The Long Way Home

Well I stumbled in the darkness

I'm lost and alone

Though I said I'd go before us

And show the way back home

There a light up ahead

I can't hold onto her arm

Forgive me pretty baby but I always take the long way home

Money's just something you throw

Off the back of a train

Got a head full of lightning

A hat full of rain

And I know that I said

I'd never do it again

And I love you pretty baby but I always take the long way home

I put food on the table

And roof overhead

But I'd trade it all tomorrow

For the highway instead

Watch your back if I should tell you

Love's the only thing I've ever known

One thing for sure pretty baby I always take the long way home

You know I love you baby

More than the whole wide world

You are my woman

I know you are my pearl

Let's go out past the party lights

Where we can finally be alone

Come with me and we can take the long way home

Come with me, together we can take the long way home

Come with me, together we can take the long way home

Haiku my heart: Stop Bus no 6

Stop all the thinking! she cries

Why? he replies

You can't hear your heart . . .

Riette

Haiku my Heart: Separation

Image : http://fistikyesili.com

This then, is where we separate

you, heart,

and I . . . .

Riette  13 March 2011

recuerda mi corazon

Haiku my heart: Simplicity

Come, we're going home.

Where's home?

For me, home is . . . .wherever you are

Riette 04 March 2011

"recuerda mi corazon" 

A poem based on "Lightness of being."

Painting: Vilhelm Hammersshoi

A lover weighing his words

Every one

of those smiling atoms

that are you,

I love.

All those cuddly molecules

that clamber over each other

and puppy-growl comically

at each other,

I admire.

Those cascades

that shimmer through

your nerves

to produce your

hidden smile,

I dote on.

What you are

I cannot weigh,

I have no way

to grasp you fully.

Where you are is light

in which I track myself,

bouncing softly off

the bubbles

of your thoughts.

De Waal Venter

South-African poet

Swan Heart

All those beautiful people
I want to have them
I want to have them all
All those porcelain models
If only I could make them fall

Be my heart a well of love
Flowing free so far above

A wintry eve
Once upon a tale
An Ugly Duckling
Lost in a verse
Of a sparrows carol
Dreaming the stars

Be my heart a well of love
Flowing free so far above

In my world
Love is for poets
Never the famous balcony scene
Just a dying faith
On the heaven's gate

Crystal pond awaits the lorn
Tonight another morn for the lonely one is born

Lyrics of the beautiful song "Swanheart" by Nightwish

Dante's Prayer

On the eve of Valentine's Day  . . . .. 

14 February 2011

When the dark wood fell before me
And all the paths were overgrown
When the priests of pride say there is no other way
I tilled the sorrows of stone

I did not believe because I could not see
Though you came to me in the night
When the dawn seemed forever lost
You showed me your love in the light of the stars

Cast your eyes on the ocean
Cast your soul to the sea
When the dark night seems endless
Please remember me

Then the mountain rose before me
By the deep well of desire
From the fountain of forgiveness
Beyond the ice and the fire

Cast your eyes on the ocean
Cast your soul to the sea
When the dark night seems endless
Please remember me

Though we share this humble path, alone
How fragile is the heart
Oh give these clay feet wings to fly
To touch the face of the stars

Breathe life into this feeble heart
Lift this mortal veil of fear
Take these crumbled hopes, etched with tears
We'll rise above these earthly cares

Cast your eyes on the ocean
Cast your soul to the sea
When the dark night seems endless
Please remember me...