there's nothing i like better
than sitting quietly
in a small café
i dive into my novel
while guiltlessly indulging
in a grande dolce latte
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Categories:
guiltlessly, books, silence, solitude,
Form: Free verse
I Silently sipping the last limping remains of wine
within the crumbling confines of my glass.
guiltlessly glistening in the amorous arms of evergreen.
Lonesomely, my eyes lift themselves
up from my blackened
blue brass bottle of bitterness
and gradually grows aware
of the arid aristocratic atmosphere.
Lustered with the luminous larks
who lurk within the numbing neon
nature of the iridescent nightlife.
But among these unfruitful flocks
feebly flutters the faint fanciful feathers of the frigid finch.
Who still sternly staggers his weakened way through the
world’s wishful
word woven woodlands of what if towards the eternally
terminal edge
of mortality.
In search of an answer
patiently perched upon the topic of
what light lingers within the relieving realms of truth.
Categories:
guiltlessly, bird, life, longing, night,
Form: Alliteration
A strangers hand
is a beautiful land
Set upon the mountians
High above the the sky
Insane you are
Fly on high
Search the sky
Find what's not there
and ride it high
Sail the mountian
In there you find a cave
Calling out your name
They answer there's
The killers eyes you see
Face to face in the mirror
Mimicing your every move
slating through the cracks
like a snake
Just waiting for the kill
Shivering till the blade makes contact
Silence rumbles in your vains
Guiltlessly it runs down
Till no humanity is left
but a fearfull robot
begins to walk
The same road as the rest
Categories:
guiltlessly, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Where's my mommy? Where'd daddy go?
Older sister says she's nobody's daughter.
Loveless lament as I realize I never had parents.
In our lives, no arch angels or saving souls were sent.
I hold my sister as in pretense she tells us no harm was ever meant.
But sociopath mother and murderer father must be held responsible.
Forever gone in a loveless void, their sins are irreconcilable!
As the strangers take us away from the past I look towards the shining sun.
And I yearn to forget my mother's blood and my father's smile as he guiltlessly grasped
his gun.
They've destroyed themselves and left behind a distraught daughter and solemn son.
Categories:
guiltlessly, angst, caregiving, childhood, death,
Form: Ballad