Pride Ed

Pride Ed Jun 2015

Endearing, I'm not...

because even
I couldn’t
reach through death
to love again

For another contest prompt on allpoetry:
10 words-sad

#metaphor #sad #depression #death #heartache #tragedy

Pride Ed Jun 2015

Love Never Dies.

Lilies wilted
On** the windowsill
Vase cracked from age
Every memory still anew

For the allpoetry contest:
in exactly 13 words...again #12

Word chosen: Love...
Because even beauty wilts away, but the emotion it evokes is timeless

#love #metaphor #life #beauty #decay

Pride Ed Jun 2015

Untitled

A good friend of mine once said:
“I hope you get revenge someday.”

And even as I smiled,
I still found pain in wishing
things turned out differently.

#depression #anger #pain #loss #hurt #revenge #break-ups

Pride Ed Jun 2015

Losing you to the Night.

a candle’s small flame;
a quiet star, flickering,
dimming in my sky.

many light-years were wasted.
wax melted; beacons in-vain.

For yet another prompt on allpoetry.

#love #heartbreak #sad #depression #loss #night #longing #personal

Pride Ed Jun 2015

The Vampiress.

Claret-stained kiss from maiden impure,
Cruel, burning pain, she craved more!
Hath taken my life from heaven’s eye,
Thy cankered night, in which I’ve died!

Written for a 25 word prompt challenge on allpoetry.
The word was "Crimson."

#dark #gothic #beauty #night #vampires #early-modern-english

Pride Ed Jun 2015

Meet Me at Eventide.

where the sun ceases to expose
all of the cracks of our shells

and just before the night
slowly engulfs the embers
we have left.

meet me
here…

...

#love #metaphor #life #beauty #personal #misc

Pride Ed Jun 2015

I am a Ghost Ship.

I.
My maiden voyage
on these waters, unbidden;
blood flows out to sea.

II.
Winds conquer my sails,
skin peels away in the waves,
my diaphragm floods.

III.
Marooned bag of bones
stripped by the sands of a tomb;
the ocean’s edge sleeps.

Yet another prompt on allpoetry.
I used senyu/haiku form to write this.

#depression #pain #death #dark #water #ocean #sea #decay #ghosts #short-poems