Showing posts with label #poet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #poet. Show all posts

Thursday, April 5, 2018

Being In Tune Now




Dancing
Lifted by the divine wind
Gratefully given
Through the music of the spheres
Fully engulfed
Within a tense
Holding such presence
For seconds
Time seems to play tricks
Appearing in elastic motion
As I bathe in the ocean
Of boundless energy
Provided to me
When I choose to awaken
And allow
Myself to fall away
Being
In tune now

© A. Bougie (3/25/2018)

Friday, August 4, 2017

Eternal Spirit - Spoken Word on Youtube




Eternal Spirit

© A. Bougie - 11/12/2006

Six years stranded
Still falling 
I stand when I can
Still trying
To turn out what I'd planned
Ideas encouraged
Without doubt
She never failed
To believe
The possibilities
She endowed to me
Built of and by her
My body entire
She bequeathed 
To me her fire
Luminous jewels
Drops of knowledge
She filled me with
Hope eternal 
Composed me of
The best she was
My mother is gone
She's been in ashes
For six years long
Because of her 
I am strong
I carry her spirit on 

Wednesday, July 19, 2017

A Lady with Needs





You think it’s cool
To be cold
Oh, well FYI—
It gets kind of old
I want loving arms to enfold
That I might not feel
So alone
But I can’t rely
On anyone
Except myself now babe
Sometimes I wish
I could stop wanting
All the love I crave

Yeah,
Maybe then I’d
Be fully satisfied
With the life I’ve made
Now I
Am full to the brim
Beside myself with a thirst
For love to flow in
But your floodgates
Are rusted shut
By your nose turned up

I am eschewed
For trying
To know you
For hoping
To have substance
Lord knows
All you want
Is what you see
A cute shakin’ ass
A hot little piece
You don’t want to know
A lady that writes
A lady that reads
A lady with needs
She fully intends to feed

Hey—
Just because I
Look hot
Doesn’t mean I ought
To give it up
To someone who
Won’t give me love
Now honey—
I’ve had enough
Late night calling
All your pawing
Doesn’t ease
My longing
‘Cause what I need
Is love
And you won’t
Give it up


Poem © A. Bougie (6/8/2009)
Photo © 2017 Liam Carleton - Liam Carleton Photography on FB