24 Poems ~ 24 Hours
She breaks like a wave
A spray of sea salt
Shattering against a civil rebellion
Fragments illuminated
Casting fractal rainbows
Lighting scattered shadows
Satisfaction and regret
Unfurling
This sea rises
Manifesting
This storm roils
Corporeal
This girl exists
And
This war rages
Have you ever felt invisible
Like you could be easily forgotten
If you disappeared today noone would notice
Well let’s not say noone maybe you have three or even one person who would realize your absence
Do you feel like your on a deserted island
All you wish for is someone to come rescue you
Have you every been in a crowded room with family
And you feel isolated like do they see me
Do you ever wonder am I not important to the people who means the world to me
Why I feel like I replaceable no one see me
Have you ever thought about is it me or them
Have I isolate myself
But how can you isolate youreslf when you try and try to sadly to say fit in
Feel like your apart of the family to only feel push out
Image courtesy of GraphicMama-team at Pixabay
She lingres between two shelves
And watches the library staff carefully
She hides behind a book
And quickly dodges out of sight
She sits at a table, pretending to study
She patiently waits for just the right moment,
Then slips a book… or two
Into her bag… or purse, if the book is small enough
She slyly walks toward the door
And when nobody’s looking
She walks out, tightly hanging on to her bounty.
Perhaps, if the library community is lucky enough
The biblioklept will never return
Antoinette LeRoux © 2019
Look here you are
Happy
Loved
Doing what you want
Living life on your terms
Getting better
With the one you love
Yes you survived
Dear old self
We all survive at last
Poem 10
Self Love
By: Ashley L Powers
I’m proud of who I am
The woman before you has been through many trials
Had to fall on my face numerous times
But each time taught me a lesson
Not ashamed of my failures
Each time presented a challenge
And every time I accepted them
Fought through them
And came out victorious
I had to learn to love myself
Because if I didn’t
How was I going to know if others really loved me
The end result is the woman standing before you
Shattered but never broken
Damaged but not destroyed
I can’t drown out that rhythm of venom, that cadence of wrath,
and the accretion of thriving muck at the bottom hungers, always.
A long breath hisses inward between teeth clenched without volition:
All life is sacred, and none is more sacred than our own,
the audience must needs think of me as pure and merciful;
A simple, clear song.
Outside of an asteroid or pyroclasm,
nature will bury this field of joys
But know I’m filled with wonder,
when shove comes to push.
In eyes deep as the well of souls,
the beauty of it is, you can be whatever you want!
Embody
Welcome to these bones
The frame of your home
Notice the curve of the walls
The cathedral of your chest
The acoustics a perfect match
To your heart beat
HEAR your lungs
Ceaselessly stoking
The kilns of your cells
FEEL your softness
Secure and wrap you safely
TASTE your tears and sweat
That set free any bitterness
SMELL your scent
The chemistry only you carry
SEE your unique design
A blend only you can be
Please stay here
Tend and embody
This ecology
Break me down again,
With word touched with lies and truth
Hidden by your smile.
Is there a slow transition from living to dying?
Or does it happen instantaneously?
When my feet stopped growing at thirteen
I realized I can wear those 7.5 size shoes forever.
Did that signal my march towards the grave?
When I stopped growing a year after
I reached 5’5, the tallest I will ever be.
Is that when my body began to sink into the Earth?
Or was it when the summer excitement
mellowed each year to weariness?
Or even earlier
when my father stopped carrying me to bed from the car?
Is that where it begins?
Ends?
Imprint
Dark, Cold, Empty
Just distance and loneliness that lay next to me
Where did he go? He was just here…
With his legs wrapped around me
His lips kissing me and his hands
Caressing every inch of my frame,
But now, all I feel is chills and space
Where he once laid his head next to mine
Where did he go?
Does he know that when he left, he would take every piece of me
Every piece that Was Still Living
Does he know that when he left,
he left me with this empty, cold feeling of loneliness
He took my mind, all I can remember is the conversations we had.
Conversations about life, goals, and our future while he laid next to me
But now when I look beside me he’s not there
Just an empty space with his body imprint on my sheets
He took my soul when I opened up my heart to him
Thinking he would never go, hoping he would stay and savor this treasure I gave him
He took my spirit away, theres no life in this room
Where our once beautiful relationship was made
As I look at where he use to lay all I see is an empty space
Where the person I love use to lay, but he left with no concern
about the person who he once said he cared about
All that’s left is me and his imprint on my sheet…
I don’t want to carry him in my heart
I don’t want to consume him in my soul
I don’t want to feel this thing call love
Really what Is love?
I don’t want to hear those words
I love you…
I don’t want to grasp the emotions
Of being in love
Really does love exist?
I don’t want to feel the embrace, call love making
I don’t want to hold this feeling call affection
In my heart
Really is this affection of love or lust
I don’t want to think about this thing call love
imprint
Dark, Cold, Empty
Just distance and loneliness that lay next to me
Where did he go? He was just here