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 Dec 2024 LL
Kalliope
The room smells good
Until the candle burns out
And now it's just a room again
The flame dances until the wick burns out,
I think our wick burned out.
 Dec 2024 LL
Frances Raeburn
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 Dec 2024 LL
Frances Raeburn
I wanted more
that’s for sure
a slow dance
a quick gin
I wanted more
that’s for sure
a romance
an easy grin
I wanted more
that’s for sure
a sunset walk
a little talk
I wanted more
that’s for sure
a few stars
maybe less bars
I wanted more
that’s for sure
the moon
if not the stars
I wanted more
that’s for sure
a bit more real
a bit less zeal
I wanted more
I needed more
and that my friend
well that , my friend
that’s for sure.
 Dec 2024 LL
Dani Just Dani
What a long week,
A long month, a long year,
Followed by long hours,
And long seconds.

I’ve resorted to selling
All my distractions
And hell, was I distracted.

Now I sit in diners,
Drinking coffee
After a long night.

My pockets are empty,
But my soul keeps growing.
He’s starting to receive
Hand-me-downs from the public,
A new kind of love.

And I’m slowly
Finding myself.
 Dec 2024 LL
Zywa
In the compartment

window, we kiss and we merge --


with the May blossoms.
Poem "Spiegelingen" ("Reflections", 1999, Hans Tentije)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 80s and 90s"
 Dec 2024 LL
Zywa
Most people in love

are just not at their best when --


it really matters.
Novel "the Passion" (1987, Jeanette Winterson), chapter 2 the Queen of Spades

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 80s and 90s"
 Dec 2024 LL
Dani Just Dani
I put the seats
back in my
beat up Ford Fiesta.
Four drinks in,
my first bottle of soju,
a great night
with a new friend.

Something’s shifting,
healing,
and I’m scared
of what might come.
I tremble,
cold biting my skin
Like fire ants,
a lit cigarette
flares on my nails
with every drag.

Leaves are falling.
 Nov 2024 LL
Zeno
We walk and we endure, even if
we're beaten and bruised
like the caverns of our hearts
with its dark crevices
that made us lost and confused

Only if we learn to believe in ourselves
we walk again,
out of this dim passage
that blinded us,
and we will see the stars
in the night sky
that we never saw in that cave
 Nov 2024 LL
Zywa
You, my sweetest word,

make me human, you create --


a world inside me.
Poem "Jij bent het woord" ("You are the word", 1955, Remco Campert)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 40s and 50s"
 Nov 2024 LL
Zywa
Rain, the thunderstorm,

and the complete surrender --


of the trees: awesome!
"Psychiatrisch dagboek" ("Psychiatric diary", 1994, Bert Weijde), March-July 1962 in Amsterdam

Collection "SoulSenseSun"
 Nov 2024 LL
Dani Just Dani
Me monto en mi carro
Por la mil decima vez
Esta semana,
Para despejar la mente.

El trafico sube y baja
Como la marea,
Las luces son olas
Que rompen contra
La brea, bajo el volumen
De mi musica para
Poder escuchar
Los ruidos de la ciudad.

Y paso rodando
Por calles con
Nombres de presidentes
De aqui, peleando con
El sueño y la pena
Que se agarra de
Mi cuello y descansa
En mi espalda.

Y he limpiado el
Cuarto antes de salir,
Con las esperanzas
De que cuando
Vuelva pueda dormir,
Pero que dificil es sin ti.

So despejo mi mente,
Con una nota y una
Vuelta en un carro
Que ya se le esta acabando
El tiempo, y que muchas
Penas me agobian
Esta noche mi amor.

Preferiria estar arropado
En tu piel,
Despues de bañarme
En el lago de tus ojos,
Mientras me seco las
Manos bajando las
Sogas de tu pelo,
Para asi encontrarme
Entre tus venas,
Y ahogarme en tu alma,
Que desespera me espera.

A lo mejor asi,
Se aclarisan
Mis ojeras.
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