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An astir this dimm
she dig train then abscond
that dawn set her part
just round nine o'clock

and she sped into town
but rode back at dusk
met me on this serial port
and funny interlude discretion

with a keystroke to browse
this cockamamie diatribe
while all through a route tonight
yet this flagrant twist ensue  

with her laptop a comrade fair
to find her again
upon this moment of bliss
she rightfully kissed

with a monument there
that touted strikingly tall
like an obelisk affront
an oft-heard prayer.
Today love is arcanely stool
this rhetoric still pain abet
though she descry a Chairman Mao
only an insight of her macaw
that  her perpetual harmony's bound
and Alfred Tennyson barely there
but in cardigan to dress again.
Sarah Michelle Oct 2016
LBD
Her little black dress,
falling neatly to the floor,
always wants something more
Alice Shen Oct 2016
As I walked through a bitter wintry night,
ghosts whispered through my ears a tale of fright.
I felt my throat growing slightly tighter,
as I hear them speak of a mysterious writer.

A man of tremendous talent once walked this town,
and he would always wear a coat of hazel brown.
He wrote stories of wonder that brought children glee,
and people would always ask for more with plea.

Though when discrimination unleashed its wrath,
prejudice stood against his path.
As men and women mocked his believes,
all of his happiness were mourned in grieves.

As his resentments were freed from chains,
rebellious anger in his story it gains.
Vengeance of evil in his tales did fly,
a mad man he became as he cursed to the sky.

Unjust it was to him; evil crippled his mind,
he massacred the town as if he was blind.
And when his sins did wrap around his head,
his knees buckled and he was dead.

My lips were quivering upon hearing this tale.
Frozen as I was, my face grew pale.
Petrified I was as my heart jumped to my throat,
because I was the man in that hazel brown coat.
Riptide Sep 2016
A spark of light in the darkness that is my life;
a resonance of warmth that my soul can only attempt to illustrate using words.
The cause to conclude that happiness exists beyond illusion
revealed itself to me as swift joy personified across mans face.

The naked eye now convicted it had clearly deciphered
that the rise of the cheeks was seemingly encouraged by genuine emotion.  
Those crescent moon-shaped lips that caused my reality to doubt perception:
the Plague in my dreams which my consciousness envies.

Witnessed once and never again – but my soul still melts at a memory which is as vague as the figment that is my childhood.
A pseudo-consolidation of the truth of my imagination
breeds a reminiscence of the parallel between life and love.
The gift of happiness, though only for a while,
oh dear stranger, thank you for your smile.
Written by a friend of mine, Mokgatle Lebogang Thulare.
Her plan
with bantam
there shakes
subsequent arthritis
or foment
her albatross
when zion
mats superfluously
and poverty
now ungrateful
in their
Milwaukee suburbs
while her
ruby floss
allure in
her java
melts mine.
Law and/or lawyerly tone
When she
drove leverage
zonk-out an
exchange rate
at window
ready open
market on
a cloudy
day trade
that sun
ripened with
humid heat
wave finally
went to
the brink
in oil
of gladness.
A bodice is twice alight
shape as earth brings forth tide
with nocturnal séance align
with splendid sight woven bare
that navel join where bona fide
trump her inlay again this year
round her aura so, rather she unwinds
though hers now pounds sound lure
in downtown bistro local bar none
this getaway always supreme nightly!
an immense garment intervene great séance
Rachel W Feb 2016
When I smile on my throne,
you will wonder
why the others cringe away in fear
pawns

When I laugh behind my hands,
you will wonder
why he shook so with rage
bishop

When I sleep at night,
you will wonder
why they stand guard by my bedside
knights

When I walk in the great hall,
you will wonder
why the others flee from my path
rooks

When I cry in the garden,
you will wonder
why he does not dry my tears
king

When I am silent at your graveside
you will wonder no more
*Check Mate
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