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 Feb 2015 Clay Feet
smallhands
þola
 Feb 2015 Clay Feet
smallhands
But, yes, you will endure,
and one day if your heart is heavier than
it is today,
you will endure that

-c.j.
Somelone said this to me on a particularly difficult night.
 Feb 2015 Clay Feet
smallhands
He didn't know what sylvania meant
But I knew it had something to do with forests
Something we learned in class last year
Despite your forgetting a definition made of wood,
Your mind is growing keener than one's should
I act all dry and logical as a cover to avoid the limelight, you confess
You're failing, then, I say
You're luminous

-c.j.
 Feb 2015 Clay Feet
smallhands
Do you know what I wish, she asks
He waits, she turns to him with the
speed of her irregular heart
I wish I was innocent, she says
After a minute he breathes and tells her,
You still are, in your desire to be

-c.j.
 Feb 2015 Clay Feet
smallhands
Completely awake, without qualms
Yet halfway to lovelessness
Pure unlike the trying music
And clear as an inkless bell
While they are striped with accidental brambles, thickets, and other cruel beauties
As I once was

Then, petrified by black and white film,
Tasting not salt nor sugar but ambivalence
Now, I remember how the foreign world rippled
The mountains shifted- they stood still
There were questions in the seafoam until
Thunder shook its pattern

However much I long to say,
Embrace me; forget the day
My mother reminds me that I am
Blossoming, young, omnipresent
With shields of sun and pieces of moon
Visible in my eyes
Which tell the mirror,
She is of age, but she is not of age

-c.j.
 Feb 2015 Clay Feet
smallhands
A question mark is our eternal punctuation
Under our initials added up to an undeterminable sum
Green lights were once desirable
But that red was much too fast
Fiction, we're surrounded by fiction
And books are so loud
But we are quiet
And we are real

-c.j.
 Feb 2015 Clay Feet
Alyssa
fruitful
 Feb 2015 Clay Feet
Alyssa
cranberry lips masking a serpent's tongue
and the smell of burnt wood on your skin
left me hanging
like a fish from a line,
desperately wanting a taste of
something new
despite how harsh the consequences were bound
to be.
that wild side
sprouting from your bones
sent me on a riot,
and you were not willing to bail
me out
of the mess that it led to.
I must admit
I am congested
from the puffs of soot sleeping
in my lungs;
with my options becoming
limited
all I can do is smoke you out
of the remaining corners
of my body
you've managed to stow yourself
away in.



Copyright ©  2015 Alyssa Packard
All Rights Reserved
 Feb 2015 Clay Feet
Alyssa
4:59 A.M.
 Feb 2015 Clay Feet
Alyssa
lightning sparked my brain
to life
when you touched me
and it was then you realized
you were afraid
of thunderstorms.



Copyright ©  2015 Alyssa Packard
All Rights Reserved
 Feb 2015 Clay Feet
Alyssa
briny
 Feb 2015 Clay Feet
Alyssa
if you're traveling
on the old country road,
remember me
sitting on the worn out passenger seat
with the beer stains on my collar
and dirt under my nails.
the time for apologies is up
and now I simply long for the
strawberries
nestled up in the skin of your neck
to clash with my briny lips,
and for the six letters of my name to
be the last
rolling off of your tongue for the night.
call me your darling, or
call me a nightmare;
either way,
I'm still left in your mouth
aren't I?



Copyright ©  2015 Alyssa Packard
All Rights Reserved
I just improvised this, not one of my best but I'm still open to feedback, as always :) .**
 Feb 2015 Clay Feet
Rose
alpha dog
 Feb 2015 Clay Feet
Rose
the thing about the day is
that it always caves in
around you and you're buried
by its walls
but me, you see,
i've dug a grave
so there's no ******* way
i'll live to see them fall

so here's my messy bundle of words
syllables and vowels that never come out good


oh, and just to be fair..
i know you don't care
there's no way you could
 Feb 2015 Clay Feet
Rose
Swallowed a fragment of a prayer
For an angel that's been pillaged by monetary gain
Not a shred of humanity remains

We can get by with just a couple of things
Like love, like faith
Like respect, hope and positivity
Do you see no worth in these?
How dare you think that way?
That we exist to serve you
That we are sailors on a ship of greed
Wouldn't you like to be happy?

You've been abandoned by your crew

And you always thought you were doing good

Ha
*******.
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