unquenchable thirst

  in the basin languishes the pulp and tendrils of a potent sangria made with naked giggles too much wine, not enough fruit drank from an old chipped cup poured over breasts consumed by women adept at the pleasure of women loath to uncouple dusk skewing shadow and light their disembodied satisfaction slowly unraveled an [...]

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if you forget me

. . are words enough to sooth the soul late at night when its dark and you are alone   are words enough to bind a heart and fuel a fire left burned by the words   if you forget me are words enough to live a past to grow a future with someone else . [...]

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afraid

afraid overwhelmed and engulfed looking for the light can’t find it the darkness is..hungry i am afraid can you taste it the fear my daemons are waiting i try to reach out they draw blood as i withdraw i want to run need to run but where? . . . poetry prompt #52 at read [...]

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i shall let the wind die

  Shadow_On_The_Bridge_by_ReticentRapture.jpg at deviantart.com   i shall let the wind die before i step to the edge take the next breath learn to fly i shall let the wind die before i do Tuesday Title Create a poem from this line I Shall Let the Wind.

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gossip

        gossip and filth spewed from their faces making them look as though there were traces of a shotgun blast to the head.   their words made no less vial for being just words, task to trial their next victim fell withered and dead   bitter swords they wielded around their ice as [...]

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don’t go, autumn

don’t go autumn   don’t take the winter made warm by her touch   don’t take the spring that haunts me still   don’t take the summer that burned   don’t take the fall i was healing in   trees bare and haunting cold, so cold here   don’t go autumn . . a writing [...]

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In this moment

  In this moment There is no direction Waiting for the next A dawning reflection   In this moment A quavering exhale An enquiring judgement To pass or fail   In this moment Time does not stand still yet trapped in this moment by my own free will              

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waiting to exhale

this weeks get your poem on #38 at read write poem is “smell”. It was supposed to be a collaborative, but i wrote on my own. After months of 100 degree plus temperatures and no rain, the weather gods are promising Edouard for us today. I hoped to capture my excitement and anticipation of those first moments of [...]

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what dreams

      a writing desk ill named sits littered like a forest in fall covered in curling and useless pages     words flow on crumpled waterfalls in a stream around the chair legs and the water is oh so cold   through the window, hiding maybe from the troubadour’s bane a figure reclines atop an [...]

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war

cries death heartbreak future lost when explosions stop silence, the second sound of war . . . Pen me a poem Poetry Prompt-War

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