SOLACE: Favorites

Nov 2014 SOLACE

Liz And Lilacs

He wanted to hold her hand
but his hands shook with
the memories of his childhood.
The musty room, clouded
with the sweet stink cigar smoke.
His father who stank of acrid alcohol
And a voice that rumbled like thunder.
The crack of the belt across his skin.

She wanted to hold his hand
but her hands shook with
the all too recent past.
The man who claimed to love her
but dragged her down the stairs by her hair
if she wouldn't lie with him or play housewife.
His bitter breath on her neck,
and the bruises he left on her skin.

Shaking hands, various pasts.
Maybe if both our hands shake,
We won't notice our own pain.

Nov 2014 SOLACE

My skin

Nov 2014 SOLACE

Corinne Kahi

My skin

Slit my wrists,
I bleed red just like you
But you only see
My dark skin

My skin life,
these pores are my breath,

My skin comfort,
No one will hold me as tight as my skin,

My skin home,
I refuse to change it,

My skin me,
Let me love me

Someone told me I should try bleach my skin to look prettier,i was astonished!!I never had a problem with my black skin.So i wrote this

#skin #race #identity

Nov 2014 SOLACE

Half Past Nine

Nov 2014 SOLACE

Evan Hayes

Half Past Nine

The one yellow dress
you have is in the floor
of your red room
with your CD's
By the door

Chester in the corner
Missing heart in the other
Missing you in my
Missing heart
Why even bother

Books on the shelf
In alphabetical order
Cross the line
It's the border

Handmade blanket
handmade pillow
Listen to
Wheeping willow

Love with the lights off
Love the night on
Lust when no one is looking
Strawberry cake cooking

I have to leave
One last time
I have to go
It's half past nine

Not much to see here

#love #her #you #heartbroken #missing

Nov 2014 SOLACE

Ode To LDR

Nov 2014 SOLACE

Sarah Spang

Ode To LDR

Halfway through the journey
Winter came to stay
The ones I met along my path
Chased the cold away

Memories of twisting
Beneath the starry sky
Kept the wind from swirling in
And pulled my spirits high.

Once I was a singer,
Though po-ems tinged my dreams.
The journey saw an end to that
And waking- raced from me.

Shattering and scattered
Like stars across the skies
Out of reach and far away;
I wished on while I tried.

I never really minded though
Or mourned the goals I lost
For losing each and everything
Was freedom's exact cost.

Explaining this to others
Was pointless to me though
For how can others understand
The open road's my home?

Nov 2014 SOLACE

625 (Dark)

Nov 2014 SOLACE

Amy

625 (Dark)

I've always been slightly obsessed
with the human mind.
It just fascinates me.

How is it that one second
a person can be a stranger.
And yet, one second later,
they become your whole life.

I'm not sure if it's the way you first looked at me,
like for once in my life
I was being looked at and not through.
Or maybe it's how you made me feel like finally,
I wasn't so alone.

It's been 625 days
since that first look.
And now I'm right back where I started.

Transparent.

#love #heartbreak #relationships #days #mind

Nov 2014 SOLACE

forgive me

Nov 2014 SOLACE

ky

forgive me

please forgive me
for all the lies i will tell,
all the hearts i will break,
for all the little pieces of you
i will take.
forgive me for all the
mistakes i will make,
the souls i will shake,
all the aches.
but most of all,
forgive me for the
way i treat myself
because im never kind,
always giving into
the demons in my mind.

Nov 2014 SOLACE

The Enigma of a Traditionalist Mindset - a Ten Word Poem

Nov 2014 SOLACE

Kiera

The Enigma of a Traditionalist Mindset - a Ten Word Poem

"It's not proper poetry if it doesn't rhyme"
*******.

I am taking "I'm" and "doesn't" as singular words because of artistic license and also *******.
This poem is either about people forgetting that old poetry didn't rhyme either, or about an outdated social construct that people cling to for no good reason. Interpret how you wish.

#society #fuckyou #fuckthis #traditionalism #conservative #conservatism

Nov 2014 SOLACE

Juggernaut

Nov 2014 SOLACE

Joseph Schneider

Juggernaut

It's in his shadow we plead
Under his wrath we bleed
His destruction leaks hate into the weak
Leaving the unsubstantial reaping his critique
His actions scorned through years of neglect
It's in his perception only, that we become wrecked
Why do we follow knowing wrong from right
Pushing those we love away from the light
His power is without doubt equal to the greats
Although derived from stray minded it opens the gates
The gates into the souls of those who are tattered
Turning old memories to ones now shattered
Although through it all, we have nothing to fear
For he is nothing more than a broken mirror
It just takes practice to realize his weakness
All his power is nothing to the strong but bleakness
It's in his own prison he will rot
Although it's up to us to become the Juggernaut

-Joseph B Schneider

#hell #life #fight #weak #evil #hero #devil

Nov 2014 SOLACE

The Relation"ship"

Nov 2014 SOLACE

Amy

The Relation"ship"

As silly as it may seem
Our Love,
Is lost at sea.

No where to be found.

#love #heartbreak #short #sad #relationships #lost #ocean #ships

Nov 2014 SOLACE

Looking