#chagrin
I saw her from a distance
observing quietly
unassuming and innocent.
Not a sound or
even a verbal cue.
A shadow amongst others
fading in the background
quiet and still.
All seeing, all knowing,
yet not seen or known.
She savored solitude, seclusion.
Gazing over, eyes lock.
A prompt stare at her feet.
Slyly, strategically, stealthily,
I make my move
through the mass,
an over populated room
of senseless chatter.
Drawing nearer to the
lovely, lone, lady leaning
against the brick wall,
the ways finally part.
Much to my chagrin,
she’s vanished without
even a faint whisper.
Until we meet again.
Mar 23, 2015
Mar 23, 2015 at 5:00 PM UTC
Why did you have to make me hate myself for loving you?
Why do I have to live with the memories of you when all I want to do is forget?
Why did you have to destroy all I ever thought of you?
Why did you make me lose every hope in love?
Aug 21, 2019
Aug 21, 2019 at 4:51 PM UTC
Spring girl eyes around,
To the winter wench’s chagrin;
Each turn brings heartburn!
Jan 28, 2019
Jan 28, 2019 at 2:26 PM UTC
I remember on shattered ashes
And the frigidity of the musky noon
Rumbling gently on our scale-like frame
Whilst the lonely light evanesced in the dark alley
For the ***** of truth it proclaimed
Alike Elymas, bitter cecity we had stroked
No tinge of light could be sensed
To ken the changes of good and evil
Evil and evil sprouted
Resonating for all to embrace.
Aug 23, 2019
Aug 23, 2019 at 1:15 PM UTC
...routine will **** me yet?
(sonnet #MMMMMMMMCMXLIII)
If twas some lurid rite of passage, whence?
Gulp scalding water down cuz naught'd avail:
I'm driving, nor can spit aught out. Derail
Hopes of a lovely ev'ning cuz what hence?
Being brave jist does not cut it. I'm burned, sense
Now screaming in me til I canna fail
To hear that I'm on fire inside. Detail
Which, after that? I'm tamer--is't defense?
If being above ground is a joke as t'were,
Tis ***** and too cruel to torture through
My waning hours what's left of all in tour
I thought t'enjoy, or vainly thought I knew.
Mum held her tongue, yet warned me. Dad too. Stir
Hope in but Thee alone, LORD: I need You.
27Oct24b
Oct 27, 2024
Oct 27, 2024 at 10:52 AM UTC