Example 1:
Thwarted of Love!
Excommunicated by you
Your promise a deception
My needs and necessities irrelevant
All for your own protection
A warning for the future
That’s what you were
Thwarted of your love
How could this occur?
I trusted you implicitly
Loved you unconditionally
Protected you totally; but
Lost you mercilessly
To know that we could
Be so happy together
That’s the sad truth
However!
Nothing you could say
Could yourself be redeemed
Nor will it take away
The times that I’ve screamed
So I have to believe
That what I desire
Can happen for me
So I never lose the fire
Example 2:
Footprints Upon My Heart
Your footprints
Have left their imprint
Throughout my heart
At a dawdle; not a sprint
Your broken word
It scorched my soul
Left if burnt and black
Abandoned upon a knoll
Your fingerprints
Adorn my body
Although not visible
To anybody
Your kisses
As sweet as nectar
Left their taste
Upon every oral sector
Your voice
A continual echo
That sings to me
Constantly and low
Yet the warmth
I felt whilst next to you
Is slowly fading
Will the others too?
Example 3:
My Armageddon!
You are the beautiful oasis
Within my own personal desert
Where abundant blessing I found
Which should have raised an alert
You epitomised tranquility
And took me on a journey
A personal pilgrimage
Akin to an arduous tourney
Seeking after light (understanding)
Searching for truth and love
Requires enormous resilience
And help from up above
I’ve accepted I must learn
From my experience with you
So I can better understand
The sensitivity of my heart too
My love and adoration for you
Was my Armageddon
My battle of right and wrong
But my love; it will never deaden
Not free of error
Or innocent of sin
This love battle I lost
Before it could even begin
Example 4:
My Legacy!
There is only one man
I want knocking at my door
But he doesn’t have the courage
And this; I implore
I thought he was strong
And courageous to boot
But he just used me
And he had a hoot
How pathetic am I?
It’s three in the morning
And he is all I can think of
And my poems to him; adorning
I get so damn mad
He’s still in my head
He is all I can think of
Nothing else instead
It just goes to prove
It’s him that I love
Although I can’t have him
Despite begging help from above
He’s obviously a legacy
I must now live with
But the sincerity of my love
I will never misgive
.
Example 5:
A Woman’s Hand
I’ve scaled a mountain
That others could not see
I scaled it alone
I scaled it for thee
I endured depression
Caused from losing you
Spent years in darkness
And conquered that too
The strangest thing
That came from all this
There was nigh a man around
When I needed any assist
Each and every time
I was about to plummet
It was a woman’s hand
With which I was met
Each and every time
Tapping on my shoulder
Was a woman’s hand; and
An offer to bolster
Are men so blind?
They really can’t see
The plight of others’
And just leave them be
Is it really?
All about them
Unlike women who are there
Time and time again
Example 6:
Poetry; My Gift
God graced me with a gift
My gift; undiscovered for 50 years
Loving you; excavated the gift
Then you ran; leaving me in tears
Now I’ve found my gift
I’ve accepted what I’ve been given
And through my poetry and words
I’ve never been so driven
My poetry; now published
Can reach around the world
Adorned with an Australian flag
Flying proud and unfurled
You were the single source
Of my greatest pleasure
And also my greatest pain
Yet you remain my only treasure
I walked away from my former
And never shed a tear
With you for fourteen months; and
I cried for more than a year
I would have traded everything
Everything for you; you see
And I’d do it all in a split second
But you wouldn’t let ‘us’ be