She
      was
             the
                  perfect
                             storm
                                      of
                                         chaos





R.A. Ries (C) 2017

Write from inspiration


                  Anything else is just a ******* fraud....




R.A. Ries (C) 2018

The best way to edit that one was to delete it...

It never ends good.....


     If it was good it wouldn't end


but there's always that one.....







R.A. Ries 2018 (c)

Writers own the night

     the solitude of darkness

Brings thoughts to words







R.A. Ries (C) 2016

Silver icicles gleam.... scattered in the snow
   like the kind you had on your Christmas tree when you were a kid

what happened last night

she left with him

Valentines wrapping paper in shreds

       I step barefoot out on the balcony
                               in the frigid morning

I light a smoke and do a shot to clear my head

and then I remember a note she gave me...…

      "sometimes if I listen close I can hear your eyelashes curl when you sleep"

R.A. Ries (c) 1994

Words flowed from her lips
like water in a stream

With a never ending purpose
of one direction

Crystal blue and sweet to the taste
distracting me with a rhythmic shimmer

I have never known thirst like that before
as I drank from the banks of her deception....

R.A. Ries (c) 2017

With but the soul of a poet
and the heart of a clown
my heartfelt intention
was to not let her down

But you can't cage our madness
with the rules of the sound
for if not for us poets
there would be no more clowns...….

R.A. Ries   (C) 2017