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 Sep 2019 Rachel
annh
Neon Rain
 Sep 2019 Rachel
annh
red
neon
rain spattered
pavements teeming;
one thousand prismatic shades of meaning

graffiti-laden puddles splish, splosh, splash;
as midnight turns
to blue, and
dawn to
ash

‘I walked up, and I walked down, and I walked straight into a delicately dying sky, and finally the sequence of observed and observant things brought me, at my usual eating time, to a street so distant from my usual eating place that I decided to try a restaurant which stood on the fringe of the town. Night had fallen without sound or ceremony when I came out again.’
- Vladimir Nabokov, The Vane Sisters
 Sep 2019 Rachel
Colm
Sorry
 Sep 2019 Rachel
Colm
You’re a hole in the ground
When I’m looking for a break in the clouds
An old phone number resurfaced in my life today. And though I was very flattered, I was also very aware of why I wasn't very talkative back then. It just wasn't what I wanted and then some. Sorry.
 Jul 2019 Rachel
Jack
Entropy
 Jul 2019 Rachel
Jack
A grain of sand in the desert of my life,
my mind stores you in dunes,
in overwhelming abundance.

I create winds, sandstorms, tornadoes
to shape you,
to move you,
still you settle the same,
with mathematical precision.

Governed by physical law,
governed by bleeding and raw,
governed,
I want you more,

I feel you slip from my grasp ,
shifting the sands of my mind,

I wait for a deluge, a torrent,
a hope to bring new life,
a new form,
an awakening...

a forgotten seed,
and
the
rain
would
find
you.
 Jul 2019 Rachel
viola
mental health
 Jul 2019 Rachel
viola
sometimes I wish I had cancer
then people would send me flowers, and get well soon cards.
but I am bipolar
so when I am sick
I suffer alone, ashamed
because too many times
people synonymously use my illness for crazy.

-please stop
 Jul 2019 Rachel
jeffrey conyers
Fear scares people.
Truth hurts people.
But both go hand in hand to revelation.

Hell scares people.
Heaven impresses many.
But they work accordingly in sermons by preachers that minister the word.

Love embrace people.
Hate enrage people.
Except both are apparent within us.

Our heart is a mystery?
Feel with so much sympathy to care, to love and to share.
Except we don't?
When it is needed the most.

Floating on Substances.
 Jul 2019 Rachel
Ashly Kocher
Walking in nature
Feeling the wind
Wrap it’s arms around me
Sun beating down
Drying my tears
Saying the unsaid words
As the birds sing a song
To the music in my head
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