Poems by Baron Ancient Soul

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Straight For The Heart

It pierced me, left me bleeding

down, as not to recover, pleading

End this misery, take my life

finish your work, with your bloody knife

 

The wound open, you thrust

turning your weapon, even god I cussed.

Screaming in pain, I lose my voice

my spirit leaving ... no choice.

 

You walk away, I see you gone

I am up, dragging myself across the lawn

I come to you, search you out

That you will hurt me again, I doubt.

 

My life pours out on the ground

my substance losing by the pound

I hurt and ache but no its true

You wouldn't, you couldn't cut through.

 

"I love you", I say, "with all my heart"

you tell me to leave you, for gods sake depart

your knife, whispers again, "leave me alone"

it is then, my spirit leaves... as I moan.


The Stream

Out from the ground life exudes

freely to all, never mind their station

the rich, the poor all have need to drink

to many life, to all salvation.

 

The stream doth travel along its way

sometimes not easy and kept at bay

The dams and detours will trouble at times

but the tree of life must climb.

 

To small villages and large towns

the use of the stream is the same

joined with a river or narrowed to a brook

The river a story, a talking book.

 

Are we not a stream?

Do we not travel, touching many?

Are not our lives a melodic theme?

Do we not, in this life, journey?

 

Why travail, if the way gets hard?

Why cry, do you seek a sympathy card?

Life is what it is, life

Day to day living and sometimes strife.

 

But along the way, there is beauty and joy.

The smile of a friend the laughter of a boy.

We help those we find.

Sometime finding peace of mind.

 

Make a choice today, of the life you lead.

Like the stream always flowing, proceed

Giving life to all, and never ignoring.

Then joy will be yours always restoring.


Aurora

The flower garden once for Kings

were filled with many beautiful things

The crown of which adorned

has many thorns.

 

It does not take away from the beauty

the thorns are for necessity

protecting the velvet petals of the flower

they are not offensive but merely balance of power

 

So that, of a princess, of a King

who is a very beautiful thing

her hair is her glory

more than a nickname this Rory.

 

Of all the flowers in the Kings Garden

I say this with out any pardon

The most beautiful flora

is the loving but sometimes thorny, Aurora.


The Wild Rose

How can you tame a beauty so fair?

Why would you try to contain a flower so dear?

A thing so wonderfully simple its beauty an answer to prayer

yet so blessedly made like a celestial sphere.

 

Torn from its roots, and removed from its place

Discarded, disapproved in utter disgrace

Longing for the sun, desiring to be free

Locked away in darkness, now a banshee.

 

The sun does come, it breaks through

like a lovers hands comforting and warm

Turning to the light, this blessed hew

life again, life again, transformed.

 

The beauty returned

A lesson learned

A rose its life a thing of beauty

A wild rose its life, is duty.


Passion

Love came, and shook my core

surprising me, and locked the door

Captive to it, and jailer too

No reprieve, life is askew

 

Raging within my very form

Through my peacful valley a fire storm.

out of control it overwhelms

My heart, my speech, it is, its realm.

 

Release me from this tangle

my love, my love, I strangle

I say and do the things I fear

You will leave me and won't be near.

 

My judgement gone

my values redrawn

my hope is you

my life is new.

 

Do I go back to whence I came

not value life, what a shame.

or trust in you, and your love

my heart requites, takes hold of.

 

Let me not flounder from this resolve

I would burn for thee and evolve

As the Phoenix, is reborn to life

make me love, in thy light.


Take The Chance

Tomorrow may never come, Today will pass to quickly

To wait another moment to express my love, would dishonor my love for you.

Yet, fear, has its hold upon me, for in sharing such love

I am vulnerable to it and to you.

 

The gods laugh at our fraility, yet give us the desire to love and be loved,

what pawns we are at their whim, and a chance meeting like ours. Who would know

that in the quietness of time and this gentle passing, such feelings would come.

 

My heart rages as a storm, unsettled, knowing no bounds.

What is to come of me, of you, of us.

Will we run aground?

Will our love know no bound?

 

The gods are merciless, such power to love and be love,

they bestoy upon these mortal bodies.

Yet they give us no eye to the future, and leave us with such uncertainties.

 

Do I say, and leave exposed, the fragileness of my spirit.

Do I speak of love, and feelings of the heart

My soul seeks a kindred spirit

I would chance the telling of it, then chance, we would part.


Moonlit Walk

Moonlit walk, on a cool evening

shadows dancing, with the trees

my heart in motion, swaying, be still

let her not know so quickly she controls my will


Snow

The snow fills the sky, gently lying

The heavens pour it forth unending

Life a waterfall of crystals displaying

The moment, the time, it is suspending.

 

The wonderment of it all, a magical power

Flakes of snow so slow as to stop the hour

It is beautiful, making an ivory tower

Dusting the ground like a counter with flour.

 

Cold to the face but warm in my heart

A peace flows over me like water

Snowflakes and I are both a part

Hold close; don't let go, like a daughter.

 

How can something so simple be so beautiful?

How can each time be as new, and so wonderful?

When it comes, it makes me think of God

And how his endless beauty, he displays with a nod.

 

Does God exist the philosopher ask

Does a snowflake repeat quite the task?

Each uniquely different, this from nature

I would rather believe in a mystical maker.

 

I look up to the sky, when a flake lands on my nose

Like a statue, I remain still exposed

Another, another and another still

Kissed by God, and bent to his will.


Love Unfurled

The fear we share is in your eyes

Like an arrow piercing through its mark

You have heard before, a thousand lies

And been left alone, without light - in dark.

 

What words, must I say to still your heart

Are there assurances to give, I will not depart

Scared, ready to run, fleeing like deer

Telling you to run, far away, because of fear.

 

Your world shattered into fragments, sorrow contained

Your living only motions, each step, full of grief

Your daily existence, reveales the degree of your pain

But please, for love, for us, listen, I will be brief.

 

I promise to be gentle with you and take my time.

To love you, until even your will is mine

My breath upon you, your loving flesh

Awaken within you, sleeping desires - refresh.

 

My love for you will rival the classics prose

My poems for you will fill to capacity your world

Everyday in words and actions to you, a perfect rose

My love for you will stretch out like a flag unfurl.

 

Come to me, my love, my heart's desire, please be secure

Knowing, like the sands of time, my love will endure

I will administer your love until you again are whole

You will know, and experience the love of an ancient soul.


This Night Alone

Contemplation of life, this night alone

Quietness fills me to overflowing

What is known, is being dethroned

Giving in to the knowledge redrawing.

 

It is times like this, when by myself

I understand the realities of solitude

Loneliness is a single book on a shelf

Falling, not propped up, no latitude.

 

A book by it self can be a good read

But never all-cognitive content contained

It may speak of truths, but only a seed

Not in one, is all ascertained.

 

It has been said, in many years past

'As stone sharpens stone, man sharpens man'

Your book beside mine, fills the shelf, at last

No longer alone, a wonderous plan.