POETS - alt.emotions

The following are spoke word compositions. These works are fiction and bear no resemblance or likeness to anyone living or dead. All opinions and interpretations expressed here are entirely the authors. Copyrights are held by the respective authors. The authors are: Sylvie Being, Henry Cole, Ted Denton, Elizabeth Hill, Christina Jager, Laurel Sparks, Gregory Springer and Spider Watkins.

High Fidelity Laurel Sparks © 2006 (aka Lavender Lively) You said you’d leave When your kids got raised. To just be patient And understanding. That you’d join me afterward. Well, they’re up and gone And I’m still waiting. You promised you’d go After the grandkids were born. That you just had to plan For the perfect time to leave. They’ve been in daycare Two years now Learning their ABCs and 123s. And still I wait. Now your wife’s sick With a terminal illness. You begged me for a little more time And sympathy. After all, you said I’ve held out With tenacity and loyalty So I should be able to hold on Just a little bit longer. Please? After all… What else did I have to do These past twenty years?

Your Presence Christina Jager © 1999 My face is flushed Cheeks burning hot Your face swirls around me Twisting and bending in the crevices of my skin Sinking deep Absorbing in my palm The taste of you is so sugary sweet Leaves me thirsty for more I write the words that describe your angelic presence Silently slipping across the paper Like velvet beneath my fumbling fingers Which long to reach onto your body The box of you that I hold so tight If I were ever to lose its contents I would cry a million seas The pure bliss I feel after your refreshing presence engulfs me Swallows me like waves swallow the shore You have a mysterious air Your eyes clutch secrets never to escape through your sweet lips Brilliant thoughts whirl in my empty head So many wishes so far from reality If I were to reach into the darkness Would I feel your silky hands reach back?

She's Got the "Look" Sylvie Being © 1998 She's got the style She's got the look She's got that savior fair She didn't learn from books, She's got an electric generator There - underneath her skin He's making a big mistake He's going to let her in He's got his car But she's going to drive him around She's going to show him forbidden streets In his own town She's got an electric alternator Two different ways to sin He's making a big mistake He's going to let her in She's got the time Say goodbye to the sun A hungry look in her eyes A change has begun There is an electric transformation A blush beneath her skin He's made a big mistake Now that he's let her in

	Comic Strip Love Affair Spider Watkins © 1998 I loose breath When I'm looking for you I accept The deal we made Within depth I feel I must move you Or am I moving through you I'm waiting for Something Someone Somehow To love you In some other way Now Here I am Laying my heart out to you And Here I am again Getting burned Like some Comic strip love affair Oh, when Will I learn

El Paso Henry Cole © 1998 El Paso is the closest that I ever been to Hawaii Where those hula girls are swayin' with the breeze I'd lay me down beside those girls and get a tan But my boots would keep me pale below the knees When I get that travelin' fever I get dressed up In my pearl-buttoned, flowered Hawaiian shirt Sometimes I tint my hair just like a surfer But when I go out I feel just like a jerk Sometimes I get so lonely so I pull out My Atlas with the map of Oo-wah-who I trace my finger 'long that coastal highway This map has stains on it that look like glue Someday I'm gonna pack my bags and thumb a ride Way out west to Hawaii, U.S.A. Some trucker might just take me to that golden land If not I'll just have to walk the rest of the way!

Love and a Promise Elizabeth Hill © 1998 Help me in the morning, Brush the sleep away, Lying by you all night long's, Made me forget of today. I can see you now, Flying off away from me, You had to go, I know, I only hoped that you would see. But I'm dreaming, It's only five o'clock, We still have a few more hours, Before it ends and locks. We started long ago, With love and a promise, To never leave our hearts alone, To always be together. I remember happiness, Of walks in the park, Of candel light dinners, When we only talked. I remember loving you, Like no other could, And holding the longest kiss, When we stood together. Shadows slowly slip, Into our lonely room, I hold you close and kiss your cheek, We will be alone too soon, It's noon And I'm having breakfast, When a tear comes to my eye, I loved you for so long, And then you say to me, Goodbye.

This Wire Ted Denton © 1998 I've got this wire Going into my head It's telling me It's time for maxi dread Every movie I fear will happen to me Every crime on T.V. Goes unjudged My neighborhood Could become A drive-by happening Lock the door It's starting again The wire vibrates And then I happen Laughing at torment Because I could be next A victim of generous doses Of every horror I can find Then A commercial takes me back To when I was a small child It made me so happy then When I saw commercials Of hot air balloons And blue sunny skies Green fields and trees Colorful streamers And happy faces Happy children's faces Smiling at me Me! They spoke to me In a special language Purchase and Buy Join us Purchase and Buy Be one with us Purchase and Buy We love you

	I Think of You Gregory Springer © 1998 You are you, And I am me, And when we are together, We are free, When together, I think of no one else, And when apart, I think of you, Let us paint our face, In the colors of today, We can live as one, If that's what you say, Then when we are loving, I will know we are living, Alive like always, When I think of you.

A Ride Spider Watkins © 1998 If I'm in The community center parking lot After school And if a girl comes up to me And asks me for a ride I won't ask her where she's been I won't think it's bad again I won't think about that girl Who treated me bad I know it's gone now The things I could have had So I'll give her a ride To where ever she wants to go And I won't get nervous either, I mean If that ever happens In the parking lot A girl asking me for A ride You know?

As Things Do Elizabeth Hill © 1998 I had a love, He was more than I dreamed, An angel down from heaven, Forever in love it seemed. We were strong together, The joy of happiness, Troubled not by sorrow, Our love we gently caressed. We walked through cities, And across fertile fields, And lay unclothed in the warming sun, Like two great sleeping seals. And we had tea and biscuits, When it was cold outside, And sometimes we got hurt, Our love would make us cry. Our's was a passion, Not to be lost, To stay together, No matter the cost. Our's was a passion, Of sun-bright fire, Deeply expressing our wants, And desires. We were like the power, Of rushing sea water, And clouds in the sky, Lashing with thunder. We came together, To love and to hold, But forever is a word, That sounds so bold. So, as things do, They always change, As they used to be, No more, Emptiness, Lives in my heart, He now loves and wants me, No more.

The Swimming Pool Ted Denton © 1998 I'm sitting here in my underwear With the gun I purchased for home safety Pressed firmly against my right temple And there's this splashing sound Coming from the swimming pool And it's really starting to annoy me

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