Illusions in Shades of Lust

Flights of fanciful
Delusional dreams
Of two souls in the
Throes of love - prone on
Opaque blue and gray
Stained tangled sheets of
Invisible lives
Splashing ruby red
Passion onto a
Canvass of ecru
Tinged with broken hearts

© Alice Vedral Rivera - 2009

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False Quest

Inauspicious

Carnal knowledge

Sanguine fluid

Of delusion

Souls meander

Through visions in

Oxidized dreams

Seek kindred hearts

Melancholic

Lonesome spirits

Search for love in

Obscure places

Domination

Lustful trances

Hedonistic

Spectres of red

Uncertain truth

Hidden in the

Recesses of

Obsessive thought

© Alice Vedral Rivera - 2007

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Fall from Grace

Losing equilibrium

Unbalanced on high

Strung piano wire

Tightrope - razor sans net

Precarious position

Wavering side to side

Awkward grasping at

Fictitious lifeline

Desperate last minute

Mechanical maneuvers

Irrevocably disastrous

Tragic fatal fall imminent

 © Alice Vedral Rivera - 2007

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Delirium

Running in search of

destiny through

never ending

thorny mazes

Tripping over our

own thwarted dreams

we fail to locate

any way out

Stumbling and falling

we find ourselves

prone in front of

obscurity

© Alice Vedral Rivera - 2007

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Absent Thought

In the midst of an

unorthodox

paradigm shift

ambiguously

floating in mid air

Grasping for content

flowing fervently  

through my mind

a figment of

imagination

Adrift in empty

undulating space

and anomalous

fluctuating

perception

© Alice Vedral Rivera - 2008

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Another Prague poem:

Divine Inspiration

Prague's beauty

Inspires

Artisans

Sensitive

To the flow

Of her touch

To create

Hauntingly

Exquisite

Pieces - for

Art resides

In the soul

Of this city

© Alice Vedral Rivera 2009 cz

Another poem in my Prague series:

Destination Prague

Lost in a

Fog of thoughts

Ancestors

Reach out with

Grasping hands

Bony clasp

Of fingers

Pulls me toward

The Mother

Of Cities

And I am

Home once more

Not where I

Was born, but

Where my heart

Vibrates with

Hope, my soul

Sings of love

My spirit

Remembers

© Alice Vedral Rivera – 2007 – Czech Republic 

This, the English version, seems to have disappeared from my previous post – it should have been one post.

One of my Prague poems – English version and Czech version (see previous post):

Mother Prague

Bewitched by your beauty

I lost my soul in your streets

Long ago and I return

To you periodically

To drink from your fountain

Of acrid remembrance

To feel the powerful

Grip of your outstretched arms

To hear the steady beating

Of your heart in sync with time

As it continues to pulse

Marching into new millennia

© Alice Vedral Rivera – 2007 – Czech Republic 

Matka Praha

Okouzlená tvou krásou

Ztratila jsem duši už dávno

V ulicích tvých a vracím se

K tobě čas od času

Napít se z tvé studny

Trpkých vzpomínek

U cítit tvou mocnou

Otevřenou náruč

Poslechnout si bití

Tvého srdce jak současně s časem

Stále pokračuje a dál

Pochoduje do nových století

© Alice Vedral Rivera – 2007 – Czech Republic

For some reason the audio did not work on my previous post so I removed it from there and am reposting it here.

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This poem expresses my feelings about putting my words ‘out there’.  It is one of three poems published in ‘The Poemhunter Anthology 2005 Inaugural Issue’.  It is the 1^st track on the ‘Intimately Yours’ cd with Chuck Berglund’s soundscape. 

 I still feel like this to some degree whenever I make my words public as most of my writing is very personal to me. 

FRAGMENTS

Black chunks

amid white streams

all shades of gray

splashes of red

of hot pink

dotted with

uneven drops

of blue

Pieces

spots

of my life

of my soul

broken - spilled

on the pavement

for all to see

© Alice Vedral Rivera - 1996

 http://new21.wordpress.com/meet-our-authors/prague-tales/

There is an error in the bio - I was born in a refugee camp in Germany to Czech parents.

I do not have a Czech version of this as yet although I have been asked to write one. 

Mother of Cities

Unseen home

Tugged at my

Heart for years

Shadows of Prague 

Haunting my

Soul long before

Pre-ordained

First encounter

Powerful

Emanation

Of beauty

Even though clothed

In cloak of

Intentional

Oppressive

Decrepitude

Overdue

Restoration

Re-polished

Jewel of light

Refracting

Prism of love

Touching all

Whose paths cross hers

 Praha – matka měst!

© Alice Vedral Rivera - 2006

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Written for a young woman who briefly touched my life and reminded me who I am.

This is the Czech version:

Denisa

Paprsek sluníčka

Když se usmívá

Energetická

Slunečnice

Moudrý mladý anděl

Seznámil nás čistý osud

Vidím v ní mladší

Verzi sebe v jejím

Kinetickém elánu

Par dní v Chicagu

Odpoledne v Praze

Se soucitnou duší

Dochází mi jak

Jsem požehnaná

Že jsem se setkala

S touhle sestrou-dcerou

Opět v tomto mém

Posledním životě

© Alice Vedral Rivera 23.9.09 cz

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Aporetic Relationship

Timorous aphoristic

Indented disconnections

Abridged abbreviated

Compressed insinuations

Disjointed vacuum sealed

Disengaged communiqués

Erratic acronymic

Garbled enunciations

Unsubstantiated

Ill constrained promulgations

Non-communicative

Miscommunication

© Alice Vedral Rivera - 2010

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Valentine

Sweet romantic

Stuffed teddy bears

Dance with white-hot

Chocolate ribbons

Love flowers in

Crystal vases

Tissue paper

Pink and gold hearts

Branded not by

Cupid’s arrow

But kisses from

Red satin lips

© Alice Vedral Rivera - 2007 

Spellbound

Time before time

End without end

Charmed and bewitched 

We are caught by

A spell woven

Into our hearts

With delicate

Precision in

Prophetic thread

© Alice Vedral Rivera 2009 cz

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Valentine Visions

Ethereal

Watercolor

Art – heart to heart

Beats on canvass

Tap out gentle

Rose petal soft

Code of abstract

Affectionate

Adulation

© Alice Vedral Rivera - 2009

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