Dear Darling #21

Dear Darling I seen you with her today, So I am writing this poem to say, I can’t let you marry me any more , I love you , but I must walk out the door.   Dear Darling I am sad you had to…

why I write

All the words I’ve left unsaid are swirling ’round inside my head if I’m to put these words to bed i have to write them out.   My wild imaginings exist where lovers hands and lips are kissed and mighty hero’s, sorely missed if I…

Moonlight prompt 12th hour

A night at the lake on a date with a man who knows how to court a woman spare me the jokes will you no really he actually planned out the date with precision and perfection might I add he picked me up in his…

Möbius Strip (Hour Twenty-Two)

Sometimes I feel we’re on a Möbius strip, A Möbius trip That never ends. Now we’re on one side, And now the other, And it’s always surprising, But always the same.

False Identity – Number 17

welcome home, she demanded and dreamed she had wrestled her dog into accepting ten old thank yous to secure everyday silence when taking her child’s Metrocard crying, he never says you are welcome when I lose every gift I have stolen tearing up what silence…

Prompts

Losing prompts Prompting myself I saw the end At the beginning I see it now again The finish line The ribbon beckons my chest Prompt or no prompt Dear end Here i come

22 The Other She

Patiently scraping for borrowed time, elusive time Fleeting happy moments out of the 365 A Pariah, a social butterfly nonetheless Guilt, uncoursed, unparalleled Restless nights, cold and solitary Tear-stained pillows; impeccably clean and soap-scented sheets Love inadequacy; stirred from deep slumber but more flammable and…

HOG KILLIN’

he had a name – Arnold, from the TV show, Green Acres; he was a black and white pig that just came walkin’ on our place when I was about nine years old; my Grandparents built him a pen and fed him every day, things…

Dreams Escape Me

S Is for the stars I long to see L Is for the longing I have for dreams E Is for the east that beckons so beguilingl- E and P is for the people who forwent sleep but soon must crumple Oh Sleep is something…