instapoem: ashore

MadVerse prompt:unreasoned, profligate, dark corners, stigma

call me Cassandra
unheard or unheeded, a profitless prophetess
I see the unreasoned blinded by fear's rhetoric
too easy today for profligate devils
to hide dark deeds in dark corners
and no stigma find, instead a platform and plaudits
raise them up as we descend into the fiery pit
they do not smell of roses, who only bile spit

MadVerse Prompt: lost in the wind/ beautifully tragic/sad/ not for me/ unreciprocated/unretuned

chimera dreams
not beautifully tragic just sad
I was all for you but you were not for me
unreciprocated
now, too clear, I see
the tears which blurred finally lost in the wind
a vision unreturned, unrealized
was not a prophecy

MadVerse Prompt:bridge of glass/chasing light/of mist & moonglow/from flicker to flame

like crossing a bridge of glass in the rain
is chasing love's light from flicker to flame
hoping a heart of mist & moonglow yet will sustain
me all the same if my efforts should be in vain
& love ne'er know my name

c word

hope metastasized
exponentially
how lucky then
your toxicity
my chemotherapy
curing me
by poisoning

MadlyWylde Prompt:dangerous state/reckless logic/touch of abandon/bewitched tango

on this exceptionally high wire
in this dangerous state of desire
all it takes is your touch and
a touch of abandon
to send me spiraling
in a bewitched tango
of reckless logic & wanton passion
a dance of longing to arouse
more than discretion allows

instapoem: closed for the season

MadVerse Prompt: diamonds from ashes/gold from straw/unlikely miracles/the stories we tell

collecting and compressing
hopeful ceaseless pressure
will create diamonds from ashes
a year so far spent spinning for unlikely miracles
trying to draw gold from straw with these paltry poems,
the stories we tell to make the personal universal

in hopes that someone reads this love
and finds more
in hopes that someone reads this loneliness
and finds less
in hopes that someone reads these words
and finds me

WyldeVerse Prompt: raw with love

you peel back my layers, pull apart the fabric of me
exquisitely scalpeled through down to my heart
I, raw with love, incapacitated, can only hope you are
no squeamish surgeon to leave me open on the table
unfinished exposed vulnerable bleeding dying
as you wash your hands of me
and sterilized, walk away

Anti Valentine's Day poem

I would that he had loved me

Never did he care

He gave me music beautiful 

But his heart was never there 

And to find his true love left me

In my heartache and despair 

I should have known it would be thus

Who said life is fair?

MadVerse Prompt:storm and tempest/dive deeper/wave after wave/ocean of dreams

an ocean of dreams
boat beautifully
prowed & proud
captained by one
who could not weather
the thought of rough weather
suggestion of storm
and tempest on the horizon
convinced him
the sun would shine no more
wave after wave
overwhelmed his mind
though not the boat
still overboard I'm thrown
not content to tread water
and wait for the sharks
I dive deeper past nightmare
searching for Atlantis

MadVerse Prompts: maudlin lips/forlorn hands/abandoned eyes/sentimental sadness

listen no more with static buzzed ears
my love song sentimental sadness
sung with maudlin lips drips
like teardrops from abandoned eyes
wiped away by forlorn hands
worrying each note like a rosary
to tune jangled on a broken organ
stops all pulled and asthmatic
hunting for the wind to sing
absolution or transcendence or release

MadVerse Prompt: instinctive reaction / self-defense / intuitive leap

no intuitive leap to see how it would be
I knew you better than you thought
but still not well enough to protect me
my emotions for you always too intense
my chest bursting with love and pain
my instinctive reaction suddenly self-defense
not because I hated you, but I hated hurting
I'd laid myself bare and raw
I was bleeding while you were flirting
the person who cares the least wins, they say
some day it will be me, just not that day

instapoem: flower shadow

MadVerse Prompt: sorrow's hold / an eternal rain / laid to rest

sorrow's hold on you can no more hold you
untethered from earth and laid to rest
I know you watch me still for your tears still fall
an eternal rain from the heavens

I miss you too

MadVerse Prompt: new beginings/every morning/rays of sunlight/shine on my soul

new beginings shine on my soul
every morning that I wake next to you
I am lit up by the rays of sunlight
that emanate from your sleepy smile
bringing glorious dawn to my darkness
and heralding the end of the longest night

MadlyWilde Prompt: inner rebellion/outer disdain/secretly want/openly express

my outer disdain is a plain blank mask
worn in the masquerade we dance
to disguise the damage, the desperation
the depths and dimensions of what
we secretly want, desperately desire
to openly express our inner rebellion
to tear away the false faces and face
ourselves flawed and fascinating 

MadVerse Prompt: whispered confessions / midnight secrets / last time

we are
whispered confessions
sotto voce vices
each others
midnight secrets
and the last time
will always be
the last time
until the
next time

conclusions

i burned down to ash
immolated but believing
i was a phoenix
i would fly again
not knowing
this urn would be my fate
and now i sit upon the mantle
and dream and wait

MadVerse Prompt:pierced heart/ numbing thoughts/ tendrils of memories

the tendrils of memories
like creeping ivy throttle
and with cruel thorns stab
my pierced heart throbs
with each remembrance
no numbing thoughts
among the lot
only excess pain afresh
as nostalgia clings
and roots me to the spot