Sombre

Oct 2014

Haydn Swan

The need

I can’t sleep,
I can’t drink,
got to see a man tonight,
shivers and shakes,
imaginary snakes,
walls closing in,
heads in a spin,
body in pain,
always the same,
I've got a need,
a powerful need.

I wrote this about a difficult time in my life many years ago, thankfully I recovered but I know for many the struggle continues.

#addiction #life #pain #thoughts

Sombre Oct 2014

To seek

I am what you seek,
I seek what you are,
I avoid what you seek,
you seek what I avoid.

#poem #life #thoughts #answers

Oct 2014

Haydn Swan

Dreams

To drift in the wind on the edge of a dream,
chasing our thoughts on the back of a moonbeam,
candyfloss mornings and effervescent nights,
cascading rainbows in a box of delights,

pretty girl smiles and puppy dog tails,
candy stripe slugs and polka dot snails,
ride the light on a sunlit wave,
into the void of the crystal cave.

#poem #poetry #life #dreams #thoughts

Oct 2014

Miranda Renea

October

It was about the time,
Hours after the day had died,
And bikers flashed their lights
Like the starry glazed eyes of
Decayed faces found in late cars,

That the local school's nature god
Had granted me a fall blessing
I saw in horns, on a hill he was
Standing, staring, like my lover
Not far over - under dying leaves.

#love #depression #life #loss #dark #nature #night #innocence #lose

Oct 2014

Lorenzo Iñigo Jimenez

Dull Temptations

I'm smelling ash that isn't there
And tasting beer I haven't drank,
I have you to thank.

I miss these dull temptations
Even all they've done is hurt me.
Leaving me was easy, how hard could it be?

These days I laugh,
I laugh with pain,
I can't even try to say your name.

Well, here's something. It isn't much, I guess. Charles Bukowski's "Cows in Art Class" stuck with me and here's something I cooked up from it.

#love #heartbreak #sad #pain #bukowski

Oct 2014

Danna

Alcohol

It makes me feel alive
The way you used to

It burns as it runs through my veins
But I liked it better when you were the one giving me warmth

It keeps me sane. It keeps me together
But I still wish it was your voice telling me it would all get better

It makes me forget, at least for a while
It is the only escape I've found

You ask why I get intoxicated every night
The only answer I can give, is to get your ghost away from me