The Works of Simeon Sheef

A.S.

When I look into those dark seas of green,
I’m drowned in a water so sweet extreme.
The light it reflects; the darkness it holds.
The depths swallow my heart and the current pulls.

Those red waves beneath that seem to be pursed,
Waiting for something to comfort their thirst.
The soft hair of an angel brushing my cheek,
Laying her hand in mine for me to keep.

Her ear brushes my nose and freezes it too,
Enticing me like the cold hearted temptresses do.
She stretches her neck, her most beautiful part.
It wrenches my stomach and flutters my heart.

She knots my stomach and twists my ring.
The ring, a reminder to do the right thing.
Back and forth she brushes my skin,
It’s like a game started from within.

Those strokes groping and calling to me
Release something and the butterflies go free.
I breath in hard, the full fragrance of her hair.
I kiss her ear then stop to stare.

She’s beautiful and I let her know,
But people and time force me to go.
I whisper in her ear that I don‘t want to,
But time only moves with something to look forward to.

13 Febuary 2006

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Time Travel's Possible

A collection of many short poems about time.

-Time Travel’s Possible

The past is what allows time to be
The future something we can never reach
The present is the point where we wait for it all
And fate’s the part of time that allows things to fall

-The Future

In my mind
I can imagine how I’m already there
Then when I get there
I’m right

We think about how time seems to fly
How we arrive at our destination
Just to say goodbye


-The Present

We live through the present
To reach the future
But once we are there, it’s already gone
On its way to tomorrow

-The Past

The time we spend thinking about later
Adds up to equal nothing but past

Past allows us to remember
But that’s not always a good thing
I’d rather hope for the future
Where I can’t see anything

10 March 2006

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A Name Riddle

I share my namesake with my brother, the nuts one.

Mermaid - flounder - and he is the next one.

On me you tan, and in him you shiver

because I am an island and he is a river.

22 March 2006

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Abortion Orphanage

If there was a home
For those who had never had one
It would be full of babies
Who were never born

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Little hands and little feet,
Two months old in the mother’s seat
There it lays and squirms and kicks
A healthy baby but mother’s sick

A decision made by culture’s stand
Out of God’s hands into man’s
Literally pulled and brutally killed
A passive tone to a murder still

What of earth makes this right
Man’s history defines him wrong, finite
Morals, misnomer, the answer, the new truth
But perfection defines itself the true truth

Souls rise everyday
But many never came to stay
Taken before they’d left the manger
Accepted back warmly with burning anger

I can imagine the feeling
The angry fire spiral-reeling
All held back with nothing ceased
Only grace alone released

Little hands and little feet
Little giggles before (at the feet of) his seat
Home to the consequence of man’s own carnage
Home to the innocent, abortion orphanage



-This is the beginning to a story I am writing.

1 April 2006, 30 September 2007

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The Right Decision

If you don’t know if you should,
than you probably shouldn’t
but if you don’t know if you want to,
then you probably should.
 
 
08 April 2006

My Lilli

I’m less and less in love with love and more in love with her.
I’m in love with who she is and not with who we were.
First of all I love my God and he gave her to me.
I’ve been given care of her. My joy’s when she’s happy.
He has promised her content and her joyfulness.
But only if I practice prayerful carefulness.
I love my Lilli always, though we still fight
About stupid things when we each think we’re right.
I don’t miss her as soon as she’s away.
I used to. Now, I think of her all day.
She is the one that keeps me going,
Gives me hope, and keeps my blood flowing.
I know secrets she tries to hide
And all the things she keeps inside.
I’m the one who wipes her tears
and keeps them as souvenirs
Of all the hard times;
The I, me, my, mines.
And later I’ll look
In her huge tear book
And say, “That’s her.
Mine forever.”
While in bliss,
I’ll see this
Detail
Brief tale
Of
Love


16 November 2006

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Eyes and Ears and Nose


“I can’t taste blue”
The green one says
With a red tongue
Just like us

I look into the mirror at my reflection
I look into its eyes at my soul
I look into the hallway at the doors in a row
I look into the doors at my world

I feel broken
I have felt the remnants of a scarred soul watching my own
I felt the smooth, cold, white silk against my cheek
I can feel other’s feelings, past, inevitability

When I don’t hear anything, I feel at peace
Hearing music can make me happy
When I hear more, it’s annoying
If I hear something too loud, it hurts

The rats!!!
They will eat you up and play cuddly with your corpse!!!
Run away, far away from the rats that can’t smell!!!
Its nose means more than it knows.

8 September 2008

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Feelings


There’s no poetry like the bubbling rhythm of
Laughter
Uncontrollable fits of giggles and
Smiles

There is a reason for
The logic prevails in
Feelings consume
All

What pain forced this frail body into the light before?
That in my misery I would crawl back now for a new,
Brighter pain from which nothing escapes
All consumed

The power of adrenal anger coursing
Muscles beyond control
A time where memory flees
To the dark corners of the mind

The stench of instinct that we cannot run from
That feeling within that says run when you’re flying
When we no longer sense danger
We will no longer be called alive

12 September 2008

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Unexplainable


Sometimes, when I lay in bed at night,
I wondered what it'd be like
To have that perfect someone by my side,
The constant component in an ever changing life,
Unchanging love.

And now the thoughts of you I've had all day
Continue into my night, my twilight thoughts,
I wonder, now, if they correlate;
If who I am, my heart, mind, me
Is the same, then you, the person
I love now and see, are the person perfect then.


10 September 2008

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Important Thoughts


This combined heart
Is easily intimidated
By the words of the world.

It is a fragile power,
More powerful than strong,
A fire.

We've known one another
For a time unimpressive,
An eternity;

And in my time
Of learning about her, everything,
The good and bad,

Others' minds fall harshly
And irrefutably
On my love, my life.


11 September 2008

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The Meat of Math Class


If I love you, will you grow?
If I squeeze you, will you die?
How far does this go?
The rabbit whole, I mean.

Like a flower,
You are a white rose
With pure petals bloomed and bright,
A white beauty
Unprecedented by the flowers,
Jealous creations of God.

Mariah,
You are the wind
Which has blown as a sweet breath upon my life.
As God's breath filled the lungs of man
You are the breath that fills me up again.
I have been awaken to a new dawn of laughter,
Of smiles and happiness and love;
A joy that makes my spirit spring,
My spirit sing
To life
With the same breath that fills me,
the same wind that sweeps me,
An old life,
A great love,
New peace.

I will not be ashamed nor guilted
By God's design
His invention, time.
He made it.
He planned it.
I will tell the world.
I will show them all
How perfect this,
This love of ours
In every way
Has been,
Is now,
Will be.
Perfection doesn't wait
And perfect things are never late.
"Love's not Time's fool".

You know you've found
The person when
The game ends and
The fun begins.

And sometimes I smile
For no reason it seems.
I think it's you
Who alone confuses my life and my dreams.



12 September 2008

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Frustration


The diction when my heart feels lost
When my emotions overwhelm me
Each of them takes on a form
And take turns with my mind

A play I play every day
Always in the lead
For every part is taken by
The me, myself, and I

Some men have extremes
A range from one to ten
But when your balance lives four lives
There’s no such as fives


16 September 2008

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Yin and Yang


Once upon a time there was
A couple, yin and yang
One was black, the other white
But each lined silver in the night

Yang was soft and small
Beauty in her love of all
Her yin was to her
As she held his heart

Yin was deep and tall
Crazy in his love of all
His yang was to him
As he held her heart

16 September 2008

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