What vapid mess do I behold,Etched deep on recessed mirrors plane,Sanctimonious reflection if truth be toldA darkening of the light of day.Shadowed image of my former selfA corruption of what I once wasThat picture of perfect mental healthLacking reason or just because.Despair cloaking all my thoughtsAs I try to grasp at sanity’s strawsThe “black dog’s”…
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Broken
There was a time when I stopped caring,Existing, robotically living,Just eating, breathing, drinking. Repeat.Sleeping to waste away the hours.As awake was unbearable.Depression is a funny old thing,It has many monstrous guises,Morphing from the grey nothingnessTo crucifying you with hateful images.Back again to the empty void,Before tricking you with a glimpse of happiness.Repeat and shuffle, then…
Heatwave Dave
Scorching rays ripple roastingRepelling those sane with brains toasting.Frantically feeling, the skin peelingSuccumbed sizzling and fever dreaming.Sun beating a tattoo in allegro timeQuickening the sickening, as long as it shines.Messing, mulching, my wits to goo.Thoughts all loopy through and through.Sweating, steaming. Loss of feelingsHidden in shadow, staring at ceiling.Praying to the gods for rain at…
Cool
“Cool”, he said,But was it really?He rarely said anything.Apart from monosyllabic statementsPiercing the silence in their singularity.Imagining him piecing together a sentence,A frenetic vocal fantasyPoetic words slipping from mouth,Formed, chosen, lavished with insight.Not a nod, a grunt, a wink,But a vast inflective range,Emotional and flowery.Instead of gauging all by one solitary word,That would be “cool”…
Double Dealing
Getting older, getting bolder.Mismatched views, news propagandaCreating zombies, full of slander.Eking out their time, shouting online,An echo chamber but please remember,That the views they hold have a defender.Nourished on hate, a divisive spate.Sanctimoniously smug sold with a shrug.Cloning more rabid unsightly thugs.The media praised; eyes glazed.Double dealing, thought stealing,Callous uncaring vapidly preening.Selling copious copies and…
Early
I hate being late for things,It started with how my dad was,He was averse to time keeping,There always seemed to be a “because”Or some other lie with lengthening schnozPinocchio set in human flesh,When he would arrive was anyone’s guess. Which is why lateness is my pet peeve,Just something I cannot endure,I have to be early…
Go Away Romeo (International Women’s Day 2023)
I wish he would really piss off,Stop spouting about “light” and “Breaking”,The idiot thinks I may love him,But he really is mistaken.He stands there in the rose bushes,Shouting poetry for me to hear.Comparing me to the radiant sun,With a randy look and leer.My folks have often warned about,Men reciting poems under window.“beware the ones who…
Sonnet About Sonnets
Rhyming in iambic, counting fingersTrying to make sense, syllables dropping,Onto archaic form, often lingers,Instead of language, clopping and popping,Modern with its sublime spoken diction,Filled with colloquial noises and slang.A beautiful work of spoken fictionCaroused in exuberance and shebang.But shouldn’t I just, stay to the meter,And in its essence, play along in truth,Finding its Shakespearian bleak…
The Wolf (red riding hood)
I only came to Granny’s House,Handing out leaflets all day long,The door was open, I came inside,And that’s where it went all wrong. The old girl she got upset,And charged at me, sword drawn,I let out a cry and opened wide,Swallowing her up alone. She rattled around my stomach,I let out a little burp,But out…
Jealousy
Seething winds unfurl hatred deep within,Buffeting love, wrenching branches apart,Coveting all around in grasping sinTurbulent passion, unruly sanguine heartAnd how It wrenches, its cruelty enshrines.At the love within once held true and pureTransforming every feeling deep insideInto something rancid, fetid, red raw.Green envious claws, soul withering deathA bestial ferocious snarling graspEchoing with rasping resounding breath,Devouring…