Violet Yates's Blog, page 6
February 20, 2015
Homeless In Hawaii
Homeless in Hawaii
Do any of you care?
Those who are on the streets in Hawaii
There are many families…
You tuck your babies in at night…
Knowing they’ll be alright…
Checking the closet and under the bed for monsters there
Stilling their fright.
What of the babies with no beds for the night?
What of real-life monsters?
You don’t understand, how can you?
You’ve never had to walk in their shoe…
But maybe there is something…
You can collectively do.
Speak up!
You blame the drunk and addict with ease…
Have you forgotten, addiction is a mental dis-ease?
I know it makes you uncomfortable to see…
What some of you’ve got hidden on your family tree…
Disregard the sins of society…
Homelessness is a social malady.
Preventable by the few, ignored by the many.
Billions of dollars go up in smoke,
That wasteful rail project?
Is it worth going broke?
We can’t even feed, clothe and house our Ohanas.
What a joke.
One day we shall all be called to account.
Is this the reward on the wall you will mount?
Filed under: Hawaii, Poetry, Politics Tagged: hawaii, Homelessness, Kirk Caldwell, poetry, politics, poverty, public policy, sad, violetyates
February 17, 2015
Someone Who is Real
Sometime ago
You told me you would come to find me
You didn’t
But I never forgot thee
You always lived in my memory.
We both met other people
Fell in love
Got married
But those loves,
They fell apart
You were always deep
In my simple heart.
I had an opportunity
To come home for once
I saw you
& fell once more
Yet I was afraid
Because of all that was being said.
You said once, “don’t marry that man.”
I said, “he gives me something you never can.”
I never once forgot you, however.
And for the future could not, no matter how I endeavored.
Despite the past
And pondering whether we would even last
I sought you.
And darned if it wasn’t a two-way street
We touched each other’s souls
Whenever we would meet
Never any deceit.
Now I see
How much I truly meant
And how far back affection really goes
I didn’t realize…
That our hearts had crashed long ago…
There’s significance in you.
You are the one I need
Oh M, you are to me,
What he should have been
But things happen the way they do.
And sometimes you have a soulmate or two…
Before you find someone who is Real.
I love you.
Filed under: Art, Love, Poetry, Relationships, Writing Tagged: epic love, hawaii, IloveYouM, love, michael, Poet, poetry, relationships, Violet Yates
Watch “Ed Sheeran – One [Official Video]” on YouTube
Ed Sheeran – One [Official Video]: http://youtu.be/Ix9NXVIbm2A
Filed under: Love, music, Music Video Tagged: #onlyone, EdSheeran, IloveYouM
February 14, 2015
Watch “Violet Skies – Liar” on YouTube
Violet Skies – Liar: http://youtu.be/Oqo46oWxTPY
Filed under: Love, music, Music Video Tagged: liar, music, new favorite, violet skies, youtube
Watch “Randy Rogers Band – Lost and Found” on YouTube
Randy Rogers Band – Lost and Found: http://youtu.be/zlfLC2IpJ8Y
Filed under: Love, music, Music Video Tagged: heartbreak, lost and found, missing you, music, randy Rodgers, sadness
Echoes, My Friend, Outside the Wind Blows, Never Love Again…
Echoes
Your laughter echoes, in the back of my mind, like a dream
Like a cascading waterfall, tumbling down, tickling my memory
an ECHO
It���s just a memory
It stagnates inside,
Stifles me.
My Friend
I had a friend���
I seem to have misplaced
A friend, a love, to me
Can you help me find him?
He disappeared, you see
I might have said something
That caused him to flee
Yet how can I ever know
How can I possibly see
If he will not talk to me?
Outside the Wind Blows
Outside the wind blows
Inside I’m missing you
and nobody knows
I can hear the beating of my heart
whispering silently inside
wishing we weren’t apart
so I deny
and tell myself it must be something else
But why, why?
something else must be making my heart feel this pain
After all, how can I feel it
When it is in vain?
the chimes play a melody so clear
why can’t i
Feel as well as hear
my true feelings
without the things that interfere?
Oh why…
There is no end
Only a beginning
Words are constrained for fear to offend
Just block the feelings that threaten to consume me
Dreamt of you all last night
Why doesn’t the import of your existence to me cause you to see?
Look inside
I’ve begged you
What is the most painful is what I hide.
Never Love Again
If I could wrap my arms around you
I���d thank the moon, the sun, the stars
I���d never forsake you
Never would I go far
Oh!
This endless ache
This never-ending love
Will it never end?
If I could lay
In your arms
Again
Find peace within me
You
I loved
More than God
The moon
The stars
The earth
The heavens
Grass on the ground, birds in the trees���
I desire
No more empty faces
No more endless nights
No more haunting dreams
Of what shall never be
My heart!
I will not die
Of a broken heart
I will live on
Yet without you
I will live thus:
Without love.
For I cannot love
That way
Ever Again
And to love
Any other way
It is a fallacy���a fraud
So I shall be true
To my heart
And never love again.
* Excerpts from http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Found-Violet-Yates-ebook/dp/B0051EZDZ2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1423955817&sr=8-1&keywords=lost+%26+found+violet+yates
Filed under: Art, Love, Poetry, Relationships, Writing Tagged: amwriting, beauty in poetry, Lost Love, poems, Poet, Poetry Novel, sadness, Violet Yates
February 13, 2015
February 9, 2015
Word Prisms
And the rhymes, they come in waves
Begging to be let out
Often it is more of a scream
Or a clear shout
Lately it’s been driving me insane
You’re my treasure, my pleasure…
In full measure
O baby, even now
You interrupt my ink
I only want to stop the rain
Just for a time, so I can think!
My mind is on its own blink…
Dancing amongst word prisms
Skipping to the crimson throb of my own rhythm…
I’m bleeding from within…
Filed under: Art, Poetry, Writing Tagged: amwriting, angst, beauty in poetry, love of writing, poetry, struggles, turmoil, Violet Yates 
February 3, 2015
Senses
Everybody is busy trying
To shut out the night
Flooding their senses
Images, visages, fighting off demons…
Even of their own making…
Perhaps.
Or flying in from the universe
Preying on the innocent…
They know not…
Or do… they?
Flitting about,
Like gold-winged bats.
Noted spiraling down.
Blue sky, cotton-ball clouds,
Flute, violin, bass, play them for me now.
Lost in your constant high,
Strum me like a lute.
I respond only to you.
Heavenly tune,
You’re overdue.
Filed under: Love, Marketing, Marketing New Ebook, Poetry Tagged: beauty in poetry, lofty poetry, love, metaphors, oh hear calliope, Violet Yates
