SenseWrds Prompt: filtered, tender, symphony

the most stale
and stock responses
filtered through
the ears of one
made sentimental
by tender
sympathetic sentiment
sound a symphony
of sweetness

MadVerse Prompt: What do you think makes or breaks a poet?

that which breaks me
also makes me

emotion
explodes me
again

exposed and raw
smashed into pulp
a slurry of words

harden and set
into poetic cement

the will to rebuild
remorseless & relentless

despite the blitz 
unceasing

WyldeVerse Prompt: ashes and bones

simple glance
ignites
accidental touch
accelerant
immolate in desire
reduced
until all that
remains
ashes and bones

Song: Nice and Kind

Furthering my writing - been taking a stab at writing more lyrics as well as converting old poems into songs

Anyhow, here's the latest stab. Hope you enjoy.  I'm pretty happy with how this whole songwriting experiment is working out.

SenseWrds Prompt: false, redolent, fingers (challenge: do not use those words)

Plato's shadow turkey
hangs upon the fridge
a blobby paint imprint
with crayola legs and beak
reminds her of when
they were a family

WyldeVerse Prompt: digging holes

my only hope to burrow through

come out in the antipodes

i've been digging holes

so deep and steep 

i cannot climb

back up

and

no

r

o

p

e

to be found underground

MadVerse Prompt: fave/least fave season & why

summer's hot and sticky days
so filled with promise
a caramel apple
too long sat in the sun
tempting sweet but
rendering jaws immobile
and pulling teeth

WyldeVerse prompt: endless ages

each night she lit the lamp
and stared across the sea
throughout the endless ages
her ghost still waits for he
who went to find their fortune
but was never to return
dead they've been a hundred years
yet the lamp she lit still burns

WrittenRiver Prompt: touch me cruel

touch me soft to swell my heart
touch me gentle, i fall apart
touch me cruel & leave me crying
still life w/out your touch is dying

DimpleVerse Prompts: Achilles heel, divine madness, unknown boundaries, lawless

dipped in the river of divine madness
my Achilles heel all that blessedly
binds me to reality
else lawless I'd fly blindly
bouncing against unknown boundaries
concussed and broken wholly
a butterfly in a hurricane

MadVerse Prompt: When are you most vulnerable/fragile?

the beat before judgement
standing here stripped
no more pretense
heart laid bare
I wait

WyldeVerse Prompt: fire's magical burn

a lightsaber lit with fire's magical burn
were the words you whispered
cauterizing the wound you created

Square One (song version)

So this is a combo of poems Lament and Square One (both can be found in the archive under December 2015) set to me playing the uke.

Also, the thumbnail is terrible. :)

rainy day haiku

melancholy still
grey day conjures up the past
ghost of days gone by