Street Roots •
Jan. 6-12, 2017
Poetry
Page 13
Gaia
by Raven
Mother;
I ask your
rawness to envelop
my yearnings, my restlessness.
To find my door yawning wide.
Mother ... shall I enter?
I desire only your embrace
for no one else can hold me.
My Decaying Heart & Soul
by Brian Nye
I’m so tired of living this way
It’s beer and weed that get me through the day.
I’m tired of holding these feelings at bay
My heart & soul, they decay
Everyday I ask God and pray
But it’s me that has to obey
Why do I seem to always pick the wrong way
I do my best and surely pray
So what can I say?
I get up and work at doing better the next day
I must act with no delay
Because soon my heart & soul will completely decay
Then there won’t be another day
What Is in a Name
by Aileen McPherson
I was given Heather at birth,
by definition it means purple flowering shrub on the moors.
Attached to that was Aileen, which was defined as a lightbearer.
While lasts can be many, and are either inherited or married into.
After time my given name was the cause and subject of triggering events
and past tragedies.
I had to change it, but to what?
Many names were thought of before the decision was made.
I have a name I like and it is already mine, all I need to do is use it.
So I was reborn Aileen, a fine name I have loved and cannot be taken
away. She is the writer, the Author of Dreams, and creator of scenes.
What of my other loves, drawing and such, isn’t Aileen just a bit much
when trying to hide the artist inside.
So to shorten this name would be insane, but for ease of space and
drawing tastes, I look for a way to show my face.
It was in the Japanese slang I found a name that made my hearf bound.
It was me and love wrapped into one, and Ai was born.
Ai is love and I, Aileen, love to create, design, and educate
myself as well as others.
My creativity is a brevity of musings from the mind,
of rhymes made to describe past times,
While sketching like retching, vomiting on the page,
Sometimes it hurts, but afterwards it fades
Just like the darkest of shades.
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