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Finally
an empty auditorium
there is no audience
no chance then of me
boring them.

My shadow
which seems to have a mind
of it own
bids me farewell as it ambles
off home,

silence and solitude
in which I strike an attitude
of
what do I care.
 Jan 2021 jordan
Amanda Kay Burke
Having trouble adjusting
Constant loneliness
Experienced it before
Never in excess
A dream the closest I get to someone
Search for a face but still see none
Easy making reasons for why I am alone
Much harder ignoring truth already known
It pushes my ribcage so I can't breathe right
Gladly suffocate to keep it out of sight
It comes into peripheral without my permission
Against eye sockets allegations beyond admission
True stories block from my view just in time
Deciding to turn and climb
Is that urgent buzzing I hear in my ear?
With shake of my head I make doubts disappear
They fall hard
They land in my heart
Can no longer deny we are from now on apart
What a mess
 Jan 2021 jordan
DAF
once again i've tied my hands
unable to unbind
sickness twists and tangles
imprisoned by my mind
bound by mistakes echoed
held by my own will
captive and the captor
want to draw that image

to keep it in my brain
to come out some other way

take on all the things on our arms
our shoulders

the coat hanger effect

i noted his oversized coat
and was admonished for

assuming judgement on
appearance

no no no it is about remembrance
and the drawing out later
when all is quiet james

it is that time of year for memorials
eighteen days yet

perhaps someone will come to measure the depth

calculate the timeline
 Jan 2021 jordan
Shaun Yee
See how pigeons and parrots walk,
Strutting around without a care,
Just like their fellow humans do.
With one foot here the other there.
birds nature some birds hop and some birds walk
 Jan 2021 jordan
Mary Anne Norton
Sitting by the window
Collecting my thoughts
How little they
May seem
I feel something stir
Within and without
Its not the sound
Of words
Churning through
My head
But rather
The tip.toeing.of
Rain
Across the window
 Jan 2021 jordan
Colm
I lost my heart
And haven't found a care
I built my arms up - to carry us
(And can't)
I found out how I would fair

This world, this wind
This rounding of homes
Knows nothing of the me now
(I've been)
The boy you used to know

Having built myself around you - now
I know where I have been
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