#rift
I reach across a chasm where I hoped your hand would be,
My fingers cannot reach you
Secrets separate you from me.
Once there was a bridge here, it was wobbly– I'll admit,
I still traveled all its lengths to get to you– I wouldn't quit.
A tattered rope here on a cliffs edge, I stand gripping in my hands,
You keep me at this distance– I just want to understand.
A caretaker of a ravine where loves meadow should have bloomed,
A lover ran to one side, the other pleads here to the moon.
To meet me in the middle is a price you will not pay,
But you keep me on the edges so I don't fully go away.
To keep up the appearances– a burden that is mine,
If I keep the cliffside rounded,
There's less danger– it's all fine!
I catch glimpses of you in the dark, between the smoke and fog.
I'd still love you in the sunshine, who you are is not wrong.
May 1
May 1, 2026 at 8:52 PM UTC
When you're there
(I want to hold you, and touch you, and bury my face in your neck)
I sleep lengthwise
(I refuse to let my body move, I share my small sacred space with you)
And when you're gone
(I have dreams about you, about us)
I sleep diagonal in my bed
(I have to take up the extra space, when I am missing you)
Apr 6
Apr 6, 2026 at 10:28 PM UTC
Years since acquaintances,
Months since 'You and I',
Fortnights since 'We',
Weeks since "I love you's"
Days since separation,
Hours since your 'Goodbye',
Minutes since tears,
Not even a second since you.
May 19, 2020
May 19, 2020 at 9:12 AM UTC
Shock
by Michael R. Burch
It was early in the morning, in the forming of my soul,
in the dawning of desire, with passion at first bloom,
with lightning splitting heaven to thunder's blasting roll
and a sense of welling fire and, perhaps, impending doom—
that I cried out through the tumult of the raging storm on high
for shelter from the chaos of the restless, driving rain . . .
and the voice I heard replying from a rift of bleeding sky
was mine, I'm sure, and, furthermore, was certainly insane.
Published by Penny Dreadful, The Eclectic Muse, Fullosia Press and Poetry Life & Times. Keywords/Tags: shock, nightmare, insanity, dream, dreams, storm, rain, lightning, thunder, rift, sky, red, bleeding, ****** voice
Apr 13, 2020
Apr 13, 2020 at 10:26 PM UTC
The end of darkness is at hand..
A being of eternal light is taking revenge..
It lost its universe to a being of darkness grand..
And this Light God wants its universe avenged..
It consumes all darkness where it stands..
It now has 10,000 suns spinning around it..
It gathers shadows in its hands..
Until all darkness is gone and the universe becomes lit..
A final light rift will form..
And all true light will die..
A white hole will be born..
When the last of darkness has died..
I see the 10,000 sun halo among the cosmos..
And I head toward its direction..
I now have to use the power of darkness..
To stop this universal light infection..
Nov 15, 2018
Nov 15, 2018 at 11:33 AM UTC
there's a rift in your heart (as there
are in the hardest of hearts)
and it festers like an unsolicited wound,
inflamed by the ire from which your deeply-seeded roots grew, from which you longed to escape but could never run from ,
but leave it, now.
lay it low,
in a river of forgiveness dispel your grievances
and come up, come again, unbowed of burden,
lest it finds its way downstream to you once more.
Oct 8, 2018
Oct 8, 2018 at 9:04 PM UTC
For your good in goodbye
i hang, tying tight by tie.
Float my boat in sea of silence view
away from shore, far away from you.
For your good in goodbye
i rift my bone by stone of wavy lie.
Leave my land and I run
waiting to sink soon, deep in ocean.
For your good in goodbye
i voyage my boat in lighting sky.
To see you smile, i sail my vessel
even storm seems to me gentle, dead until.
I am blending with you again by diving deep to die
remain in your chest to lub-dub whenever you cry.
For your good in goodbye
i ended, saying hello you are mine.
Dec 18, 2017
Dec 18, 2017 at 4:18 AM UTC
come on darling take a chance with us
our meat is on the seams of a blue-blooded funeral
a **** body burial, and the volcanoes laugh
the thumbs shake
as the fingers dance
makes the rain pull its roots on
for the showcase the generic plants
will perform a feral routine
every **** a command-stop forwarded
the nucleus inside of a vitrified half-assed colon
and if they shiver they will find their saw
tailored to the head of that aurulent god
a caterpillar reads the braille and follows my wrist
he condescends, and breaks notions causing new alarm
they are all special, green feet and orange sinewy lines
he casts his blame he curses across the myriad storms
gold minarets in the distance
serpents living under man-made rocks
counting down the seconds on armageddon's clock
a lion counts his livestock
he puts his socks on, he wears a headdress
in the shape of a flame
just outside the shadows of an autumn day
Oct 26, 2015
Oct 26, 2015 at 5:07 AM UTC
................A gaping
written curse... black hole
of a mere in my
the vacuum space time
put out by continuum...
Flames Tearing a
supernovae... huge rift
of stellar in my very
fireworks universe...
Cataclysmic
.
Nov 8, 2014
Nov 8, 2014 at 9:11 AM UTC
Glimpsed of innocence
Casually met
Words from strangers
A lot in common
Wine and smiles
Unsolicited lies
Cool distaste
Remnants of disrespect
Cracks in the ice
The inevitable rift
Fragmented faces
The corrosion of moments.
Oct 5, 2014
Oct 5, 2014 at 12:24 AM UTC
Love is in ruins
Kneeling for mercy
Strangulated hopes
Fiefdom of tyranny
Silent weeps of soul
At the altar of Love
There is remorse
Stranded humanity
Devils show no remorse
Love is in ruins
Jul 19, 2014
Jul 19, 2014 at 2:12 AM UTC