It could be the grating voice of a radiator, the way teens talk about real relationships, a figure in the door walking in at close, or just my general feeling after a while.
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I found a secret shallow lake green with muck when I was ten, covered by reaching down trees, a hallowed hiding place I could never find again. The post Secret Shallow | J. Ash Gamble appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to Source Author: Best Poetry Online
Black birds outside my window call to me to wake up before it is too late, their cries overshadow the smaller light warbles of the red and blue birds. The post Caw | Nate Maye appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to Source Author: Best Poetry Online
The child will never recover From you But life goes on Doesn’t it Even though They shoot horses Don’t they Life endures In a manner That is hard To label You have destroyed What she believed in You have policed her life And the lives Of others You tell untruths Fabricate Deflect Blame Retract and…
you won’t know by asking others I’m much better worse than they’d say don’t draft me on some graph paper my equation is in so much disarray I know well what my successes are not everyone measures the same way notice what I’ve done and stood for that’s so far beyond just hearsay The post…
as bones dry tears irrigate landscapes blushed cheeks, running creeks of mascara blues dark shadows oversee graveyards of feelings and epitaphs of irony form words on stone monuments to the dead fantasies of forever intended “i do’s” i walk through this silent storm during partially moonlit nights and think of you, and you and you…
A pale face, dark eyes, an uneasy smile, Surrounded by a mass of tangly black curls, She sat in that circle Unengaged, aloof, disruptive, There for everyone else’s sake But her own. Trapped in a world by demons who Would let her see another way But kept her from it because It wouldn’t serve their…
