Signal Lost

Woke up in the country Hours away from you Watched sunrise from patio Over ice-crusted car Wish I could stay There are never enough Miles between us You take the city Lights, girls, drugs, bars The novelty’s all yours I’ll keep my heart Written for Quadrille #168 by dVerse: https://dversepoets.com/2023/01/23/quadrille-168/ Posting this from my phone,…

Dawdling

These questions are from The Morning Dawdler What are your views on Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex’s published memoir ‘Spare’ and the media coverage supporting it – even if you haven’t read the book? I’m going to answer this with a YouTube video from Dr. Grande, because I don’t really care, but I agree with…

2022 Poetry Compilation

Prompt for MTB: Finding it First by dVerse: Write a poem using the first line from each of the first poems you posted each month of last year. (Since I didn’t write any poems until June, I used a lot from that month.) Some people worry that my diagnosis denotes violence I’d like to think…

Smoking Arkquain

PuffPuff passDon’t bogartThe burning blunt No one wants to hearThis long story, anywayWe’re a hostage audienceShut up and inhale I can’t believeYou got thePaperWetSo grossYou know whatI think I’m good What is there to eat?I ate all those ediblesBut I don’t think they’re workingWe should smoke some more Are you hungry?Let’s make food.Dinner?Drinks?Dessert?Don’t worryI love…

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CriticizePredicted actionsSelf-fulfillPropheciesWe burned each other aliveThen pointed fingers BorderlineAbandonment painDestructiveIdeasChildhood abuse falloutPanic triggered Write reliefMidnight poetryUnabashedNarrativeActions articulatedKeyboard therapy ShadormaSpill shocking secretsSave to draftsThought graveyardReturn to bed til sunriseDream of empathy Form: Shadorma

The Anna

Trees Turned us intoAncient damaged redwoodsSet us aflame during a droughtFire resistance aged our youthful faces My love for him still evergreenAlthough he cut us downThe fall brings peace The Anna was a bit of a challenge to write 🙂 Post written for Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge-Trees and My Name Poetry Scavenger Hunt All photos…

Marianne

September in California Fires lit my dreamsWoke to caramel skiesForesthill, Yosemite, WeedSmoke surrounds usCan’t breathe A Marianne poem for Murisopsis’ My Name Scavenger Hunt.

September Poetry Challenge

Tehachapi In Tehachapi, it felt like the wind would blow us off the mountain In Tehachapi, we found dozens of endangered Bakersfield cacti In Tehachapi, we stood at the feet of sky-scraping wind turbines Hiking breezy PCT peaks between Mojave and San Joaquin Scarves over our faces to keep the sand out of our eyes…

Shadorma Tuesday

4:20a.m. What better time to write my first Shadorma. Breaking Up With Not My Boyfriend It’s overNow I won’t get toSee his blueEyes sparkleOr leave purple love bites onThe crook of his neck He’s so madSaid he’s done with meHe’ll neverTalk to meThen blocked my cell phone numberAlways stonewalling Well, you knowI’m quick to temperSo…

Ruins and Confession (Quadrilles)

Ruins I know I canI think you canSo why can’t weMake it work out?What is wrong withMe, why do IWant it to workSo badly when youDon’t love me back?If you did, wouldI sabotage us anyway? Confession Don’t want to admitThe reason it hurtsIs because I thinkIt’s all my faultWe didn’t work because I kind of…