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 Dec 2014 Jessica Bennett
Aspen
it's 3am and i can't seem
to shake the thought of
you braiding flowers into
someone else's hair
Two days will see
my blue hair clashing
with a red and green glow
back in San Luis Obispo
a holiday bash raging inside
she'll long for me
while sipping a mix drink
watching as I blow smoke
into the night
I'll hold back a wink
keep my tongue in my throat
remembering when I hadn't been
a heart
breaker
Daniel Magner 2014
You and I
Are water and salt:
Needing one another
Separately,
To live,
But dying of thirst
If taken together.
Love, you have liberated me
In every way.
Don't ask me to describe that dungeon,
For I no longer fester;
I am free.

Love, you have liberated me
In every way.
I don't just fly in my dreams,
I soar through my life
I am free.

Love, you have liberated me
In every way.
I am chained to you,
I choose to be,
I am free.
 Dec 2014 Jessica Bennett
Q
Haiku
 Dec 2014 Jessica Bennett
Q
Dance can not be taught;
It's composed of syncing sound
Felt by your being
In this green, pulsating sea of dreams,
Salt-warm, seasoned with illicit echoes,
I swim into you and under you and through you and to you
And I take you in my mouth.
Underwater, we are little fish, undulating.
Mouths fasten, ****, open, close,
We breathe each other in.
Let's unevolve together, creatures of the deep
Unbothered by the air brigade above.
Limpet-like, our joinings are an unconcern
For all but us and the awakening depths.
 Jul 2014 Jessica Bennett
Caitie
another pen runs out of ink,
your cup is empty.
and your eyes see a desert.
it's 5:33am and you're wide awake
but your body aches
and your chest is heavy
and yet again your find yourself
bombed, and hurt.
but no one hurt you.
your mind continues to linger in the past
haunting your every move.
it's screaming "you've ****** up"
and you know it speaks the truth.
because why else would you feel the way you do?
you turn on the radio, loud as it can go
to drown out  the mutters
of disappointment
but nothing helps
because you're internally
scratching and clawing at yourself.
"what can I do?" "make it stop"
no, there is nothing.
so you sit in your own dismay
and you wait for a distant change
that you may never see.
 Jul 2014 Jessica Bennett
Joe
The child in the the gallery cafe
Was underwhelmed by her
'Children's Lunchbox'

She sneered peeling wafer thin
Ham out from between bleach
White bread

Stares despairingly at the
Cardboard, itself adorned with
Animal iconography for her
Enjoyment

She feels patronised and no
Longer hungry
Pushing both the apple and juice
Box tumbling to the floor
She makes for the door
Her mother still unaware
I have a duty to alert her
But I just watch
She bursts out onto the
Street as I reach for her
Juicebox
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