Rudderless
A torrent of thoughts
swirls in my mind,
I channel them through
the tip of my quill and
tether them on a sheaf of papers.
There’s a plateau in my heart,
sizzling hot like bacon on a skillet
where a scoop of ice-cream melts
like the sweat of my brow
shimmering like the mirage
in a hostile desert.
Like the vast expanse of an arid
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Categories:
rudderless, dark, passion,
Form: Free verse
Rudderless
Your flesh was never warmer to my passion(quote)
My passion was more than you could have deal with
My love of poetry writing, is my secret weapon
I am not gifted, I am black, however I am motivated by words,
I have never found them too difficult to string together,
But to make sense
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Categories:
rudderless, africa, allegory, allusion, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Rudderless
tossed back and forth,
a wilted flower floated,
in whirling currents~
our life moves on rudderless,
to be cast in unknown shores.
Nov.14.2022
~ Placed Third~
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Sponsor- Brian Strand
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Categories:
rudderless, analogy, flower, life,
Form: Tanka
Rudderless
So I’m here in the bedroom.
Looking for what?
Fetching what?
How did I get here?
Before… rushing to the bedroom
Used to be a fervour of arms, pressing flesh, kisses
Caresses, tumbling to soft covers,
Clothes scattered in swathes
Heat and passion were here once
No man is seductively waiting for me now,
No sighing, whispering,
The climb up the stairs
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Categories:
rudderless, age, memory,
Form: Free verse
Rudderless
the
rain
pelted
down
hard,
stabbing
my skin
like glass.
soaked
wasn’t
the word.
drenched.
drowned,
in this
cataclysmic
whirlwind.
brain matter
compressed,
with rushing
winds,
my breath -
desert parched.
if only the
lightening
would stop
my beating heart -
the massive clot
the broken sob of
pain, unending
screams of thunder.
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Categories:
rudderless, emotions, metaphor, pain,
Form: Free verse
Rudderless
Little drops of tears in my eyes well up
As I feel the cold, into my bones seeping up
I pull myself closer, trying to roll into a ball
And build between me and the world, my little wall
Everyone goes by, doing their mundane tasks
About my troubles no one cares, nobody asks
I lay there trying to make sense
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Categories:
rudderless, depression, loneliness, loss,
Form: Free verse