Hr. 5 Prompt 22, 2016 Sitting here writing Making my mark You can laugh I did, it’s late Should be sleeping But here I sit Writing poems all night I must be nuts Pencil to paper Mind thinking My honey’s upset Night is for sleeping

To the Scalp   Would you like it a little shorter? The scissors are poised for my reaction, flashing in the reflection like the glint of the sun and I, ready to photosynthesize myself  into metamorphosis. Gods, I should have said yes.  Let the whisper…

“Books were safer than other people anyway” -Neil Gaiman I’ll take the hard corners of a good book in my back under my covers over the fleshy resentments of a worn out love affair gnawing silently through my ribcage any night … every night. He…

Tragedy always celebrated, In all forms of art, Pain glorified, Accepting with open arms. The fuel behind the artist, Bringing the art in them to life, Lives of real people, In exchange for the life of art. But what about the tortured, But still alive,…

‘Yer mother wears Army boots!’ a common insult tossed around with impunity by young boys of another era playground epithets meant to insult, sans vulgarity or other references that might get you a fat lip or blackened eye ‘Yer mother wears Army boots!’ also served…

“Books were safer than other people anyway.”  – Neil Gaiman I was often bullied for this but I liked stories and sad music And maybe I was bullied for being weird More than my tastes in literature But at least with a book If it…

When I’m feeling lost and broken and nothing is going right I turn my eyes upon you and find comfort in your light You’ve always been there for me when I’ve needed you more You are my greatest asset when the wolf is at my…

“Books were safer than other people anyway.” Neil Gaiman   So I buried myself in my books, Learning, early on, That people were sometimes poison And could damage the soul. My books became my friends In a world confused by rules Even now I find…

“Books were safer than other people anyway.” I can open a book and peer inside I can read its meaning See its dark side Know what’s in its belly People are not so anyway

books were safer than people anyway, you always knew were you stood fiction, no fiction, F A N T A S Y people pretend to be what your looking for while trying to turn you into what thier looking for some use lies like sweets…