Sensing your own senses pinpricked ears
The night is so quiet yet not very clear
The frost slowly melts on windows never cold
Thinking of the whispers you can never grab ahold
Afraid of the fear that is icing through your veins
Afraid of having to suffer life in so much pain
Silence comes from something not entirely unheard
The voice that is nothing mocking you with words
Time is now standing tick tock oh so still
Your sweaty brow is pouring skin bumped in chills
Exploring that very moment your breath can't escape
Vocal chords are melting the words that they rape...
Categories:
pinpricked, allusion, anxiety, confusion, dark,
Form: Couplet
He said he likes my tattoos.
I said "Yes but darling can you kiss all my scars?"
The tattoos are beautiful but self-inflicted.
What about the wounds I never asked for?
Tiny imperfections,
pinpricked from years of abuse.
Categories:
pinpricked, abuse, courage, forgiveness, identity,
Form: Free verse
Pacified Plunger (Image 3)
Suck it up Hype
Pacify your need
The Needle
Pacify your greed
Point taken
Give me my Binky
The nipple of thirst
Diluted Water
Dehydrated Curse
Entered Skin
Slowly back out
Deep breathe allowed
Motionless Mannequin
Addictions crowd
Death Feeds
Suck it up again
Pacify your need
Never-ending Needle
Pinpricked Bleed
Stop! Please Stop!
04/07/2016
Categories:
pinpricked, addiction, health, sick,
Form: Didactic
imbedded in memory
unknown
Suns crossing sky
just before silken slide
of evening's light into dusk
are like a string of moons
skimming an Alaskan winter-
during the year after her passing.
As the great glaring orbs
pull the tides far away
her spirit sings above
the green black waters
as the wind:
caressing, stroking, sometimes
knifing the ocean's surface.
The final day of grief,
gulls' cries echo into
sky, as the sun sinks-
giving birth to a violet
tinged, pinpricked sky,
cracked in the corner with
a sliver of moon- a sky that drapes
over a fluttering heart,
his courage flickering like a candle flame:
the color of dark embraces and the wind
stirs the long grasses touching his bare
black legs as he runs from the dunes
to the sea, a mirror reflecting the white sliver
of moonshine,
shattering with shards leaping to the shore
as he dives in for a night swim-
His is the only flesh
not imbedded in memory
Categories:
pinpricked, beauty, death, dedication, farewell,
Form: Free verse
there was a moment
I felt our hearts brush,
there was within time
a thought, mine you would crush
those inhumane moments
within the walls of your world,
stripped me of feeling
and all my emotions unfurled
threads of memory
drift through my mind,
I pick up the ends
to try to make them align
I have flashes of joy
that pinpricked our life,
but the strongest in visions
are the ones staged of strife
I remember all the love
you stripped from my soul,
I remember all the nights
wishing I was once again whole
these agonies I’ve bled
on my wedding dress,
I’ve erased, the seeing
of you ripping my flesh
so these words aren’t wrought
within the pain of despair,
for I choose to remember
the very best we shared there
let the Road to Perdition
that I traveled with you,
carry the heartache and pain
so we can say this adieu
the thought I now cradle
to the end of my lines,
is of laughing and smiling
in the heart of springtime
your power has fallen
and can’t hurt me again
as I sit here, wonder,
was the beginning worth the end
Categories:
pinpricked, introspection, nostalgia, sadme,
Form: Rhyme
As dusk approaches the warm light retreating
Shadows conquering the illuminating splashes
Across the dimming backdrop of walls
Bathing the room in crimson brass miasma
The sounds of night’s intensity slowly increasing
Overtaking the angelic chorus of twilight
Coppery impressions dance off the cloud faces
Fading into the soft pinpricked violet milieu
Divinely recounting the experience of hours passed
In crisp meticulous summary shuffling about
Blessings counted of the gifts wrought upon me
No life imagined could be greater than this
Closing my eyes offering soft prayers of thanks
I drift away filled with great enthusiasm
To open my eyes with the coming of dawns light
Ecstatic I have been anointed to live another day
Categories:
pinpricked, hope, imagination, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse