Kelci Nicole Leigh

Kelci Nicole Leigh Oct 2021

Dystopia

We stand inside
Stale air compartments
That we call apartments
Because we feel alone here

We spend our time
Earning daily bread
Feeding the constant dread
That wants to consume you

We see our lives
Plastered on screens
The eyes of machines
Ever watching us

We rip ourselves
From empty seats
Walking crowded streets
To find a sense of purpose

©KNL

#life #society #people #thoughts #feelings #dark #rhyme

Kelci Nicole Leigh Oct 2021

Night

We watched
Melancholy pines
Paint silver moonlight
Into a velvet sky
Kept warm beside
A pensive fire

©KNL

#night #sky #fire #moon #moonlight #outdoors #nature

Kelci Nicole Leigh Oct 2021

Gnasche

I want to sink
My teeth in deep
A pomegranate gush
You could be
Sweeter than honey
I could be
Satiated by this flesh

©KNL

gnasche (n.) the intense desire to bite deeply into the forearm of someone you love

#life #love #feelings #thoughts #honey #sweet #flesh #bite #teeth

Kelci Nicole Leigh Oct 2021

Fata Organa

I glimpse something fleeting
On the stage behind your eyes
A dancer leaping from wing to wing
Sure footed in one motion
Yet stumbling into the next

The corners of your lips flutter
Butterflies ready to take flight
Held hostage in your nets
Sitting in wait of their freedom
Yearning to show their colors

©KNL

fata organa (n.) a flash of real emotion glimpsed in someone sitting across from you
*From the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows*

#feeling #feelings #thoughts #colors #life #flight #freedom

Kelci Nicole Leigh Oct 2021

Hold

How do
I hold you
With hands
That are not
Always my own

©KNL

#love #life #sad #depression #thoughts #feelings

Kelci Nicole Leigh Oct 2021

Austice

With bated breaths
We exhale into crisp days
Cinnamon scented winds
Will carry tidings of cozy nights
As the trees drape themselves
In silks of red and gold,
Beacons in the foggy nights,
Wearing their best attire
In celebration of the harvest moon

©KNL

n. a wistful omen of the first sign of autumn

#fall #autumn #season #harvest

Kelci Nicole Leigh Oct 2021

Katuata

Katuata is a Japanese poetic form that consists of 17 or 19 syllables arranged in three lines of either 5, 7, and 5 or 5, 7, and 7 syllables. The form was used for poems addressed to a lover, and a single katauta was considered incomplete or a half-poem.

#love #life #nature #ocean #earth #waves #eyes