Tied to the bedroom door, a yellow
His heart skipped, throbbing in hy
As the nervous thrill of anticipat
Overcame him completely, yes indee
For there it is, in unblushing fas

His whole world ended; it was yest
His hopes for tomorrow quickly per
When the love of his life passed a
His dreams, like a thin mist, vani
She’ll always be the lady of his y

Love comes not from a vacuum
It appears not from thinnest air
Love does not suddenly bloom
It requires nourishment and care…
Love begins with admiration

He flipped a coin, his resolve to
Heads, he doesn’t; tails, go forwa
Yes, full speed ahead; with all ha
It’s a toss-up; a challenge, an ex
But is it right? Leave everything

i’ve tried to find meaning
in everything I see,
but sometimes a sunset’s
just a moment to cherish!
often times I have stopped

My young son threw a ball at me
But sadly, he caught me unaware
And it bounced right in front of m
Oh! I melted at his wounded stare
Perhaps more focused I should be

It’s a season of promise that all’
Heaven smiles; yeah! The future’s
All we see, hear, touch! What a d
Nature’s beauty has cast a magical
Sadly, spring will eventually bid

“Sweetie, it’s not you, it’s me!
I care about you, don’t you see?”
It seems he hears that everyday…
It’s an awful, hurtful cliché…
And so ends his latest romance

Out with the old, in with the new
Spring cleaning time, everything m
Old fangled ideas out; to them bid
For it’s time to watch our possibi
Friends that drag us down, let the

she flashed her wickedly
seductive smile,
all resistance melted,
a scoop of ice cream
on a hot summer day;

Like fine gold
Seven times purified
Her heart is pure
Love alone burns inside!
Not a speck of ill

She peeked into the room lit dimly
And in tiptoes, she moved cautious
Not wanting to wake up the baby
She stared at her ever so lovingly
Teary-eyed and overwhelmed with jo

Yes! ‘tis the promise of another d
All of God’s blessings on their w
White clouds for always, never gra
And so, every night, this we pray!
Over the far hills, peeks, the sun

Smiles in our faces, oh! this joyo
As the strings of the Ninth perme
A spring in our steps; a lilt in o
Joy in our hearts, there’s no room
For the world’s been reborn; sprin

Someday... someone…
Will wander into your life
She’ll rock your world; turn it up
She’ll put an end…
To all of your emotional strife

the starlit harbor view
peeked in from the window
moonbeams bathe them
they cast a giant shadow
on the wall,

It’s all over, darkness is no more
The thunder clouds have lifted
And the morning mist has vanished
Spirits of the night are now defea
The sun is brilliant up in the hea

Rolling meadows stretch into the s
Treetops glow in myriad shades of
Flowers bloom brightly in the suns
In rainbow colors; what a perfect
But the mercury is rising, an omin

We all went to dinner; me, myself
We sat on one chair, we don’t know
I did most of the talking
Myself quietly listening
Poor old me, all me could do was s

Today, it appears my world is blac
Yin and yang; utter darkness, bril
No shades of gray, either bliss or
The sadness I will keep; the joy
© F Aparici 05-11-2016

She sat on the porch watching the
In a swing, she and her love sat e
But now she sits all alone and in
Praying it will go away, and none
F Aparici 05/08/2018

In the dark, young children squeal
Ghouls everywhere, goblins laughin
Witches in pointed hats
A clowder of black cats
Quite a spooky night to go carousi

I live in a four-walled box
A TV, a couch, pictures on the wa
But my heart is homeless
A sweetheart, no one I can call
Night time in this big city

The sky’s grim and pitch black
The moon and stars have hidden
Behind the sinister rain clouds;
A nether world, light has forgotte
Then a bright flash, a beam of lig

she reached across the bed,
but he’s gone!
a dark feeling embraced her,
but the deepest sadness too...
her spirit’s broken

One glimpse, that’s all it took
To rekindle in him a raging fire,
A passion that smoldering embers
Reignited; a long dormant desire!
Yet the craving was but secondary

It’s helplessness I feel
Whenever I look at her
Knowing quite well
We’d never be together
It is love unrequited

Yes, we can’t take it with us
Cash or treasures of any kind;
Hearse without a trailer, thus
How we leave the world behind!
And it’s a truth we oft discuss

Autumn leaves lay on the ground
All gathered in a four-foot mound
A cold breeze lifted some around
The world’s truly winter-bound
Alas! The non-evergreens are bare

A secret passion;
A peculiar indulgence
She kept from everyone
Except her conscience!
And for so many years

A nip in the air
Her shoulders bare
Wind blew her hair
Giving her a scare
Alas! Winter’s near

it rained; rather it poured!
sheets and buckets of water
fell in just a few hours;
our street became a river!
got a text from city hall

As usual, a case of he said, she s
Another argument halfway to nowher
Been that way since the day they w
It seems they’re amidst a nightmar
But they seek their bearings inste

His life’s a carousel, round and r
No ups, no downs; nowhere his dest
A pointless voyage, to somewhere n
And in his grasp, a one-way ticket
He wakens, the day’s a mirror of y

No one cares about the past; I kn
I’ve locked it away; threw away th
Got no use for it, be it now or ev
I choose not to recall unpleasant
I’ve loved, I gave it all; now I’

A faint scent of jasmine
Stirred up an emotion
Long, long dormant
She wore it often
Her magic potion