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Poetria Jan 2018
I am
a soul on stilts
a painted face
with coloured pockets
and layers of skin

I am
living in blue
thinking in green
dreaming of colours
I've never seen
Liz Carlson Nov 2017
my love for you
drowned me inside.

i can feel the water seeping
back into my bones.

we're starting over again,
although we both know it's far too late.
Drifting beneath the waves,
The water lifts me like a stone.
Holds me in it's soft embrace
As if to carry me home.

A grain of sand, I ride the tide.
Find a beach in which to hide.
Cast ashore, let the foam
bury my past and wash away my bones.

Close my eyes, lose myself
To the rushing in my ears.
Leave behind this earthly shell,
The world fades and disappears.

A grain of sand, I ride the tide.
Find a beach in which to hide.
Cast ashore, let the foam
bury my past and wash away my bones.
Sobriquet Oct 2017
Do you remember when your voice held my name
not at ransom but aloft,
and it lulled me to sleep to hear those syllables
cocooned in comfort.

You blew back into your hometown this week
trying to hang the language of your new life in the doorways
I've repainted
on the furniture I've shifted
and in the corners of my mind
now reserved for little plants bravely growing in watery sunlight,

they're replacing your absence,
and the taste of your name on my tongue.
Hope Marie Ross Sep 2017
I’m doing everything I can
To cling to the love we had
I’m writing like I’ve never written before
In many forms,
Through these writings
I am learning how to be alone again.
When we were one
Your love distracted me from words
All the things I felt for you
All the things I could’ve written about
I couldn’t
My words were stuck in the things I did
For you.
Kaels Sep 2017
the tree of life
the seed of spice
of where we hung
the birds then sung
beneath our legs
the water begs
come dive in
all tinged with sin
so i took a chance
got water all on my pants
but whom i sat with
went a little bat ****
and was not my friend
until the very end
he was the safe road
an unwilling toad
so i cut the ties
and went on with my life
i tried new things
met new people
and found myself
away from the chains
of a terrible
controlling
relationship
and now
i am

happy

fun

friendly

and

free

without him
hsc Jul 2017
surrounded by silence;
          but still consumed
                by the voices within.
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