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Venus007 · 05-08-2011, 12:54 AM

Turned away from the summit, I camp among your foothills and
recall the days when I took for granted I would always be able to
walk the shining path, through the clouds to your secret garden.

I wait for the storms to clear and the way to open.
I watch others born down from the heights unable to even rest in the shadow of the mountain.
I wonder if they found the precious things I left there.

The sun flashes off the peak and I am Ulysses lashed to my tent pole listening to the song of the sirens.
They beckon me to climb, to force my way up. To face the icy winter storms and
snowy billowing avalanche; to be hurtled down the mountain,
broken, and cast out from even the comfort of the foothills because the mountain does not will it.

There is beauty here, on these lower rises, on these fertile hills.
I watch the intrepid adventurers parade by; packs earnestly strapped on, scoffing at this small tent on the mountainside, confusing patience with weakness.
I have seen their bones pile up over the years. All that is left of them is the plastic they leave behind and the damage from their fires.

They are lured by the peak, like a junkie to a needle, like a moth to a candle, like I am though I endure.

Mr Nice Guy · 05-31-2011, 10:08 PM

Your glaring eyes tell me what you think.<<disallowed word>>
Your vicious in your thoughts.<<disallowed word>>
I know you don't like me.<<disallowed word>>
Why?<<disallowed word>>
Is it because I'm gay? Or is it because I'm butch?<<disallowed word>>
Well guess what? I don't care!
I was put in this world just like you so take the target you put on my back and shove it!
I don't need your crap or your ideals of what life should be.<<disallowed word>>
I don't need your labels either cause I have my own.<<disallowed word>>
You must not live by my code of conduct because I believe we all should be free to be ourselves.<<disallowed word>>
You have a way with words and I wouldn't call it fluff.<<disallowed word>>
I shouldn't waste my time fighting your bigotry.
I will be the big person and walk away and leave you with your mouth hung opened and a yellow stripe on your back.<<disallowed word>>

T4Texas · 06-01-2011, 01:07 AM

Letting go

there are times when life will give us
the hardest things to do
when we have to try to forget
what was at one time me and you
the changes that come to pass
are sometimes harder than you know
and its never all that easy
to be letting go.

if only love could carry
us through all those things
if it would just rise up
and take us on its wings
perhaps we'd never have the pain
or the loss that seems to grow
and we'd never have to suffer through
the ordeal of letting go.

If I could have done things different
or said a word or two
just any little thing at all
that might have inspired you
I certainly would have given it
just so that you would know
that I never wanted to be the one
that would have to be letting go.

I always will remember
the times that we both shared
and I'll never forget the times
that you tried so hard to care
but now I must be on my way
to the future, whatever it holds
and I hope some day you will understand
how much I hated letting go.

4/17/11

Mr Nice Guy · 06-01-2011, 04:13 AM

The tears I cry today are for memories of yesterday.
Seeing you again makes it all new.
I thought that after all theses years I would be over you.
I guess I'm not and this shocks me to the core.
You wave goodbye and I stand there and watch my feelings walk out the door.
God please help me, please take away this pain.
Make me see that once was yesterday is not today.
You can't hang on when there's no rope to hold.
Just walk with your face held high and heart full of hope.
Someday your soulmate will come and take your heart away.
Today or tomorrow but never yesterday.

This poem was inspired by the threads I read.

Mr Nice Guy · 06-18-2011, 06:34 AM

I lie awake as darkness falls and
Listen for the sound of silence.
It touches a part of me that no one sees and only I can feel.
It's my heart laid open like a book thats being read.
Or a curtain that has yet to be closed.
It's my greatest treasure down deep the depth that no one knows.
A colour of beauty that would steal your breath away.

T4Texas · 06-18-2011, 08:31 AM

No matter how many days
we spend apart
I still have a place for you
right here in my heart
a tiny little nook
set aside for you
no matter what you say
or no matter what you do
it doesn't matter how the world
might spin from end to end
that little place will still remain
a refuge for a friend.

You'll always have that place
no matter how things go
if some day you come to find
you must move along, just know
there will be no animosity
no anger or despair
just someone who always cared
and wanted to be there
You've given me a gift
I never can repay
you've given me myself again
somewhere along the way.

You remind me of the Texas sky
at the end of a perfect day
when the ribbons of red reach far and wide
then fade to deepest grey
it's all a part and parcel
of the mystery that is you
I hope that I shall never lose
that moment when I knew
you were the woman I wanted to know
and to keep a little close
the one who brightened up my life
and made me less a ghost.

Mr Nice Guy · 06-23-2011, 03:22 PM

Raven
Verdict
Rendering
Shouts
Whisper
Wing
Eye
Soul
Cradle

Take your sign of death, your raven that sits upon my heart.<<disallowed word>>
My heart is not dead yet.<<disallowed word>>
You cannot steal my soul to quench your desire of need.<<disallowed word>>
You cannot cradle my soul and expect me to just lay.<<disallowed word>>
You will hear my shouts of protest and know my wrath.<<disallowed word>>
You will know that I will not go willingly.<<disallowed word>>
I will stand up and look you in the eye and whisper in your ear with venom.<<disallowed word>>
" I am me and I choose to stand strong with hope and faith " I give this to you as my rendering, a statement, a fact. "<<disallowed word>>
This is my life's verdict.<<disallowed word>>
"I will love again."
<<disallowed word>>Take this on a wing and a prayer.<<disallowed word>>

Venus007 · 03-05-2021, 07:41 PM

I hang in the eternal still space between whistle and strike
A single exquisite banquet or a cornucopia
Will I arch or hollow
Either way a crossing on that old Windy Tree, the Gallows Horse.

05-08-2011, 12:54 AM	#1
Venus007 Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: Serene Highness ;} Relationship Status: Dreamily contemplating some outrage against conventional morality Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Houston area Posts: 1,362 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,417 Thanked 4,749 Times in 1,139 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	Written in 2002 Turned away from the summit, I camp among your foothills and recall the days when I took for granted I would always be able to walk the shining path, through the clouds to your secret garden. I wait for the storms to clear and the way to open. I watch others born down from the heights unable to even rest in the shadow of the mountain. I wonder if they found the precious things I left there. The sun flashes off the peak and I am Ulysses lashed to my tent pole listening to the song of the sirens. They beckon me to climb, to force my way up. To face the icy winter storms and snowy billowing avalanche; to be hurtled down the mountain, broken, and cast out from even the comfort of the foothills because the mountain does not will it. There is beauty here, on these lower rises, on these fertile hills. I watch the intrepid adventurers parade by; packs earnestly strapped on, scoffing at this small tent on the mountainside, confusing patience with weakness. I have seen their bones pile up over the years. All that is left of them is the plastic they leave behind and the damage from their fires. They are lured by the peak, like a junkie to a needle, like a moth to a candle, like I am though I endure. __________________ . "I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. " Ayn Rand, Anthem "So you'll die happily for your sins. You'd rather die in guilt then live in love?" Timothy Leary

06-01-2011, 01:07 AM	#3
T4Texas Member How Do You Identify?: Butch Relationship Status: Ready to play again! Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Texas Posts: 233 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 436 Thanked 647 Times in 167 Posts Rep Power: 6739721	Letting go there are times when life will give us the hardest things to do when we have to try to forget what was at one time me and you the changes that come to pass are sometimes harder than you know and its never all that easy to be letting go. if only love could carry us through all those things if it would just rise up and take us on its wings perhaps we'd never have the pain or the loss that seems to grow and we'd never have to suffer through the ordeal of letting go. If I could have done things different or said a word or two just any little thing at all that might have inspired you I certainly would have given it just so that you would know that I never wanted to be the one that would have to be letting go. I always will remember the times that we both shared and I'll never forget the times that you tried so hard to care but now I must be on my way to the future, whatever it holds and I hope some day you will understand how much I hated letting go. 4/17/11 __________________ Chivalry is when you meet a woman you would rather die for, than live with.

06-18-2011, 08:31 AM	#6
T4Texas Member How Do You Identify?: Butch Relationship Status: Ready to play again! Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Texas Posts: 233 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 436 Thanked 647 Times in 167 Posts Rep Power: 6739721	No matter how many days we spend apart I still have a place for you right here in my heart a tiny little nook set aside for you no matter what you say or no matter what you do it doesn't matter how the world might spin from end to end that little place will still remain a refuge for a friend. You'll always have that place no matter how things go if some day you come to find you must move along, just know there will be no animosity no anger or despair just someone who always cared and wanted to be there You've given me a gift I never can repay you've given me myself again somewhere along the way. You remind me of the Texas sky at the end of a perfect day when the ribbons of red reach far and wide then fade to deepest grey it's all a part and parcel of the mystery that is you I hope that I shall never lose that moment when I knew you were the woman I wanted to know and to keep a little close the one who brightened up my life and made me less a ghost. __________________ Chivalry is when you meet a woman you would rather die for, than live with.

03-05-2021, 07:41 PM	#8
Venus007 Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: Serene Highness ;} Relationship Status: Dreamily contemplating some outrage against conventional morality Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Houston area Posts: 1,362 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,417 Thanked 4,749 Times in 1,139 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	Waiting I hang in the eternal still space between whistle and strike A single exquisite banquet or a cornucopia Will I arch or hollow Either way a crossing on that old Windy Tree, the Gallows Horse. __________________ . "I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. " Ayn Rand, Anthem "So you'll die happily for your sins. You'd rather die in guilt then live in love?" Timothy Leary

05-31-2011, 10:08 PM	#2
Mr Nice Guy Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Kind, sweet, loving, romantic and a rare Butch. :) Relationship Status: I don't drive a Uhaul. :) Join Date: May 2011 Location: Another New Englander Posts: 1,768 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,035 Thanked 4,894 Times in 1,307 Posts Rep Power: 0	Your glaring eyes tell me what you think.<<disallowed word>> Your vicious in your thoughts.<<disallowed word>> I know you don't like me.<<disallowed word>> Why?<<disallowed word>> Is it because I'm gay? Or is it because I'm butch?<<disallowed word>> Well guess what? I don't care! I was put in this world just like you so take the target you put on my back and shove it! I don't need your crap or your ideals of what life should be.<<disallowed word>> I don't need your labels either cause I have my own.<<disallowed word>> You must not live by my code of conduct because I believe we all should be free to be ourselves.<<disallowed word>> You have a way with words and I wouldn't call it fluff.<<disallowed word>> I shouldn't waste my time fighting your bigotry. I will be the big person and walk away and leave you with your mouth hung opened and a yellow stripe on your back.<<disallowed word>>

06-01-2011, 04:13 AM	#4
Mr Nice Guy Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Kind, sweet, loving, romantic and a rare Butch. :) Relationship Status: I don't drive a Uhaul. :) Join Date: May 2011 Location: Another New Englander Posts: 1,768 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,035 Thanked 4,894 Times in 1,307 Posts Rep Power: 0	The tears I cry today are for memories of yesterday. Seeing you again makes it all new. I thought that after all theses years I would be over you. I guess I'm not and this shocks me to the core. You wave goodbye and I stand there and watch my feelings walk out the door. God please help me, please take away this pain. Make me see that once was yesterday is not today. You can't hang on when there's no rope to hold. Just walk with your face held high and heart full of hope. Someday your soulmate will come and take your heart away. Today or tomorrow but never yesterday. This poem was inspired by the threads I read.

06-18-2011, 06:34 AM	#5
Mr Nice Guy Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Kind, sweet, loving, romantic and a rare Butch. :) Relationship Status: I don't drive a Uhaul. :) Join Date: May 2011 Location: Another New Englander Posts: 1,768 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,035 Thanked 4,894 Times in 1,307 Posts Rep Power: 0	I lie awake as darkness falls and Listen for the sound of silence. It touches a part of me that no one sees and only I can feel. It's my heart laid open like a book thats being read. Or a curtain that has yet to be closed. It's my greatest treasure down deep the depth that no one knows. A colour of beauty that would steal your breath away.

06-23-2011, 03:22 PM	#7
Mr Nice Guy Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Kind, sweet, loving, romantic and a rare Butch. :) Relationship Status: I don't drive a Uhaul. :) Join Date: May 2011 Location: Another New Englander Posts: 1,768 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,035 Thanked 4,894 Times in 1,307 Posts Rep Power: 0	Raven Verdict Rendering Shouts Whisper Wing Eye Soul Cradle Take your sign of death, your raven that sits upon my heart.<<disallowed word>> My heart is not dead yet.<<disallowed word>> You cannot steal my soul to quench your desire of need.<<disallowed word>> You cannot cradle my soul and expect me to just lay.<<disallowed word>> You will hear my shouts of protest and know my wrath.<<disallowed word>> You will know that I will not go willingly.<<disallowed word>> I will stand up and look you in the eye and whisper in your ear with venom.<<disallowed word>> " I am me and I choose to stand strong with hope and faith " I give this to you as my rendering, a statement, a fact. "<<disallowed word>> This is my life's verdict.<<disallowed word>> "I will love again." <<disallowed word>>Take this on a wing and a prayer.<<disallowed word>>