Tag: original poem

  • Tasseography

    Tired grow the eyes,
    yet hunger fills the dreams.
    Seconds dwindle daily
    while life’s leaves steep.
    Words I speak fairly, 
    
    “None too fair,  
    the lives we keep.” 
    
    In the bottom,
    the porcelain fine print, 
    you wonder of the tea.
    To smile sweet;
    just grudge on,
    or change indefinitely.
  • Static

    I count all my hair, 
    stinging with electricity, 
    ozone on my sleeve. 
    A peat bog with water waist deep, 
    moss on down the halls. 
    Bouncing a voice long gone, 
    “How do we breathe?” 
    Escaping as we speak. 
    
    Beautiful words confine me, 
    a misery of mystery. 
    Restless at the seams. 
    A prison so lost friends won’t find me. 
    How does this compare? 
    Another kind of exposure. 
  • Tripping

    Where wild ones play.
    In a jungle of laughing and longing.
    Built over time
    on overgrown mossy ground.
    Filled with a soundtrack
    of cackles in the dark. 
    Strange and unrecognizable to them.
    Though very much alone. 
    Sounds to which 
    they've kissed goodbye
    all night long. 
    Until trees fall and flowers wilt.
    All noise fades. 
    A cold, bare apartment
    called home.
    Never to see each other again.
    So it feels.
    Something she would call dramatic. 
    To say the least.
    Sometimes the most
    better left unsaid.