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Four Poetic Points For The Neighborhood To Ponder

i

it is that particular moment
when your tongue tastes the skin of the wind
and it shall tell you too about its long
and unfinished journey

it is this intimacy with the hands of the wind
the talk that both of you do more often under the moon

ii

it is when you sit on the floor
your back rests on the wall
it is this intimacy of self-talking upon itself
when the wall begins to respond
when the floor finally makes its comments

iii

the neighborhood begins to doubt you
but you have no doubt about yourself or the floor's sincerity
or the door's indulgence
or the intimacy with the wind and the wall
which offers you a buffer between emptiness and
chaos

eventually everything has come
smooth and natural
well folded like the waves
well covered like the mist on the tree tops

iv

what you have to serve to all these inquisitors
is an empty glass upon an imaginary tray
which they still have to figure out
why you are serving them the perfect drops of silence
for all their thirsts.

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Intimacy is feared

Lovers fear secrecy
As they both have secrecy.
Intimacy means connecting
The inner core of the two,
Which will expose their weak spots,
Fearing which they fear intimacy.
They want bodily intimacy
Without soul’s intimacy.
Such intimacy betrays trust
And will wreck the very love.
15.12.2010

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Shadows On The Wall

When the fantasy we live in
Lies in pieces on the ground
And there is no false illusion
That can turn your heart around
Nothing can change the way I feel
Nothing can take your love from me
If only I didnt worry
If only I could see
If only I could see
Chasing shadows on the wall
Chasing shadows as they dance on the floor
Chasing dreams that were forever young
Now Im on my own
Chasing shadows on the wall
Shadows on the wall
On the sea of mediocrity
Drifting from a distant shore
No goodbyes no celebration
No-one there to close the door
Only the silence that I feel
Only the lonely road is real
If only I didnt loose you
If only we could be
If only we could be
Chasing shadows on the wall
Chasing shadows as they dance on the floor
Chasing dreams that were forever young
Now Im on my own
Chasing shadows on the wall
Shadows on the wall
Chasing shadows on the wall
Chasing shadows as they start to fall
Chasing dreams that were forever young
Chasing shadows on the wall
Chasing shadows on the wall
Chasing shadows as they dance on the floor
Chasing shadows on the wall

song performed by by Moody Blues
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The Inner Side Of Your Perfection

to get intimacy
you make love

to be more intimate
you need to make love some more
like a string of
buds of
tiny flowers

seemingly you want it without
an ending

eternity & infinity
side by side

but there is no intimacy in intimacy
since after each lovemaking
you return to the
emptiness of your arms again
less the other arms of those
other nights & other nights
before them

a cold night returns
with empty hands
and winds begin to pass
by your face
between your eyes
beyond your
hair
outside all of you

finally you try embracing yourself again
as though
you are another distinct set of arms
unto your
inner arms

and then you become one
without need
of any other

silent and
complete

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Outside And Inside

this early morning
the rains are raging
outside is a rampage of
blown leaves and trees
you are afraid may
finally be uprooted

in the room
the brown dog sleeps
beside a wooden wall
on the floor

the glass doors
& windows are closed
the silence reigns

inside you begin
on another journey
you began last night
on some short breaths
until you think
you had a nice sleep

inside there is something
that rages
it is not the wind or the rain
it is something else
that you want to know
more & more

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Dont Know What To Tell Ya

Heyyeah...heyyeahno
Chorus 1
You wanna handcuff me
But yo I dont know what to tell ya
(dont know what to tell ya)
You want my intimacy
But yo I dont know what to tell ya
(dont know what to tell ya)
You want to wall around me
I swear I dont know what to tell ya
(dont know what to tell ya)
You want my lock and my keys
But yo I dont know what to tell ya
(dont know what to tell ya)
Verse 1
Incarceration what Im facing
When Im with u
You are watching my every move
Trying to pick up on some clues
We play 20 questions
Every time I walk in or out the door
Why do you bother for (why do you bother for)
Get comfortable with yours
Chorus 2
Its gonna take (take)
T-r-u-s-t to keep our l-o-v-e
Its gonna take (gonna take)
Its gonna take (take)
T-r-u-s-t to keep our l-o-v-e
Crackin
Verse 2
Stressing second guessin me
Time and time again
We go from lovers to being friends
Got to put this to an end (hey..yeah)
Chorus 1
You wanna handcuff me
But yo I dont know what to tell ya
(dont know what to tell ya)
You want my intimacy
But yo I dont know what to tell ya
(dont know what to tell ya)
You want to wall around me
I swear I dont know what to tell ya
(dont know what to tell ya)
You want my lock and my keys
But yo I dont know what to tell ya
(dont know what to tell ya)
Verse 3
No justification for your actions
Should have been somewhere relaxed son
Dont compare me to your last one
I cant help if she was a fast one
A sassy one
Im a classy one
I can keep you from getting happy hon
Seems like that should make you happy hon
Chorus 2
Its gonna take (gonna take)
Its gonna take (take)
T-r-u-s-t to keep our l-o-v-e
Its gonna take (gonna take)
Its gonna take (take)
T-r-u-s-t to keep our l-o-v-e
Crackin
I cant deny all your lies
I try to put up with you
These insecurities every day
Pushing my love away
Chorus 1
You wanna hand cuff me
But yo I dont know what to tell ya (yeah..no)
(dont know what to tell ya)
You want my intimacy
But yo I dont know what to tell ya
(dont know what to tell ya)
You want to wall around me
I swear I dont know what to tell ya (I swear..yeah)
(dont know what to tell ya)
You want my lock and my keys (my lock and my keys)
But yo I dont know what to tell ya
(dont know what to tell ya)(no)
You wanna hand cuff me
But yo I dont know what to tell ya (yes you do)
(dont know what to tell ya)
You want my intimacy
But yo I dont know what to tell ya (no)
(dont know what to tell ya)
You want to wall around me (you want to wall around me)
I swear I dont know what to tell ya (I swear)
(dont know what to tell ya)
You want my lock and my keys
But yo I dont know what to tell ya
(dont know what to tell ya)
Chorus 2
Said is gonna take
Its gonna take (take)
T-r-u-s-t to keep our l-o-v-e (yeah)
Its gonna take
Its gonna take
T-r-u-s-t to keep our l-o-v-e
Its gonna take
Its gonna take
T-r-u-s-t to keep our l-o-v-e
Its gonna take
Its gonna take
T-r-u-s-t to keep our l-o-v-e
Crackin
Crackin

song performed by by Aaliyah
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Reminiscing...

ON THE floor
on the red carpet of this floor of this room
there is no wind
i am still looking at those imaginary leaves
of summer,
this shore is a seashore and i am the shadow
listening to the songs
of the seashells

there is no ill wind.

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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It Is Love Still, There Is No Other...

i accompany you to a wall
i know this wall fully well
it walled me since i was small,

and then i fall in love with you
and you feel the same wall despite the openness of the port of
the city where our love boat is docked
despite the songs of seagulls
despite the softness of my hands cupping your breasts

you ask me to explain about this wall
and so i am taking you there
for you to see

the wall has become thicker and higher
walling me since ages then
and it stares at me

asking, if i have learned about love at all?
if i have really love you? if i really love myself
despite the blindness that the wall is giving me
all my life

the wall is teasing me in front of you
i am ashamed

but i do not give up and hand all my life
without a fight to this wall

and i look at you
and i tell the wall your name

'here is my savior
have pity, she does not know a wall
she has not lived there once
she does not know your name
she cannot feel your
loneliness
she will die
she does not know a fight
against the wall'

and then there is silence
like an ocean's trench

the wall opens a door
some tears are left on the stairs

'it is love still, there is no other' the wind
sings to the highest cliff
on that mountain of
death.

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Pictures

Whoa oh yeah
I've seen pictures
Well i saw you just the other day
And i could not help but look your way
I say you've just got this special look
That has got me completely hooked
Ow
Pictures on the wall
Pictures everywhere
Pictures on the wall
Everywhere i stare
Pictures on the wall
The ceiling and the floor
I'm in a metal room
And i cannot find the door
Will this feeling ever go away?
Or will this feeling stay?
Will this feeling ever go away?
'cause i can't live the rest of my life this way
Pictures on the wall
[c'mon]
Pictures everywhere
Pictures on the wall
[c'mon c'mon]
Everywhere i stare
Pictures on the wall
[c'mon c'mon]
The ceiling and the floor
I'm in a metal room and i cannot find the door
I see your face in the clouds in the sky
I see your face before my eyes, yeah
I see your face everywhere
And now i don't know what to do
Oh oh
Pictures on the wall
Pictures everywhere
Pictures on the wall
Everywhere i stare
Pictures on the wall
The ceiling and the floor
I'm in a metal room
And i cannot find the door
Whoa pictures...

song performed by by Hanson
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The House of Secret

Close the door, the window speaks
The glass mirrors, the frame shrieks
Close the window, the wall listens
The picture has eyes, the curtain has shadow
Close the wall, the roof stares
The air chills, the light fogs
Close the roof, the floor swallows
The carpet has void, the stair has trap
Close the floor, the door sneaks
In the house of secret, could you find the escape?

poem by Maria Sudibyo
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Separate savings

The tightest intimacy
Is the physical intimacy
That husband and wife enjoy.
Their separate earnings
And separate pooling
Would mar that intimacy.
The scarifying tendency
In them will slowly die.
13.10.2009

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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'Til Nothing Comes Between Us

Close your eyes, can you see me...
Rollin' down the Rocky Mountains
Movin' like the wind that sweeps the Kansas plains
I know you're with me
As I make my way through Oklahoma
Pass the barns and weather vanes
There are motels, cafes, fields and billboard signs
A thousand miles of highway
Between your heart and mine...
There will finally come a moment
When one man and one woman
Get everything that they've been waiting for...
I'll take you in my arms again
Feel your skin against my skin
Let the sheet fall slowly to the floor
Til nothing comes between us anymore...
In my soul I can feel you...
As I cross the Mississippi
You're the river flowin' in me
Comin' home I count each heartbeat...
Til the moment we're together
And the distance can't be measured
That's all that keeps me goin'
When I'm gone...
There will finally come a moment
When one man and one woman
Get everything that they've been waiting for...
I'll take you in my arms again
Feel your skin against my skin
Let the sheet fall slowly to the floor
Til nothing comes between us anymore...
Anymore...
There will finally come a moment
When one man and one woman
Get everything that they've been waiting for...
I'll take you in my arms again
Feel your skin against my skin
Let the sheet fall slowly to the floor
Til nothing comes between us anymore...
There will finally come a moment
When one man and one woman
Get everything, everything, everything (Fade out)

song performed by by John Michael Montgomery
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Through The Veil for Dave Walker

there's a light
in the window
of the house

forgotten by time;
a book on the table,
unopened.

footprints on the floor
covered with dust.
a cup in the sink

half-empty.
the wind blows
curtains grey with time....

whispering, whispering....
names that cannot
be heard.

voices, echoes,
creaking the floor.
a book of photographs

on the closet floor.
walking through the mist,
the fog and the shadows,

touching small particles
of being left like gifts....
lives unwrapped into mine!

poem by Eric Cockrell
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Haunted

See! He trails his toes
Through the long streaks of moonlight,
And the nails of his fingers glitter:
They claw and flash among the tree-tops.
His lips suck at my open window,
And his breath creeps about my body
And lies in pools under my knees.
I can see his mouth sway and wobble,
Sticking itself against the window-jambs,
But the moonlight is bright on the floor,
Without a shadow.
Hark! a hare is strangling in the forest,
And the wind tears a shutter from the wall.

poem by Amy Lowell
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Intimacy

Last night before you fell asleep
You whispered something to me
Was it just a dream
I'm gonna listen to you close
Coz your goodnight kiss
Felt like a ghost

What are you trying to say to me?
What are you trying to say?

Everybody's searching for intimacy
Ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh
Everybody's hurting for intimacy
Ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh
Hey yeah

song performed by by The Corrs from Talk On Corners
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A Tree Tested For Its Roots

at first the wind blows
with cruelty
uprooting all the root of
your being
but this is only at first
you are but
a tree tested
for how long you can
continue
being attached to the
earth
the wind makes it sure
that you know
what attachment is
the meaning of being
rooted

after the uprooting
when all your leaves are taken away
when you are but all hands
with nothing to grip

then the wind begins to show
its true nature

it is lovely
fresh and pure

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Intimacy

Afraid of intimacy.
A heart that has been stung,
Just once...
Becomes more suspicious,
And less naive...
When a stinging from someone loved,
Is untimely done.

Afraid of intimacy.
Very few are ready to commit to this.
Until assured some consistency,
Is readily given...
In the sharing of mutual needs.

Not many will leave themselves open.
Or acknowledge publicly...
A wish for a love uncompared,
Shared in secret privacy.
And one devoted and discreet.

Afraid of intimacy?
Not me!
Whether private in discreet...
Or publicly displayed on crowded streets.
I seek a one on one!
That would suit me perfectly.
But these days that kind of intimacy,
Seems to be antiquated history.

Afraid of intimacy.
Very few are ready to commit to this.
Until assured some consistency,
Is readily given...
In the sharing of mutual needs.

And that would be my philosophy,
Regarding how I feel about intimacy.
An act complete of 'shared' familiarity.
Not something done to walk away from and leave.
That's nothing more than satisfying a convenience.

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Return To Innocence

ANGEL OF DARKNESS

RETURN TO INNOCENCE

Open the door, go through the entrance
Behind the door, into the darkness
Right on the floor, the source of silence
With just a call makes every thing useless

That call is a single cry
A sound that can make you shy
Without a move you're tied
Confronted with your own desire

Just a doubt in your mind
A wall to hide behind
To take a break and remind
To stay noble, clean and kind

A call to a moment of reminiscence
A confrontation with my soul's absence
A direct touch to my heart, to my conscience
Is how my baby's smile returns me to innocence...
(to be continued...)
A.O.D.

poem by Angel Of Darkness7
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Merman

The wind crept in from the southern gulf
And it rustled through the trees,
As clouds flew over, covered the sun
In some vast conspiracy,
The light was dimmed to an eerie gloom
And the wind began to squall,
Whipping the crests of the breakers up
The length of the Great Seawall.

A single cottage sat at the shore
And it showed a feeble light,
Where Mary D'Arcy sat in the gloom
To peer, in a sudden fright,
For a man rose slowly, out of the sea
His body covered in scales,
And roared like a monster from the deep
Cast up by the winter gales.

‘Come out! Come out! Wherever you are! '
He roared, as he reached the shore,
His eyes were dead in a fish's head
‘Come out for your just reward! '
But Mary's face in the window, lit
By a single candle there,
Was pale and white in her sudden fright,
She could only sit and stare!

The wind began to shriek at the eaves,
The waves crashed over the wall,
And sudden debris littered the beach
That had been so clean before,
Then lightning arced from the surly cloud
And thunder rattled the pane,
Of the glass in the cottage window there,
And then it began to rain.

The size of the rolling breakers grew
And crashed, white foam in their fall,
They vomited up an oil slick
That stuck like glue to the wall,
‘You think you can dump your slime on me, '
He roared, and stood in the foam,
‘You think that you have a bottomless sea,
That bottomless sea's my home! '

The water lapped at the cottage door,
The debris swirled at the rip,
‘I'm giving you back your junk for free
And the wrecks of your sunken ships!
See how you cope with the slime and filth
That you dump on the ocean floor…'
But Mary D'Arcy tightened her lips
And opened the cottage door!

‘Why do you spend your rage on me
When the world out there's to blame?
I'm just a single, innocent soul
On this beach you thought to claim! '
‘For every time you empty your sink
With grease, and bleach, your drain
Runs out to the pristine water's edge -
You're one, but you're all the same! '

The oil poured in, and over the floor,
Dead birds were caught in the slime,
And fish that gasped at their final breath
Lay strewn at the shore's define,
The Merman turned, walked back to the sea
‘I'm putting you to the test!
You've seen what your future shores may be,
You'd better go tell the rest! '

9 August,2012

poem by David Lewis Paget
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Only The Wind

(tennant/lowe)
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Its only the wind blowing litter all around
Just a little wind and the trees are falling down
Theres nobody crying, that was yesterday
Inside were all smiling, everythings okay
Its only the wind blowing cans along the street
Someones dustbin lid playing havoc with the peace
Theres nobody hiding behind a locked door
And no ones been lying, cause we dont lie any more
Its only the wind, how it takes you by surprise
Suddenly begins, then before you know it dies
My hands are not shaking, I dont touch a drop
You must be mistaken, I know when to stop
When life is calmer, I have no doubt
No angry drama, a storm blows itself out
Its only the wind, they say its getting worse
The trouble that it brings haunts us like a curse
My nerves are all jangled, but Im pulling through
I hope I can handle what I have to do
When life is calmer, I have no doubt
No angry drama, a storm blows itself out
A storm blows itself out...
Im sorry

song performed by by Pet Shop Boys
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The Filthy Rich Woman Flirting In The Escalator

she met him
at the escalator
they did not talk
but their eyes
were laughing
taunting
for more of this
mutual understanding

there is no
need for elaboration
for what both
people know

there was a certain
intimacy in their
silence
not unusual for this
filth

this way of loving
only in the mind

with a stranger
she looked down
not at the floor
somewhere between
the ceiling and
his shoes

between his legs
i supposed

there is a short
lapse

and they cannot
forget it

that crisp crunch
a steady thump
sweet stud
a thud.

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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