National Poetry Month Challenge: Face To Face

Alright my people!!! The last day of April has arrived!! Wow...time is flying by...geez!!

Anyhoo...I enjoyed sharing my poems with you these past 30 days! I love writing poetry and I really need to do it more often especially since I have a third poetry book that I want to publish!

Without further adieu here is Poem 30!!

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FACE TO FACE

Face me in the day

Love is your reflection

Convincing are the words you speak

As you tell your needs of affection

Stronger than all

Is my belief that you truly care

Face to face, in your features

I see the happiness you aspire to share

Face me in anger

To reflect the thoughts in your head

Speaking fearful words, not in truth

Trying to recapture my heart with lies instead

Face to face, in your features

I can read your intense desperation

Rekindling the love is your mind set

Read me to learn I need patience

One face hides behind a mask

The secret face I desire not

Deepening the wounds I have given

Making you release the pain you got

Reflecting in your face is a grin

A grin of revenge seen to my eye

Your planned actions I don’t know

For your face gives no definite reply

Copyright © 2012 by Yolanda Allen. All rights reserved worldwide. Poem from book Blues of A Sister

National Poetry Month Challenge: Is It Love...

Hey Peeps!! 

Here is poem 29! You ever been in a situation where you know you should leave but for whatever reason your desire for your relationship to go RIGHT outweighs your desire for a GREAT relationship.....what keeps you there? Most of the time we think its love but in actuality...it's FEAR!

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IS IT LOVE THAT KEEPS ME HERE?

I sit here wondering

What is wrong with me?

I know what you’re doing

Still whatever you say I believe

Late at night when you come home

I smell the scent of another woman’s perfume

Still I say nothing, pretending to be sleep

Watching you slowly sneak into the room

I don’t know why it never worries me

When you forget my birthday or our anniversary

Some people would say that there’s another woman

And I’d say, “He’s just a forgetful person”

But in the back of my mind I know what’s going on

I know it’s true what they say

Is it love that keeps me here?

Night after night, day after day

Putting up with your games

Thinking nothing has changed

But I know your love is gone

It’s probably best if I move on

Is it love that keeps me here?

By your side through thick and thin

Still being with you

Whether you lose or win

As I think about all the things you’ve done to me

All the names I’ve been called

What is keeping me here?

It’s not love at all

Copyright © 2012 by Yolanda Allen. All rights reserved worldwide. Poem from book Blues of A Sister

National Poetry Month Challenge: Never-Ending Pain

Heya!!! Poem 28!!!

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NEVER-ENDING PAIN

It was a nightmare in disguise

The desire for love blinded my eyes

The immediate attraction took me by surprise

My heart was bound to be broken but I didn’t realize

My eyes were deceived

Many lies believed

A lot of pain received

My mind has not been relieved

I got hurt in your game

My feelings for you are not the same

I hate the sound of your name

Your wild heart I could not tame

Your feelings were mistaken

A lot of emotions faken

My love was taken

From a nightmare I have awaken

Copyright © 2012 by Yolanda Allen. All rights reserved worldwide. Poem from book Blues of A Sister

National Poetry Month Challenge: Unexpected Twist

Hey Peeps!

Poem 27!! The month is almost over!!!

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UNEXPECTED TWIST

It was my pleasure to be with him that night

He held me in his arms, so close, so tight

He showed me off to his friends like I was his trophy

I thought this was the start of a relationship with me

That night I felt so loved I didn’t want it to end

But he knew what he was doing and so did his friends

He was in love, was the impression he gave me

To my surprise, he had tricks up his sleeve

No warnings, no signs, to help me along the way

To see through his game, find no truth in what he had to say

It was all a big front; he had no real intentions to be with me

I didn’t give him what he wanted, so he felt he had to leave

He had one thing on his mind; but he said he had changed

I walked into his lies, fooled by his game

He didn’t seem to care, that I got hurt by this

I never thought it would come from him, an unexpected twist

Copyright © 2012 by Yolanda Allen. All rights reserved worldwide. Poem from book Blues of A Sister

National Poetry Month Challenge: Intoxicated

Hey Peeps!!! T. G. I. F!!!

It's time to get wasted!!! 

Wasted on love that is...hahahaha!

Enjoy!

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Intoxicated

I’m so intoxicated

Intoxicated by your love

Mesmerized…electrified

Intoxicated by your love

I want to free my heart

Loosen the chains

Penetrated deep into my soul

Release me, let the love drain

My scream turns into a whisper

As I try to say no

I’m held captive by your love

It hurt so good, how can I let go?

I’m so intoxicated

Intoxicated by your love

I breathe you…I am you

How can I give this up?

Copyright © 2012 by Yolanda Allen. All rights reserved worldwide. Poem from book Life's Journey

National Poetry Month Challenge: I'm Through

Hey Peeps!!

This is the poem that I did as my monologue for Tyler Perry's Talent Search last year!!!

You can check out the video that I submitted as well!

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I’m Through

Take your claim, get back your freedom

Take your memories, I don’t need’em

Wipe away the tears, erase all your lies

Take back the excuses and the reasons why

Release me from your bondage and your drama

I need to be me, not compared to your mama

Keep your empty promises and your lonely nights

Give back my strength to walk away instead of fight

Give back my friends that you ran away from me

Give back my worth and my self-esteem

Take your unfaithfulness and your blame

Keep your immaturity and your mind games

Take your pain, take your disrespect

Keep your “I love you” as I live with my regrets

Tomorrow will be the day I begin my existence without you

It’s over, it’s finished, finally, I’M THROUGH!

Copyright © 2012 by Yolanda Allen. All rights reserved worldwide. Poem from book Life's Journey

National Poetry Month Challenge: Once In My Life

Hey Peeps!

Poem 24!! Enjoy!!

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Once In My Life

Once in my life I was afraid

You could not say anything worth believing

My ears were open, my eyes close

All things said I thought to be deceiving

My heart was crushed once

At that moment I became cold

I started living my life very cautiously

Fearing to feel and my fear grew bold

I wanted to be with many souls

I needed to have back up plans

I desired to experience it all

I was your “woman” but I had no “man”

I wanted the cares and attention

But hurt had me afraid from the start

I was crushed early in my life

Which placed a deep bruise on my heart

As I grew my way of thinking started to change

My eyes opened and I began to see

That being afraid hurt me more than taking chances

So I judge each one as individuals and enter each openly
There may be many souls to break my heart

But I allow every break to strengthen me

Because you’ll need my whole heart
To bond with my soul completely

Copyright © 2012 by Yolanda Allen. All rights reserved worldwide. Poem from book Life's Journey

National Poetry Month Challenge: The Invitation

Hey Peeps!! Happy Tuesday!!

Poem 23!

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The Invitation

Would you think I’m crazy to want to know you beyond the flesh?

I want to get to know you from the inside

I want to know what makes you think the thoughts you think

Can I get to know you, the you, one often tries to hide?

Let’s get passed the impressions

And start off as being friends

Forget the materials you got

Let me know what you possess within

Let me get to know your inner being

Get so close our two hearts become a single

I want to feel your deepest feelings

Make your body shiver in places you never thought could tingle

And this is just from conversation alone

I want to understand the feelings in your heart just by speaking

Explore your desires, pleasures, and needs

I want to explore your being, very passionately

Let me caress your heart with my friendly words

I know you want this, your eyes don’t deny it

I want to get to know your intimate side

So…Am I Invited?

Copyright © 2012 by Yolanda Allen. All rights reserved worldwide. Poem from book Life's Journey

National Poetry Month Challenge: Absent

Day 22!!

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Absent

There comes a day in everyone’s life

Where you realize the sun rose without the sound of birds

There comes a night in everyone’s life

Where you realize there’s a full moon without any stars

There comes a time in everyone’s childhood

Where you realize you’re not innocent anymore

There comes a time in everyone’s house

Where you realize the place has lost the feeling of home

There comes a time in everyone’s relationship

Where you realize there’s a couple without a bond

There comes a time in everyone’s love life

Where you realize the love has simply disappeared

There came a time in my life

Where I realized the sheets no longer shared your scent

There came a time in my life

Where I realized the bed lay heavy beneath the weight of your absent body

Today is the time

In my life

Where I realized

I am waking up

Alone

Copyright © 2012 by Yolanda Allen. All rights reserved worldwide. Poem from book Life's Journey

National Poetry Month Challenge: A Wondering Mind

Hey Peeps! So it's Day 21...as I'm reading over this poem I remember why I wrote it...LOL

I have A LOT of celebrity crushes....and I was thinking about them when I wrote this poem!!

Enjoy!

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A WONDERING MIND

I wonder if I took your hand

Would you lace your fingers between mine?

If I caressed it softly

Would you, then, caress mine?

I wonder if I looked into your eyes

Would they dance at the sight of me?

If I took your face into my hands

Would you smile shyly?

I don’t know if you would do these things

Since I’m not reality to you

But I just have to wonder

Would you feel for me what I feel for you?

I wonder if I stroked your body

Would you tingle from my fingertips?

If I kissed you on your ears

Would you, then, kiss my lips?

I wonder if I held you close to me

Would you press your body against mine?

If I rub you on your back

Would you gently rub mine?

Since to you I have yet to exist

I can’t say the things you’ll do

Until the day I become your reality

I’ll just have to assume

Copyright © 2012 by Yolanda Allen. All rights reserved worldwide. Poem from book Blues of A Sister

National Poetry Month Challenge: Love's Duplicity

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DAY 20!! Enjoy!

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LOVE’S DUPLICITY

“I knew that there were three words to say that would change this person’s world. Three words that would change our relationship, I would then possess the title as ‘his girl’. I’m not ready for this yet, it is moving a little too fast. But if it’s not said, he may go; I want whatever we have to last. How can he love me in such a short period of time? It’s easy to mean that I love him, if I’m speaking from my mind.”

“I don’t know what it is about her that made me fall in love so fast. If she doesn’t feel the same way then how can it last? She’s different from everyone else, that’s why she’s so special to me. My love is true for her; I feel it in my heart deeply. She’s taking a while to respond but I’ll give her some time. I want it to be real in her heart like it is in mine.”

“I don’t think that I really love him even though I said so. After I returned I had no feelings. Where did they go? I have to tell him the truth that I lied to keep him with me. Three little words that will make him stay are the same words that’ll set him free.”

“How could she lie? Knowing how much she meant to me. Saying she loved me, knowing it had no meaning of sincerity. I was pulled into the world of deception, not able to see beyond the lies. Her love was an imitation, a delusion in disguise.”

Copyright © 2012 by Yolanda Allen. All rights reserved worldwide. Poem from book Blues of A Sister

National Poetry Month Challenge: The Silent Kiss

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Poem 19!!

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THE SILENT KISS

His gaze penetrated into me

I could feel the stare in my bones

Falling into his deep chocolate eyes

I suddenly wished he were gone

Reading my every expression

His eyes searched every inch of my face

Not wanting him to touch me

He moved forward, closing the space

When our lips kissed

What force made me close my eyes?

What drew my arms around him?

I succumbed to his passion before I realized

After our lips separated

No voice did they impart

We held each other’s gaze

The silence sank, like music, on my heart

Not a word to be said

I left the passion where it needed to stand

Slowly I walked away

Letting my fingers slip through his hand

Copyright © 2012 by Yolanda Allen. All rights reserved worldwide. Poem from book Blues of A Sister

National Poetry Month Challenge: The Breakfast

Hey Peeps!!

Poem #18!! Check it out! :-D

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The Breakfast…Part 4

I noticed her as soon as we made our entrance

I watched her eyes following us to our seat

I saw him take a glance

And my heart rapidly started to beat

Did she know I was his wife?

Didn’t she know it’s our one year anniversary?

How can he ruin an important day of my life?

How can he break the vows he made to me?

Before the food even came

I put my ring in his hand

“I know about your love, whatever her name”

“I saw you at the beach having sex in the sand”

He stared at me, eyes filled with shock

He couldn’t find the words to speak

I didn’t need to hear any excuse

So I just rose to my feet

I walked over to her at last

With a smile, I extended out my hand

“I hope you enjoy your breakfast,”

“As much as you enjoyed my man”

Copyright © 2012 by Yolanda Allen. All rights reserved worldwide. Poem from book Life's Journey

National Poetry Month Challenge: The Bath

Hey Peeps hope you are having a marvelous day!!

Here is Poem #17!!

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The Bath…Part 3

I awoke to wet kisses

Disturbing thoughts made my head hurt

I pushed his face away from mine

I suddenly remembered her satin panties and Hawaiian skirt

“What’s wrong with you?” he asked

I didn’t say a word

“Why is your ring on the nightstand?”

He had his nerve

The water from the shower fell on my body hard

I wanted to wash away the nastiness I shouldn’t feel

“Can I join you sweetheart?” he asked

Those words made fire burn from my head to my heels

I felt his arms around my waist

It seemed like I was being suffocated by the steam

Flashbacks of the beach popped in my head

My nightmare was his dream

He started kissing me the way he kissed her

I pushed him away with both hands

He looked at me with confusion

“What? You can’t make love to your husband?”

Copyright © 2012 by Yolanda Allen. All rights reserved worldwide. Poem from book Life's Journey

National Poetry Month Challenge: The Bed

Hey Peeps so wanted to share Poem #16!!

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The Bed…Part 2

 I just laid there in the cold bed

With the covers pulled over my head

Determined not to let my tears fall

I was shocked more than anything at all

Just before I was about to sleep

I heard the sounds of your feet

The door shut and your clothes hit the ground

Tiptoeing to the bed, making the slightest sound

You laid on your back and sighed deeply

I placed my ring on the stand beside me

I thought of the two of you and nothing more

I knew you were sleeping peacefully when you began to snore

Copyright © 2012 by Yolanda Allen. All rights reserved worldwide. Poem from book Life's Journey

National Poetry Month Challenge: The Beach

Okay.....I'm back on track now!! Shall we continue ha!!

Day 15!!

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The Beach…Part 1

I watched you interlock your fingers with hers

You entangled her silky locks around your hand

The desire burned deeply within your eyes

You caressed the body covered with sand

Water rushed against her body

Not expecting the water to be as cold as that

She made a soft sigh, grabbed your shoulders

And put a slight arch in her back

I watched you follow the curve of her breasts

With your fingertips, making the slightest touch

Your tongue slowly made circles around her neck

She smiled like she just wanted you so much

You began to kiss her all over her body

From her feet to her knees

You began to massage her thighs with your mouth

As she yearned, you pleased

As your bodies interlocked

With pleasure, her toes sank into the sand

As I watched you, I wondered

Did you think about the ring you placed on my hand?

Copyright © 2012 by Yolanda Allen. All rights reserved worldwide. Poem from book Life's Journey