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Mar 2023 Megan Parson

CAPTIVE

Mar 2023 Megan Parson

Lori Jones McCaffery

CAPTIVE

Playing near the giant
I thought it fun to pirouette
And seem to stumble,
Hands thrown out
And thus be captured.

Oh the shrieks and moans
Til I decided it was time
To be set free, and tried
To twist out of that grasp
That never once relented.
ljm

I don't really remember writing this back in 1992. Did I? If not, who did I steal it from?

Jan 2021 Megan Parson

MAKE YOURSELF

Jan 2021 Megan Parson

Traveler

MAKE YOURSELF

Whether a comma, or colon:
Punctuation slows my rolling
I need no period. When I end
no Capitalization when I begin
Rulelessly I flow my art
Not a single!
Exclamation mark
Are you not the one
Who'll know?
Where a question mark
No longer goes

Warp the structure
Bend the lines
Put in repeat
Let emotion unwind
Make yourself
Your poetry's the best
Be your own ruler
Pass your own test

Take your own road
Where ever it leads
Lover or hater
It's all poetry!

Traveler Tim
.

Hay
No matter who you are
You have my deepest respect!

Vanity
All is vanity
The meanings of passion
The aesthetic expression
The lines we draw and stay within
Even love is beyond intent
Vanity transcends
Flowing from our pens
And so we breathe again

#traveler #tim #contemplation #commings #incubus #instruction #rules #directions #help

Jan 2021 Megan Parson

Dad

Jan 2021 Megan Parson

stefania rivoltini

Dad

Your eyes don't see me
I talk to you and you don't hear me
I can't reach you
A layer of rubber covers you
I would like to tear it up
and yell at you
All my love
All the love you gave me
My pain feeds on
your unwitting words
Fragments of you lost
One tear at a time
Fragments of me torn
Thrown into your oblivion
A crumbling rock
I fight with a sword of nothing
I can't win
I can't save you
I can only love you

Miss you so much

#pain #tears #dad #memories #alzheimer

Jan 2021 Megan Parson

I don’t have a shadow.

Jan 2021 Megan Parson

Rollercoaster

I don’t have a shadow.

Shadows are impersonations.
They move around
In the sneakiest of ways.
Lurking and inching and cheating.
Trying to escape the mirror.
The darkness died when the hero won.
It didn’t.
It just followed them, lurking to get back.
The core is darker of the fake.
They’re dark,
because they tell them of the time gone by.
In monochrome,
the color died, it lives in the real world now.
I don’t have a shadow.
I am one.

#shadow

Jan 2021 Megan Parson

Reasons

Jan 2021 Megan Parson

Bipolar Hypocrite

Reasons

You've given me tons of reasons to leave,
But I still stay
Because those reasons weren't enough
To keep me away

Jan 2021 Megan Parson

I See London, I See France...

Jan 2021 Megan Parson