I am trying to overcome obstacles,
With nimble fingers and a fractured heart
I persist
With trembeling knees and a wavering voice,
I stand firm and say
"You won't beat me!"
I know heartache for the first time,
with all of it's delusions and lies...
Still I persist.
Remembering to breathe,
Remembering to awake,
Remembering to dress...
One day, I will be ok,
and I will know,
that I can endure,
I can survive,
I can thrive and enjoy
this thing called life.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
To Overcome
Awaiting Dawn
Today I wrote a poem,
I cried as I wrote and when I finished
I remembered that yesterday
I painted a picture
Bursts of red, orange, and yellow
bringing the sunset out of the sky and right there onto my canvas.
And it too made me cry.
For, I've never seen a sunset boast the beauty of imagination to it's fullest capacity
Maybe one day I will.
But until then
I'll write poems that make me cry for that lost little girl
and paint pictures of beauty that I know nothing of...
And await for the inevitable day,
when the sunset in the sky
and the sunset in my mind
finally make peace on behalf of love.
Copyright ©1996 AngelaSchleicher
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
My New Wish
I awoke one day beside a lovewho had no love for me,
What a tragedy it is, I thought,
To love unrequitedly.
I soon moved on and found myself
enjoying life without that hitch.
Funny how much better the view
When you climb out of the ditch.
And then one day I met a love
Who proved to be my match!
She showed me love with laughter and joy,
How did I deserve such a catch?
Today I awake beside my love,
Who shares much love with me;
The bond we have is precious,
We cherish it unequivocally.
My life, being so fulfilled,
I have but one wish for you:
The type of bliss that my love and I now share,
It is a dream come true.
Copyright ©2008 AngelaSchleicher
Friday, January 25, 2008
Simon Says
Walking along the railroad tracks,
Thinking of life,
expecting death...
I try desperately to acknowledge
What it is the mark that I have left.
Society plays the lead role,
In the questions that I face.
And daily I encounter
Yet another form of the human race.
Equally I look back at them,
With blank and vacant stares,
I turn to walk away from them,
But my questions are still there.
So I make up my own game,
And play my own lead role,
And let the rules of “Simon says “
Take upon them its toll.
Copyright ©1992 AngelaSchleicher
Ambiguous Disparities
Ambiguous Disparities
My friend views the world
through a tiny box of light
And I through the brush strokes
of oil on wood,
or canvas,
or whatever so happens to lend itself to my mission.
We aren't so different, truth be known,
The Photographer and I:
We both simply celebrate the beauty in life.
Kindred spirits you may say?
With similar thoughts on Life's Way?
Oh, but follow each of us past
Our own critical mass,
And one is surely misconstrued less than the other.
Angela Schleicher
Copyright ©2007
Four Year Block
Four Year Block
I no longer paint landscapes,
My brushes are dry, brittle, forgotten.
Paints are caked, cracked
like the desert ground in July.
Poetry no longer flows from my pen;
My fingers, once calloused and limber,
Are now smooth and soft, cramped.
No longer able to navigate the intricate
patterns where line meets loop meets curve
to form the verse my soul aches to sing.
Van Gogh once said painting was
as essential to him as breathing,
my lungs need that air.
I miss the ugly, calloused knots of
flesh upon my knuckles,
The semi-permanent dent, eroded by my nail
has long since recovered.
Leaving no trace, no evidence to indicate
The volumes I once proudly penned.
A Life Lesson
A Life Lesson
I finally made it out on my own;
I crossed the country to find my home.
I found open arms and smiling faces,
NO one telling me I'd fallen from their graces...
Accepting hearts and welcoming homes,
Replace all those spiteful conversations
on the telephone.
I tell myself I’m doing just fine,
Will you ever accept me?
Guess I'll know in time.
We can't choose the people who give us birth,
but we can choose our family while on this earth.
That is the lesson that I've had to learn,
to overcome those painful burns.
I finally made it out on my own;
I crossed the country to find my home.
I found open arms and smiling faces,
NO one telling me I'd fallen from their graces...
Accepting hearts and welcoming homes,
Replace all those spiteful conversations
on the telephone.
I tell myself I’m doing just fine,
Will you ever accept me?
Guess I'll know in time.
We can't choose the people who give us birth,
but we can choose our family while on this earth.
That is the lesson that I've had to learn,
to overcome those painful burns.
A lonely Road
A lonely Road
As I walk along a lonely road,
I hear the great demands.
Plenty around to listen,
but no one who understands.
The moon is pleasant,
the night secure,
for there, I am in a dream.
Yet as day comes,
so does the nightmare,
the one that wakes me in a scream...
I see pain in my future,
and I have a grim past,
How long will these feelings last?
My hopes stay down,
they never rise,
and so I look up to the skies.
The time goes by, day by day
and yes, those feelings are here to stay.
My Wish
My Wish
One day I will know happiness,
And she will wisk me away to play in the
sand, or run in a field,or paint by a stream.
And we'll make new memories, Happiness and I,
And when I tell others of our times together,
Today's grief will be no more than a
fleeting thought,
Distracting me only for a brief moment...
To Overcome
To Overcome
I am trying to overcome obstacles,
with nimble fingers and a fractured heart.
But I persist
with trembling knees and a wavering voice;
I stand firm and say,
"You won't beat me!"
I know heartache for the first time,
with all its delusions and lies
still I persist
Remembering to breathe,
remembering to awake,
remembering to dress...
One day, I will be ok,
and I will know,
that I can endure,
I can survive,
I can thrive and enjoy
this thing called life.
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