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 Feb 2017 K G
Chloe Zafonte
Spider
 Feb 2017 K G
Chloe Zafonte
He was a spider who lured me into his web. He did not eat me nor try to harm me, he had no intention at all but to leave me there stranded and confused.
Well I'm single ... Again
 Feb 2017 K G
Wandering Soul
Flowers
 Feb 2017 K G
Wandering Soul
Past her fake smile she was a wilting flower,
her color fading with every passing second.
Alone in the abyss swallowed by shadows
slowly suffocating and dying by the hour.

Each petal a fragment of her broken heart
left to gently fall one by one. Hidden and
tucked away out of sight on the top shelf
because he preferred daffodils over roses.
https://m.soundcloud.com/maxencecyrin/where-is-my-mind-the-pixies
 Jan 2017 K G
Dan McKee
Simple Stuff
 Jan 2017 K G
Dan McKee
Sleep is fleeting
Mirror cracks
Summer's stifling
Smiling lacks

Lovers leave you
Friends forget
Don't remember
Just regret

Milk turns sour
Leaders lie
Oceans burn
Don't ask why.
Rather melodramatic, but I wanted to play around with the form.
 Jan 2017 K G
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Shattered
 Jan 2017 K G
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I am composed of the people I have met
And my heart aches knowing that most of them
Are the same people I have lost
 Jan 2017 K G
Laura Enright
I left the coast
on a tiny blue and red rowing boat
I left my shoes on the pier
and jumped right in

I row to a beach and look along it
in moonlight
searching for those certain blue eyes
that I only half-remember
but all I see is strangers staring,
why are they sunbathing at night?

I give up, row back to land
the only sound is me pushing water
I struggle up the rungs of the ladder

lose my footing
fall
then suddenly
I don't know
whether I made it up the ladder at all
(after-note: although it's never mentioned in the poem, I hope that it is obvious that this is about a dream. I trust the reader to have picked up on it)
 Jan 2017 K G
Laura Enright
I walk on black crunchy sponge
barefoot, blank-minded, bedraggled

my backdrop is violent grey, green,
then white white white

wind whips my cheeks
then calms itself, calms me

I miss my sunshine on days like this
when the weather is rough

I appreciate it the most
 Jan 2017 K G
September
Sdrawkcab
 Jan 2017 K G
September
companionship, not compatibility.
i have chosen immobility.
once i lived in instability but now i live
in his advice.

so water melts to ice,
my science trusts the imprecise,
thus in this world,
such comfort will suffice.

thus in this world,
that i created,
my latest, unadulterated:
i will live in shallow vice
i will allow
such comfort to suffice.
i have settled for mediocrity.
 Jan 2017 K G
Eleanor
Great Gatsby
 Jan 2017 K G
Eleanor
Complicated and lovely
Graceful and *****
Love and all its tragedy
Drags the innocent into uncertainty
Pretty flower, prim and proper
Had to do what everyone told her
It was his time to return
And she had no time to mourn
She was already gone
And he had to wait for the sun

Married away was the sweet flower
Lost in blue was the Great
Locked away happily in a tower
She never thought of her lover’s fate
He built a fortress with all his power
Built his way to the top with a compelling name
Yet she never saw his tragic effort
She never noticed his fabulous fame

Wrapped in a web the author was
Watching all the tragic souls
Lost in a whirl of their own morass
The lies all lined with gold
Angels eat their cake
Going along with all the mendacities
Turning eyes to the shade
The innocent in the midst of uncertainty

Love in the worst form
Beautiful and torn
Wrong and adorned
Pure enough to mourn
Never amounts to success
Love is sinking
Lost in a dream
Like boats against the current
Borne back ceaselessly
Back into the past
This poem is my own interpretation of the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
 Jan 2017 K G
Tyler Lockwood
There are holes in my old socks
From all the cigarettes
I’m either too tired
Or too sad to finish
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