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 Feb 2014 Kodis
Pedro Garcia
"I love you." I repeated to myself in the dark and dreary room.
"I love you. I love you. I love you." as if it would brighten up the gloom.
"I love you." I shouted to twinkling and abundant stars. "I love you." I yelled to the red planet Mars.
"I love you." I whispered to my little flower ***. However my face may have whispered my state of distraught.
"I love you." I sang to the slow setting breeze. The words came off my lips with such an eloquent ease.
"I love you." I confided to the cold winter night. Through solace and indifference that comforted my plight.
"I love you." I proclaimed to my favorite blue pen, then I looked outside my window and that would be when,
"I love you." I chimed to the evening moon. Her bright light informed me that the time would come soon.
"I love you." I stated to the dimly lit telly, and that's when into the room walked my beautiful wife Ellie.
She glared at me and grabbed her suitcase, my heart pounded as such it would were I in danger.
She swiftly passed me a glance and left, because I could not say "I love you." to a stranger.
 Feb 2014 Kodis
Renae
happiness is
 Feb 2014 Kodis
Renae
Mischievous smiles

against golden sunset hues

orange, reds and blues

Pranks in tow

carefree laughter that follows.

Bright eyes, lizards, snails and slingshots.

Campfire sing-a-longs  

through the moist light air

under a blanket of stars

sleeping in tents

with the days dusty hair

Cozy long john sleepers

are

curled up in sleeping bag dreams.
Dear you,
I don't know when I'm going to burst but I hope when I make a mighty jump off of the hopeful building keeping me standing on edge with a dash of optimism that you will be there to catch me and comfort me. I need you to jump off of your building of cowardice, fear, and pride. I need you to jump into an ocean of emotion that you have never explored, and discover things you never have before. I need you to tell me it's all okay, that you feel a certain way but don't know how to portray it. Tell me I'll be alright. Tell me you've always been there in the shadows of your mind, and coming out into the sunshine of thought has made your life better. Please, tell me.
 Feb 2014 Kodis
Lewis-Hugo
Prove me a fool, then
I shall dine at your table.
But my mind has not
been as oppressed by
the heavy weight of
sanity's absence,
as you would have liked.

I can see through your
windows, there are no
silk curtains like you
desire and crave, a guise
to hide what really
goes on in the darkness
of your deeply worrying mind.

You think of me as a
wounded deer, who dared
to stare for too long,
helplessly strewn across the side
of your road, carrying vehicles
quickly along to better places.

That long instructing finger
of yours, points to billboards
who say that I can be someone,
live the lives of those I see
behind a glass shield, so much
more fragile than you think.

I am content atop my fort,
while my foundations may
be small, they are stronger
than ignorance and folly,
and I do not preach to ants
to reach heights only to fall
back down into a dust of your dirt.

I will never dine with you,
and I will never come knocking
at your door, as I am sure that
one day your idiot soldiers
will see behind the canvas of
mistrust.
 Feb 2014 Kodis
ASB
I will love you
 Feb 2014 Kodis
ASB
last night, I had a fever
and for a few hours of wonderful
hallucination I forgot about how
you left and all I could remember
was your accent and your
whiskey-and-cigarettes voice
and how you’d sound ****
reading the phone book.
I remembered your dark hair
in my face at night and
the smell of your perfume,
I remembered your gentle touch
and the way you smiled at me.
I remembered conversations about
a future we wouldn’t share and
breakfast and all of that mind-numbing
life-changing beauty of yours
and I woke up in tears because somehow
at some point I also remembered
that I’d spend all of my days without you.
(we did the right thing, I know we did, but
I will love you, I will love you.)
 Feb 2014 Kodis
Robert Herrick
Have ye beheld (with much delight)
A red rose peeping through a white?
Or else a cherry (double graced)
Within a lily? Centre placed?
Or ever marked the pretty beam
A strawberry shows half drowned in cream?
Or seen rich rubies blushing through
A pure smooth pearl, and orient too?
So like to this, nay all the rest,
Is each neat niplet of her breast.
 Feb 2014 Kodis
Sue K Connally
Here I am thinking

What have I become?

Is this me, Was it me before?

I'm exhausted by the constant adding up

-multiplying the times I have had to reassess

Where am I in this maze..

I feel the certainty chip away as the people I love wilt and disappear

The knowledge I once held close I lay down next to their once comforting words

Nothing is definite
Fact is a state of Illusion
Am I alright with this?

I once declared..  "I thrive on chaos"
I now search for comfort within it, and hold on tight to my own prospects

Is this really who I have become?
What do I fear? .. Measurement(?)

Those who are adding up their own multiples(?)

Me
As I look myself over in the mirror
judging.. assessing the weight of each insult

Who cares?
Do I? How can I find contentment in all of these flaws
My lack of effort
My lack of effort to conform to ideals .. is this part of me, a rebellion of sort

Will it pay off in the long run or will I fall flat on my face in the abyss of conformity

I am lucky I am loved. I think

oh so lucky .. luck is temporary, it's all temporary
that's the good part(!) We don't have to dwell but(!) might we have to Answer

To Pay.. for all decisions and outcomes.
Is this why(?)


..I know I am not the only one thinking..
 Feb 2014 Kodis
Renae
Money tree
 Feb 2014 Kodis
Renae
I never thought
   you were a tree at all, much less a money tree
.   I saw you as my partner is all, someone to balance me
     Guess you didn't need me as much as I needed you
.   So now you interrupt me constantly, you love to make me blue, to crush and hurt and call me greedy to make me feel like I'm just needy to make me feel so incomplete So insignificant, So indiscreet. As though I somehow have a choice, as though I even had a voice
You cut me off  without a chance and leave me nothing but second hands, I scrimp and scrape
and gather together to afford gas in my
car & food on the table
yet in your revenge
To conquer me
to make me as
small as I can be
You toss some
pocket change
my way then
turn your back
  on me & tell
  everyone I must
  think you're
my money tree
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