Today’s selection is from my favorite poem that I read when I was in high school; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. I had to post a video because this poem is best when read out loud. Enjoy your Sunday…Love your life!!!
Tag: Health
April is National Poetry Month: Day 14
MASQUERADE BALL
A man with everything
Always lacks some one
Don’t let ’em fool ya
People who brag about being some one-
Are usually no one
People who think themselves poor
Are actually quite rich
People who think they’ve arrived
Usually have a gazillion miles to go
People who think they shine
Are actually a galore of bore
People who think they’re hot
Are truly not
People who think too much
Do the thinking of the ones who don’t
People who think they are blind,
can actually see..if they so choose to.
People who claim they can’t hear-
Hear more than they let on
People who think themselves puny-
are usually the hidden giants among us.
People who think they’ve nothing to say-
Are the ones you wish would stay
People who think themselves mighty
Should see themselves first as lowly
People who think themselves dull
Are actually great beacons of light,
leading ships into harbor
that have lost all their sight.
People who think themselves wise
Are usually the ones who fall for all their lies
Don’t judge a book by its cover?
Yeah, don’t be too quick to judge a man
Sit still in his presence
Soon you’ll see his true lover.
EVA SANTIAGO copyright 2013
April is National Poetry Month: DAY 3
Today I will share the world’s shortest poem by Ogden Nash (1902-1971).
Fleas
Adam
Had ’em.
HEARTS EXPLODE
What causes a heart to explode
Bad news
Good news
Losing touch with its muse
What causes a heart to burst
A smile
A hug
A touch from a child
What makes a heart boom
A kiss from a lover
A love letter
Decimates all the gloom
What makes a heart blow up
Injustice
Violence
With no end in sight
What makes a heart fly into pieces
Tragedy and promise of love
Hatred and love divine
Darkness and light
Defeat and victory
We’re all living one breath away from :
Tragedy and promise of love
Hatred and love divine
Darkness and light
Defeat and victory
-Eva Santiago Copyright 2013
Wild Things
Wild things
They grow in the dark
They grow in the mud
They grow and multiply
Everyone has wild things
That they willingly deny
Wild things
They make our hearts race
They make us feel alive
They set the pace
Make you wanna fly to outer space
Wild things
We fear them
For they go against the norm
Of what we were taught
We never feared wild things
That was until the day
We learned to perform
And to not resist the norm
Wild things:
People
Places
Things
Wild things give us wings
And we retreat when they appear
Because the voices of should, shall and shant
Have instilled in us all a fear
Fear the wild things
They cry beg plead and implore,
“Don’t go there!” They scream,
“Don’t ever your world explore!”
Aahhh but explore we must!
For wild things beckon us to come out and play
Try this food
Play this game
It might be good
If you don’t try something new
You’ll always stay the same
Wild things
View them as a babe
Who was just born
Slaves kills what’s wild
They’ve lost their sight
They fear what’s wild
Whipped into submission
By the rod of a misguided child
Wild things:
Embrace them is to live
You die when you choke them.
Eva Santiago copyright 2013
She Speaks and the World Listens
She speaks and the world listens.
With soothing words on her tongue, she can calm the storm in another’s soul. Her eyes will caress you and hold you. You feel the fire in her soul. Her heart beats to the sound of an unheard drum. Only she can hear that beat and she doesn’t care that others don’t. Her hands create life and restore what was lost. Her touch is gentle yet firm and your heart melts when she embraces you. Her lips tell the truth and if they ever dare to breathe a lie it’s because she learned from Rahab that at times people are more accepting of deception than the truth that would set them free.
She’s been hurt. Her heart crushed to fine powder; almost beyond recognition. But her fortitude lies in the fact that she gave her demolished heart to her God and left it in His hands trusting Him to do what He needed to restore it. But God surprised her completely by giving her a new heart all together. Not because He couldn’t fix the old one. He restored to her a better heart than what she had- taking the good from the one she had and putting it in the new vessel He gave her.
Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
This woman walks with her head held high because she knows the worst is over. She has tread in places that would have driven someone else completely insane. She has suffered but never in vain because she always took the good from the bad. She was given a gift to discern even the slightest hint of light in pitch dark places. No matter what she’s been through, she’s been able to find the dynamic in the demonic. She can see greatness in the smallest of things. What others will dismiss as trivial and mundane, she can find the unique and special in. The people society throws away are the ones she’s drawn to because she too knows what it was like to be discarded at an early age.
-Eva Santiago copyright 2013
MUJER HERMOSA
Beautiful woman that you are
How could it be that you strayed so far
How could it be you never saw
That you are a brightly lit star
Beautiful woman that you are
Why did you walk on
Why didn’t you look in the mirror
Te escondiste en la mar.
Beautiful woman, lovely is your name
You’re all what they say and so much more
Now it’s your time go on and proclaim-
“I’ve changed for the better and I’ll never be the same!”
-Eva Santiago copyright 2013
THAT PLACE
There is a place where no one knows if it’s day or night because it’s always light.
There is a place where no one cries because there is no more fight.
There is a place where no one dies
Because no one speaks any more lies
There is a place
There is a place
Where there is no fear
Because heaven is near
There is a place
Oh there is a place
Where the fires of passion burn
Where your longings churn
And nothing gets held back
And no one is slack
There is a place
Where lovers stop time
Give in to the chase
Where lovers stop time
See eye to eye-face to face
Lips on lips
Hand in hand
THIS is that place!
-Eva Santiago copyright 2013
THAT GIRL
There is this girl
She is meek,she is mild
She rocks my world
My worries melt when I see her smile.
She is soft, she is fragile
But don’t ever underestimate her
Though soft and fragile;
Inside she is a mighty fortress
One I turn to in distress
She laughs at hardship
She winks at the moon
Lifting her arms in worship
She knows pain and sorrow end soon
She laughs at the darkness
She sings from her pain
When my world is all madness
Every note she sings keeps me sane
She is a bundle of contradictions:
Tiny yet mighty
Fragile yet strong
Soft yet hard
She laughs while she cries
She sings through her tears
She dances past the lies
Her music dispels all my fears
She is that girl
She alone can rock my world!
-EVA SANTIAGO copyright 2013
Word Picture #14
FOR: RLND…
It’s cold outside. The birds don’t even come out to sing They’re barely looking for food.
It’s so cold outside, the sky is frigid and still;
as when someone holds toward you ill will.
It’s so cold outside,
the bare branches on the tree look arthritic.
It’s so cold outside;
the wind pierces my skin and bones;
as his bitter words once pierced my heart.
It’s so cold outside;
all the chimneys sit back smoking away their worries
and telling old, sad stories.
It’s so cold outside;
the ground froze like a face does during a stroke.
It’s so cold outside;
I feel like I’m going to choke…..
It’s so cold outside;
but I’m all warm inside.
The birds outside with no song to utter
but my heart is a flutter
The sky maybe still-
but my heart will never get its fill.
And though the wind pierces my skin and bones,
thoughts of you mean I’m not all alone.
It’s cold outside;
but inside of me spring is giving way to summer.
-EVA SANTIAGO copyright 2012
