MadVerse Prompt: mist & shadows, rainlight, slow slide of blues

shrinking horizon of fire ahead
while behind a slow slide of blues
night and storm approach
where twilight meets the rainlight
you melt into the mists & shadows
a melody played over
the patter of rain, tread of feet
the memory of sunset kisses
bulwark against the rising dark

SenseWrds Prompt: jars, brightly, slumber

in sleep I find her again
barefoot and carefree
in a crumpled mud stained dress
catching the cosmos
firefly sky in her hands
releasing them again
to fly free and I weep
for the girl that was me

Written River prompt: among the leaves

innocence lost
among the leaves
you were my Adam
and I, your Eve
I thought you perfect
but, you snake, you thieved
you took from me something
I cannot retrieve
I blame myself
by Deceiver deceived

WrittenRiver Prompt: sudden affection

swift it came more swift departed
left with nothing, brokenhearted
sudden affection overwhelmed more
than any emotion had before
bemused when it came
bewildered when gone
self so confused, hard to go on
cavalier and disdainful
everything since a little more painful
but it's saved me some hurt, i suppose
who notices the knife when the cannon blows

instapoem: storm

WrittenRiver prompt: ocean's soul

to sea, to see
my heart to heal
sorrows drown in salty swells
hope hidden in broken shells
rapture found on gull's wing
ecstasy when whales sing
so again am I made whole
sunk into the ocean's soul

WrittenRiver Prompt 767: generous glow

when the world
grows dark around us
and it's far too dark to see
the generous glow of you
brightens every bit of me

flogged horse (deceased)

the one who never really supported
you is always the first to
accuse that you don't
seem enthused by their attempts
to amuse and no amount of protestations
count, you can't refute
those determined to dispute
you'll always be in the wrong
better just to move along

heavier days

i do not need
can stand alone
can take the weight
carry Atlas' stone
but I would like
another to share
and burdens halved
to easier bear
this yoke
this universe's joke
when most you wish
to be a pair
most likely they
to disappear

WyldeVerse Prompt: lustful souls crying

as i close my eyes i hear them
the lustful souls crying
unseen by the world
unseated for flaws imagined
unsatisfied and unfinished
their wails a melancholy chorus
calling for my voice
but i can sing a different tune
that is my choice

#MadVerse Prompt --

it wouldn't matter where or when
if double heart did beat
in company of the Tenth
my Rose would smell as sweet

 

after goodbye

it seems so strange,
so simple,
but it all comes down to this:
after the kiss
and the parting of ways -
do you stop
and turn
for one last glimpse
as you walk away
and when you do
is it just you
or have they stopped
to look back too?

SenseWrds Prompt: images words are - feathered rain

as Mercury's wings
on an aqua blue Huffy
a younger me
through puddle flew
and as I do
water splashes
corduroy clad legs
take flight
pump fiercely
pink tassels stream
into the night

#WyldeVerse Prompt: joy ride

you stole me
stamped my pedals
pushed my buttons
to see how
I could go
sent me careening
down wild
winding roads
screaming
for joy
screeching
in fear
slamming
the brakes
you abandoned me here
joy ride over
goodbye lover

MadVerse Prompt: Do you believe in parallel worlds/dimensions to ours?

On the other side,
across a divide
no thicker than
the blink of an eye,
is a world where
you stayed & did not go.
Are we happier there?
I don't know.
I hope so.

MadVerse Prompt: What bewilders you the most about the world?

viscous floor slips beneath falls up
an MC Escher Möbius mix of maybes
shoulds become shouldn'ts
coulds become couldn'ts
always slip sideways 
into yesterdays
into neverweres
neverwheres everywhere
as memories writ in ink
melt in rivers of tears
and dry again in the bleaching sun
years lost and trust gone
 

WrittenRiver Prompt - art prompt

the butterflies stopped their flittering
no more quivering within me

i could not let them die
so set them free
floating memory
that they may
flock and flutter
for another young lover

beautiful painted wings
without me still sing



Art by Joel Robison

WyldeVerse: bound heart

now I tie but loosely in a bow
no more palomar, square, bowline, hitch
not even a simple double knot to bind me
nothing that may tangle and so find me
cutting at the line that once again has
misaligned me and as before bound heart
trussed sans trust to stony woe

SenseWrds Prompt: twisting, undeniable, ink

not writ but etched indelible
as on a marble marker
set on the hillside
of a heart forever true
to tell the tale of one
who swung for what
she did not do

meeting

warmth begins in my toes
and grows and grows and grows
suffuses through my body
until it emanates as light
transforms my nervous visage
to a smile beaming at high wattage
the joy of being measured
and not found wanting
in a situation daunting
grin sans chagrin
for once
in some small measure
I win