Poem by Ronnie Tucker (USA)
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RONNIE TUCKER (USA)
MYSTICAL BUT CRYSTAL CLEAR
All I want, all I need
Slipped away in empty arms
Entertaining silence
The mystic spoken not heard
Fade out to the fantastic
Sacred tongues
Taste God and devour
Bitter is the sour
To lament and spit out demons
To kiss a sweet Angels breast
To converse in symphony
Stare down the faces in the light
Close the void and turn out the twilight
No one is really home anyway
Lift a tear for the madrigal for she is sorrow
Let the veils of time open
Pastoral collide
Safety is the sunrise
Necromancer awaken the dawn
Drink from the soul of wells
Bitter requiem running like water
Down for slaughter
Now to lie in the dirt
On the brink
Death is but a reflection
In aging cromlechs
circles ancient druids in ritual lastance
Chanting languages lost and forgotten by mortal man
As the wicker man is set aflame
With multiple sacrifices both human and animal
Encloaked beneath starshine
They conjure in twilight
Bitter spaces discarded traces
We are born and in time we die
For nothing really lasts forever
From the cradle to the grave
At the turn of the page
So enchanting and so mysterious
Mystical yet visionary
Twas this golden age
With open minds and open hearts
Withered on the vine
So soured yet so divine
Ancient God's speak in hidden interpretations
The meaning is only known to the druidic tongues
Woe those were days
Woden stir the cauldron
And drink from the cup of immortality
And dream of the days to come again
For now they are but a reflection
HAI , HAI
Only the good hearts die
The bad hearts are alive
Only the good die young
The bad seeds bleed
So king me
The dogs days have come
Dig in so deep
The wounds and scars never heal
I stand by myself
To late to cry why oh why are we so cursed
Oh baby tell about the good times
Oh baby why aren't we doing fine
Oh baby where did the love go
Crashing down like a nightmare
Where did it go wrong
Oh baby what could have been
Howling, howling that's me howling in the gloom
Oh baby, baby
I couldn't keep you to the end
Oh baby, baby
I cry, I cry for you
It's all over
Over now
It's all over now
Over, over we stumbled and we fell
Not a chance for romance
It's all long gone
Hai, hai, hai
Come and go go, go, go
Lonely is a heart cries
When it beats alone
So sad, so sad
My emotions
No goodbye just a lie
Hai, hai, hai
When love is gone, gone
No illusion, just a conclusion
Loneliness, confusion
Feel the coldness
Isolation 7
Oh baby, baby
What has happened to our dreams
I surrendered to you
All those years
All through the tears
All through the laughter
All through the good and bad
Now they are gone with the wind
Its so sad to look back
My heart is broken
Oh how we use to shine
Now the sparkle is gone
I have lost you now, I have even lost myself
Now you have gone with someone else
Now there's no looking back
Only moments from yesterday
A breath, a whisper just for that way to be again
But they are only breathless whispers
Nothing is enough
It is denying
It is crying
Emotionally empty
No blue skies again
Bleeding hearts bleed
Locked away in the night
Over and over
Again, again
Over and over again
I hope he treats you well
And brings you the desire you need
I bury my heart in my sleeve
I know there's no way back
I reap what you give me
Baby, baby it's just so surreal
No way out
All I did for you was for love
And it broke me
Now I am the one who bleeds.
Prepared Angela Kosta Academic writer, poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, translator, journalist
