Late one star-crossed summer's night
when I'd had more than enough
and only just in case
I was packing all my hard-won stuff
accumulated over more than several years
up to my ears there was indeed a lot of it
squashing jamming squeezing cramming
all in all a quite tight fit
as my entire worldly goods left in a taxi with me
something I now would like to know
who came up with the cliché and said,
'You can't take it with you when you go.'
Star-Crossed Cat Love
A domestic Manx, hopes torn stream and tossed
Pines and purrs for a stray cat so very lost
Their souls ache with delight
Through the screen door at night
A true love forbidden at a heartbreaking cost
The windows to your soul
sold you down the river
at a glance
Who knew a chance meeting
on a cold day would plunge
us both into a trance
There's no coincidences in life
so everything
is meant to be
Plans brought us together like
eyes on a face but neither
one could see
On the surface we were free
but behind the scenes
we were bound
Together like shoelaces in a
knot tied by the
love we'd found
Our crying hearts made sounds
but neither heard
what was said
Soon we'd be consumed by
the thoughts eating
away at our heads
A star-crossed love had been
bred woven by the
ties that bind
Chained to each other forever
stuck in a web
of the mind
Maybe another place & time
will see us make
this right
For now there's space in between
this link until
we align our sights
Mobile ring tones at morning light,
disturb the shapes under covers,
the outlined echoes of last night,
two star-crossed microphone lovers,
drawn from opposite ends of town,
yesterday’s pub entertainers,
way on down at the Old Three Crowns,
they met singing Gloria Gaynor,
ramped and amped with emotion,
to songs that belonged in the haze,
now wake to face their commotion,
the music of separate ways.
How could our love have been so strong
And yet also seemingly so wrong.
Such deep, impassioned, love
startles our mortal ways.
Could we possibly have that
same eternal love?
Flowing in our souls and blood,
and being blind, make light of it?
How blessed, how young, how
fortunate,lovers they!
To refuse on this fetid earth to stay.
And of poison did imbibe and hence
dance forever in a moonlit sky.,
Willing to live in eternity, together. oh!
Not a beautiful flower, nor a stunning
sunset, no!
Could keep them here, why, on this so
controlling a place!
Be still this night and you will hear their
enchanting and bubbling laughter..
It whispers in trees, eternally, day and
night, a fortnight and foreverafter.
Poem ~1~
February 14, 2024
We’re destined to love and fated to seethe.
But our stars don’t align
Were you somebody who just meant to leave?
If walking away was the correct choice to find a delight
Was I ever part of your everyday thinking?
If not, I should’ve kept things right
I miss your morning kisses running on my cheeks
I miss our evening catfights…
This time, I just sigh and wreathe.
Holding on in a little wood shack
Their memories will always remain
Knowing somehow forever is not to be
Warm moments dull the pain
He said, Are we star-crossed lovers?
She said, No don’t talk that way
He said, Are we star-crossed lovers?
She said, No don’t talk that way.
Leaving leaves all behind
Or so it was supposed to be
But no one knew what was to come
As they prepared to flee
She said, Are we star-crossed lovers?
He said, No don’t talk that way.
She said, Are we star-crossed lovers?
He said, No don’t talk that way.
When all the sky began to fall
And the ground began to crack
The moment came to say goodbye
And remember that little wood shack
He said, Are we star-crossed lovers?
She said, No don’t talk that way
He said, Are we star-crossed lovers?
She said, No don’t talk that way.
Before we go to sleep tonight,
I'll remember what we have.
I won't feel sad that you are not here,
Cos we have true romance.
We have it all a love so bright,
Like a diamond in the sky.
Look at the stars from where you are,
We are the bright one on the right,
We'll be together despite the odds, no matter how we have to fight.
You are you and I am me, together we make me,
I feel giddy when I see you,
And I just know you feel the same way too.
So when we are together, nothing can go wrong,
And as years go past our love will grow more strong.
In a tapestry of night, their fates entwined,
Two souls aglow, in love's celestial bind.
He, a comet blazing 'cross the midnight sky,
She, a meteor, on a parallel course nearby.
They met in solemn moment, 'neath the lunar gleam,
Their love, with promised dream.
Whispers of longing in the night's embrace,
hearts sparkled with joy in heavenly chase.
The two strangers, they met on that life's road,
Forsaking everyone they had in this world,
For love had bound them, yet torn them apart,
Two star-crossed lovers, with aching heart.
They traced the galaxies, seeking a way,
To bridge the vast chasm that kept them at bay.
But the stars, indifferent, continued to gleam,
As they watched two lovers trapped in a cosmic scheme.
In the cosmos, their love became a myth,
Two star-crossed lovers, their spirits adrift.
For even in the vastness of the endless night,
Their love still shines, a brilliant, distant light.
"From forth the fatal loins of these two foes,
A pair of star cross'd lovers take their life,
Whose misadventur'd piteous overthrows
Doth with their death bury their parents' strife."
— Prologue, Romeo and Juliet
As teens, they were told you’re too young
Time passed and they both were married
Another vowed they were among
Lovers who stole hearts once buried
Time passed and they both were married
Like this might mend the wounds within
Lovers who stole hearts once buried
Bygones could tell of pain that’s been
Like this might mend the wounds within
Where battles left them so forlorn
Bygones could tell of pain that’s been
As they stayed in darkness to mourn
Where battles left them so forlorn
Star-crossed lovers - hear hearts breaking
As they stayed in darkness to mourn
The feelings felt were earthshaking
Star-crossed lovers - hear hearts breaking
Another vowed they were among
The feelings felt were earthshaking
As teens, they were told you’re too young
It happened on a rainy night
As I walked out....
........... and she walked in
I alone possessed the paper
As she retained the only pen
Oh, the poetry we could have written
And the stories we might create
If she arrived a minute early
Or I departed, a little late
She sought shelter form the weather
As I ran to to catch the bus
Instead of loving life together
Loneliness was meant for us
They say that Love never fails
I would like to think they're right
But it was lost in just a moment
Once upon a rainy night.
This sparkling girl had an inborn predilection
for the lilting life’s passionate piquancy.
In the rhapsodic ripples of zephyr
she floated like a beguiled butterfly
across her seamless sensuous sky called life,
and on its wings she painted her dreams
like the flowers in the valley of love.
When his magnetic aura spread on her feelings,
and encompassed her to wrest her identity,
her tender heart instantly gleamed
in the halo of exalted adoration.
Her horizon splashed the spectrum of ecstasy,
that turned into the canvas of reverie.
Virtual euphoria took her to fathomless fantasy,
she didn’t see storm clouds gather in smoky sky.
At the ebony edge of the gloomy night,
the fading stars crossed her sky of crashing strife.
He wrecked her emotion, an epitome of adulation,
the shards of dream dispersed in the debris.
Her broken hearted bruised love she felt
wane in the abyss of despair, she was lost in denial.
A tsunami of apathy parted the star-crossed lovers,
she searched for solace in spiritual self-credence.
A Venusian and Martian met one day
But a language barrier stood in their way.
They observed the stars
Between Venus and Mars
Still, they had very little to say.
Both are unique and complex in make
Desiring a love that would make Earth shake.
Though broken at heart
They must stay apart.
There are plenty more options to take.
If only their warring families knew
Of the chemistry existing between these two!
They might try to seek peace
Cultural conflicts may cease...
The Marnusians would be a form new.
Unfortunately life doesn't work that way
Whatever fairytales and fantasies say.
Each a star-crossed lover
Secret. Undercover.
Their affection doomed til their dying day.
To hold your warmth in my hand
This love of ours, totally unplanned
Our lives are set but so far apart
How can you suddenly sneak into my heart
The secrets the lies I tell to see you
You, so calm, are you untrue
You send shivers that ripple all down my spine
I can’t believe you are not really mine.
I fight and I struggle to keep away
But even your aroma makes my head sway
When I need you, you are always there
Life is so hard it’s really not fair
In secret, no words, I leave for a stroll
To find my star-crossed love, a hot sausage roll
Related Poems