Short Threateningly Poems

The world quickly dissipates in your hand
and petals droop solemnly without forgiveness.

Here, a woman’s hope is crushed 
Because of one malicious rose
And the lonely dandelion
You plucked at seven 
without heart,
who loved you not,
haunts you threateningly in your gut,
lying....

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As fall begins its inexorable grip on earth, and I,
Unhealthy thoughts again rise heavy to the fore
Torturing the short-lived happiness of summer; gone.
Ugly, dark, and god-forsaken days lay threateningly ahead;
Melancholy deepens as each one all too slowly fades away.
Nowhere to go inside me, or without; darkness will, I'm sure, prevail....

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The noontime waves creep and crawl,
threateningly roar and roll
upon the shore.

They rush to gather speed, force and all,
trying to besiege and topple
the stone seawall.

They smash hard against its mossy base,
trying to shake and crack
its rocky core

only to explode as shattered, salty spray
that briefly splash in the wind
before they fall.

But they keep coming back, rushing in,
ebbing out, for that's what waves
are after all!...

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