GeorgeManos

Your Love Still Grows   Shall I look at what I lost? Like the trees that, each fall, shed their leaves And live to bear this cost So, in the winter of my life, my heart grieve?   Shall I live by only a memory Like the widow whose loved one has passed away? The only way that your face can still see So accept in the separation of our love nothing last.   Shall I live by trying to forget Like the beggar his past life can no longer bear And so I can go on with no regret Not feeling any poorer because you're not there?   Or should I, instead, live by hope Like the Spring where blooms the fairest Rose? Perhaps by this I can best cope And like Spring’s garden, your love still grows.

Most Beautiful Lesson   I picked a Rose the other day Transfixed by its beauty But soon its petals fell away And left to only a memory.   If only Time could have stood still And I could savor every moment Letting its beauty my heart overfill The Rose becoming my sacrament.   But Time does not bend to my desire And such beauty never, for long, lives Perhaps learn to enjoy what soon expire The most beautiful lesson the Rose gives.

She Walks in Rainbows   She walks in rainbows, her earthly stars The ground too plain for her feet to tread And where she goes her beauty to these compares So that nature knows by this kinship led.   And from these steps she reaches the nearest star The nearest staircase that, now, Heaven find But Heaven could never from her spirit ever be far And never leave here its fairest image behind.   So now she finds her sisters and joins their choir That melody birds sing here her music rose above And now this joyous sound to theirs no more aspire For now from an angelic home come chords of love.   Now Earth and Heaven from her spirit will unite As it should be as this place her beauty only prepared So that looking above can bask in her beauteous light Remembering while here the love she sends once shared.

Not Fooled Again   I got some news for the one percent That civil war you are brewing To your door will be sent Who did you think you were fooling?   You think you got the power History shows this has been thought before When the people took you from your ivory tower As you hid behind the door.   You use the same game of divide and conquer Like something discovered by you Not knowing you unleash our power And soon your reign is through.   You think money is everything And everything in its web is caught But the human spirit one thing That never can be bought.   So keep on thinking you are winning And how easily we are fooled Even as your power will soon be waning And, in the end, you're the one that's schooled.

Angels Sigh   She dwells where Earth’s light cannot shine But in a heavenly land beyond its daily view Does your absence make you any less mine Or diminish the love I have for you?   And where she is the living cannot know She keeps a home where angels also stay For I am sure she smiles at me below For death or distance can’t keep our love away.   And Oblivion, itself, can’t keep her spirit down Too bright she shines like the fairest star And in her presence the brightest one is found So from her light I can never be too far.   And she prepares, I’m sure, for when again we meet In Heaven’s home prepares for us a place So, when I arrive our love again complete While the angels sigh when we again embrace.

The Truth is Shown   Tomorrow if you are reading this I won’t be here I am taking a break from this site While I appreciate the platform it has also stoked fear That giving free time to our adversaries is also right.   It is time for Facebook to take a stand Its management team cannot draft a constitution Too much information from the wrong sources planned This should be a place for expression not our diminution.   And then for those who expose your practices you punish While you claim open dialogue is instead your norm So those that threaten our republic you don’t admonish But it will take more than hypocrisy to weather this storm.   I do appreciate the platform you have allowed for my poetry A place for my art to enlighten and my words be known But excuse my absence while my art speaks for me The beauty of poetry is that here, too, such truth is shown.

Listen to the Music   I hear that music that moves my soul Where nothing else will do And where that rhythm beats my heart will go To fill in the void of not having you.   All that I wish is the music always play And nothing silences its sound So I can remember when your love my heart did sway With the music playing your love always around.   So, when the silence comes I know the cure Turn the radio on and its music hear Now the loneliness I no longer have to endure But listen to those notes that sound so clear.   The good part to know, music never dies But in our hearts always lives And if life should ever make you sigh Just listen to the music and the happiness it gives.

Love will Never Miss   And everywhere I look I see your face When a Rose blooms it is your radiance that shines And a Robin’s song your own melody embrace So Nature to its world your place first assigns.   And every breath I take new life to you will give So when the wind does blow your soul still stir And no rainbow known unless your beauty will live So all that’s good in life to you must first defer.   No morning comes unless your own light follows That needs your spirit to brighten up the day And the night, too, your serenity also borrows Where Heaven’s angels must first pass your way.   And no dream complete unless your presence known It needs your love so when I awake there’s promise So, when I awake this passion has been sown So awake or sleeping your love will never miss.

No Longer Find   The stirring wind calls to my saddened soul Asking it to join it in its free-flowing flight And let it decide where I finally will go Then from its grip to some peaceful place alight.   The ocean beckons to my sagging spirit Its waves willing to whisk me to another shore A land where the ocean finds true merit And leaves me, in its wake, a new world to explore.   The bird’s songs stir my aching heart And lift it to fly with its sweet melody And where its chords heard I am now a part Sending me to a sonorous scape of serenity.   And Nature does its best to bring me relief All I need to do is simply, to her lead, follow Where there is life I should know no grief And there is hope where there is tomorrow.   Yes, she does her best to show me what I miss And lure me to where my sorrow is left behind But the one thing she can’t do is bring back your kiss And your love on this Earth I can no longer find.   #poetry #georgemanos

The Cost   Like the earth smiles when it sees the sun When I first saw you the same warmth did feel Like the shore smiles when this bank the ocean’s waves run The affection I felt heart seeing you my heart couldn’t conceal.   Like the air is pleased by the Robin’s song My spirit was soothed by hearing your voice sing Like the night is pleased knowing the stars to it belong So was I smitten knowing your music to my life would bring.   Then I had to leave what would have made me happy behind And the universe groaned at what so pleased it lost For it should never be so quickly to lose such love you find And now I am only left to appreciate the cost.   #Poetry #GeorgeManos