Japanese Advert – a poem to create visual imagery for Hour 7

A pyramid of light has fought it’s way through the muddy depths of the curtains

To claim a prime location amongst the shadowy cityscape on the wall

Like a Japanese advert in Tokyo

Projected onto towerblocks cast from wardrobes,

doors and candles

It will fall

As the sun sets,

And it will change angles

While it’s platinum light dulls

To a soft amber glow

As though the pixelated graphics had begun to slow

On this Japanese advert,

This laser show concert,

Projected on my wall

As the sun begins to fall.

(c) Gemma Hinton 13/06/15

I Dare You To Love Me

Sometimes you need to stop and see if it’s worth it
crying over something that just won’t work,
why give it all your time and devotion,
if in the end you are still invisible…
It’s better to regroup and find yourself
This road it’s pure torture when not in the same page,
even friendship can be hurtful,especially if taking for granted.
Misunderstood wishing you could really be in my place see how I truly feel.
See how I truly see you
See that this love isn’t just temporarily
Still may God bless you, I wish you nothing but that best.
My brain it’s sending that message,
it’s time too cold those feelings,
it’s time to really see
It’s time to be selfish for once
It’s time to be on balance
It’s that really possible for a Libra?
Don’t know time to figure it out
One thing to keep in mind
I really gave it my all, as a friend and as a lover
No regrets so take it all
There is nothing left
I do keep my promises
So I will remain here
You could lean on me when in need of a friend
I will follow my dreams
I won’t look back
I dare myself to stop suffering and give me a chanceTo really beme
Explore my world and find something new
I dare you to love me
I dare you to be oneself
I dare you my dear to stop being that victim of your own choice
I dare to give yourself the push that you need to go for your dreams and accomplish your goals.
Forget the entire castle made out of sandThey easily destroy.
Be on that path to your happiness
I dare you to love me
I dare you to be free
Have me on your mind
And give me your best
You and only you be on my mind
It’s time to take care of yourself
And give it your all
I dare you to love me
You are the key to your own success,
we been here before
You could have it all
Just free yourself and forget that past
I dare you to love me
I’m here
Your reflection in that mirror
I dare you to love me…

Paris

Like, o.m.g.

why are they creepin’ behind me?

I know I’m all that and totally amazing.

But these stalkers are really just crazy!

 

It was just one night,

that gave them such delight.

I can’t help it if they want my body,

this perfection isn’t for just anybody.

 

I love it when they take my picture,

especially when pulling down my zipper.

But stay away from my personal life

it’s not so easy living in the spotlight.

3 pm Poem

Visions of Color

Magnificent orbs bob up and down

Splashes of vibrant hues

Scarlet

Ivory

Lavender

Ebony

Tangerine

Held aloft with delicate silver ribbons

In one swift move

Children release the strings

Filling the sky with color

Sending their wishes to Heaven

Thundershower 3PM

Green plastic lawn chairs on an iron-railed
black-rolled roof converted to a balcony,
green tennis courts diagrammed with white,
chain-link fences radiating heat,
concrete columns and lush, tenuous vines,
two stone lions in repose,
diagonally woven brick sidewalks
brimming with tough green and
I

pay respects to sudden rain.

Poem #4: Boogeyman

Boogeyman

Don’t look back, don’t turn around
do you really want to be found?
Check the cell, no damn reception
did you think you’d be the exception?
Trying to flee and the car doesn’t start
it seems that none of you are very smart
Girls shouldn’t fall every time they run away
and it is so not time to get naked and play
And, really, don’t let the villain off with one shot
I’d empty my clip, and give it all I’ve got

@ Renee Avard-Furlow
June 13 2015

Poem #3: Even If I Have To

Even If I Have To

I’ll take your abyss
and even if I have to
walk on a tightrope
the seemingly mundane
lights up all of this
I sink deep into your soul
I don’t even need air
no struggling to get away
where you have me –
is this place of feeling sensitive
I’m bleeding in a lightning storm

@ Renee Avard-Furlow
June 13 2015

Grit

Fingernails with my grit underneathe,

I wield my diry nails of fortitude;

I destroy the humid heat with my water tank,

My back hoe, and an ice cube down my shirt.

I dig the black earth into deeper night,

Filter in the manure and mulch.

Sticks and stones won’t break me;

They only make the soil richer.

And all of the pebbles in the soil

Sweep inside my stubborn heart

And layer the garden of my soul.

Glow of Warmth (Poem 7/24)

In the coldness of Winter, it is hard to see warmth.

The trees look like boney fingers, starved from the vitamins they so graciously accept.

The trees reach their branches as high as they can, still skimming through fog.

The cold air cracks the trees outer layer.

The cool breeze sneaks in, chilling the souls of the mighty trees.

The freshly fallen snow that seeks refuge on the tree’s branches, slowly finds a way to creep in.

The trees moan in the cold clutches of what seems to be never ending Winter.

They bend and sway in the wild wind, holding their ground.

If only a little sun would show to warm our brittle bark.

How much longer can they last this cold and wind trying to break their spirits.

All at once, the gray clouds start to break away.

An amber glow emerges. It gets bigger and bigger; stronger and stronger.

At last, all the clouds break away and alone there stands an amber glow of warmth.

The sun welcomes all the tree’s boney fingers. They raise up farther as in joyous acclaim.

The trees bend with their sway. The coldness starts to fade away.

The trees feel the vitamins they needed flowing through their sturdy bodies.

An energy of happiness is felt.

For no matter what, we all need each other. We can never give up hope.

We can never destroy, for our hands need to clutch that warmth.

An ever glow of warmth, pounding with an energy of love.

Yesterday

I keep reminding myself
that I am a good man.
Mistakes
were made. 
I made.
Do not define me.
Lesson I learned
have made me.
The better man. A better
man.
Who I have
become. Is
No who I
was.