http://www.aspenpoetsociety.com en toby.p.grubbs@hotmail.com Copyright 2012 2012-05-02T06:56:00-07:00 http://www.aspenpoetsociety.com/index.php/poetry/comments/my-sweet-columbine/ http://www.aspenpoetsociety.com/index.php/poetry/comments/my-sweet-columbine/#When:05:56:00Z A columbine bud In sweet alpine air Through holly shrub green Amidst aspen fair In sparse rocky earth Her roots clinging tight Against all odds Blooms purple and white A frost tinted wind Whipping through her leaves As it bends her low And her spirit grieves So rugged she is As columbines are Her defiant bloom A purple white star My sweet columbine Sink deep in my soil My garden awaits You’ll bloom without toil I’ll water you well And feed you with care Grow in my garden Your beauty to share Choose me columbine Forsake your harsh life Enter my embrace Release your great strife You’ll grow in my heart Its warmth given free My sweet columbine Bloom only for me Poems 2012-05-02T05:56:00-07:00 http://www.aspenpoetsociety.com/index.php/poetry/comments/shadows/ http://www.aspenpoetsociety.com/index.php/poetry/comments/shadows/#When:07:27:00Z Shadows of things yet to be Drown my mind in fear and fright Illusions of misery Darkened dreams and starless nights Shadows of past sins I see Haunt my soul with blackened spite Tossed about a stormy sea Foamy swells of endless blight Shadows of faith live in me Unmindful of freedoms right Shackles of eternity In my mind are binding tight Shadows of gospel decree Sparking a flame, burning bright Hope, a fleeting memory Surges back into the fight Shadows of the bloody tree Where Christ received no respite The clink of nails, counting three Through hands and feet driven tight Shadows pierced his heart to see A spotless lamb, pure and white Water and blood cleansing me Flowing from His heart contrite Shadows in tomb lie unseen Could not hold past third day’s light Angels rolled the stone to free He who conquered hellish might Shadows may still torment me Until life’s day fades to night Rulers no more, will they be Broken by the cross’ smite Poems 2012-04-05T07:27:00-07:00 http://www.aspenpoetsociety.com/index.php/poetry/comments/oh-love-divine/ http://www.aspenpoetsociety.com/index.php/poetry/comments/oh-love-divine/#When:12:36:01Z Oh, love divine where do you rest? On softened lips or beating breast? You come and go but never jest Lovers’ embrace with you is blessed An ancient wind upon the land Will not obey the grasping hand As gentle as the silken strand Yet strong enough to bend a man A spoken word, a gentle brush Cause hearts to flutter with the rush A crooked smile the mind will hush Her sparkling eyes will bring a blush But do you live within the pain? In hearts denied as spirits strain? You flow with tears in pouring rain The silent weeping bears your name You blur the eye, wet the pillow Bending branches of the willow Carve her name on frosted window Yet hides his name in dark shadow Though patience fails and curses spoke You live within the lover’s hope That pain will flee and love will float On frothy sea and bitter note Oh, love divine, you soon will rest And find our hearts have passed the test That you so cruelly transgressed Upon our spirits so distressed The sun will shine, the clouds depart And soon the valley mist will part Love that once stung will soon impart A ring of gold that binds our hearts Poems 2012-02-01T12:36:01-07:00 http://www.aspenpoetsociety.com/index.php/poetry/comments/selfish-desire/ http://www.aspenpoetsociety.com/index.php/poetry/comments/selfish-desire/#When:04:15:00Z Armed with a bow His arrows at hand Each one dripping with the emotion Of his selfish desire Tragically miserable He hides behind a mask of fear With a childlike maliciousness Afraid to reveal his pain and sadness Unable to show any humanness He deftly raises his bow Takes aim at his prey To destroy an angelic love Fulfilling his ruthless lust and Satisfying his selfish desire He is Cupid amuck Baby-faced Spiritually starved Smirking at beauty He is unable to conquer the demons Of his earthly lust And cross the barrier To sublimate them So he remains trapped in The lowest realms of his sacred centers Where, instead, he happily obliterates Love personified as absolute affection And there he lingers powerless To transcend his path to illumination Unwilling to know unadulterated love And unity of life By virtue of his selfish desire Poems 2012-01-26T04:15:00-07:00 http://www.aspenpoetsociety.com/index.php/poetry/comments/with-love/ http://www.aspenpoetsociety.com/index.php/poetry/comments/with-love/#When:21:45:00Z Life is but a fleeting moment, dancing across the pages of time. But, my darling, how our love keeps us immortal. Ah, how true love is like that…it heals the wounds that scar our souls, the madness that we are driven to through our ephemeral lives upon this bruised and battled earth. When you make love to me, you make me forgot the weakness of my spirit.  With the back of your hand you touch my cheek, and make me whole. With you, I am home… And there is nowhere else I ever wish to be. Poems 2012-01-14T21:45:00-07:00 http://www.aspenpoetsociety.com/index.php/poetry/comments/oh-my-lover/ http://www.aspenpoetsociety.com/index.php/poetry/comments/oh-my-lover/#When:15:49:00Z Oh my lover, I do entreat Your kisses moist and honey sweet Embrace my heart without deceit Drink deeply of my love replete Oh my lover, I am transfixed In passion’s grasp I am bewitched Hazel eyes and stars betwixt My heart is caged but so enriched Oh my lover, I surrender To your embrace, warm and tender My heart to you I do render Into our love full of splendor Oh my lover, my heart I bind To sail your sea of stars to find That secret place where we in kind Explore each other’s heart and mind Poems 2012-01-14T15:49:00-07:00 http://www.aspenpoetsociety.com/index.php/poetry/comments/the-fairy-queen/ http://www.aspenpoetsociety.com/index.php/poetry/comments/the-fairy-queen/#When:06:27:01Z She is the dew at morning dawn She quenches thirst of fae and fawn Sustains the least of forest spawn Awakens trees, their branches yawn As sun is high she sits enthroned Seat of ivy and precious stone Ruling spirits and flesh and bone Her justice fair and finely honed Creatures journey from far and wide To bask within the forest’s pride That emanates from deep inside The light she gives is not denied The forest moves to make request Until she speaks they will not rest Daily they wait without regress Ancient wisdom to be addressed Spreading silken and frosted wing She ascends and begins to sing A song of lovers’ beauty rings With voice so full of magic things The song brings all to joyous tears As it did in primeval years Resonating through time so clear Gifting any who lend an ear The Fairy Queen pours out her song Like the finest wine, sweet and strong They drink it down in eager throngs For its soothing warmth they have longed As the sun sinks, the song will fade Shadows rule the forest displayed Dance in fae light, colors arrayed Her song still glows in hearts betrayed She is the moon that guards the night She lights the path of crone and sprite The Fairy Queen enrobed in white She is a rare and lovely sight Poems 2012-01-14T06:27:01-07:00 http://www.aspenpoetsociety.com/index.php/poetry/comments/vivaldi/ http://www.aspenpoetsociety.com/index.php/poetry/comments/vivaldi/#When:04:37:00Z Vivaldi plays in the background Of my life that has Become after you. Hitting notes and phrases that Draw me back moments to Us together as one. Symphonies of sound Not existed in the place of before you home. Stringed rises and metaled lows, Woven nonlinear into tears Over time fallen deep. Vivaldi plays on untutored ears Crescendoed respite Of gone you. Poems 2011-12-22T04:37:00-07:00 http://www.aspenpoetsociety.com/index.php/poetry/comments/hook/ http://www.aspenpoetsociety.com/index.php/poetry/comments/hook/#When:19:15:01Z He disperses each thread, a convenient fisherman In this, a fish, an absorbing past time Maybe I just wanted that excuse to bite, to cling In this, a mutual urge to nourish some crippling void So to speak, appetite may have masked my better judgment To which I got sucked under, tossed back, left parched, although Each time you evade my compulsory flicker of gaze, I can’t help but wonder Really, was it just ill-intentions or maybe you’re just human enough to notice… Lower back to that enviable isolation, troubles aside Only God knows who’d miss this; what have we learned? Validation may ravage each fish we pursue, but Each line eventually falls back into blue Poems 2011-12-14T19:15:01-07:00 http://www.aspenpoetsociety.com/index.php/poetry/comments/no-regrets/ http://www.aspenpoetsociety.com/index.php/poetry/comments/no-regrets/#When:01:34:00Z I will never regret that call You so contemptuously told me I would. I will never regret that night I choose not be with you. I will never regret the courage it took to finally take a stand. I will never look back and tell myself A bad dream was all I had. Loathsome words bring to mind, Anger, hate and rage. Quite shocking… still, Remembering, reflecting upon those days. Innocence, sound asleep as any child should. Oblivious to your brutality Because shame was the unspoken word. A daughter drunk with all your lies, Berates me for my nerve. Then boldly announces in confidence That our love was done for sure. Arms bruised, heart broken unable to endure.... My terrified spirit Took flight that night Leaving me much too soon. Anxiously I stood alone Unknowing your love was conditional. I never imagined retaliation For behavior inexcusable. Amazingly I survived that night However, how about you? Truth hurting, An affair building, Falsely justifying new love. Delighting in misery, Life repeating, Woefully existing, Have you heard this is you? I will never regret that call my love, In fact I delight. What I do regret is losing my self But now it is all right. Poems 2011-11-29T01:34:00-07:00