Poems

By Emily Laurette Soto and Pierina Salvati

Poetry copied with the authors permission from Poetry.Com
By Donald J. Warren

Contents

1. Emily Soto's Promise/Threat
   
   
2. Emily Soto's Untitled
   
   
3. Emily Soto's Things
   
   
4. Emily Soto's The Winds of Time
   
   
5. Emily Soto's New Beginnings
   
   
6. Pierina Salvati's Me and My Puzzle
   
   
7. Pierina Salvati's A Place to be Free
   
   

These poems were read by Donald Warren on Monday, October 13, 2008 at the Colony Restaurant's Poetry Night in Woodstock, New York.

 Promise/Threat


i won't give up
he says
from far away out of
the dark void of nights
spent wide awake
and eventually frustration
dissolves into anger
and obsession
white knuckled and tense
he counts out his pills for the day
adding 2 more
for every phone call
that was never returned
swallowing
his emptiness
along with his medicine
waiting for the numbness to take over
and just before it does
he whispers
i won't give up

Emily Soto
Copyright ©2008  Emily Laurette Soto





 Untitled


I dream of how life used to be
I dream of how life is
If dreams were answers to our souls
My dreams would set me free.

Emily Soto
Copyright ©2008  Emily Laurette Soto





















 Things


So many say
just walk away!
and leave it all behind

but how can one
just leave the things
so great a part of mind?

The hours spent
the money spent
on dear old memories

What one may deem
a pile of trash
these things another sees

as parts of life
which brought such joy
of happiness once shared

Now all is gone
except these things
as proof, once, someone cared.

Emily Soto
Copyright ©2008  Emily Laurette Soto


 The Winds of Time


Well, here I am, yes once again
Winds of gossip at my back.
Who says, "you can't win"?
Not true, unless it's backbone that you lack.

Come, try me, tempt me
with your guile
you'll surely lose, you see...
it's me who holds the winning smile.

So leave, give up this game you play
I never loved you anyway
You used me
You abused me
and played it e'en to lose me
and so you did.

So don't you cry and carry on
over this love which now is gone
It's over, it's over.

Emily Soto
Copyright ©2008  Emily Laurette Soto





 New Beginnings


The time has come to start anew,
to find a meaning for my life.
It's now or never, as they say
to end this misery and strife.
Now forging forward, I stand tall,
and take this stand, ne'er will I fall.

Emily Soto
Copyright ©2008  Emily Laurette Soto


















 Me and My Puzzle


You are me, and I am you
Our hearts are like a puzzle
With pieces of ourselves put together
Our love, our thoughts, our minds are one
When we are together, we laugh, we love, we are friends
Friends in every sense of the word
Something that only we can make or break
Does it matter what other people think?
We know our feelings
We know what we think of ourselves
Our lives are completed, we have each other
When ever I'm alone and cold
I think of you, and the door to my heart opens
The sunshine of your smile pours in
The dark color of loneliness leaves
As fast as ice melts near fire
Can I ever imagine myself without you?
Going through life without your smile
My world would be an empty place
With a piece of my puzzle missing

Pierina Salvati
Copyright ©2008  Pierina Vincenza Salvati





 A Place to be Free


A walk in the park,
A place where I could be me.
With you there with me
We were so free.

Two lovers holding hands
in the winters breeze,
The swans afloat,
The trees with no leaves.

How special we could be,
in a place so free.
With his back to me,
An owl perched in a tree.

So peaceful this sweet place,
Where we could be,
The "us" we wanted
As a heart we carved in a tree.

Pierina Salvati
Copyright ©2008  Pierina Vincenza Salvati