A haze of city lights, a purple, lonely glow,
Reflects the emptiness, a feeling I all too know.
You move through crowded rooms, a vision, sleek and cold,
While I'm a ghost beside you, a story is left untold.

I watch you from the shadows, where secrets softly creep,
A silent adoration, buried far too deep.
Each stolen glance,
A treasure I clutch within my hand,
A fool's gold currency, in this desolate, love-sick land.
Your laughter, like a melody, that haunts my waking dreams,
A siren's call, alluring, though it always falsely gleams.

I reach for you, a phantom, that slips right through my hold,
Leaving me with echoes, and a heart grown stark and old.
The nights bleed into mornings, a blur of smoke and wine,
I drown my sorrows softly, in this feeling so divine.

Or so I tell myself, as the bitter truth descends,
This passion, will surely never end.
I'm lost within the darkness, a starless, endless night,
Bathed in the neon glow, of your indifferent light.
And though my soul is aching a constant, hollow plea,.

Live with my own shame,
I lash out like you're to blame,
You don't even remember my name,
Along the city lights, neon bathed,
Leave me here to die with my own shame.

I'll cry for you and I'd die for you,
in the light of you, despite of you
I tell myself that the shadows pull me in
But I've been blind about the truth within,
That my soul is a hole that drags you down,
Won't you love me, won't you love me babe?

There’s a moment here,
Where the sky is dimly lit, violet
Bioluminescent fungi light like lawn lamps
To guide through the forest trails.

If you close your mind,
And open your ears -
You can embrace the susurrus of tiny feet
As all arboreal creatures find their way -
Back to leaf-covered beds in wooden apartments,
And the call of nocturnal watchers coo in the distance.

Here, where the last light recedes
And the moon’s play begins
As she glows up on high -
A spotlight for those in love with twilight.

If you’re lucky,
You’ll find the calming streams
Where the lunar glow reflects
And crickets play in an orchestra,
You can stare into the clear waters,
Find the you that needs to be
And wash away the you that no longer serves.

Peace is a choice,
If you seek it, it is in the nature of all things
Become something new -
For when the day breaks,
The sun again will shine on you.

I remember chasing ice cream trucks
Long walks down by the shore side
Running through the streets and late nights.

Invincible no matter the fall
Bounce back and stand ever tall
Up and down this slummy street
We found the light in the dark
And remember where we used to meet?

Train tracks on a railway to no where
Salt hills to ride our bikes to a dumb dare
Swimming pool after hour escapades
And all the penny candy we could raid

Oh I remember,
And where did time go?
Why can’t we go back to -
A us that we used to know
Back then we thought of right now
But if we knew what we know
We’d stay in frozen spaces,
Time goes on and we’re missing faces
Photographs elapse the times we once had.

I want it all back.

Carnivals and monster trucks
Action figures and Toonami,
Dragon Ball and Boys Meets World,
And don’t forget the Ninja Turtles.

Super Nintendo and pizza
Personal pan and fiestas
Buffy on the TV
And Godsmack on the CD
We had it all and we had none
But when it came to then and now
I was too happy and proud
To pontificate on the truth
That trickles through like a leaky roof
Tapping my shoulder to remind
That there is only Play…

We can’t rewind.

The mirror is a portal,
Transcendent into dimensions unfettered
What do you see when gleaming inward?

Is there an infinite?
Multi-versal syzygy
A confluence of you that rushes in ephemeral flashes
If you could pluck a version to replace,
Put you in theirs, and they will be in your space
Would you survive the peregrination?

If you could speak to the immutable pneuma
Basking in the effulgent warmth -
Would you listen to the many vestigial whispers
Allow the sum of you across the cosmos
To bolster the singularity?

Breathe deep,
Exhale the doubt
Rejoin the now
With a thousand selves
Armed to the teeth -
Bury disillusionment
And show them the profound
The immanence of self expanse
In every confident stride forward.

Kick and scream against it,
But it’s not slowing down,
Relentless in it’s captivity
I’m constantly ravaged unwillingly
And there’s a sick pleasure to it all
The shuttered starts, the random stalls
The confluence of happenstance
And all that candy floss.

Tap on the mat,
But submission is not an option
The tactician slyly waits for breath to deepen
Before applying pressure upon the lungs
Driving air from the sails,
Deflating hope with a single blow to the soul.

How I plead,
And the answer protests
How I scream
And the silence is deafening
Calculated granules ticking further away
And I am one with the great escapade
Another skeleton in the acidic rain
Eroding by the day,
But I can no longer resist it,
The fight is all but snuffed
Like lantern light in the cold of day.

Burdened to bear it
Afraid of the doors unopened
Shunned to feel its punishing sting
Wear it upon my face
Feel it within every bone -
It taunts me over and over…

Time.

Into the drought of night
Stale air perfumed with petrichor
A potpourri of musk and dead
In the depths of dead end alleys in fog
Will you come to me if I call?

My darling darkling,
How the eves of your eaves
Quake to a roaring thunder
In need of the ****** to break your dams
And tear your faith asunder.

Sing me a song, my starling
I’ll give you your wings
To fly into the sunset
For one last kiss upon the purple haze
Where the orange blaze displayed
Escapes and we become one under Luna,

Forever and a day,
Lovesick in stricken veins
A fetus of a new day,
Birthed upon the vine
Alchemic in the cemetery
The way our fluids mix
As spirits combine,  
And our souls touch in ethereal throes
Where passion knows no bounds
Beholden to you, my beholder
My darkest wonder,

Will you take my hand?

And enter this permanence
Of blood letting decadence
Where the stars envy our infinite sway
In the night that we praise,
In every city razed
Set ablaze,
Our eternal darkness remained
Ensnared to me-
My beautiful dream

Whisper to me…

You rode the transient train
And I was just a stop along the way,
Puzzling the lines that curve your face
Seeing if I fit in or was it the wrong time and place

Embracing timed moments
Hoping it meant more than a frame
Where time elapses like a photograph
In a flash it was gone
Didn’t know I could be so succinct.

The conductor blows his horn
And I see you border on the borderlines
Mind made up and the engine is running
How could you be so certain..
I would not be the one you chose
In a blink of a moment-
That curved round your face
I’m puzzling the pieces
Wondering if I could have fit in
I never knew I could be so succinct

Life fizzles effervescent
And all we are is popping carbon
Leave the ashes of our embers
To perfume campfire scents
From the fires burning bright,
Twin candle flames
Dancing in twilight
Betwixt and concentrated
Quick as a winter’s day
Left colder just the same,
White dwarves made from stars
That once clambered for infinity.

Cheers, to you.

Oh, you thought you got a good boy
Your head’s about to spin like this room you locked me in
You haven’t seen the devil within I put the HELL in hello
Now you’re done -
Go and climb the rung
See what awaits the further you decline
Down in the depths with you
In the house of horrors we grew
Oh baby, I’m in a mood

You expected obedience -
But I break all the rules and set the tone
With the demons I own, oh baby, you’re never alone
I’ll break you like the leather does to flesh
Bruise your heart and leave the welts
The more I take, the more you get wet
Need me more with every breath
And I’m just a drawstring away
Go on and show how you worship
Pray to god with my staff deep in your chord
I’ll be forever grateful
Sate me like a satyr desperate to breed!
Oh baby, I’m a mood.

You thought you got a good boy,
Thought you could command “sit boy”
But you didn’t see the supremacy
Dominance is all that’s become of me
Devil you invited in
Demon that you can’t escape
Oh baby, I put the HELL in hello!
I’m in a mood!

There is power unfettered
In one’s right to write
Universes upon screen or page
Weaving words like clay or paint
To express or depress the senses,
As even us gods chase for the holy grail
Of inner peace and enlightenment therein,
So waste no further on fruitless squabbles
And show me world’s within your pen.

Can’t let them see,
If they knew, they’d want a slice
But happy creeps upon flushed cheeks
As a smile creeps and a chuckle sneaks
Out of the ordinary, oh well
No questions to ask, just time to bask
In the warm jets of the sun
Riding like a wave through the zephyrs
Collecting as one in singularity
The me of now and then and when come together
Tethered in song as we sing,
Oh so it goes, onto whatever tomorrow brings.

Another gray hair?
Oh well.
Guess I’m silvering
One step closer to being a timber wolf
And I still adore the night
Howling at the moon, dancing with the stars
Seeing how the lights attract
I’m a moth to the neon
Listen to the hum as we drift
Up and down the city trails.

One more day,
Here it comes,
Aches may pain
But I’m super, man
When the rays shine on
Can’t complain, when everything is stellar.

Out of this world and into whatever may come,
Face it on with one step forward
The chapter’s closing and a new book opens
What will I write, who will I be?
What is to come? What will we see?
Take it as it comes, inspired by inspiring
Wisdom is burning, so sit by the fire
Watch the memories play in a flicker
Stay for the s’mores and a beer

It’s gonna be one helluva year.

May the light that you owe me
Be the flame that ignites
And sets the world I love to ash
Because when it’s over,
We flicker out like fireflies
As the cinders twirl and dance.

I’ll be more than a memory
I’ll be the reason the rain sings reveries
Tattoo tears with every memory
When you’re at your lowest
And the loneliness creeps
I’ll still be there to haunt your dreams
You’ll never be rid of me.

So go into your retreat
Hide within your shell
And cast off to sea
The waves may carry afar
But when you close your eyes
We **** like its cinema
Bittersweet like scotch and cinnamon
I’ll be there , haunting forever.

Scattered across the panes
As colors bleed to wooden pews
On my bended knees
I’ll confess it all to you.

The scent of *** perfuming the frame
As you smile for the camera, so profane.

I can feel your trembles
Legs shaking like Parkinsons
Barely able to compose a word
Letter fumble and bounce out of order
Dyslexic disorder from guts rearranged
And every thought’s the same

Feeling empty without a brain
When your heat feels cold without me near
Every opening on you claimed
Dripping an army of me like a leaky main,
White contrasting white, glueing to your frame

You coax me with a finger, want more
It never stops, you’re insatiable
And I love the way you move,
Head game incredible,
Bob like your catching apples in a barrel
Gawk gawk the sound in bass and treble
You want my hand around your throat, girl you are trouble
But I can’t help but give in to the urges
This XO in my body got me nervous,
I’m switching gears giving in to perversions

This paddle gets it’s work in
*** so red, painting white roses
Part those legs like Moses
I promise you, I’ll take you to paradise
Now succumb to me in osmosis
Oxytocin lucid, screaming to wake the muses
Amsued with every stroke that produces,
A huge rift, crescendo of screams we can make a new hit

Reverse it on me baby,
Show me how you do this,
Ride me like a bull
And teach me a new trick
Hit you with that good whip
Bruises across your plump ****
You’re begging for more
And this XO got me nervous
Giving in to perversions
I’m about to get this work in


Inhale the X running through your veins
The scent of *** perfuming the frame
As you smile for the camera, so profane.

Not a poem but an inquiry:

Has there ever been or will there be an update where we can add visual elements to our pieces? Sometimes I'll look at a piece of art or a photo and draw inspiration and it really makes more sense if there's that visual aid to go "oh I see what they did there".

I come from another poetry site where you can add photos and have contests based on image prompts, and think that for the majority of us here it could be of a benefit.

Also think this place could do with some contests, maybe not for any real cash value but perhaps some form of reward like being a featured poet for X-amount of time, or free membership perks for X-amount of time. (Don't want to say let's copy allpoetry and do a points system here, the points there don't mean anything anyway)

Just thinking and pondering out loud.

They enter my home,
Cheap suits, bad cologne.

We talk, endlessly
Needing to break for water,
Laughter and short jokes
But the tone never truly shifts.

I hand them the keys
So they can open the doors
Chat histories explored,
Timelines secured,
Screenshots validated

They ask me if I feel threatened,
I protest that while I do the focus should remain on kids
They offer information not yet known,
I take in the aroma of such sweet tea
And drink it down with a knowing nod.

They show me things not yet seen,
And I confirm the rhetoric used to abuse this barely teen.

They thank me for my time,
And I am greeted by another offensive word
Of cheap cologne.

The walls get smaller for a predator
When they become the prey
You can fool yourself into finding Jesus
But the law won't let you get away if you pray

The walls close in on a cyber-stalker
See the news has broken all over the place,
And you took the liberty to threaten me while they were over the shoulder
How do you feel knowing that it's almost over?

The walls are closing in
And the arms are breaking through,
Soon you'll smell the scent of cheap perfume and cologne
And once the dark shadows rip you from your skin
Know that the monster you chase is the one in the mirror
If truly sober, homer, d'oh yourself while tyring to see clearer.

The wheels of justice move slowly.

In knots I’m bound
Like a loyal hound
To the boon of her weeping.

Across the obscuration of her glow
And the wounds she opens -
Only for our healing.

Caught in hypnosis,
Staring up into the empyrean night sky,
I see her in an incarnadine phantasmagoric glow
Singing nocturnes into a solvent for my soul.

And with my wolfsbane boon
I sing back to her in tune
An operatic symphony for two,
Basking in the resplendence
Of her crimson luminosity,
Freeing me of all animosities.

Admonish my nature,
So I may be absolved
To once again dance under your pale Aurelian sway
And brace myself upon the break of a new day.

Fog is bellowing
Where my vision was once so clear
Obscured in the opaque
Plagued by the pangs of -
Belly ache pains,
I’m so hungry for closure
That I can taste the air like a birthday cake
I’ll blow out the candle -
And let the dark consume as I fade out of frame.

I always knew, when the luster wore off
And all my paint chipped,
I’d be discarded and misused -
Stricken by boldness
Like a highlighted bible verse
There is scripture in the way you smite
The very holiness of my utmost intention
Pure as spring water -
Bottle my countenance
And set me by the fire,
Contents under pressure.