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the knock

Jan 3 Edmund black

Roberta Compton Rainwater

the momentum of revealing the weapon

was slowed
at the knock heard from the door

was slowed
as antioch was conjured
by your voice
as you entered the room deliberately

was slowed
to a stop
because you appeared
and the would-be thief fled

c. 2023 Roberta Compton Rainwater

Antioch means “to resist”. It was also a city in Turkey established by one of Alexander the Great’s generals.

Jan 3 Edmund black

mae

Jan 3 Edmund black

Roberta Compton Rainwater

mae

she have skinny leg
an’ knockin’ knees
she be cray-cray an’ loud
she defen’ her right to be
she drownin’ in chems ‘n’ high as a kite
she walk ever’where when she floatin’
she so ol’ she temptin’ fate
how she ain’ died is a mir’cle
Gawd mus’ reely love dat womun
‘zall I kin figger

c. 2023 Roberta Compton Rainwater

Dec 2023 Edmund black

Red Light Hair

Dec 2023 Edmund black

South by Southwest

Red Light Hair

I put the fast brake to the
relationship
Revved up the fuel injected
cylinders
Sent backfires of unspent fuel out the tailpipe
The angst of my engines just waiting for the red light of her hair to turn to green

Dec 2023 Edmund black

Leap Of Faith

Dec 2023 Edmund black

Kurt Philip Behm

Leap Of Faith

Looking out
he took that step
intrepid
and risked it all

Faith to act
as his belay
one last piton
in the wall

Descent set free
in motion
a true heart
to guide him down

For love of life
and moments gone
belief once lost
—refound

(The New Room: December, 2023)

Dec 2023 Edmund black

written into existence

Dec 2023 Edmund black

Alice

written into existence

It's just that
i'd like someone to
write for me
just once
i'd like to be the object of affection
i'd like for someone to find
that beauty my mother keeps telling me
i have inside
i'm not complaining
but you see
i'd just like to be the
poem
and not the poet
for once

#poet #poem #alone #lonely #love #unrequited #sad #words #write #written

Dec 2023 Edmund black

~•§•~ The Villain, The Bad Guy ~•§•~

Dec 2023 Edmund black

Jeremy Betts

~•§•~ The Villain, The Bad Guy ~•§•~

I can be the villain that you need me to be
If that's what it takes for you to once again truly be happy
Then that's what's important to me, that's what I want to see
If I can't be that for you then I've failed miserably...

Oh the stupidity

I can play the bad guy, that comes pretty easy
To think love would find me, that in itself was awfully silly
I don't even have the love from my own friggin' family
...apparently no thanks to me...
But to bring you to the reality that it's time to leave me...
...that came all too naturally

Oh the humanity

©2023

#bad #truly #happy #important #failed #miserably #stupidity #villain #love #hate

Dec 2023 Edmund black

09.11.19

Dec 2023 Edmund black

lyka

09.11.19

I sold my soul to poetry
And never looked back
But now every relationship
Is a writing prompt
Every trauma, a metaphor