Midnight
crashes in
thunderclap headache
darkness spreading
a virus
black skin infection
hear the sea
cannot see it
mumble in sigh out
night of sonnets
melting to haikus
couplets nothing
rubies on my lips
jewels I've never known
on my hand
you
made me faint
made my (day)dreams
Technicolor
whispered villanelles
buried them
broken bones in sand
inhaled your language
stored stories
for next time
twenty-six things
twenty-six letters
play pause repeat
play pause repeat
craved you
smoke/drugs/booze
in eyes lost
backs of knees
fingers on spines
eleven fifty nine
fifty nine
reality soaks through
a ****** wound
as the message
in the bottle
you sway away
fictional fading
closed
Jul 16, 2014
Jul 16, 2014 at 4:28 PM UTC
Midnight
crashes in
thunderclap headache
darkness spreading
a virus
black skin infection
hear the sea
cannot see it
mumble in sigh out
night of sonnets
melting to haikus
couplets nothing
rubies on my lips
jewels I've never known
on my hand
you
made me faint
made my (day)dreams
Technicolor
whispered villanelles
buried them
broken bones in sand
inhaled your language
stored stories
for next time
twenty-six things
twenty-six letters
play pause repeat
play pause repeat
craved you
smoke/drugs/booze
in eyes lost
backs of knees
fingers on spines
eleven fifty nine
fifty nine
reality soaks through
a ****** wound
as the message
in the bottle
you sway away
fictional fading
closed
Written: July 2014.
Explanation: A poem written in my own time, another in the ongoing dream couple beach/sea series I am working on. What I am writing about is fictional, and yet extremely vivid in my mind, to the point where it almost feels real - the location, the couple, the textures of everything. Feedback on this poem, and others, is very welcome.
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