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Are we wasting our time away,
All this time spent awake
When we could be sleeping;
Every day is the same day but
Played in reverse, monochrome
Framed grey caught between
Blacktop ball game stained
Shoes playing hooky with the
Laces pulling tight a child’s
Smile six feet from the hills
We rolled down – it’s so dizzy
At the top.
Strolling with collars popped
– big boy style –
With hair pulled back into
A surprised laugh and a chance
Look aft to try and catch a guilty
Glance of conscious denial punctuated
By a ruler slap,
But also a giggle with a snap
Of heads looking down pouring over
Spilt milk dribbling as a brook
From out your nose like the
Carefully placed barefoot on
Slippery rocks, a game of red rover
To get to the other side and knock
Over all but the tricky pins sittin'
In the corners while y’all
Run around havin' all the fun
And games we used to play on
Stormy days like today.
Please, tell me something so that
I can fall asleep at night.
A prayer lost on the tip of my
Fingers pleading for a bedtime
Story with an ending enveloping
Me with tucked in blankets and
Grownup dreams laced sweet with warm
Milk and kisses and a word and
an end;
Tell me something
So that I may rest in peace.
All this time spent awake
When we could be sleeping;
Every day is the same day but
Played in reverse, monochrome
Framed grey caught between
Blacktop ball game stained
Shoes playing hooky with the
Laces pulling tight a child’s
Smile six feet from the hills
We rolled down – it’s so dizzy
At the top.
Strolling with collars popped
– big boy style –
With hair pulled back into
A surprised laugh and a chance
Look aft to try and catch a guilty
Glance of conscious denial punctuated
By a ruler slap,
But also a giggle with a snap
Of heads looking down pouring over
Spilt milk dribbling as a brook
From out your nose like the
Carefully placed barefoot on
Slippery rocks, a game of red rover
To get to the other side and knock
Over all but the tricky pins sittin'
In the corners while y’all
Run around havin' all the fun
And games we used to play on
Stormy days like today.
Please, tell me something so that
I can fall asleep at night.
A prayer lost on the tip of my
Fingers pleading for a bedtime
Story with an ending enveloping
Me with tucked in blankets and
Grownup dreams laced sweet with warm
Milk and kisses and a word and
an end;
Tell me something
So that I may rest in peace.
Literature
Cliche
i. true love
& you were that one famous line
of a love poem 1863 sonnet
scripted down your spine, verses
of sternum & shuddering heartbeat.
i remember the sheets twisted blue
as the eventide, your eyes like thelassia,
that species of ocean grass. we swayed
to the music of galaxies colliding.
our song was the day the tides
finally curled round the moon's face.
ii. cancer
eventides, thelassia eyes, moon
great and heavy as that one lucky coin
that refused to land, to grant a wish
or let luck decide for us. there were
star crabs scuttling under your
oragami skin. & i never realized
all the ways that you folded
until t
Literature
On Wanting Everything to Be Right
You got too comfortable,
forgot he could make mistakes,
and set your consciousness aside
so he could mend the thoughts
which have remained disordered
in your fumbling sobriety,
despite the years of learning to cope
with the pace of regularity:
scraping the mailbox with his key,
dining out every Sunday,
setting the thermostat to sixty degrees,
and changing despite every effort
to remain apathetic about his plans,
how your name became a constant
in his living equations,
the variable which defined the function.
On the morning you leave,
only your luggage and body will move
through the summer shadows
of oak leaves shaking in a breeze,
and on
Literature
He doesn't write poetry anymore.
He doesn’t write poetry anymore,
even if he still collects it, reads it, saves it, treasures
faded verses from his wife the way connoisseurs
savor vinyl over metallic rainbows on disc.
I don’t mind not knowing, but I can’t stand not asking.
The record needle hits the groove wrong;
he stumbles over words that aren’t there,
rummaging for an answer he doesn’t really have.
He doesn’t write poetry anymore
and his confusion is strangely endearing.
But there’s a lyricism to his words that I love,
poetic lines inserted between the daily grind
of character names and who said what;
voiceless boys in white a
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Peace in Rest.
Please, tell me something.
There are no words on my tongue.
Tell me something, please.
Rest in Peace.
Please, tell me something.
There are no words on my tongue.
Tell me something, please.
Rest in Peace.
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Wow.
^That pretty much sums it up, but hey, I'll try harder ^^ I came over here to your gallery to take a look at your poetry since you just reviewed mine, and this is the first one I looked at...just, wow. I love it. Well, maybe. It makes me homesick for being a kid (not nostalgic, because nostalgic would mean I'm looking back fondly, and this piece makes me yearn for it). I love the disjointed feeling and flow to the piece too; it reminds me again of childhood and how most children speak, while at the same time it makes me feel like it's being written from the perspective of an adult who just wants things to be simple again.
Those are just my impressions and I could be completely off base with them, but for how I felt about it and what it reminded me of, I loved it. You've blown me away! Now I'm honestly embarrassed that someone who writes like this would take the time to review my drabble ^^
^That pretty much sums it up, but hey, I'll try harder ^^ I came over here to your gallery to take a look at your poetry since you just reviewed mine, and this is the first one I looked at...just, wow. I love it. Well, maybe. It makes me homesick for being a kid (not nostalgic, because nostalgic would mean I'm looking back fondly, and this piece makes me yearn for it). I love the disjointed feeling and flow to the piece too; it reminds me again of childhood and how most children speak, while at the same time it makes me feel like it's being written from the perspective of an adult who just wants things to be simple again.
Those are just my impressions and I could be completely off base with them, but for how I felt about it and what it reminded me of, I loved it. You've blown me away! Now I'm honestly embarrassed that someone who writes like this would take the time to review my drabble ^^