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 Aug 2014 Alice
Andrew Durst
I feel
something.
   It's kind
        of
          like,
   desire.

But I just
     don't have a
          spark,
to save this
     wildfire.
I haven't written anything new in almost a week. I've been having difficulty formulating my 'emotions' into words. Feeling low without writing.
 Aug 2014 Alice
andy fardell
The August felt like November
and my mood followed
suit
A wind that held no silence

From a cool blow that battered
me
As if
I wasn't bruised enough  

For I was the broken one
A mind so empty of full
In a world so barren of soul
And so I pained

I pained for others
I pained for help
I pained for relief

From this madness we call Earth

No pills to change my eyes
No laughters
Fill my heart

These tears are all but wasted
Left
I'm left the all behind

The walk into the emptiness

I'll join the blinkered mass
Condition red
We fall in line

The face behind the mask
 Aug 2014 Alice
MKF
I dreamt about you last night,
While I lay in bed,
It was pure delight.
(I think I made you up inside my head)
Your beautiful eyes
Turned my cheeks bright red,
They could tell no lies.
(I think I made you up inside my head)
There are just so many things
That you left unsaid,
And so many unattached strings.
(I think I made you up inside my head)
I dreamt of you last night,
While I lay in bed,
And everything was right.
(I think I made you up inside my head)
For Trevor
You, you only, exist.
We pass away, till at last,
our passing is so immense
that you arise: beautiful moment,
in all your suddenness,
arising in love, or enchanted
in the contraction of work.

To you I belong, however time may
wear me away. From you to you
I go commanded. In between
the garland is hanging in chance; but if you
take it up and up and up: look:
all becomes festival!
__

Translated by Stephen Mitchell
 Aug 2014 Alice
rufus
I planted kisses on your shoulder,
the cloth was not thick enough,
so I gave kisses on your back, only softer,
and they were enough.

I saw how the sun shines on you,
it was beautiful,
it was a bliss,
it was radiant.
 Aug 2014 Alice
r
the painter
 Aug 2014 Alice
r
tinted postcards
from Vienna-
Munich oils on canvas-
a self portrait
on a stacked-stone bridge-

rejected, the painter painted
yellow stars-broken glass
Judenstern and Kristallnacht

no starry night,
no van Gogh-
der Führer was no master,
Mein Kampf no masterpiece.

r ~ 8/25/14
\¥/\
  |     Night of broken glass
/ \
 Aug 2014 Alice
Paige
Family
 Aug 2014 Alice
Paige
You know you're grown up
when a family vacation
sounds like heaven,
because you haven't been
on one since four years ago
when you were a sophomore in
High school and your mom
got remarried.
Somewhere along the way
spending time with your
family doesn't matter anymore,
and everyone becomes obsessed
with bills and work and
relationships.
And somewhere along the
way everyone has their own
problems,
and no time to help with
anyone else's problems.
Somewhere along the way
you're family became people too,
and suddenly youre not so
alone anymore.
 Aug 2014 Alice
a m a n d a
sum of moments
torque of the moment
rotation of moments
surround me
 Aug 2014 Alice
Rachel Cloud
A single star in a pool of black
Who’d ever think they’d need such slack?
Another word, another song
Truly life is not so long

Hear them whisper, hear them yell
Each word, another one they sell
Isn’t it funny, quite absurd?
That anyone could miss a bird

Sing song, sing song, sing song, sing
Who’d imagine such a thing
A madman, dreams of stars and brides
a man with nothing that he prides
from a novel
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