WyldeVerse Prompt: live again

from the burnt ember ashes
of a heart set aflame
like the phoenix i'll rise
to somehow live again

MadVerse art prompt : softly shattered / a rain of roses

she buries her shamed face
and folds her broken wings
angel not rebel yet still she fell
softly shattered like a rain of roses
blood red petals and blood covered thorns
strewn across the ground
to which she's now forever bound

digital art by Moonchild Lilja

ShapePoetry prompt 358 - fire sky

in the flash

after the crash occurs

but before the world blurs and forever

we burn into oblivion brighter than the sun

from the push of a button just pulverized dust

a mushroom cloud memory of us

let me say

again my

adieu

and

one

last

i  love  you

MadVerse Art prompt - held inside / you give me

do not doubt
things unseen
inside me
a million fluttering wings
trapped by your smile
caged by your touch
they beat their wings such
as to tear me in two
thrown into frenzy
by proximity to you

#digital #art by Anya Anti



And on a similar thematic note - a song I wrote back in 2016 (and one of my better songs, imo) called Butterflies

SenseWrds Prompt: slate, timeless, snippets

how we learn
chalk scraps
of our regret
up on the wall
then wipe it off
to begin again
it was ever thus

gone

she would cling
to her mother's leg
for safety, shy child

she would cling
to her notebooks
on her way to class

she would cling
to her friends
to shield them

so as you cling to your cold metal
remember the cold bodies
who no longer cling to anything

#SenseWrds prompt 361 - different, hour, gratitude

you claimed
I did not care
but you were wrong
for I would
prostrate myself
on dusty ground
as seconds
turn to minutes
turn to months
to demonstrate
enduring thanks
for every moment
of every day
that you arranged
if I thought
the outcome
in any way
would change

#WrittenRiver prompt 1292 - artwork

far in the distance
her gaze fixes on a spot
she cannot meet your eyes
her very nakedness a cloak
as she bares her delicate soul
of purity perpetually in bloom
surrounded by unceasing night

























1/25 Prompt 1292 (pic): Art by Christian Schloe challenge.