  on cannot write about

  11 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 27 2:08 PM. In Pain, Personal, Loss
• Let there be Life

  soft words on pages of this life
  are lost within sahara sand

  21 lines, 6 comments, on Aug 5 4:36 AM. In Spiritual, Picture Prompt, Life, Hope
• Where Winter Moon is Whole

  We often use words like fly, glide and soar
  not knowing what they truly mean. To lift

  21 lines, 7 comments, on Aug 5 9:15 AM. In Love, Nature, Spiritual, Personal
• Mother, Get a Life

  motherhood for me is acutely personal
  nothing metaphoric to be honest for I guess in good poetry

  55 lines, 2 comments, on Sep 7 7:31 AM. In Pain, Motherhood, Empty nest syndrome
• A Pillow Case of Dreams

  25. Write anything about sleeping.

  22 lines, 4 comments, on Sep 8 5:55 AM. In Love, Life, Personal, Dreams
• Broken this Day

  Evensong, the compass card
  to guide my soul on east-west bound

  16 lines, 5 comments, on Sep 8 6:49 AM. In Love
• See these Eyes, Broken ...

  All things primitive remain
  silent, untainted and unchanged.

  13 lines, 4 comments, on Sep 8 7:10 AM. In Pain, Personal, Sad
• The Beats of Life ...

  the beats of life
  

  7 lines, 5 comments, on Sep 8 8:24 AM. In Dark, Spiritual, Irony, Hope
• Iron Lung

  On the day you left
  the sun turned purple

  26 lines, 6 comments, on Sep 10 2:02 AM. In Love, Loss, Personal
• My Love ... My Life

  Night's moment, fleeting velvet, short,
  we touched in love, true life, abort

  10 lines, 8 comments, on Sep 14 2:29 AM. In Love, Loss
• Signals

  You are heading the wrong way!
  I signaled to him, in the dark of night,

  27 lines, 9 comments, on Sep 20 9:55 AM. In Personal, Pain, Sad
• Recall Love's Landscape

  Youth refuses to leave,
  awaiting our spring.

  13 lines, 6 comments, on Sep 25 1:19 AM. In Love, Loss, Personal
• The Unique You

  You are no Gibran, Diamond, or Neruda
  You know how much I love those three.

  19 lines, 13 comments, on Sep 25 2:54 AM. In Love, Loss, Sad
• Please Make me Blind

  Married to a memory, the timber of the empty room of my soul holds your fleeting footfall, fading away from me. White chiffon and silk orga

  8 lines, 2 comments, on Oct 9 3:03 PM
• Winter's Dance on a Freshly Cut Lawn

  I remember the time when we ordered compost
  and you, lost in stacks of words, sociologist,

  48 lines, 2 comments, on Oct 11 12:58 AM. In Memories, Personal, Love, Life, Winter
• Futility

  From words left unspoken
  we fail, not fall, in love;

  8 lines, 7 comments, on Oct 11 4:35 AM. In Life, Love, Diverge, Loss
• A Reason as Good as Genesis

  I love him
  for he taught me

  5 lines, 4 comments, on Oct 17 4:56 AM. In Love, Personal, Life
• I Search You in the Rooms You Built

  I search you in the rooms you built
  against cold desert wind;

  18 lines, 9 comments, on Oct 17 11:22 AM. In Love, Sorrow, Loss, Hope
• Remnants

  With all weaving done, I turn my eyes to fields
  where dreams left chaff

  19 lines, 11 comments, on Nov 11 1:22 PM. In Personal, Ponderings, Placement

• By me, right now

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