the grand masked ball
...We’re in Paris, staying with my Grandmère (Grandmother) for a few days around Mother’s day.
Peter (my bf) is getting to know my Grandmère. They’ve started to relax and enjoy each other. This time, w...
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Categories:
offhandedly, boyfriend, fun, grandmother, mothers
Form: Free verse
ah, wassailing!
...We’re in NYC - at last - on Christmas vacation, and it feels like a pardon.
It’s amazing what can happen in just a few wild and change-filled hours. One minute, seemingly, you’re in a picture post...
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Categories:
offhandedly, christmas, holiday, humor, new
Form: Free verse
No
...Most of the girls (Anna, Sophy, Sunny, Bili, Leong and Lisa) are in the kitchen eating breakfast. “Where’s Anais?” Sunny asks, spooning some eggs onto her plate and taking 4 strips of bacon.
“She’...
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Categories:
offhandedly, boyfriend, conflict, friendship, social,
Form: Free verse
A Thousand Ways
...a thousand ways
i imagined how i'd tell you
underneath the covers spoken softly
offhandedly on the roof with the stars as witness
swimming in the lake with my courage warmed by sand
through a le...
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Categories:
offhandedly, 11th grade, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 9
...As Lumi left the two, they strolled slowly along the cobbled streets and the mood changed from jovial to serious. DynDoeth's voice lowered to just above a whisper,
“Joulupukki, I know you have...
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Categories:
offhandedly, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
Catalysis and Delirium
...a marginally redemptive micro biography
offhandedly ushered into this reverie
by Ellipsis the muse of all highway roundabouts
my first impressions at age minus 20 minutes
stuck in the birth can...
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Categories:
offhandedly, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Fling Words
...You fling words
with the same concern
as skimming stones
offhandedly
and
unenlightened
not once
recognizing
the escalating consequences
upon the delicate ecosystems
of the human psyche...
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Categories:
offhandedly, hurt, society, vanity,
Form: Free verse
La Isla Sets Me Free
...Amor, you allude like a cloud
To something great
Your name, a promise of Jerusalem
Your exclusive mouth, like water
on my dry lips and deeply vacant chest…
I’ve never touched a cloud
Nor known the ...
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Categories:
offhandedly, lost love, places, sad,
Form: Free verse
Oh Villain Muse
...Such cowardice. Come out and show your face!
How dare you hide behind that desert shrub.
Because of you, I’m in this barren place,
a parched and burned-up victim of your snub.
You scattered rocks a...
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Categories:
offhandedly,
Form: Sonnet