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 Oct 2013 Amy Denison
wounded
you drape your wrists over my shoulders
and pull me in a little closer,
and now our hips are slightly touching
our silhouettes dancing across the window pane

(our breaths are sharpening
and quickening,
our heartbeats are synchronizing
and stuttering,
our feet are stum-stum-stumbling
as our bodies slowly start to sway)

you whisper “i love you” softly in my ear
and graze your lips across my cheek

(leaving a trail of wildfire
kisses, set torches to skin,
a blinding flash of pearly teeth)

you taste sweet of white zinfadel
and i a hint of cigarette smoke

(i am drunk off of intoxicating love,
as you press your mouth
against my throat)

and i am etching lustful verses
with fingernails and curses
digging words, desperately,
down the length of your back
and we are slipping into love
as though that’s all there ever was

(and we are lost,
and we are found,
and we are lost,
and we are found)

and i am getting lost
in the heart of your forest eyes
and i am, i am, i am screaming:
"this, this, this is heaven!
and i am never—and i mean—never— coming back!”
 Oct 2013 Amy Denison
Showman
I'm a cool cat
Who likes to ****
The smooth jazz
That dances off my pen
Compliments
The 'garette I smoke

The dance of pen to pad
The movement
The shake
Rumble
Makes my fingers snap
And my feet tap.
 Oct 2013 Amy Denison
brooke
is my body a
god-given right
is my spirit more
beautiful? I would
rather be seen for
my contents than
my container.
(c) Brooke Otto

programmed.
It was a cold dark night
Sailing for Hopes for Dreams
An Island beyond the sea
A home of victory
A home that will
Now never be yours 

Flashes of light
In the torrent of the sea
Father and child
Held on tight
Struggled for their dream
Before my eyes
I saw their dream die
In the cold black pit of the sea
I want to say
I am Sorry

I am Sorry
To all voyagers
Of despair and courage
Their lost Hopes and Dreams
Crossing to
An Island beyond the sea

*To the Hundreds of Souls lost on the journey to Lampedusa
 Oct 2013 Amy Denison
Isabel
Hell
 Oct 2013 Amy Denison
Isabel
They say Hell is a place
No one wants to go.
They say it's fiery hot and torturous.
Some say it's Purgatory, someplace I should never want to go.

But for some reason,
I want to immerse myself in "Hell".
I want to feel the heat, the burning sensations.
I want to be somewhere other than here.

They say Hell is where the bad people go,
The ones that committed crimes and it's their punishment.
I don't see Hell as a punishment, as Purgatory.
I see it as it truly is: an opportunity.

I'd like to visit it one day, if it even exists.
I want to see if it'll melt this heart of mine.
Give it warmth and touch its core,
Allow this numb heart to feel once more.
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