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False Spring

The weather warmThe days brighterWinter’s fingers slacken their gripFrozen nights leading to icy morningsNo longer upon my doorstep fallHis lips no longer speak my nameThough at one time they didSweetest refrains from songs of the heartBut falsetto were his only notesThe sun came up still a little earlierYet no warmth did it bringWinter though itsContinue reading “False Spring”

Out Like A Lamb

In like a lionWild and roaring jungle catLeave purring kitten Yesterday it was snowing. Literally blowing cold flakes of nearly frozen water on my face. Today? Today, I’m literally sweating just sitting outside. “Hot enough for you?” “Haha. Yeah,” I say and go back to my phone. “Hot enough to sweat the balls off aContinue reading “Out Like A Lamb”

I’ll Eat your Piece

It was dessert that did me in; the upside down pineapple cake, looking up at me from the small white plate.It was my grandmother’s favorite cake to bake, her special recipe, made special only because she was the one to make it.I looked up at her, with I’m sure the beginnings of tears in myContinue reading “I’ll Eat your Piece”

Turn Away

Turn awayThe silence is betterThan when I held you in my armsThe thunder of your beating heartWith mineEchoesIn my hollow chestA bass drumWithout a beatWith you in another’s armsTurn awayThe silence is better This is for a dVerse prompt: Write a quadrille (a poem of EXACTLY 44 words, not including the title) AND include theContinue reading “Turn Away”

Kissed If You’re Irish

They remember him as a saviour of his people.“He drove out the snakes!”,Vile filthy creatures,Yet he was never one of them.Though “they” never claimed him as their ownHe was assigned to them by popular belief.Popular belief is what he brought to them.Drove out, burrowed in,Blessed are the meek for they shall drink green beer.‘Ye ken’tContinue reading “Kissed If You’re Irish”

Go Fetch

“It all belies our existence; we wait, and are still denied.”1“C’mon Rover. That’s a little dramatic don’t you think?” asked Edward. “A whistle blows, the ball is out of sight. Soon part of me will explore the deep and dark.”2“Don’t be like that,” replied Edward.Rover sat with his head on his hands. A sigh escapedContinue reading “Go Fetch”

Am I OverExposed?

There’s something about being over exposedThat changes perceptionThe way others see you and the way you see yourselfEven in the plainest of thingsYou see them differently When they are laid out too long in the sunThe light shining too bright, too long upon the eyeA field of simple cattails, browned by the passage of timeTheirContinue reading “Am I OverExposed?”

We/Them

You and I together as oneIce cream and conePronouns they/themMe and you a teamI start a sentenceAnd you support my stanceYou love me and I love youThe sugar to sweeten my yuzuWe even think the sameThere for each other time after timeMy love, heaven sentEven in darkness you’d be my light This is for aContinue reading “We/Them”

Hey April!

To the beat of the drumWe do march to the bottom The end of cold nights and black afternoonsI would see the rise of morning sunsIn like a lion with the blood of the lambTops round and spin, a rock rolls from a tomb Daffodils sprout green shoots Blue pills swallowed, no commentsLittle warmer thenContinue reading “Hey April!”

In a word or Two

In a wordOr two Just the sight of youI can’t believe Just you and meThe flowering trees Bloom, fragrant as sunshineAs loud as the rolling seas Crash into meMake me move The beating of your heartThe whole not just a part Seems as suchThat there isNothing missing When I’m with you This is from aContinue reading “In a word or Two”