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ethome
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since 2000-05-14
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New Brunswick Canada

0 posted 2004-10-23 03:29 AM



I been writing this stuff for thirty years and I often keep coming back to this heavy rock format (when I'm not writing blues lyrics) with distortion and sustain and you'd have to hear it....LOL! aw well it's a fun trip anyway...


Cathy-Mae plays a new way now she's actin bold
She'd lie to know that young guy even though she's old.
It's hard to escape life prints when shaping time begins.
And her mother's holy advice said she would always win

She has no time fears
but what is waiting for her
Never thought she'd be alone
her bridges all burned.

Love ain't no longer there
Love ain't no greying hair.
Love ain't no wrinkled glare.
Love ain't no drunked up stare.

There's a coming private party if the young buck does respond.
He might take her out of there and fake a lover's con.
He's been thinkin bout the prime time while he's mocking her.
Then he'll leave her on her own empty and disturbed.

She's left with time tears
what's waiting for her.
Never thought she'd be undone
new issues that hurt.

Love ain't no longer there.
Love ain't no make up flare
Love ain't no perfume prayer.
Love ain't past seasons bared.

She must decide what it is that needs her concern.
Who's going to carry her through the waste she'll earn
Will she know when to stop and close her open door
Or will she keep on staggerin cross the bar room floor

She sheds some wine tears
but what is it she must learn.
Never thought she'd be alone
dark walls surrounding her.

Love ain't no longer there.
Love ain't no mercy fare
Love ain't no daydream cares.
Love ain't one night affairs.

Love ain't no longer there.........no love ain't no longer there....who cares....fade

Ain't doin nothin at all
Just answerin the call
Kinda driftin away from it all~~~~~

© Copyright 2004 Eric Lewis True - All Rights Reserved
J.Samm
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since 2004-01-12
Posts 415
Iloilo City, Philippines
1 posted 2004-10-23 07:48 AM


i like your style, it's quite original...i believe one has most fun writing poetry when he makes his own rules... you've got a good one here...quite sad, made me drop some wine tears
Sunshine
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Listening to every heart
2 posted 2004-10-23 09:34 AM


Uh oh!  Another one I'll have to send on to my brother...for I know he'll enjoy reading it just as much as you enjoyed penning it!
passing shadows
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displaced
3 posted 2004-10-23 09:41 AM


yeah, 'who cares' is right

nice ending

Huan Yi
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since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688
Waukegan
4 posted 2004-10-23 09:52 AM


A Letter

You write that you are ill, confused.  The trees
Outside the window of the room they gave you
Are wet with tears each morning when they wake you
Out of the sleep you never quite fall into.
There is some dream of traffic in your head

That stops and goes, and goes, and does not stop
Sometimes all night, all day.  The motorcade
Winds past you like the funeral cortege
of someone famous you had slept with, once or twice.
(Another fit of tears dampens the leaves, the page.)

You would expose your wounds, pull down your blouse,
Unbosom yourself wholly to the young doctor
Who has the power to sign prescriptions, passes,
Who seems to like you...And so to pass
Into the city once again, one of us,

Hurrying by the damp trees of a park
Toward a familiar intersection where
The traffic signal warns you not to cross,
To wait, just as before, alone---but suddenly
Ten years older, tamed now, less mad, less beautiful.


Donald Justice



peppermint35
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since 2000-05-28
Posts 1106
Texas, USA
5 posted 2004-10-23 10:00 AM


I've added this to my library, cuz I want to read it again, study it again, because, as always, there is always something more there .. each and every read.

Thanks for sharing your shining talent

Pepper
"Somewhere, somehow, it should be possible to touch someone and never let go again.  To hold someone, not for a moment but forever." Unknown

Mark Bohannan
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since 2000-06-21
Posts 7269
In the winds of Cherokee song
6 posted 2004-10-23 12:04 PM


As always sir, a visual treat to the ears and a sound spectacular to the eyes.  Whether you are penning Jazz or Rock, it just plain out ROCKS!!!!  Now you know this is one happy cowboy to see your name pop up in here.  Been a while, too long.  

Awesome song from an awesome talent.

Magnus
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South Carolina, USA
7 posted 2004-10-23 01:23 PM


Good to see ya again ET...your time has been
well spent...

ThisDiamond
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since 2002-02-22
Posts 9353
Michigan, USA
8 posted 2004-10-23 08:41 PM


You do rock ET.
Glad to read you again.

Somehow you managed to draw the picture of someone I have known in my life.  Sadly the lyric is very true to form...yet,
at times we are all the various teacher, student and desciple of life.

Welcome back.
TD

vandana
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9 posted 2004-10-23 09:04 PM


enjoyed
Martie
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10 posted 2004-10-23 09:16 PM


Eric

As always, you rhythm up and down the scale of words.  Enjoyed!

Seymour Tabin
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Tamarac Fla
11 posted 2004-10-23 09:18 PM


ethome
Missed you guy great lyric.  

Tequilia_Sunrise
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Lochalsh, Ontario, Canada
12 posted 2004-10-23 09:47 PM


great write
Midnitesun
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Gaia
13 posted 2004-10-23 10:05 PM


Hey, you've been missed! And this write is a slice of life. I loved that opening, that 'mother's holy advice.'
ethome
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since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada
14 posted 2004-10-24 11:54 AM


Thanks to all for the very kind comments and the similar works. I appreciate it very much.

Eric

Ain't doin nothin at all
Just answerin the call
Kinda driftin away from it all~~~~~

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