A True Story
...One need only open an old chest, or turn on a light in an attic, to journey back in time. Every scrap of clothing, old photograph is a life and a history. Essence remains.
As I often write at n...
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Categories:
indeterminable, death, gothic, imagination, romantic,
Form: Prose Poetry
How one twenty first century married mortal male me - Matthew Scott Harris
...How one twenty first century married mortal male (me - Matthew Scott Harris)...
found himself bewitched about Circe,
particularly after reading book title by the same name.
An enchantress and a ...
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Categories:
indeterminable, 12th grade, adventure, age,
Form: Free verse
Indeterminable
...First, I think not
To break the contact
But this contact break the syntax
I want to reach my aims
And life is full of pain
The person is in my list
For fighting
It doesn't have a fist ...
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Categories:
indeterminable, 12th grade, addiction, crush,
Form: Bio
Everything I wanted
...Everything I wanted, and I never had,
Embodying courage to sift my daily realities
To observe purified sun flashing on my face
And watch the night light idling on my pillow,
Unlocking sweet drea...
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Categories:
indeterminable, appreciation, dedication, encouraging, hope,
Form: Lyric
The Runaway Heart
...The ancients believed in us and left signs of their faith in us. They thought that we would be gods of knowledge, but gods like us are lost in the space of our emotions, which fuels the drama of our...
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Categories:
indeterminable, strength,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Unknowable
...If you could but in one moment
trust something
let go
release yourself from controlling
the unknowable
Immediate present be
to an indeterminable future
the short explanation
to a lifetimes ...
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Categories:
indeterminable, faith,
Form: Free verse
Theater of Utter Charm Part 12
...but this is certainly not intended
to be an instrument of terror
except maybe for the habitual
who are out for my blood
and from whom I am occasionally rescued
speaking of which
it looks like t...
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Categories:
indeterminable, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Glimpses
...if you had the choice
(and this writer is not saying
that you have any choice
whatsoever---but for the
sake of getting to the end of
this piece…)
to wake up tomorrow
morning &
cash out everything th...
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Categories:
indeterminable, life,
Form: Free verse
Adonis
...The sun shines again for he smiles dreaming.
The indeterminable day no longer flees or hides
for its end is sought, as is its beginning
as I lay beside him in love seeming.
Though at peace, con...
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Categories:
indeterminable, allegory, devotion, love
Form: Sonnet
When He Smiles
...The sun shines again
for he smiles.
The indeterminable day no longer flees or hides
for its end is sought, as is its beginning
for he smiles.
Confusion though abiding
must wait the lag...
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Categories:
indeterminable, adventure, allegory, faith, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Money, Value, and a Response
...“Four dollars a shot,”
marched from the bartender’s mouth -
each syllable carried the clanks
of Herbie’s Rhodes – jutting like
glacier crags in swells of desert-b...
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Categories:
indeterminable, confusion, introspection, philosophy,
Form: Free verse