C. R. Stone

Secrets

2011-10-23T21:58:00.002-04:00

Secrets © Copyright C. R. Stone 2011

silence- his game
naked- her name
an unknown hand
is the night's caress

Sandcastle

2011-10-23T11:24:00.002-04:00

Sandcastle © Copyright C. R. Stone 2011

shutters, stained
shadows, unfamiliar
time is blatantly limited
for a house in partial-ruin
the tide, corroding
the sun, dimmer
my soul awaits
with every passing warning

2011-03-31T21:51:00.006-04:00

"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."
Ayn Rand

2010-08-19T18:01:00.002-04:00

"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment."

Carl Sandburg

2010-08-11T18:09:00.003-04:00

Beautiful

I often find myself enraptured by the divine mystery and peace that autumn welcomes- I'm counting the days.

2010-07-23T21:43:00.004-04:00

bus stop blues- dodging rain
cell phone battery burn-out.
echos morph into traveling beams
flashing against the grout.
thoughts scream, actions mute-
frozen in fear's delight.
the mind falls prey under vanishing
stars three hours beyond midnight.

2010-07-22T02:02:00.003-04:00

"Poetry isn’t a profession, it’s a way of life. It’s an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that."
Mary Oliver

"People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated."
Lucille Clifton

"Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild."
Denis Diderot

2010-07-20T20:10:00.016-04:00

Thursday Prompt #11
Automatic for the Poetry
July 15, 2010

Swift Descent

Swift Descent © Copyright C. R. Stone 2010

above the mountains final eclipse
as flurries composed a blanket of
deceit for the children of innocents.
eyes cloaked, mascots exalted-
candied limbs, fluffy cotton.
stained lips, false promises,
we disbarred.

full punishment-
death below a swifting owl,
as our lifeless hair lingered
along a river flowing like linen,
and yet, so will the souls of wolves
whose hunger will feed tearing sins,
into scattered images of war.

2010-07-20T03:11:00.008-04:00

Waking Soul

Waking Soul © Copyright 2010 C. R. Stone

behind a wall of glass i dreamt
of lofty perception while barefoot
in the middle of a desert.
unbalanced in mind travel
i waited for anything-
answers, an Arabian knight,
until I heard a sound like thunder
that blossomed a budded vine
rehearsed in a once dying vineyard.

2010-07-07T11:08:00.008-04:00

Handlebars

Handlebars © Copyright 2010 C. R. Stone

Are there others just like me?
In a giant coffee cup I spin-
I feel febricity rising.
Often my thoughts race,
yet today they are kind.
My tears whisper and
for the first time I'll listen.

2010-06-02T20:15:00.005-04:00

Hourglass

faded breath-
empty room,
pale skin-
broken spirit,

I made you cry.

lack of sleep-
lonely friend,
racing thoughts-
guilty mind,

you made me cry.

such nonsense our crazy world
feeding into hungry lies
like parasites.

faded breath-
a kissers cove,
flush skin-
the heat of passion,

searching for more time.

2010-05-27T22:40:00.003-04:00

"There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing."

John Cage

2010-05-11T00:12:00.001-04:00

The Serenity of Nature Indeed

2010-03-18T13:12:00.003-04:00

"If you want to study yourself -- look into the hearts of other people. If you want to study other people -- look into your own heart."
Friedrich von Schiller

2010-03-11T17:07:00.004-05:00

Rising Sun

Rising Sun © Copyright 2009 C. R. Stone

Racing through flames of yesterday
weaving between seams of green giants
hovering in a hungry jungle of smoking limbs-
until all that's left are bitter ashes.

Hollow earth shattering with every decline
from swamping tears and cries that wont echo,
yet I continue my search for sunlight-
until all that's left are bitter ashes.

2010-03-04T02:18:00.002-05:00

"We are all something, but none of us are everything."
Blaise Pascal

Blah, Blah, Blah

2010-02-07T20:23:00.001-05:00

Editing

2010-02-04T02:33:00.004-05:00

"Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries."
Anthony Hecht

Happy New Year

2010-01-01T20:26:00.001-05:00

Happy New Year!

2009-12-10T23:57:00.003-05:00

"And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others."

"But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all."

Wole Soyinka

2009-10-22T16:21:00.003-04:00

"If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers and scientists are keeping society together."

Rita Dove

Past Regrets

2009-10-20T10:16:00.004-04:00

Past Regrets (click title to read)
100 Word Flash Fiction
By Zora Delgado

2009-10-12T18:51:00.005-04:00

Remedy

Remedy © copyright 2009 C. R. Stone

Hidden innocence behind fueled lips
drenched with greedy desires unknown
drops me to feeble knees, soft and lazy,
as my resistance immobilizes
from your anxious trance pervading the
atmosphere with deep intensity-
taunting and thrusting such discoveries,
while stealing my breath all for the glory
of your liquid medication.

Thank You Ofira

2009-10-08T14:49:00.024-04:00

Thank you Ofira for my first blog award!

2009-10-07T22:48:00.004-04:00

Wednesday Night

Wednesday Night © Copyright 2009 C. R. Stone

fresh morning dew,
soft scattered clouds-
delicate, lingering-
a naked paradise,
like two bodies
merged into one
only to be awakened
by the neighbor's
lawn sprinklers.

Painting by Ivona Torovin

2009-10-01T00:51:00.002-04:00

"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise."

Alice Walker

Thoughts for Thursday

2009-08-12T23:23:00.006-04:00

"Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky."

Arna Bontemps

"A poem is a little moment of belief"

Jackie Kay

2009-07-23T01:32:00.002-04:00

"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."

Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein

2009-07-17T22:55:00.014-04:00

Window of Colors

Window of Colors © Copyright 2009 C. R. Stone

Traveling eyes
try to stay within the lines
of this mirrored maze of crusty tears.
I see distraught on their faces-
don't try to understand me, just yet.
I hear rejected whispers-
minds too young to comprehend.
But you, your look is kind,
like a painter bringing voice to art.
If fate will have mercy, we may meet again
as we merge within this never-ending forest of
peek-a-boo and hide-n-seek.
Perhaps my gaze will be more accepting,
just as yours is today.

2009-07-16T22:26:00.001-04:00

Purple Passion

by Raymond A. Foss

Royal, rich, deep purple
brilliant luminous petals
drink the pulse of light
from the fleeting flash
burn the fragrant color
into the cell, cut through
the fog, radiant hue
seal a moment with
your power
capture the instant
of purple passion

Thoughts for Thursday

2009-07-09T00:30:00.008-04:00

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few;
and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence."

George Washington

Thoughts for Thursday

2009-06-11T00:30:00.003-04:00

"The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can."

Robert Cushing

Life

2009-05-06T13:54:00.002-04:00

My sinuses are tapping dancing today and it's raining buckets as well. Tis the season I suppose.

Thoughts for Thursday

2009-04-23T00:05:00.004-04:00

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."

Maya Angelou

"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts."

Nikki Giovanni

2009-04-22T00:57:00.003-04:00

Thoughts for Thursday

2009-04-16T00:30:00.008-04:00

"Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind."

Alice Meynell

Poems of Alice Meynell

"Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character."

James Russel Lowell

Poems of James Russel Lowell

Pressure

2009-04-11T00:45:00.006-04:00

Profusion Prompt - Friday 5

Pressure

Thoughts for Thursday

2009-04-09T02:14:00.009-04:00

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Today

2009-04-05T23:11:00.009-04:00

Today
Poefusion Prompt#27

Enough!
These sedated
intrusions
harboring
against
my existence.
Help me
understand
unwanted thoughts
that choke
my emotions.
No longer
will I succumb
the voice
of my abuser.
Today ends
the silence.

Today © Copyright 2009 C. R. Stone

2009-04-04T22:42:00.014-04:00

Thoughts for Thursday

2009-04-02T00:46:00.005-04:00

"We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through."

Peter De Vries

2009-04-01T20:07:00.009-04:00

Summer

His smile was the sun
Illuminating their afternoon-
teasing pretty flowers with
his effulgence and standing
firm like a six foot tree
hovering with dangling apples
ready for plucking.
And with every glare my soul
burned with forbidden desire,
in need of shade.