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Fear of losing the light rises
When we value darkness too much
A valentine is a waste of time
Money for all matters phoney
I can live in not having to give
Shower not love with flowers
Affection without confections

Say I love you on Valentine's day
I am dandy without giving candy
I shrug to this complete humbug!
Love's free without shopping spree
Nor suffering with rings and things.
Guess I should add, I find 80's fashion abominable.  O, I do.



(sonnet #MMMMMMCMXXXVIII)


So I cut stars of canteloupe to thence
Hang silver ones on string to dance in pale
Hours for the baby showr last week, the tale
Of things I meant to do put off fr'intents,
And now I've chance to breathe, look hence
Upon this buried wasteland's white detail
Which I had noted then was naked, frail
In Death's hands, wishing for what? in suspense.
I spose I wanted to keep all as twere
Unclothed in barren lack, since snow anew
Puts aught in black and white, whereat I tour
What New York's Fashion Week had:  ruffles, to
Thet swishing 'round your ankles stylish fer
Is't eighties' taste again?!  O, what is new?

10Feb18b
Never had a Valentine all these years--...but I've been dressing for the lover's holiday all this long time, and, finally attending poetry class thus attired, enjoyed a compliment (or two?).
 Feb 2018 Existential me
Traveler
I know all to well
How goodbye’s feel
That look in your eyes
Your about to bail
I’ve felt that feeling
That flight through hell
Being left behind
In darkness to dwell

Yet I’ll be okay
When you go away
I’ll pick myself up
At the end of the day
Thinking of you
Drinking a beer
I’ll be wishing
You were still here
......
Traveler Tim
 Feb 2018 Existential me
Cné
Love
 Feb 2018 Existential me
Cné
Never have I taken love
for granted or in vain.
If some perceive that this I've done
I'm sorry for the pain.

For love, that peerless gift of all
should never be denied.
But understanding's needed
and in hearts it must abide.

Absence makes it greater still
as distance magnifies
The longing harbored by each heart,
though social mores defies.

So cling to love through thick and thin
through unrequited pain.
Reality is just the one
and love of self, the gain.
 Feb 2018 Existential me
Joanna
Well...first I'd probably pay off all my student loans

And with the rest of the $10, i don't know.....

Chipotle or taco bell maybe?
Originally published here: https://commaful.com/play/pluzoo/if-i-won-millions-in-the-lottery/
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