Scribbles 'n Bits

Tag: poetry community

  • Plunge

  • cm^3 x Nascita di Venere

  • five whole minutes

    My esophagus burns.
It was 
five whole minutes a go
I was talking to you
then five whole years
as soon as we’re off the phone.

The most confused 
color yellow,
desperately hoping
to find its place
on your dress…

Stay tuned.

  • As Always, A Privilege

    They held modesty
in the threads 
of their shirts - 
pretense in laces
of humble shoes. 
While gems dripped
from their mouths,
each word, 
each pea and carrot,
you couldn’t buy;
but would cost you
your life.

  • <3

    I’ll bite my whiskers to that
toothless and ragged
find a bargain and go halvsy
cause valu is fifty-fifty

your favorite rock’s a bison
you’d like to meet Mary
your favorite tunes are sappy
but why waste the happy

without you
a shell of a man 
found a tough nut to crack
a cup and a half empty
do that thing like you know you’ve known me

  • I lied

    When I said
I was young
and naïve 
the last time
my heart was broken.
Every time
was the truth.

  • Preposterous Ponderings: Alive

    Sometimes I look up from myself and think is this life?
    Then I wonder, would that be so bad?

    As my mentor would say, “real cosmic shit, yah’ know?”

  • Right Now Ago

    If it doesn’t rip me to shreds,
I don’t want it. 
Give it to me cold and 
something cruel. 
Jaw dropping love 
all tired and sore. 
Where do I find the will to live?
What fun is that?

  • Dis-Top[Ea]

    This reality:

not the bright-eyed 
shoot-em-up gallery
they promised,

not nearly as nice
as the dusty menagerie
foreseen. 

Orange, plastic caps 

land in the doorway 
of cardboard market stalls.

  • 6-word review: 2022

    A raging storm waning indelible sage.

    Happy new year everyone,
    all my best.

    Josh