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Poetic Musings

That’s a lot of space,

For an empty heart,

To fill a room that was torn apart.

How do you do it? 

Stay around with aches and disregarded sound.

Beaten, but a trusted mind you’d say.

That’s a lie.

There is not always another day. 

I’m going to leave,

And enjoy the show,

The never-ending need to grow and love a different soul.

I think you should care to help yourself,

You’re aware.

Fix that massive hole in your heart,

It’s only the start. 

This morning I was going through old notebooks and journals, which I have many, where I scribble and scrabble thoughts, poems, songs, commentary about bills, ideas for a book, etc. (I should probably separate my thoughts from my bills and put into different books!)

The above poem I wrote at some point in 2023. I love stumbling on old poems cause it gives me insight to something I was going through at the time. Journals are definitely an emotional time capsule!

And while this poem was me blasting a thought to paper, ‘cause I can tell by my messy handwriting that I wrote it in one take, I don’t want to now tweak or edit it for a “better” poetic outcome because then it means I’m tweaking a memory. But I did change two words before posting this. Just to make a rhyme. (Eye rolling)

Have you ever looked back at old notes or journals to see where your mind and heart was? And then realize that you have grown so intensely?

Let me know.

X, L

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Poetic Ramblings – May 2, 2025

©️Laurie Markvart 2025

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Poetic Musings – 2025

You and Me

I’m in the wings,
But I need center stage.
I want the light,
But there’s comfort in the rage.

I could never tell,
Where I’d land.
But then came me,
Fading somewhere in you, convincedly.

I must fall back into me,
To get the love from you.
But I’ll leave you, maybe I’m gone,
Don’t shelve me, forget me; damn that’s another song.

A touch, a whisper,
No complaint.
A never-ending answer,
To my restraint.

© Laurie Markvart 2025

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Poetic Musings

It Was All You

I constantly think of you.
Obsessed.
Like a bear after a fish,
A bird after a worm,
A song in search of a voice.

The first sight of you,
My intuition was so full I thought I’d faint.
It told me everything that trapped my heart.
In one second, it was all you.

I am sure of your importance to me,
This good fortune.
My spirit knows the story,
Perhaps it knows its end.

I’ll go on, not knowing now or ever.
But to trust is a course for truth.
I must leave it all to fate,
Just like the first and last time we met,
Now, only to wonder of my importance to you.

© 2024 Laurie Markvart

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Poetic Song Musings

Sometimes, I wonder if you realize I’m here.
Do you ever think I’m the answer to your prayer?
Your indifference to my appearance is rare.

So here I stand in front of the promised one,
The guy with all the luck and then some.
How does it feel to have all the fortune in the world?
And yet to be completely broke?

Don’t you want to know why I’m here?
Don’t you want to know why I care?
Cause look again, I’m not transparent like you.

I figure you don’t notice anything at all,
Your eyes turned to gold a long time ago.
And the image you paint yourself is thin.

When I ask the father why I’m sent to you,
He says you have a lot of harm to undue.
So, I ask again, how does it feel?
To have all the fortune in the world?
And yet to be completely broke?

Don’t you want to know why I’m here?
Don’t you want to know why I care?
Look again, I’m not transparent like you.

© 1999 Laurie Markvart from the song “Transparent” for the band Stepfoot

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Island Poem

I haven’t written a poem in three years. I’ve written song lyrics but not a poem for the sake of being just that. A poem. Words that rhyme and tell a story and take a heart somewhere. And yet poetry was my first love, even before music. So, welcome back the words and the joy.

Isn’t it stunning when we change our whereabouts, silence our racing mind, and let our muse come alive again? What is yours?

So, here on the island of Kauai, Hawaii, on a mini-vacation, I brought my journal/notebook/songbook/idea planner, lol, you get it – papers that are bound together for potential words, and out came a poem. I was staring at the stunning ocean, and the words came. Words had been vacant, but they arrived with the salt-dabbed winds of the Pacific:

Inspiration comes from nowhere,
And yet everywhere.
The browning of a leaf’s end,
The flowering of a dare.
The start of something new,
The ending of a flame.
Troubled thoughts that escape,
Feelings of love that remain.
Knowing when it’s done,
Believing love is not to be won.
Trials, passings, how time endures,
Facing our misgivings but reality cures.
Inspired by a breath to have, don’t forget.
No time travel back, no regret.
Faith in a future that’s yet to give,
A heart left open, time to live.

© 2023 Laurie Markvart

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“HOW” Lyrics for Lovers and Those Who Are Done

Laurie Markvart - Martin guitar head, tuner, Capo. Creativity.

Hello Friends,

Here are lyrics to a new song I’ll post to Youtube within the coming weeks. If the words resonate with you then embrace them. You’re not alone.

X,
L

HOW

How do I say I’m sorry
When I’m not sure I’m wrong
How do I fix broken glass
With shards that are gone.

How do I relapse into a love
That has been drunk dry
How do I care about a story
When a sigh become a lie.

How is it here, we became this
Broken in two, no longer fit
How many times did we try to make it right?
Not enough, not enough
’cause we’re here.

How the hell does ambition
Turn to regret
And trust to lust
For another to get.

How does intention
Become a memory
And purity to anger
It’s all I see.

Lyrics ©lauriemarkvart 2017

 

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“Listen, Be Heard” – Lyrics from Yesterday for Today

Wicked Gypsy, Austin, Texas, 1992

I wrote these lyrics below for my old band Wicked Gypsy. We were collectively devoted to national and world issues, environment, equality, politics, justice, love, and peace. And to play music! But, often these topics were the muse behind our songs. And today, I know my brothers in the band feel the same.

When I wrote this, I was poking at our government and big corporations to play fair, be transparent and honor ALL people. Fair pay, equality to gender and race and to listen to us…WE are here. These lyrics ring truer than ever TODAY. Hence, the reason I’ve brought them back.

I usually do not explain lyrics as I prefer the listener or reader to come to their own definition, but I must clarify the line, “the truth of the dumb man always wins.” The dumb man is the everyday man, the one the government thinks is dumb and not worth worrying about, the one they think they can fool. Actually, this is the one who is left standing. And we all must stand. We must keep our mind positive, learn, and continue to fight for what is right. Period.

We also need an administration who can speak wisdom with their mouth shut. Most people know exactly what that means. If you don’t, stop talking and listen.

PEACE, L

Listen, Be Heard 

Speak the wisdom with your mouth shut
Win the system with your cutting blood
Call your lies out under your skin
Bleed to mercy your forgiven sin
You ask why? Why? You ask why? Why?

The truth of the dumb man always wins
For he is always the standing kin
He wastes no time on foolish trust
Just pay him once and time is lost
You ask why? Why? You ask why? Why?

Don’t you know? It is here.
Close your mind. Never find.
Why don’t you listen? Be heard.
Decision. Learn.
All you learn. Is decision turn.
Be heard.

Talk your thoughts out over the rest
Cry your fears out to the best
Call your lies out under your skin
Bleed to mercy your forgiven sin
You ask why? Why? You ask why? Why?

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“Should I Stay” – Lyrical Poem for the Day

Laurie Markvart blog - music promo photo

Today, I’m sharing poetic lyrics of memory. Not sure when I’ll set the music but when that flows, I will.  If it doesn’t, then it’s just a poem.

My muse-in the past. Gone. But I still look for her. The needs of a daughter do not disappear with the departed. Nor do the issues of why she drove me crazy or why I loved her so much.

Today, poetic lyrics. Getting it out, letting it flow and being in THIS moment. Someday, acceptance. Just not today. And that is okay ’cause I can’t go back, and I certainly can’t jump forward. And sorry to say, this applies to all of us. Unless you have a time machine. And if you do, DM me. I’d love to hear about it. xo

#bepresent, #beintheflow, #beinthemoment

Should I stay
 Should I walk away
 Does it pay to know how you feel

Should I stay
 Should I lie down next to you
 Cry for a while

Memories, you and me
 Blanket my mind
 Tell me I should run, hide

But I look at you
 And I see what you do
 And I know for now, I’ll stay

Should I stay
 Give us another day
 I can’t breathe for you

Should I stay
 Give it more time to play
 In my head, broken, astray 
 But today, I’ll stay

©Laurie Markvart
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