Broken Dream
I came so innocent as a child such wild and fanciful play I would often tiptoe in the night staying long into the day * Fortresses queen I’d be sea castles in my mind and as I older grew I toyed in...
View ArticleBeast Below
The beast he calls to me. Gnawing about far below. It spells voracious hunger. Of defense I little know. Scraping out of need; I struggle to resist. “I am too young you fiend,” “…but this you...
View ArticleMy Damned Pen
The black penumbra grows rising, rising, rising greying forms its shadow pages turn unclear misled me from the light penetrating screams are near begs a blood curdling plea from where I do not know...
View ArticleReaping the Harvest
There was beauty here they’d say the remains are black charred crows because of that horrific day nothing green dares to grow * corn stood tall and harvest ready livestock munched on fresh-cut hay our...
View ArticleBeneath the Tree
December a month of hopefuls romance fragrant like a rose dreams from the sky blow lacy snowflakes danced gracing eyelashes kissed away in a magical embrace beneath the living Christmas Tree * The new...
View ArticleThe Bowl
A bowl filled with liquid; it had always been so. The bowl looked as if it was heavy needing a substantial stand and yet it was suspended just feet above the foliage that caressed its underside. It...
View ArticleGot Milk?
Pushed to the edge of despair this rocky place offers no hope fear lapping ankles around against empty waters we grope * silent, though nothing is still fear pounds loudly our hearts no where have we...
View ArticlePointed Ends
“9-1-1? I am calling about three, maybe four people who have been abducted. I can tell you where they are.” “Let me get your name, number you are calling from and location.” “Oh okay.” I tried to take...
View ArticleIniquity’s Marathon
Separate, the chasm widens where you were you are not now and there is none left to save you your guts are pierced like a bloated sow * Once you walked on wild flower fields pink and reds beckoned to...
View ArticleThe Other Side of Bethlehem
Soft caressing satin sheets the finest weave laid out awaiting our grey mistress today the surroundings a lowly cave but tomorrow she says ” it will be a palace” for she is deserved of the world’s best...
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