Hour 19 – Cheating – Image Prompt

Penny for my thoughts you say A  penny ain’t enough You say you love me for my mind But now it seems you’re stuck. See I’ve seen you smoking Though you swore you quit And while I don’t mind lying I just can’t get over…

Love’s Purgatory Veiled In Blue

  Love’s Purgatory Veiled In Blue   Caught in your smile, the gentle way your lips move as you spoke through anfractuous teeth grinding out the veracity through geared gristmills, laden with powder– with what was left of my spirit, catching on the edge of…

Canyon

Hello, shopkeeper, I’m just dropping in I’d like to return this please, And here’s the slip of my buy-in.   It’s something I bought, When it and I were still new- Everyone clamored for one, So I thought I had to get one too.  …

Indelicate deflection

The first heart I ever broke was my own you could call it a ricochet I’ll go with stupid   though immature is a reasonable copout when I am feeling self-charitable   at nineteen, we were in love – not lust well defined lines obeyed…

Hour 17 – First Heartbreak

First Kiss I floated home on clouds the day we met; that first great kiss changed everything and more. My life was full of “Haven’t done that yet,” (I’d never tasted someone’s tongue before). That first great kiss changed everything and more; you taught me…

Her heart

She held on Waiting for retribution, While the minutes hours days Grew Around her a wall of fortitude, A labyrinth, so complex, Until there could be no restitution, Her softness locked away, Hidden, Unyielding to any man who encountered, Her stolen gaze (his) reminder, Of…

The Juke

My sorrow drifts like lingering smoke I brand myself the fool cause I fell in love with you. There’s our song playin on the juke. Hot desert days Waitin for it to play another tune. My lonely hearts been blue Come spring time glory Bring…