Expression Of Age

harbinger you smiled at the beginning close enough to me  but out of my reach your quick witted words making me me laugh  at first   your face was marble sculpted and i remember telling you you were beautiful you smiled  crooned at my words mockery of affection   you were built of hercules towering above my frame i took it as a sign that yours were larger than mine to hold me better it was not   your eyes were cloudy  and your words cryptic i took it to be the mark of intellect  when my lack of  couldn’t […]

autumn autumn smells of puddles of rainthat have formed over fallen leavesmixed with pumpkin and spiceshe is the scent of warmth on rainy days autumn looks like cinnamon cheekswith freckles and hair of orange leavesspattered overalls and squelching wellieshe is the picture of a yellowed tree autumn laughs like children at schooland his voice crunches like fallen leavesquietly, beckoning the cold of winterhe speaks like the whispering wind autumn tastes like harvest feastsand criss-cross flakes of apple piea kiss from autumn is a kiss of sugarof his lips that have licked the maple autumn feels like cornfield maizeand the bumps […]

Laughter If i could write poetry about your laughter i would It starts with your quiet smile That brings rose blush to your pale cheeks You widen into a giggle that brings back A childhood you never left The room filled with the sound melody Of your growing joy and delight You throw back your head into the light  You created when you grin like that  Bouncing back in notes of exhilaration A sound of meaningful appreciation Your lips pulled wide to reveal  Peals of raucous laughter That makes me feel like you truly love me Though your laughter might […]

magic There is magic in the hearts of a lover’s soul Who found hope in a place of another’s arms  They see the world as a half to a whole  A place to experience with another’s laughter   There is magic in the eyes of a school child  Who learns of the undying world beneath her  She is undaunted by the vastness of what is around her Knowing of the change she is to bring   There is magic in the hug of a friend Who tightly embraces those she has missed  A show of excitement for the moments to […]

alter ego 1: smile softly, nod your head  laugh quietly with creased eyes agree with words you don’t  legs crossed, hands in your lap  you are being watched and  the audience loves this angle    2: rake your fingernails down skin running blood of self-inflicted  is almost as deep as these bruises hair wild and unkempt  you must never stop running  or they will forever follow you   1: talk of small table conversation pleasing to their ears in a voice that was never yours these words that you memorized  what the audience hopes to hear they are always listening  […]

Could we go on a rocket trip around the universe?The two of us together among the stars and skyWe would see the stars of the past blink down on usTelling us the stories of lights forgotten and renewedWe would see the colors of galaxy twist around our fingertipsDeep hues of magenta blackness swirling in the skyUnder by planetary dust and debris hanging in the darkWe would travel around celestial bodies of new solar systemsFollowed by golden fire of comet and asteroid trailsWe would hold hands by the orbit of the moonAnd graying igneous structures that dwarf ourselvesStanding under the blinding […]

The last autumn leafStood lonely on its branchPulled by the chill of the windIt danced on the breeze of fallOrange and yellowed surfaceIt crackled from its thin stemWaiting to leave its sinewed holdAnd join its rest on the grassBreaking free of the bare treeIt floated on the gale whisperWaiting to fall ever so softlyInto its minute of slow descentOnto the ochre-hued floorCrunching on its bed of leavesIt waited, staring at the tree aboveNaked and empty without itCalling out to the windIt spoke of the coming winterRustled by the chill in the airA quiet song to the branchesIt left its place […]

Playing with Fire single flame of midnight oil  what happens when you are blown by the wind? do you bloom like flowers of the spring’s warmth? fire flickering and licking the air  what happens when you are stoked by wood? do you dance like the hearts of those loved? blaze of burning ashen bark what happens when you are doused in kerosene? do you roar like a creature angered? raging inferno of terror alight what happens when you play with fire? don’t you know that you get burnt?

i dont miss you if you asked me if i missed you i would say no because missing you means  more than admitting you left  it means that the thought of you leaves my throat dry and my stomach hollow this gaping pain in my chest never ceases like the way you flit in my mind and i cannot say that i miss you because that would mean that i let you into my soul gave you a place in my life  that you so rudely ran from it would be saying that you once made me smile more than […]

i dont do love i don’t do lovesick messages written over wooden desks engraved by the hands missing the touch of another  waiting for the day to be reunited with so-called forever encapsulating the songs of a million hearts in three words i don’t do sugar-sweet saccharine novel-bound romance brimming with rain-filled scenes and confessions of the soul monologues of the hearts true needs without the other  of soaring spirits and unconditional four-letter everything i don’t do lifebound handheld dependent partnership where two melded hearts see each other through nights and mornings bound to the same cheeks and smiles affectionate […]

bask Is the world fabricated from broken promises of a generation once lost? A tuneless song of one’s own suffering to no end ? Or could the world be made of shards of kaleidoscope glass  Shattered under the golden light of the evening sunset Is the world built of the dying last touch of lovers hurt? A sad tale of heartbroken affairs on a lonely eve? Or could the world be made of curicules of violet haze Filled with lost love reborn on a lonely summer night Is the world nothing but the bricks of a life unlived to its […]

s(c/t)ar born out of black haze and scarlet skies  violent and unpredictable creature of the night  surrounded by reverberating songs of minor sevenths and syncopated melodies she drowned in she transcended past the bare plastic of her life the glass shards of her mistakes and regrets unstoppable as she was brokenhearted raised into clouds of dissociative colors and emotions she was a ceramic painted sculpture of glitter and repainted balm stuck together haphazardly she was a painting of ripped and stitched canvas thrown paint and angry harsh unending lines a slurry hurricane of remorse and repent calming into a being […]