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Je lape les laves vertes et jaunes de ma flamme jumelle
Comme si ce n'était qu'élixir végétal de chartreuse
Je bois, je me désaltère
Je me sers, je me ressers
Je répète le cocktail sans fin
Pure, on the rocks,
Deux doses de verte, une dose de jaune
Et vice versa
Histoire de bien sentir en bouche
Les cent trente saveurs sacrées
De cette liqueur en transe
Qui dévale du volcan réveillé qui dégorge.
Ma langue plonge et pêche en apnée
Dans les profondeurs de la roche mère
Des cris muets en fusion qui giclent en poissons étincelants
Comme des fumerolles des cratères.
J 'étanche, moine liquoriste,
Autant que faire se peut,
La soif perpétuelle
De cet élixir de vie
Qu 'une fois lapé
J 'avale et engloutis
Malgré la canicule
Malgré mes voeux d'abstinence
Malgré moi.
Sara Jun 2018
He's cherry liqueur,
keeps his cards face-down,
sweet enough to be a sweet
but still a little bit sour.
Deep, dark thinker
but not one to wear a frown
and so he puts me in my place
from the inside out.
How hard could it be
To turnover a new leaf
Get a new lease
Watch and just feel it
As another leaves
Stealing off with my sanity
Well I blame idiocy
From the ruins we flea
Like falling leaves
Trailing the wind
Into the swells of the sea
Like little me
Huddled beneath
Frayed velvet cushions
Making out with hard liqueur
Smooth as your words
Burning me like your lips
Tongues slipping easily
Through sour teeth
Sharp as blades
You cut me open
With nothing but a kiss
Zane McHarris Feb 2016
It starts as a way to forget,
No not to forget, just numb.
It starts as a way to numb,
The splintered glass deep inside my chest

The first few drinks bring peace
No they feign it, illusions
As it poisons my body and mind
The whiskey coils around my heart

As it constricts I feel the pain
And anger I tried to escape.
I pour another glass hoping
For the illusion to persist.

Desperate now I put the bottle to my lips
And as the liqueur flows into my blood
The words flow from me into my pen
Expelling the pain, expelling the cardio-wounds

I trade pain for poison
The bottle's dry
I lay my head down ease myself back
And wonder if I wrote this poem or if it belongs to J. W. Black
...
...
...
                                                     ­                     you never saw me
finding comfort in liqueur
nicotine
and your empty promises

                                                       ­                   a walking hurricane

vengeance and fury
my niche
love was weakness

                                                       ­                    the things brewing under

ruthless sphere's of words piercing
you
                                                    ­                       like a crack of lightning
never knew you feared thunder
my pretense
                                                        ­                   till my skies turned
grey
                                                     ­                      a color you created
                                                         ­                  i became
the storm
                                                           ­                your fears
                                                           ­                your torrent of bad dreams

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