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A Mess of Words May 2020
I remember laying out
Two stories up
On the roof of your house
In early summer
When the stars burst sudden
And the evenings are yet cool

I remember the stars
Dancing in your eyes
As you saw so much more than me
And you smiled at my wonder
Blowing a kiss to the constellations
Before we hurried back indoors
Shivering
I suppose I could add eighty lines more, but the ending seems mostly right
A Mess of Words Jul 2021
Seasons, optional

Summer, endless

Laying out on golden fields

Holding on to the sunset

As a matchless fire opal

For eons in my mind
A Mess of Words Apr 2019
It's some time

past time

for the evening lights

to be lit.



The only sound,

the kitchen faucet:

drip

drip

drip
A Mess of Words Jan 2021
The only difference

Between you and me

Is are you less

Or more lonely?
A Mess of Words Jan 2019
Notes scribbled out on
last call napkins,
sometimes sharing space with
uncalled numbers,
tucked neatly away in
the little desk drawer,
nestled in with notebooks
either brimming over or
brand new;

All i ever manage are scribbles
but all i ever see is you.
Sea
A Mess of Words Nov 2018
Sea
my cousin is
an artist
of the highest degree

and tonight
another masterpiece
brings me pause
bids me see

how
oh how
i just wanted to be known
in these fleeting days
i just wanted to be known

i wanted it all;
days set aflame
to burn hot, untamed

but my words falter
and my steps bring shame

i still want to be known
lay these secrets out
let them burn in the day light
but i bundle them up
and carry them with me
through every taxing night
A Mess of Words Sep 2018
September has
Slipped in
Almost unnoticed

Soon the leaves
Will redden and dry

Let go their
Summer home

And play upon the
Fore-winds of winter
A Mess of Words Nov 2018
I saw you tonight

Perhaps it was shame I felt

That I stole glances of

A white spring lily

After I've so esteemed

Weeds littered on the sidewalk
Someone I love(d), just a thought written on a whim
A Mess of Words May 2020
God,

make us colorblind;

or

at least,

take our eyes.
10w, if you know, no need to say
A Mess of Words Apr 2014
3am is so unkind
to a lonely longing mind
A Mess of Words Dec 2020
I slip on ice;

I ever fall

For dangerous eyes.
A Mess of Words May 2021
How I long to
Savor a moment with you,
Of crème brûlée and coffee,
On the edge of a waking summer,
Beneath the shimmering stars
Of the final days of spring.



Saint Mary’s water
Is the envy of Glacier:
Icy blue, and
Scattered nearby,
Sunny wildflowers
As firecrackers frozen
Just as they burst.



We stopped our song short
Unable to hear the harmony
Of our notes combined



As a moth
I am drawn to the street lamp.
On a hazy cold night
I see a faint echo
Of ten million celestial lights
Humbled,
So my eyes may endure
Such singular wonder.



It is good to be unknown,
Sometimes.
I may sit silent at the corner of the bar
Secretly sipping chilled Lipton’s;
Pay my tab, and
Walk quietly away,
Without a single word.



I never knew the word
Desire
Until I discovered
The ways I could kiss her
I never knew the word
Famished
Until I learned
My plate was only empty
I never knew the word
Dead
Until I was invited
Into the arms of Love
A Mess of Words Aug 2021
A smile of innocence

Is a most dangerous thing

It astounds the heart with joy

And makes the soul sing
A Mess of Words Apr 2019
The highway din is much the same
At 3am as it is at ten
Here I am in an oversized bed
Probably subconsciously
Praying for an early dawn
A day ago I was
On the other side of this odd world
In a place where dreamers
Could fall in love every day
Now hastened back to this dreary place
Too readily reminded of this
Weight of loneliness
not a poem really, just current thoughts/reflection
A Mess of Words Apr 2021
Sunday night

After dinner and impromptu dancing

My hand strayed over the zipper

At the back of her yellow summer dress.

Her eyes fixed on me

As I gingerly drew it down.

She pressed close to me when

My hand slid onto the small of her back;

Her skin as smooth as butter

As pretty and perilous as whisky.

She laid a tender smile on my cheek

Whispering ‘hurry up and kiss me.’
A Mess of Words May 2019
I delight in
the song of the meadowlark,
sonorous upon the fields,

And,

While I revel in
the rumbling refrain of the storm,
echoing on the hills,

I recall:

Though we were written only as
an alternate ending,

exclusive expression
delicately dotted
upon the utterance of
intimacy
A Mess of Words Feb 2020
I remember that night

Your kisses had bite;

Your hand strayed upon my thigh.

You poured over me

All your ecstasy;

I could only accept and sigh.
A Mess of Words Nov 2018
Would that I might

Yet adore your *******

With tender kiss

And attentive caress
A Mess of Words May 2014
I am struggling
To stay focused
To show restraint
To persevere
To accept grace
A Mess of Words Jun 2021
The depths of her eyes:

Vast as these summer skies;



Blue or grey,

Who can say?
A Mess of Words Sep 2020
Summer slipped out sometime after midnight;

Left the door open wide.

I couldn’t convince her to stay

No matter how I tried.



Autumn arrives in elegance:

Her own offerings of intimacy;

But my skin still tingles from Summer’s bite,

And all the pleasures she gave to me.
A work in progress
A Mess of Words May 2017
i am desperately trying
to gather up every word
carved upon my heart
that only my spirit has heard

i am longing to share
this story flooding in me
but how i fear them all
who won't know what i see
an unedited writing from 2017
A Mess of Words Sep 2020
i am desperately trying
to gather up every word
carved upon my heart
that only my spirit has heard

i am longing to share
this story flooding in me
but how i fear them all
who won't know what i see
an unedited writing from 2017
A Mess of Words Sep 2019
I’m treading unsteadily
In between the plains of
Confidence and uncertainty

I’ve wasted much time.

I’ve given some **** good kisses.

I’m drifting right now
In these evening shadows,
As the sun sets down to sleep;
Drifting between heavy words

Like time,
And wait,
And cancer
A Mess of Words May 2024
What
Is eternity
But the
Disruption
Of all
I’ve worked
So long for,
In vain
?
Thoughts on the time that comes after my time.
A Mess of Words Sep 2020
I witness the sea and the shore

Their recurrent caress and sigh

I wonder if we too might make

Love as enviable as the tides
A Mess of Words Sep 2020
Time mantles us
in weariness;

years anchored
to our feet.

our souls may ever
soar and dive;

our bodies shall
to dust retreat.
A Mess of Words Sep 2013
What am I doing with my life?
     Looking through my past
     And all these little things
     The error of my ways
          What are you looking for?

The only one who didn't fold:

A worthy brother
Upon golden sands
The soul of a warrior
Like nobody else
Each line is a title from another work of art, i just lined them up.  Thoughts appreciated.
A Mess of Words Jan 2020
A lonely innocence

just beyond

a veil of gold;

wistfully waiting

for frolic and jest,

of steady hand,

lover's lips,

daybreak's promise.
Titles again
A Mess of Words Sep 2020
Soon after
Her vampire kisses
Injected sweet lust
Into my veins

She peeled apart
My aorta
Like pulled pork

And vanished
With the last fragments
Of
Whatever heart I had.
A Mess of Words Jul 2018
An unsettled life
Yet pens with such

Veracity

A sort of way,
          perhaps, we

All

Might hope to trek
Through these
Long and quickened years

How much joy
Can the desperate heart endure?
Weighed down with
Bittersweet
Longing
Gouged in to the soul

And no words
Can suffice

And great hope
Cannot seem
To weather this ache
A Mess of Words Jun 2020
Sunlight in your smile

though the world roils in dark;

Starlight in your striking eyes,

Steady and ever stark;

Ask me not to name

the colour of your eyes,

For they are resplendent

(beyond sheer brown or blue)

and strike me with surprise.
unfinished work, much more to say
A Mess of Words Sep 2018
I feel myself at the
Edge of this great
Desperate
Chasm
Where the pebbles
Beside by my toes
Break away to
Hurl themselves
Into this fearful unknown

Four books at this bedside

It's not yet eight o'clock

But I cannot bring myself to
Crack any of them
Right now
To escape this weight
Another restless night

I am overwhelmed
This flood of reminiscence
And desperation
Pressing down and drawing out
The last air of these
Over-worn lungs

I can count names on
Catalogued fingertips
I can see faces, somehow,
In faltering memory



I hurl impatient prayers
At the ceiling of
This dark room
In hopes the Lord still
Seeks out sinners

Even those foul as me
A Mess of Words Aug 2021
Loneliness

Sweeps rapidly

Over all these

Cobwebbed

Hopes and dreams
10w
A Mess of Words Jan 2021
Five years
I’ve been begging
To forget;

Each night
Restores the gravity
Of my regret.
A Mess of Words Sep 2021
One chance

Is all we ever get.

Now I spend my evenings

Drunk on my regret.
A Mess of Words Feb 2021
Hard is the day
To start,
When waking with
A heavy heart.
A Mess of Words Mar 2021
By her smile

She’s adorned in such a way

That silks and gems and

Polished gold

Have little left to say
A Mess of Words Jun 2020
Is life

little more

than a series of

grand disappointments?
A Mess of Words Sep 2021
Give me rolling hills

Where green grass is swaying,

And glistening rivers,

Through them straying;



A gentle breeze,

Soft as a timid kiss,

And the free air to breathe,

For that is what I most miss.
A Mess of Words Oct 2020
(I still hear (your)
Quavering voice,
As if you are yet unsure
Of all you may say..)

..But time flows on,
In only one way..

(And though wistful..
You might never again
Drift near me,
to simply stay..)
A Mess of Words Aug 2021
Don’t resurrect my sins
To torment me

I’ve burned down
All my hopes and dreams;



I tremble in the dark
With weary heart and heavy sighs

For one day soon I must see
Either mercy, or justice, in your eyes;



I have failed
From my very first breath

And eternity looms
Just beyond my death.
A Mess of Words Mar 2021
My heart strives

This wistful day;

For all these things

I long to say

Ought be said

Behind closed door,

And simply stay

With whom I adore.
A Mess of Words Nov 2018
even in the outlands

of this shameful world

wildflowers yet burst

in twilit hues

an earnest assurance

goodness cannot be

truly overcome
A Mess of Words Jan 2021
Her voice is lush,

Appetizing to my ear.

By it I blush, and

Discern my true fears.
A Mess of Words May 2024
I have
Only just recovered

Waking
To the splash
Of cold water

A shivering gasp
Some hours
Before dawn



My heart
Is wary;

Weary;

Worried;

What comes now?

After this
Long forsaken
Childlike awe?
I haven’t posted here in a while. Struggles that need not be rewritten. But I personally have this heavy sense of tomorrow, a joy and a terror.
War
A Mess of Words Aug 2020
War
The battle lines are drawn,

I know which side I’m on;

But I wonder to see

When my opponent is me.
At war with myself
A Mess of Words Apr 2020
I found myself

At World’s threshold

Screaming out obscenity,

While

God quietly pushed passed me:

‘Pardon lad,
But these folk have need
Of food and rest
And more of less
Of all your proud
Opinion.’

So fools fall silent

At his word
A Mess of Words Mar 2018
I heard you talk and wonder,
Laugh with a lilt,
Even curse in fearful anger.
But,
It was with a whisper,
Soft and subtle,
Sharp enough to split my chest,
You stole my heart away.
An old writing
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