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Roberta Adele Jan 2016
Men leave me in silence
Hiding their love
Hiding their pain

Not a word is uttered
As they walk out through my door
A glance, not meant to be seen
I have seen before.
Loving me is an unending quest none have yet managed, myself included.
Roberta Adele Jan 2016
Snapping the air from where it settled around my face,
dragging it to lungs .

Exhaling through lips that formed words,
I had no intention of saying.
Occasionally I get so stressed I  start doing weird things. Occasionally, I notice them.
  Jan 2016 Roberta Adele
Ghazal
A certain peace envelops
The second hour of the night,
A little mellow, a little electric,
The ratios positioned just right

I'm sure this chai I'm dreamily sipping on,
Would not seem as delectable in the day
As it is right now, with its caffeine
Making all my senses with abandon, sway

That's the thing about this hour, I say,
Its still tranquility, its silence and calm
is merely superficial; if you're up this time,
you're part of a storm

A simmering storm, with a quiet surface,
and a whirlpool of life concealed within,
A psychedelic fiesta booming with
A myriad of emotions beneath the brim

Indeed, Silence turns Audible,
Colors turn Tangible,
Misery turns Defeatable,
Loneliness turns Affable

Music begins to make all the more sense,
When freed from the cacophony of the day,
In fact, the night will tune a sweeter melody
If you'll put those headphones away

And listen! Listen to the solitude,
The slow tick-tock of the clock,
The distant horn of a car somewhere,
The occasional howl of a street dog,

The rustle of leaves as they dream in their slumber,
The whisper of the wind as it strolls outside,
The sound of Papa's snoring the sole interruption,
To the fluid rhythm of the night.

A certain contenment surrounds me tonight,
As I bid goodbye to the second hour revelry,
Where my sentiments turned to words,
And words turned into my long departed but duly returned,
*Poetry
  Jan 2016 Roberta Adele
Jen Grimes
We are half moons
Our eyes, stars
Behind a sheer darkness.

The tip of your nose
Nuzzles mine
And the soul of your foot
Warms my cold toes.

Almost as if
We scrolled letters
From our open mouths
To the souls of our feet.
Roberta Adele Jan 2016
sometimes I fidget
uncomfortable with the weight
of the words
that course through my veins
unable to rid myself of the itch of the need to write
Roberta Adele Nov 2015
You're done.
No more.
The end.

Tears rise
threatening to fall
and slide
down cheeks
chin
down on to chest.

Breath clutches
in the cage
made by bone.

Goodbye.
The late night overflow
of words that won't be still.
Roberta Adele Nov 2015
i have only ever known you
with the smile that turns down at each corner
just ever so slightly
with the eyes that are dead
right back at the core

you smiled once and told me
noone knew the reality
of you
breath caught in your chest
as i lay my head there

all but you
For William
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