Mrs Ashley Somebody

Mrs Ashley Somebody Aug 2015

Everywhere you go
Everybody sees a mask;
Self-proclaimed image,
What you want them all to see;
And you're just like me.
I've worn my mask for so long
That I believe it.
I've buried it all so deep —
So you can't see it —
But I can't see it, either.
What if I showed you
What's behind this mask of mine?
You'd be my mirror—
You could tell me what I am,
Since I can't see it.
Maybe I will find myself
And remove my mask.
But it is clearly too much
To ask of you, sir.
So, I'll be content with this:
With only seeing your mask.

#mask #choka #whoami #57577 #japanesepoem

Mrs Ashley Somebody Jul 2015

Sunset

Billows of blue sheets
Scarlet ribbons in the sky
Violet petals
Gold strewn across the heavens
Dazzle me. Then the sun sets.

#gold #beautiful #nature #blue #sky #sunset #scarlet #tanka #violet #57577

Mrs Ashley Somebody Jul 2015

Creativity

an outpour of you,
Creativity, the bird
who lives inside me
and sometimes devours me
but sometimes leaves me helpless.

#helpless #metaphor #soul #creative #create #creativity #tanka #bird #57577 #devour

Mrs Ashley Somebody Jul 2015

Feel You

I can feel you here
When I'm alone and weary;
Even in silence,
Words are unnecessary.
I know that I'm not alone.

#words #alone #smile #silence #tired #sleepy #feel #tanka #weary #57577

Mrs Ashley Somebody Jul 2015

Repeat

If I repeat you,
Playing you endlessly here,
Will you stay with me?

#haiku #music #song #repeat #senryu #songonrepeat

Mrs Ashley Somebody Jul 2015

breathe

honestly, just a good beat
and a breath of air
can sometimes mean the world
to a suffocating soul.

#music #soul #thought #breathe #song #air #beat #honestly #beats

Mrs Ashley Somebody Jul 2015

In A Moment

“Do you ever feel like…
um
like in a moment you see where you were a year ago
and you wonder how you got to where you are
and you trace it back, reading through a journal or something
and you can’t remember so much
it all happened so fast
and you wonder if you’ll ever get back the time you lost
I barely ever look back
but when I do
it feels like looking down the other end of a tunnel, where it’s so bright now that it’s hard to see the light that I started out in at the other end.”

#time #lost #moment #rant #poetic #dontmindme #weirdmood #minirant