K J: Favorites

Oct 2013 K J

Tammy Cusick

Blue translucent adolescent eyes snickering down that devilish grin,
pretty little liar,
my endeavor of sin,
single my heart sewn on this sleeve,
that pretty face caked up is hard to perceive.

Oct 2013 K J

Shower

Oct 2013 K J

Feeler

Shower

I fell apart with the water from the shower head today,
cascading downward, crashing sporadically on the tub floor,
my purpose washed away
down the drain
forgotten forever. The tears,
like daggers, bleeding from my eyes
Oh how I wish the pain was but a nightmare
thrashing in my sleep
a lie on my eyelids.
But it wasn't,
and there he stood before me
with balled fists
so unaware of the tornado inside me
with destruction undefined by words,
hell.
It's a lot like hell,
with the fire behind my words .

Oct 2013 K J

Cool Cat

Oct 2013 K J

Showman

Cool Cat

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 K J

balancing

Oct 2013 K J

Sophie Monigatti Lake

balancing

stepped out of the race
i knowingly would lose
i decided to take up a consistent pace
it took everything out of me to lose

the addiction that was like a cloud
of thick, impenetrable slime i can't hide
that kept me ever so proud
of the needles inside

that ***** the side of me that loves the good
don't let me lose concentration
tequila and the beach make me realize they only could
truly leave me ill rationed

always in the mood
to tell you im really not
the prissy *****
you maybe thought i ought

and was to be,
you know you're actually misled
believe me, I'm no sweet pea
my soul is really spread

with grief, toil and strife
though i never stop trying
always easy to live with the knife
keep your mind open, my wet soul's drying

balancing on the tightrope
my visions cast far above me (can't see the current circumstance)
seeing that it's easier to cope
with the present (seeing you makes my heart dance)

Oct 2013 K J

P.s.

Oct 2013 K J

Megan Grace

P.s.

Always I am
waiting
waiting
waiting
for the right time
to tell you all the
words I have stored
behind my teeth
and in the pockets
of all my sweaters.
It's just that I'm so
sure the sun speaks
out of your mouth,
that you will be the
only person who will
swallow my sentences
immediately after I've
said them so they
don't have time to
float away into
outer space where
Pluto and all of my
other lost loves are
orbiting. My
greatest fear is that
you'll stop holding
me like my hands
are made of the
Milky Way and
instead like the
love I'm capable of
giving you is simply
measured with the
spoon I use to stir
my peppermint tea.
I have stumbled
tripped
tumbled
into the atmosphere
of your smile, been
dragged under by the
waves of your breath
on my neck in the
earliest hours of
the morning. I ask
only that you keep
loving my arms that
aren't strong, keep
watching me like I
taught the sky how
to make rain
(because I'll never
stop watching you
that way.)

Oct 2013 K J

Love Letter

Oct 2013 K J

Ana Leejay

Love Letter

With you, I have forgotten how to love.
Would you believe me if I said there was once a time where I knew?
Where I knew how to slide my fingers into the spaces of someone else's,
Where I could hint how much I love you in the pauses of my sentence,
Would you believe me if I said there was once a time I knew?
When to give up, when to keep fighting
But with you, everything seems to be confusing
You spin me around, always leaving me dizzy
And I fall into the spaces you always give me,
Would you believe me if I said I've never known to how to love
Because they've never worked out, and this is no longer "practice"
You are as perfect as the curves of the moon
You are the northern lights of my lonely nights
You are not the sun, or the far stars you can never tell apart
You are special
And nothing in my life could've taught me how to love you
I love you

Oct 2013 K J

Roads

Oct 2013 K J

Paulamae

Roads

There are so many,
Ones that curve and bend.
I am lost here.
Not sure what one to choose
Because im afraid to lose,
The ones I love.
Maybe the wrong will be the right
And the right will be the wrong
Can I make it and be strong?

Oct 2013 K J

Sonnet of Pie

Oct 2013 K J

Sarah Faith Barnhart

Sonnet of Pie

It's miserably hot outside
and my hands are very dry.
If only it was windy
And I was eating pie.