Take It Away
There’s this feeling that’s bubbling up in the pits of my stomach. I don’t know whether it’s good or bad, I haven’t decided yet, but it’s making me ache as…
Three Word Prompt Challenge: Roof, Stars, "Cold Breath."
I hear the *roof*; It’s beckoning. Its siren song sounds often. I could resist it yesteryear; I see my willpow’r soften. For Blake, the *stars* for order…
Thoughts
I don’t know what I was doing and I don’t know if I even cared, because, if I remember correctly, it was my grandfather’s birthday, and all I’m doing is just…
They Say The Grass Is Always Greener
Rain. Why does it always rain, always pouring, always wet, always drip drip dripping right outside my window. My tired feet drag me through puddles with the…
Entry 9: "3-Word Prompt Chain" Youth, Delusions, Fruitcake
For some, the holiday season is a depressing time. I sit by the cold hearth where the reunion is to take place in a week, lost in memories of my *youth*…
I Forget Sometimes
Often times when I jolt upright in the wee hours of the morning, when I am in the midst of stretching and yawning, I look around, startled, at how nothing is…
Alfarit Makes the Headlines
Alfarit approached the gates and reached into hir pocket for the racing form. I hope this tip pays off this time, xe thought to hirself as xe fond hir seat…
Those Long Winter Nights
Rows. Lines. Columns. It’s all adding up again, like some twisted equation that no one really knew the formula to, but memorized the night before.
It's Seasonal
I want to fill up a tub with warm soothing water And submerge myself I want to find a gun, load it with a bullet And play Russian Roulette. I want to pick up…
Problem Child
The reason I’m depressed now is you. I understand the past. I’ve reasoned it out. He was insane, you were blind, and that’s the cause for everything. People…
Flying Solo
While the days are moving fast, my nights are long and endless. I want to waste away to nothing, shrivel up into the corners of my room and collect dust, like…
let's write
our subject isn’t cool but he thinks it anyway welcome to the grand lab trial of our time welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome this is poetry lab…
tribute to the slug girl
I’ve seemed to slow down quite a bit lately. Everything and everyone seems to be so fast, so faraway and even my own words escape me when they run from my…
fly away from the flames, young ones
fly, foolish, fearful children! fly, cast away the shackles that try to hold you down to the ground and spread your raven wings and think not of silly things…
Routine
Sunrise Sunset Sunrise Sunset Sunrise Sunset Sunrise Sunset Wake up Go to sleep Wake up Go to sleep Wake up Go to sleep Wake up Go to sleep It never changes It…
Without fearing.
She wandered through the wood She really hoped she could Find her own knight Willing to fight For her sake, if he would. I stumbled upon a clearing. And saw…
A Reason to Fight
The tarnished knight sat alone, Armor dull and far from home He heard a great cry, Calling through the night, But his heart had turned to stone. I need a…
Beauty and might.
She hates the words that are said. She wants to fade from this stead. Just please let me be Why can’t you save me? And she just lowered her head. I need a hero…
Untitled Poem #7
Sometimes, the doctors that watch over me (sometimes from far, sometimes nearby) send me into the room in the corner. You know, the one with the padded walls…
They're all out without you..
After a couple months of living in this house I finally hooked up my Stereo. I had to make sure we weren’t moving again. I’m sitting in the semi-dark and…