Longo-Geremia

CLOUDS IN MY COFFEE I look down and see Stormy clouds of cream Whirling round and round Whirlpools white velvet In black deep Frozen in a madman’s stare I seek peace in oblivion And time sleeps Moments rare and clear When I understand My shared reality Away from Soul’s fear And Mind’s treachery I... Sign in to see full entry.

MEDEA Medea Clings to daylight shadows Against the city walls Haunted by demons Of Her own making She flees Waiting for Night to fall No sacred pleas No witchery No magic litany Potion or incantation Will soothe the darkness That seizes her soul Raven hair Eyes that stare Sapphires black and cold... Sign in to see full entry.

MEDUSA: DEADLY FASCINATION Driven by deadly curiosity Thirst to know more of life’s Mysteries They came To witiniess one of Hell’s Abominatiions But Deeper into darkness they fell Never to see the light Again A crown of serpents Hissing warnings Angered by i the intrusioin of the human kind Medusa... Sign in to see full entry.

THE MAN IN THE MOON [revised] Once I believed In A man in the moon Who ate green cheese. The sky did fall for Chicken Little And The Cow jumped to the music Of The Cat’s fiddle Once I believed in Santa Claus Until The year I was five The twinkle I saw was in Grandpa’s eye And When Santa’s English... Sign in to see full entry.

THE WAY It was when papa died I lost my best friend I think of him often recollections biter sweet regrets and recriminations I did the best I could no sense to it all the years are done and no one comes back from the dead papa died hard but the time was short it was mamma who suffered here hell'too... Sign in to see full entry.

DIDONE {Dido} Dido stands on the shores of North Africa as she watches Aeneas sail away And Dido heard Venus whisper: Gentle heart Walk softly through the way Lit by passion’s fire Let silence speak your desire Until it has had it’s fill In Imagination And Burns no more Quiet and still Let your... Sign in to see full entry.

LIKE A PEBBLE My words are like a pebble Dropped in still waters Sending Ripples and waves To some distant shore Echoes of my reflection Visions and dreams of my perceptions to Life's wonderment and Death's intrusion I tell the world I have been And my mortality longs To leave traces In loving and... Sign in to see full entry.

ESSENTIAL INEVITABILTY I am a brief flame A dying ember Of a star Raging far into the universe Part of an event Magnificent Glorious and holy This humanikind Meaningful insignificance Born to Essential inevitability Of death and resurrection Holding my own Part of a Whole Through And Beyond an End I... Sign in to see full entry.

LIKE A STAIN ON A POLYESTER SHIRT Well, I tell you It isn’t all that bad Being sad that is From time to time Cynical more I say Nothing lasts forever Never more than a day Or A year or three And the past is past Still it does fill my mind And I do cry sometimes You understand There are memories And... Sign in to see full entry.

COWS AND BUTTERCUPS {West Virginia 1945 } I saw cows and buttercups One hot Summer’s day Dreaming on a mountain side Just above the coal mines Down West Virginia way I was only three. I held someone’s hand But don’t remember who She smelled of fresh-baked apple pie And walked with the breeze When... Sign in to see full entry.