Early Morning Thoughts by PoetryGrrrl

loneliness is cold
airport goodbyes,
teary-eyed parting words
don’t forget your dad’s birthday
and remember to feed the cats
will you miss me?
wanting to be reassured
and to reassure.
muzak in the background
while you smile
and try not to let them
see the tears in your eyes,
goodbye,
we say
and part.

Original Poetry is © 2011 PoetryGrrrl.com – all rights reserved – no reproduction without my explicit permission.

(also available in Spanish!)

Dancing in the moonlight
a shadow of me
I close my eyes
to the endless sea
I escape from my body
I set myself free
and without earthly restriction
I am free to be.
Nighttime’s shades of light & dark
flicker with the breeze
and the song of the evening calls to me sweetly
as, weeping, I fall to my knees.
While I embrace your countenance
the trees halt for a moment
in their mad, whirling dance
and the earth seems at a standstill
in its’ mighty, frozen stance.
Then, my happiness is colored black
when I am wrenched from your embrace
and the wind carries me on broken wings
pulling me from this place.
Though unwilling to leave you behind
I begin to fade away
It breaks my heart to leave you but
I know I cannot stay.
My time has now come
I must kiss your lips goodbye
while another longing, bitter tear
falls from the crumbling sky.

Original Poetry is © 2011 PoetryGrrrl.com – all rights reserved – no reproduction without my explicit permission.

On 6/1/1992, I wrote a poem called “Moonlight Dance”. A few months later, our spanish teacher asked us to write him a poem in spanish, so I used the poem I had written earlier, and just translated it. Here is the spanish translation of my poem.

“Baile a la Luz de la Luna”

Bailando a la luz de la luna,
una sambra de mi,
yo cerre mis ojos
el mar sin fin.
You escapo de mi cuerpo,
me doy libertad a mi alma,
y sin restriccion terena,
yo estoy libre para ser.
Las sambras nocturnas de luz y oscuridad
cambian con la brisa,
y la cancion de la madrugada me llama dulcemente,
mientras me caige a mis rodillas, llorando.
Mientras yo abrazo su semblante,
los arboles se paran por un momento
en su baile, girando con locura.
La tierra parede estar sin movimiento
su fuerte postura congeloda.
Entonces me felicidad se cambia a negra
y mi tiran de su abrazo, y el viento
me lleva con alos rotas
aunque quiero quedarme en este lugar.
Subiendo mas alto y aun mas alto,
de las sambras hasta entro en el dia,
y no quero dejarte atras,
pero emprezo a desparecer.
Mi hora ha venido,
delio besar sus labios “adios”
Mientras otra lagrima amarga
se cae del cielo quebrandose.

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Silently, I weep for you.
A teardrop falls
onto my pillow, for
another heartbreak at your hands.
Today is only one of the many times
that you have disappointed me.
A little sigh escapes my lips
my heart is broken, never will it mend.
A lonely little tear falls, unnoticed,
into an ocean of the sorrow that you have caused;
into the sea of sadness that I
have been drowning in
since I met you.
One lonely teardrop,
alone like me
when cry is all I can do
for the feeling I get when I look at you
one little teardrop that no one sees
falls softly like rain from a cloudy sky,
one little teardrop
that is my answer to your goodbye
falls from the crack in my heart
to mourn the loss of you.