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JLB Jan 2012
Selfless spring
Would've ripened
His freedom...

Alas,

Lady Winter oppresses.
JLB Jan 2012
"Nothing like a good smoke,"
They say.

Maybe I'll start.
JLB Jan 2012
Cowards avert fate,
The tenacious, challenge.

The indifferent...
are happiest.
JLB Jan 2012
Backstage
I dance
With circumstance.

And
             often
                       lose

                                                 my footing.
JLB Jan 2012
Peeled a Tangerine;
The juice spat back.

Indeed,
Led Zeppelin.
JLB Jan 2012
I hadn't heard from you in a while, so last night I humored the notion of you, intrigued.
You asked me how I was, high off your *** on Vicodin.
Drunk off my *** on red wine, I admitted I wasn't doing
So well.

So, well,
We spoke for a while, and I admitted a lot of
****.

Well, ****.
More than you bargained for,
I'm sure.

So sure,
You called me out on my mistakes like you always have:
Telling me that I was far too lovely,
To be so ******* lonely
That I would waste such a beautiful side of myself,
In so willingly giving so much of myself
Away.


And in a way,
I know that you're
right;

And I can't just pretend I'm
alright.

I need to buck up and make all things
right.

Holy ****, what a night.
JLB Jan 2012
the outline of your jaw
and the promise of your verse,
with stanzas harboring a coincidentally similar curse,
create timely reverberations
lurking in the limbo of my love's reincarnation,
and freeing me from this cerebral assurance of alienation
caused by characterless cowards wrought with affectation and negation.
Inspired by the poetry of Sean Carnegie Golightly.
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