In the Dressing Room: A Prose Poem #7/24

In the Dressing Room: A Prose Poem #7/24

“We still have a pay phone back by the three bathroom stalls with the doors removed cause someone got caught smoking weed or doing coke or something else equally bad in there but the girls in this place don’t really care cause there’s nothing to hide around here other than your money and you better keep that in a place no one can get at or you’ll be leaving here with tears running down your young and disillusioned face broke as when you came in so you’ll be smart not to trust any of the girls and don’t loan them your stuff or you won’t get it back–here you go! here’s a locker you can use just don’t leave nothin’ important in it if you don’t have a lock cause you can leave your things and your money with the house mom who’s right over there on the other side of the dressing room. Up those stairs and through that curtain there is the main stage and you’re up first so you better get dressed–My name’s Exotica. Good luck out there, girl.”

The search

Run fast

or you will get late

No matter what

you have to win the race

said everyone

 

But in your head

you have already seen

places are calling

roads are free

 

The decision awaits

while choosing the fate

listen what the

heart says

 

Maybe a way is not there

but that path will be made

by you

keep wandering

to search you…

(hour 6) The birds sing

The sun is rising bringing in the bright  light, the birds they start chirping a song so uplifting.

On the branches of the trees they sit and they chirp, through the windows the songs flow I want them to keep singing

As the sun is up high the rays hit my face

The birds keep singing songs I keep in that special place

 

Time

Waiting … we are always waiting, watching and tracking the time

The time is passing and we are steady, unsure of what’s next until the time comes or until we find our day in our thoughts and within our desires

Until we find a reason not to watch the time… we are still

Wasting time, waiting for the right time, wishing for the right time but time does not care … Tick, Tock

We are older now … time will be the same tomorrow but we will change with every choice we make today

Time has not answer, reason or rhythm but it is always there reminding us what we have wasted, what we have spent and what we have left

 

The Butterfly

butterfly on red flower

The brilliance of the butterfly is

headed for destruction

as humans kill the things we

cannot spend or make

space for in our ample schemes

of prosperity and wealth.

I shall not write a lyric about bright

Lepidoptera or variety of

bugs, hold back from imparting gilded

Remarks on ecological conversation.

Yes I am grateful I have known and seen

rare melodic inspiration from

episodes god sends me, beloved hymns

sung by flying, floating imps.

The Stone Wall- Poem #6 For Prompt HAlf Marathon by Ingrid Exner

Beyond the courtyard and

beyond the gardens

Lay the wall of stone

that is hardened.

Fashioned of stone, blood,

sweat and tears,

It is a monument of

many past years.

 

Just beyond this ancient gate

the real world is in await.

Time moves forward and people

Run in haste with very little

time to waste.

 

But back behind

that gate of stone,

the spirits of ancient times

still roam.

Captured behind

a wall of stone

They exist in memories

all alone.

Copyright, 2015 by Ingrid Exner

Hour 06 3.30-4.30am — #79 “One more time”

#79

One more time

i want to stand beneath stars
looking back to the beginning
surf the wave, slide the rainbow

fall like a drop into your ocean
leap from clouds, all the cliches
with you … just one more time

put my arms round your neck
get nervous, run from trouble
into trouble, drive the dark road

i want to borrow time, steal it,
once upon it, machine it — all
one. more. time.

i just want to do these extra
ordinary things with you again
one more time

…………………  … till the end of time

BingoMade

FFS! #84. I’m going batty.

Untitled Poem 6

A black heart
Unfeeling, cold-blooded
Dead within
A light
Bright as the sun
smiles on me
Little by little
the darkness lifts
away
Blood warms
Feelings reappear
A vibrant, beating mass
of heart emerges from the darkness
full of life,
but guarded
Afraid to trust
Afraid to love
For fear to do so
will lead back to
a dark state of numbness

Mutt

Companion for life, loyal and true.

Devoted and diligent, entertainingly so!

He’ll centre his whole world around you

worship unashamedly on show.

 

Walk him often and enjoy the exercise

feed him well and treat him right.

Cherish the love in those big doggy eyes,

relish your reward in canine delight.

 

The best way a person can feel worthy

is if he owes his existence to you,

if without you his life wouldn’t be.

The only way to get a dog? Rescue!