Odysseus, you never knew what you wantedbut I want youdays turned into yearsagain comes the autumn moonOdysseus, when will you remember me again?perhaps I’ll become a sirenwould that catch your attention?my song will be the echo of your nameevery man falls under my spellbut I only seduce lovers who are the shadow of youI carve…
Tag: poems
fall descends
fall descends upon a lonely worlda crinkled melody plays in the breezeominous shadows creep through the treesI dream of simpler timesin 8th grade I wrote a storyabout a girl named Corona who could time travelshe didn’t expect to leap into a fallwhen she’d be called a virus, a villainessshe didn’t know down a rabbit holeshe’d…
magical madness
I scribble my brain on paper crumpled ugly mess that I struggle to form into something I might understand maybe one day it will become beautiful there’s magic in this madness but it takes a lot of belief to hold onto the magic when the madness drives you to tears and threatens to destroy your…
Napowrimo 2020 Day 30
Prompt: Something that returns our bad habits are like the sea we send them out determined to be free but the tide either circles back or becomes reincarnated as rain seeping into our skin the drugs cycle us back to those lies when we believed we were free once more we’re trapped in the rush…
Napowrimo 2020 Day 29
Prompt: pet she feigns indifference tail flickering head tilted high shrugs from human touch when they want her attention unless she’s in the mood for a massage she’ll make her needs known weaving between her human’s legs golden eyes gleaming with love her independent aura amuses me such sassy cattitude a true introvert she couldn’t…
Napowrimo 2020 Day 28
Prompt: room/space from your past a windowless white room that’s where the madness starts you lay bound to yourself lonely and petrified the voice over the speakers belongs to the master she sounds exactly like you her mocking whispers are words you’d never say to your friends the master says you have no friends and…
Napowrimo 2020 Day 27
Write a poetic review of something not normally reviewed. tick-tock his mocking voice a relentless reminder in your ear you can only grow older under his controlling spell call him father? I think not more like selfish bastard king of crooks a good father would not take away your beauty your ability to mother a…
Napowrimo 2020 Day 24
Write about fruit. your fragrance is a summer orchard peaches ripe with golden temptation I long for your scent to tangle with my skin how gentle your caress upon my lips your flesh tender and sweet sacred nectar bathes my tongue in delicious desire let me be drunk on this forbidden fruit and never wake…
Napowrimo 2020 Day 23
Write about a letter of the alphabet or letters that form a short word. O to the never ending pools promising forever as far as the east is to the west C a magnetic siren call her song stirs the waves bringing me closer closer closer– a dangerous temptation leads to freeing sensation E I…
Napowrimo 2020 Day 22
Use an idiom from another language/culture as the jumping point for a poem. a dog bitten by a snake is afraid of sausages doesn’t mean the dog stopped craving meat fool me once, shame on you fool me twice, shame on me like shame is a hot potato no one wants to be caught holding…
Napowrimo 2020 Day 21
Day 21 Prompt: Take a poem from another language and translate it the way it sounds. Here’s my attempt with a Norwegian poem. Men når du er framme ved det som rører degrører det deg ikkjelenger likevel er det alltid noe som vilrøre ved deg I går stod du inneklemt i eit ordnesten uten å…
Napowrimo 2020 Day 20
Write about a handmade/homemade gift you received. used to believe all handmade gifts were from the heart until once upon a time I barely knew a viper wearing a prince’s skin met up for coffee just once before he decided I was his mouse thoughtful he claimed to be with the meal he cooked up…
Untold Tales by a Whimsical Wallflower 