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Oct 2015 Sombro

r

Her kisses were moonshine
and bullets, three shots
to the heart, like a rose
on the canvas of morning,
like art, an eyelash on a poem
that always makes me pause,
three xs at the bottom of a page.

***

Oct 2015 Sombro

Alice

Oct 2015 Sombro

Mark McIntosh

Alice

into the rabbit hole
darkness and damp
leaves of grass brush
the queen of broken hearts
ripped from pages of a diary
chapter twenty one
you made the same mistake
will you ever learn
that those dark chambers
harbour all manner of scares
you've met before
cards and tea and hats
never reveal anything
to change you
your arm plunged into earth
feeling your way
the rabbits sunning themselves
the answers absent
still falling
there's a light at the end
of the tunnel

Oct 2015 Sombro

Going Forward

Oct 2015 Sombro

K603

Going Forward

One day
Someday soon
I'll go to bed and not think of you

I'll wake up to the sun
Beside someone
I'm sorry ***
But it won't be you

I grow stronger each day
I may not see it right away

But I do
Before I know it
I won't be able to remember the
Little things about you

I just want to be okay and happy again. And that mean I can't think of you. I have to let you go. And what's ment to be will be.

#love #loss #on #move

Oct 2015 Sombro

October 25, 2015

Oct 2015 Sombro

Katriana Chabries

October 25, 2015

It’s 12:45 in the morning,
                                                and I can’t sleep
                                                because I keep thinking
                                                about the way that you sometimes
look at me.

It’s 5:04 in the morning,
                                                and I still can’t sleep
                                                because I’m still thinking
                                                about how you may never
feel the same about me.

It’s 7:18 in the morning,
                                               and I may never sleep
                                                because I started writing
                                                this stupid poem about how
my chest aches.

Oct 2015 Sombro

The Passage of Time

Oct 2015 Sombro

Marc Jackson

The Passage of Time

Daddy looks through watered eyes
On his son in the family cradle
He will cry even more
When his son can reach the door
But such is the passage of time

Grandmother's eyes
Warm and soft like lullabies
As they sing from a heart, ever dancing
Seasoned by tears now in her autumn years
Enjoying the passage of time

As a child in my room
Beneath blankets of gloom
All tucked in with a heart full of anger
A questioning tongue
Has no place for the young
I must wait for the passage of time

Time, it seems waits for no one
Easy go, easy come
And picks up the ones left behind
Still time finds her heroes
They smell every rose
Right up to the end of the line

A song holds a phrase
Like my life holds each day
Never one less beloved than the other
And with each hopeful line
Though I'm sure to lose the rhyme
It is found in the passage
In enjoying the passage
It is all in the passage
Of time.

Marc Jackson 2015

#life #time #song #age #aging #passage

Oct 2015 Sombro

Don't bury me

Oct 2015 Sombro

South by Southwest

Don't bury me

Don't bury me in the dirt
A place for grass , spring flowers and trees
Nor slip my body overboard
There's too much trash at sea
Don't burn my remains
I'm against air pollution you see
Just send me down the road
Make fertilizer out of me

I'm already full of BS you see .

#water #and #sky #earth #dirt

Oct 2015 Sombro

never. ever.

Oct 2015 Sombro

chris

never. ever.

i see the way you look at her.
i see it everyday.

i see the way you look at her.
lovingly,
affectionately.
fondly,
passionately,
warmly.

and i know you will never look my way.

why should you?

i see the way you look at her.

but

you will never see the way i look at you.

Oct 2015 Sombro

Ghost

Oct 2015 Sombro

belle

Ghost

I could never fathom
Why she chose to love you
In subtle shadows
Where she was but invisible

I could never fathom
Why she let herself
Drown in bed, thinking of you
But not tell you so

I could never fathom
Why she kept her words
Forever dreaming
She has said all to you

I could never fathom
Why she draws a line
When in truth, she, o she
Wants to cross and be with you

But mostly,

I could never fathom
Why you said you'll wait for her
But threw her heart
And gave yours to someone else

I could never fathom
Why you made her feel
Everything was real but
Forget it all after she left

I could never fathom
Why now she is a secret lover
Who can freely live and love another
But won't bother to do so anyway

I could never fathom
Why she chose to love you.
I could never fathom
Why I chose to love you

#secret #lover #invisible #unfathomable

Oct 2015 Sombro

red fox goes home

Oct 2015 Sombro

Chloë Fuller

red fox goes home

fog
i inch near you
pale skin covered in goosebumps
and i'm shaking

almost 6 cycles of the moon
and you still make my knees quake

who are you?
release your fears

sometimes i feel like a serpent
charming your eyes with my curves
moving so slowly
until i strike

sometimes i'm frightened
like a lost fox cub in the forest
wandering around in agony
searching for my leader

but i'm told
i'm too old
to be relying on childish fantasies

#love #home #sleep #fall