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Odonko-ba Aug 2016
ripples on the lake
quiet reflections
a mallard takes flight
Modern haiku
Odonko-ba Aug 2016
Darkness
Falls upon the landscape
Apprehension
Covets
The air

Fear trickle
Where paranoia pervades
And death
Resides in shadow

Whispers tense
With urgent missive
Take heed
And lend an ear
An eye tooth a chin my friend
Death is visiting near

The creatures stir not
For fear of attrition
His armies march on in
**** disease and pestilence
Will follow sorrows end

A land
Barren of life sits naked
Sifting through scarred remains

Of yesterdays
Sneerful of tomorrow
Where hope
Seems trifling and bane
Odonko-ba Aug 2016
out of my cocoon
bracing life through startled eyes
butterfly takes flight
Odonko-ba Aug 2016
static energy
your kisses upon my flesh
killing me softly
a lovers haiku
Odonko-ba Aug 2016
limousines  arrive
flashes of exorbitance
a child scrounge for food
The Olympics comes to Rio
Odonko-ba Aug 2016
I can savor
The taste of fear
Riding upon the wind
As turbulently
As your troubled mind
Seeks desperately
To understand the mortality of this moment

The life and death mechanics of reality
The realization
That we are to die
As evident of the staccato pant
Of your futile labour

Frivolous at best
Arouses a sense
Of ******* justice

Hard truths
Brought to bear witness of
Your infidelities
Your betrayal

Lies
Aborning of arsenic
Sputters froth
From your womb

Searing traces of bitterness
Cascades a corrupted truth
Transformed into an ugliness
That has become us

Two hearts that once beat as one
Cast fervently
Into a cold war

Unrelenting hatred
Reciprocated  
Ricochet
Unmitigated threats

Wounds
That cannot be reprieved

How did we get here?
Do you even care-
To ponder the thought?

How
I once loved thee
A dream shattered
By the realization of now

But
The now I can live with
The thought of losing you I cannot
**** this relationship

Endure
I must
For the taste of you
Is the sake of me
My sustenance

I close my eyes
In perusal of happier times
When life was bearable

Abruptly
I'm jolted out of my reverie
By hilt of your scorn
Protruding from my chest

Animately
I touch
As if to confirm its legitimacy
A reason for its being

Overwhelmed by solemn peace
I collapse in passive supplication

And as she turns and walk away
Contemptuous
Of the final utterance
To flee my lips
I forgive you

I ponder
If she ever
Loved me at all
A woman scorned is a woman determined
Odonko-ba Aug 2016
i awaken to breath
light kiss
upon my nape
the softness of your touch
electrifying our bodies
pumping life
into a new day
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