snippets and thoughts and stuff what i wrote

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

MadVerse: tempting grace, luminous darkness, no mercy no forgiveness, among the fallen

forgotten among the fallen
prostrate lie as they pile
the rank and file
away the rotting
no voice to protest
no mercy no forgiveness
in the luminous darkness
of eyes open but empty
tempting grace and graceless wait
for one who sees a heartbeat

Monday, March 28, 2016

MadVerse Prompt: book of love, tome of destiny, threads of fate, poetic prophecies

my fingers caress the leather bound bounty
library stacks stretching to infinity
search for my name and on a dusty shelf,
in a darkened nook dog eared and stained
full of poetic prophecies scribbled in the margins
I see my tome of destiny, bound by threads of fate
tattered at the spine and next to it, a "book" of love
thin pamphlet, warped by tears and left to dry

Thursday, March 24, 2016

MadVerse Prompt: self-absorbed, a decadent reflection, the softness of velvet, hidden thorns

spilled wine pooled on the floor
in the shine, a decadent reflection
of your hidden thorns
you cracked and smacked
the softness of her velvet skin
for being self-absorbed
no more
for now she looks at you
for sure
and what she sees
she's soon to flee

Monday, March 21, 2016

MadVerse Prompt: delicate luminosity, shaded depth, perceived illusions,the ghosts we dream

the ghosts we dream
dream us too
in technicolor richly glowing
in delicate luminosity they hover above
look down on our shaded depth
of black & white & grey
as we do them
perceived illusions mirrored
in the shared territory
of sleep and madness



Thursday, March 17, 2016

MadVerse Prompt: legendary, land divided, of magic & mystery, the ancient ways

across a land divided like ourselves
we trek the ancient ways
an arduous path
of magic & mystery
through a legendary legacy
of tribulation to triumph
we bury ourselves in the past
and hope to find a new way forward


Tuesday, March 15, 2016

MadVerse Prompt: last/lost book, favorite passages, paradise of words, hidden chapters


her last book
full of hidden chapters
written in ink invisible
underneath his favorite passages
she told him all her story
made a paradise of words
which he skimmed and set aside
now she waits, a lost book
needing a reader
with an eye for subtext

instapoem: how to fly


Monday, March 14, 2016

fieryverse prompt: flat black

matte darkness
flat black devoid of shine
descends and coats this night
like a wall fresh painted
making a blank chalkboard of time
upon which we scrawl childish graffiti
our words both urbane & profane

instapoem: soar


Friday, March 11, 2016

MadVerse Prompt:the rise and the fall, bemused aftermath, tangled possibilities, searching for meaning

the bemused aftermath spent
searching for meaning
at the bottom of a glass
unraveling the tangled possibilities
in a new lover's hair
teasing out the could-have-beens
brushing off the never-weres
tracking the rise and the fall of ego and id
to see what was wrong or right in all we did
so next time there won't be another next time


Wednesday, March 09, 2016

FieryVerse Prompt: disbelieving

not usually one for incredulity
(my tendency toward naivety)
but in you I find immunity
to my natural gullibility
disbelieving every word you say

Tuesday, March 08, 2016

FieryVerse Prompt:shadows loom

I crouch beneath the canopy of night
as the shadows loom over me
wrap myself in their velvety darkness
to hide me from unforgiving eyes

MadVerse prompt: stumbling over/erratic memories/scattered bones/elusive heart

blind in the darkness
I fumble through this graveyard
stumbling over the scattered bones
of erratic memories 
haunted by ghosts of maybes
of elusive hearts never caught
of half-remembered might-have-beens
and try to find a place
to lay me down and let them go