National Poetry Month Tribute
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Released May 2014
Blue
Destiny Nicole Rogers Murphy, NC
www.music4youreyes.blog.com
Denim Jeans
Against an azure sky.
Faded wooden dock, beside
Still, shining waters.
No shoes, no problems;
Only laughs and words whispered.
Promises made,
Secrets kept,
And hands that swear to never let go.
Turquoise dress.
Crystal tears run,
A waterfall sizzling onto the creaking dock.
No shoes, problems pouring forth
Like sand in an hourglass.
Worse nightmares coming true-
A lonely shadow on her knees.
Hurting, missing hands she fears
she’ll never hold again.
Sapphire ring,
He’s knelt there on one jeaned knee.
Her eyes wide, glitter with
Love filled tears.
Initials and a date etched into faded
Creaking posts. The dock stands on,
Like the promises their love will
Be built on.
Hands that only death can pull apart.
Cobalt sweater
Covers her shaking arms.
Falling on knees too weak to stand,
On the mossy bank.
Collapsed.
The sturdy dock,
And his loving heart.
80 years of everything they were,
Drift in the wind
As ashes, sprinkled
Over sun kissed water
So blue.
Here and There
by: Geanice Gee Capitol Heights, MD
Here and there
There and here
I just can't be everywhere
In the store or in Delaware
What you ask is so unfair
I just can't be everywhere
Here and there
There and here
I just can't be everywhere
At the park or down the stairs
With you my time I have to share
I just can't be everywhere
Here and there
There and here
I just can't be everywhere
When I'm on the road I'm unaware
Of the lost time spent with billionaires
I just can't be everywhere
Here and there
There and here
I just can't be everywhere
Days are short nights quite rare
Heart is torn from all the despair
I just can't be everywhere
Here and there
There and here
I just can't be everywhere
Losing sleep a few grey hairs
Going through this because I care
I just can't be everywhere
I just can't be here and there
Self Destruction
By: Geanice Gee Capitol Heights, MD
FAST MONEY
FAST CARS
LOOK AT YOURSELF
BEHIND STEEL BARS
CHEAP WOMEN
SHORT THRILLS
ALL THIS CASH
HAS U SURROUNDED AROUND TRASH
APRIL SHOWERS
BRINGS DOWN THE POWER
TURNS OLD FRIENDS SOUR
MAKES U INTO A COWARD
BANK ROB
FIGHT KILL
DOING ALL THIS
BUT STILL CAN’T PAY THE BILLS
PRETTY DUMB
LIFE GONE
PETTY CRIMES
ALL ADD UP TO HARD TIMES
RIGHT WRONG
CRIME TIME
FREEDOM GONE
CAN’T PAY THE BOND
Racks by: Daisy Baker
Wordplay By: Lyric Ishani Dallas Fort Worth, TX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA-JmGTQL4Q
Music Jay Sinner Greenbelt,MD
This is my declaration to her. We all know who she is,shes the one that puts a sweet smile on our fases when we want
to cry. Her voice so sweet it would make your blood sugar rises. You cant see her but you know shes there. Shes that
light at the end of the tunnel to help you find your way. Her beat makes you move in ways you would never knew you
could. Shes your salvation when you think all is losted. Shes the sweet sound blasting from you headphones at you
walk home from a long ass day. Shes the tender touch you need to feel alive, the honeysuckle you taest on a worm
summers night, the lovely medoldy you hear the old man down the street play for his wife,the view of the ocean
slamming against the sand at the beach. Shes is life,love ,laughter. Her name is Music.We all know her. We've all met
her,needed her, loved her, hated her. At one point she may have even saved our lifes. This is my declaration to her. To
music......You have always been then when I felt like the world was against me. When all hope and faith was losted.
When some one I loved passed or when some one I loved was brought into this world.You always knew just the right
words to say at just the right time. Music I thank you for always being you.
Must Be Nice by Lynn Schauer
The lunar sunset creates shadows
By: Analisa Carswell Jacksonville, AL
To dance upon your pale statue.
Statue of stone hard crevices that act like a smile.
Yet, and yet, your guilt plays upon your rock face.
So untimely.
Your face not yet recognizable through the shadows.
Yet still I can your distrust.
I wonder.
Thoughts echo through my body.
I wonder repeatedly.
Wonder why you promised the world, the placid world
To rest in my arms.
My arms are bare and dry
If you discount the tears.
why do you tell me a year too late By: Analisa Carswell
that your attraction to me is so great
in front of the world a bit too late.
I will fly with angels
By: Analisa Carswell
Laugh with demons
Cry with saints.
Rejoice with sinners.
Dine with tigers, tame a human.
Be myself at all times
Unless you are near.
By: Vanessa Bly
Am I Beautiful?
By: Dionysus DeVille Chicago, IL
Staring into the mirror I am a villain of my vision
My eyes become the image of a personal prison
Unhappy to see the man standing before me
Self-worth entrenched, drowned in an endless sea
Woke up to fifty more pounds, I let myself go
Crying, wondering how I could fall so low
The scales become shadows of the Devil’s numbers
My confidence blacked out in an eternal slumber
Haunted by the person I used to be
Skinny, happy, and carefree
Try to recapture that feeling but it fails to rise
Feeling trapped behind my own self disguise
How many likes can I get on a naked pic?
Will you call me if I show my dick?
Like my status, rate me, tag me, show some love
Will you stay with me if I refuse the glove?
Questions of a dark misconception
Hungry for a perfect perception
Trying so hard to be anybody that’s different
But then left feeling empty and insufficient
Belligerent thoughts that rot my mind
They kill my soul and blind my shine
Falling down, can’t seem to stand my ground
My insecurities blast my ears; vengeful sounds
These lies I’ve fed myself rip and tear my life into pieces
The ebb of flow of my pain banks me on its beaches
Try to save myself from self but my reflection keeps on laughing
Try to catch my happiness, but its shadow keeps on passing
Am I beautiful, I ask in an endless refrain?
Inquiries that rattle and shake the base of my brain
Where is the last stop on this motionless train?
I ask as the pain sleeps only to wake again
LADY ANNABELLE Tokoni Uti Lagos, Nigeria
She has a will, she has a choice.
Now too loud to hear the noise.
All those who never wanted to be.
And all the voices that we see.
Today she drowns in her regrets.
Tomorrow she is silent but will not forget.
There is nothing else to give.
She loses her will to live.
Victim of fear, slave to her plight.
Find your ray of light.
Sound off chanting, ring the liberty bell.
Tears will fall for lady Annabelle.
War in My Head
Tokoni Uti Lagos, Nigeria
My mind is at war with my head.
My soul is distraught wishing it were my body instead.
My mind is chasing imaginary sunset and stars.
My head wants to remain as we are.
My mind is the keeper of the things that will not be bought.
My head is the mistress of my happy thoughts.
My mind is waiting for the Holy sign.
My head believes Heaven and earth have resigned.
My mind and head are almost at war.
Agreeing to disagree at my core.
DES | DAZE | RESE
by: Big X Chicago, IL
facebook.com/bigxlives
I am the gun that is fired full of rage that rips through rib cages of children on Chicago streets
I am the cold blade that is plunged into the backs of silent lovers while waiting for their spouse to creep back in bed
smelling of another
I am the risk that keeps you cowering under a security blanket begging for the past to stay
I am the advocate of the devils plan
Hold my hand
I hope that we can play
Luis Ayala Chicago, IL
re-quest by: Rachannis Houston, TX
Unfortunate it is
as more often than none
we acquaint some others
with an expectation in sum
once we confirm they are without
a disappointment grows within
and no longer, no longer on second
do we desire to befriend
so we search and seek
for another to betray
uplifting random strangers
in passing on the way
while those same slackers
already live within our walls
with steps we built for them
having crumbled, designed null
one should never set high
what could be annihilated by greed
unless they have committed comfortable
with harboring excessive need
over time
it does
float
all things
anchored
away
desert seeds
post-u’re
Resolve
Evolve
All with direction on no end
The epitome is welcomed but never befriend-
Dead on arrival or as common can seem to stall it
A case…… even oddly enough has proved itself coming with dawn
Clavier, Salve sayer, mornings in gong
Melody minus song
Where all of this muster in decision comes from
Garner pride.
Take stance.
You really are.
Medicine By: Will Schmintz Los Angeles, CA
At this med students' party up Nuuanu
The bathroom is crammed
With a couple of boys trying out
Feminine garb, deftly assisted
By a nurse whose eyes say
She likes to see men down. Lipstick: purple.
Big-looped earrings. Now, into the skirt,
Eye makeup later. Check the mirror.
In the bedroom, a newly jilted nursie
Is taking on all comers. If you can
Stand her hate rap and her screaming obscenities,
You can have her. Listening to andro rock, Al is
Explaining the sorts of voyeur thrills he gets
Working weekends at the state mental hospital--
How easy it is to steal their thorazine,
Qualude and codeine--here, you want some?
We must keep on working, after all, for the
Greatest possible happiness
Of the highest few.
Meditating on a Broken Member By: Will Schmintz Los Angeles, CA
The phallus has been knocked off
Oscar Wilde's monument stone.
The half-Assyrian winged gypsy
Art-deco once intact assassin
Represents the kind of friends
You don't want to leave behind
To glorify the memory.
Pretty Oscar posing in the photographer's studio
amongst the pillows
Fat Oscar drunk and numbed
in the sunlight outside a provincial cafe.
You and Dowson flip a coin
To see which one has to try the local whore.
"First piece of mutton I've tasted in eighteen years,"
you remarked.
What cards.
The sycophants appear
And do a job to get the body
Into consecrated ground.
Ouch! The bores. Lasting out your life among theirs
What a trial.
By Amy Outland @amypond27 Chicago, IL
A Force of Nature
An act of God
a force of nature
a natural disaster
water rushing in on me from all sides
longing for the privacy and security that home provides
wind whips against my face
wishing for a place that’s mine
fears manifest themselves into:
an act of God
a force of nature
a natural disaster
afraid of being alone,
of never finding a home
struggling to be brave
saving the tears for half a year
waiting for the day
when
I can confront my fears
without letting anything get me down
not fear,
not an act of God
not a natural disaster
because I am a force of nature.
Dauntless By: Amy outland
Thoughts diverge,
while reading Divergent
factionless, homeless, cold, and alone,
constant tendency toward tears barely kept at bay.
Try to be…
strong, courageous, dauntless knowing
that in a dystopian world (or even this one) you could’ve been
factionless, homeless, cold and alone,
But fortunately instead there are…
pine trees, presents, food, clothes, hotel rooms,
cell phones, TV shows, iPods, Twitter feeds, and Doctor Who tees.
Turn your heart to stone,
pretend the absence of a room of one’s own doesn’t mean that you are
factionless, homeless, cold, and alone.
Four walls and a roof won’t fit under a Christmas tree,
but it might be all you need to be,
strong, courageous, dauntless
Bigger by Gabriel Garcia Fraire
The Battle of Pan by Gilbert Pangelina San Franciso,CA
In the forum he was brought, to deliver a speech, so he thought. His colleagues all around, with others who wished to
walk those grounds. Controversy he did spark. Words he had written, meant not to offend, spoken to children he
thought were men. For on his wall he did place, a plague that read,
“Poetry is an exploitation of reality.
Being both a beautiful truth and a beautiful lie”
In essence poetry has become the ultimate paradox of life”
The first verse caught Silo, his nemesis’s eye, and the last two verses’ Silo screamed, “Lie.” When Pan walked out on
the forum floor, not one but two podiums stood unadorned. On stage first alone, then walked he, to challenge the
throne. Pan being wiser inclined, “I know now what is to be expected. But to this I do, totally reject it. What I have
claimed is both simple and truth. This old argument I do not wish to renew.” Silo then addressed the crowd, “He
speaks quietly yet writes loud!!! I ask all of you to give him a hand and bring hither what we demand.” The crowd
silent, that the pin could be heard. Not a single man with a single word. Then one, his hands did meet and the crowd
did follow indiscreet. Pan’s nemesis Silo smiled and spoke, “ Pan we poets do not exploit, we speak of beauty and we
speak of pain, but it is not for wealth but soulful gain. Debate with me and show our friends why, your beautiful truth,
is not a beautiful lie.”
The crowd now grew silent until one shouted out, “We are gathered here now, so to let it come out. Explain once on
behalf of your fancy and fame, why what is said, is so rightly claimed.” Pan looked at the crowd stifled, “Very well,
but you must now listen closely to what I must tell.” Pan explained, “How could one argue that the poet does not
writes what he sees, the bushes the flower, plants and trees, the young lovers, beauty, greatness hard bought. We write
what we read, or what we see or hear, but it all starts from life, and not the heart that is clear.” Silo looking at Pan
began to laugh and then spat. “Poetry not from the heart, that’s fiction not fact. You mock poetry.” Pan interjected, “I
did not say that poetry does not come from the heart, I said it starts with life and is then taken apart. The heart returns
these moments with splendor and love, with laughter and merriment or the coo of a dove. The anger in life is visibly
seen, through poets and their poetry, and all of their schemes. Petty the grievances, petty the mistrust, I say the poetry
in life, is precious to us. But it is life that we take it from, exploitation perhaps to harsh as the sword, but the actions
fit the description, I did not make up the word.”
Silo only looked at Pan, with disdain and disgust, the lights in the room dimmed by I thin misty must. “Pan” Silo said
in a now dimly lit room, “You and I are both poets, lets settle this score. With a battle of poetry, a battle of words. The
winner can make his demand. For I, you must stop with this ridiculous saying “Poetry the paradox to life”, good poets
really do not believe what your saying.” Pan feeling this had already gone too far, wondered if he stopped, would it be
like stepping in front of a car. Men shouted out from the crowd, “Pan do oblige, let’s find the truth, or reveal the lie.”
Pan lowered his head and replied, “I accept, but this minuscule moment, will prove nothing at all, but to appease my
comrades I will lower the bar.” Then Silo took to verse, cursing the fame that Pan had received. But Pan spoke clearer
words, and his honor perceived. They fought back and forth, with verses such with force. Who had the mastery, it
seemed to go back and forth. Pan finished a verse that angered Silo past sane, and blood vessels soon popped in and
out of his brain. The light on the stage fell and broke, while the lights above, seemed filtered and choked. The eyes of
Silo seemed coated with a thin layer of green. He walked about on the dim lit scene, bitter and troubled revealing his
rage. His voice began with a hiss, and then it doubled. Silo scoffed;
“Oh, you’re such a big man in your little world
But you throw tantrums like a little girl
You’re a thin skin snake
Your talent and wisdom are fake
You’re so reptilous on ice
You wouldn’t know wrong from nice
Vermin in the sty
The pearl from a dead dogs eye
A broken rubber band
You loose your venom
On things you don’t understand.
Believing that you can fly
On such a despicable lie
Oh, You’re such a big man in your little world
And you throw tantrums like a little girl”
Feeling pleased with this simple verse, Pan left standing, had felt the worst. With clarity Pan now fully understood.
Silo had planned for some time, that he must pay the price for daring to state, “Poetry is the Paradox of Life.” A
sudden laughter Pan did make, for the childish nature of this debate. Pan the earthen tower could not be shaken, by
this simple debate he had taken. Pan re-addressed the crowd. “My thoughts, my dear colleagues, have not been not
shaken, but this debate I deem, should have been forsaken.” Pan then chanted in twilit verse;
“Twiddle dee deed twiddled dee dum
So simple we have become
in the dark it has waited
From underground I was baited
The Master of Meddlesome
By another name
He is the robber of dignity
The bearer of blame
He is Mediocrity by no other name.”
The room is darkened for a moment or two, then the lights come back, setting renewed. The crowd could see Silo’s
angered face, they now saw their act in disgrace. Silo raced over to Pan, “See now I have won, I am the better man,
and now you must do, what needs to be done.” Pan smiled and replied, “Nothing did we achieved, but to bring
dishonor, where was chivalry?” Silo so angered, a fist and a nose, a second of silence, a trickle of flow. Pan fallen
regains his feet, and walks away from the crowd. When from the audience, he hears the last bit of foolishness, spoken
out loud. “Pan was that poetry or life, please give it a shout”, Pan smiled and said, “It is poetry, if you passionately
write it out. Or, it is just life without the mighty pen, poetry lets it out, and life brings it in.” “What does that mean the
crowd began to say”, and Pan with his thought just walked away?
:: Oda Uva :: By: Julianne Henderson SF, CA
Consider for one moment
the grape:
its blood red color--
its tough skin--
its sinful contents.
In love acts between nurture and nature
it is conceived like us all
and like love,
with time
and steady consumption,
it drowns us in lunacy and ecstasy
and stains our lips.
:: Starspeak :: By: Julianne Henderson SF, CA
breathe deep and then exhale
stir up my dust and make it spin
when it aligns it forms a gale
to warn all fools who enter in
separate ring from inner core
since it’s there you’ll find the truth
that speaks a language learned before
innocence eloped with youth
when it feels compelled to sing
its song disarms bodies at war
who surrender will to gravity
and find only Love worth fighting for
you be the Sun and signal yes
while I circle energy counter to the clock
and all the beauty this can manifest
makes us forget stars were ever rocks
Madurantakam, here I come Ravi Yellayi Perth, Australia
oh boy!! was this week dainty hard
barraged all, heaved-ho like a mallard
no gripe gainsay naught, for me a first
concord past stood of taking all athirst
while work chimes toll bells of double off
this holiday marks a comeuppance doff
of a birdie, a day made for a no putt sike
me roadie, gonna burn rubber off my bike
dips and craters, ruts they were upbraid
gone december, govt gets them roads laid
gawk at them, orgasmic they are, what patina
with a sight of natal august, a de facto czarina
my two-wheel rig, me few z's come the morrow
with rafi, and pancham da into gales of windrow
105 km south west, her name is jankavalli thayar
my shepherd, be in evidence oh aeri katha ramar
oh girl! You got me there Ravi Yellayi Perth, Australia
it all started when she parts her lips, slowly
below that blush in her cheeks, she is lovely
read it takes only 14 muscles than frown, 43
it comes like a shade not possible to any tree
a smile that took away many a man's heart
belongs to a girl who knows that its her art
god only can guess what runs in her mind
and it reaches her eyes, i'm outta my mind
more so when she bowed her head slightly
take the hair behind her ear, tuck in lightly
looking at me, showing her platinum ear rings
'm sure knowing the effect that gesture brings
i compliment her on this, and her smile broadens
calls me liar, flatterer, all i do is melt smithereens
i promise to do this more often, no fear or waiver
pat comes another smile, oh girl you got me there
By -Cerebral Being
We see ourselves as righteous, outgoing, glowing individuals. We feel our significance bound to our feet as the
weight is expected to keep us down to earth. As we grow from youth we grow from our innocence and our
immaculate power to view. But I am not afraid to fly. I will remove these weights and float away from the surface of
this shadowy rock out into the cosmos where I will find eternal peace.
We exist in this life as conduits. We are mere cadavers in use by the force that was and always is. Body, mind, and
soul we're on borrowed time; as it is an ancient entity that lives in all of us as individuals and all of us as a whole.
Our father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. You're no more than a blatant charade. Unveil thy wretched face
and show me what is truth and what is fake.
We exist as oddities. We exist as enigmas and anomalies.
Under the Sun we are all one
Fear not the view, my friend, for I am just like you.
RESE
THE LIGHT
TREZAHN GRACE HOUSTON,TX
The darkness
Engulfs you like dinner
As if swallowed by a giant
your pupils become defiant
They try to adjust
But it as if you were luggage on a bus
Blind folded by your lover
burried in a hole forced to suffer Your breathing is calm
Your ears tingle
The sound of a pen hitting the floor
hits your ears like a napalm
You close your eyes
To think of a jingle
To distract the mind
But that makes it darker
The darkness
Makes you weary
wipe the eyes as if they were teary
the darkness
Is feared
It is what one does not Come near The darkness
Put those to rest
It taketh tho that let
But the darkness
Is afraid of what shines
What takes the night
As the night does to you
by: Victoria Da Cruz
Summer is when I miss you the most;
our hearts burned heat like flames six feet tall.
We were wild and young.
We were insane and dumb.
I miss the way we danced in the moonlight,
your warmth caressed all around me.
Your eyes glistened like the sun,
and I followed you around because I couldn’t get enough.
Our summer secrete.
The late night swims,
you’d always catch me when I thought I’d drown.
The late night drives,
when the need for speed thrilled our minds.
I miss the way you would look at me,
all those moments I swear this universe paused.
Even in silence, your presence filled me.
When our eyes met, there was a spark in the ignition.
That something between you and me,
was more than simple chemistry.
Our hearts stayed guarded against the fire we started,
but our skin easily melted.
When our minds were gone,
the heat from your palms reassured me.
As the time flew by, that smile I can’t resist,
took away all worries.
I miss the way you stayed so strong.
You never changed even when your guard was flaking.
You made me tough and wise;
you changed my whole mind set.
But now that summer is over,
your buried six feet under,
and that strength you once gave me,
is slowly breaking.
Without your heat, my soul is freezing.
Without you here, I’m self-destructing.
Without our flame, my whole is turning into nothing.
Brian Zerbel #beatscostmoney Photo by Jam1
www.soundcloud.com/beatscostmoney
"When we finally arise awake" By: Source White Plains, NY
Musical Accompaniment: http://youtu.be/P9TveAvLqQE
Man is born told to listen, from the first day of his existence.
Oppressors pressin' the resistance tryna pack us in prisons.
Paper makes the world burn slow like incense. Chemicals in the oxygen
got my lungs feelin' intense, ways of love found up in my writ-tens.
Mind rippin' through thought patterns gave up things that I thought mattered.
Opened my eye realized better off tattered, society slaves tryna climb ladders.
My reality consists of living with much laughter cause when I leave this body,
who gives a fuck after? Life's a bitch? Well I bust that bitch open like a dutch master.
War for profit greed stricken smiles as blood splatters, die young live faster?
Small faction in power causing big disasters but we don't see it cuz corporations plaster
the truth with lies. It's clear as day through my human eyes that scrutinize those that bring crude demise.
Contemplating with my soul, body, mind, asking who is I? Someone who remains true as sky. Let out a revolution cry
& shout "It's time to rise!" When we finally arise awake,
maybe then we'll see the world is at stake. Maybe then we'll hear the Earth's heartache, before it disappears just
remember it's our fate..just remember it's our fate.
By shashi Bronx, NY
I've covered my face with covers of Egyptian cotton so sweet and slick I lick on your lips adopting, your taste
replacing your waste with naked shadows just watching ,while in the dark our body parts just rotten captivating agony
I've ask to be forgotten and then you asked for me to become immune to something I'm not use to so I've made my
muse "you"I've collide pride with being alive and still inside apart of me died waiting for two drives to speed through
the distance is like trying to hear silence but don't really listen pay attention,to the quiet when your alone to the eyes
that slowly roam to adapt what you call home in your skin into your bones there dictating what we've become ,self
consciously its haunting me until I get numb I've allowed you to be something that can't be named I'm estranged to the
way we can't be tamed I had left stains, when I covered my face with covers of Egyptian cotton and there I lay while
your fragrance play and ask to be forgotten
Lady Baby Girl. By Jason king
Before she goes to bed she’s far from rank n’ file
But when she wakes up she the Queen of the Nile
she’s my lady
First time I met her, I was angry she was high
same results, different method, hardly a line of jive
she’s my girl
I texted her weak from sadness, weeks too late
she hit me back at exact same cot-dayum rate
she’s my baby
1st date she felt me out, i replied in kind
my presentation was so nervous, but she dug the overall design
She’s my lady
Happy with a kiss and simply not being an ass
She’s takes it up a notch, says this feels like falling too fast
she’ my baby
The week goes by and half the days she’s in it
Don’t know if this is love, but feels like the beginning
she’s mah girl
She comes to see me sing and everyone is shocked
He didn’t have much sense, now look at what he’s got
She’s mah lady
The performance is over, but the show is just beginning
She wants to go back to the crib, for a few extra innings
She’s my girl
The cabman wants to hack off all our arms and legs
She proposes the thought, we should catch the metered cab instead
she’s my lady
We make the house a home before we sleep, and one time after
She snores loudly in my arms, we’ll have to replace the rafters
She’s my baby
Momma’s not keen on me bringing home guests
But I introduce the woman to where my heart invests
She’s my Lady.
Time for goodbyes, see ya laters, embraces and hugs
My lips don’t say much, but my eyes bleed love
She’s my lady baby girl.
Train’s pulling off and I hope for a glimpse.
For the beautiful lady who sees the prince in this chimp.
ahh yess.There goes my lady, my baby, my girl.
Enchanted Dan Fenton Atlanta GA
The moon peaked over the mountain ridge and scattered the stars from the night, and swallowed the ones that didn't
give way to its imminent path of flight.
A velvet blanket enveloped the skies adorned with millions of stars, like diamonds that twinkled a loving hello and
then a loving goodnight.
They seemed to assure me that as I did sleep, throughout this enchanted night; that they would be standing to guard
over me, so "sleep easily, sleep deeply, sleep tight.
The song of a cricket was cast to the wind and carried away by a breeze. The cottonwood leaves danced in the trees
and they shimmered reflecting the light.
The light of the moon and the stars from on high shown down on the face of the earth and then I felt blessed to see
such a thing, when the moon made love to the earth.
“BBoy Moks” Vanessa Bly Photography
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