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I’m beat
The heat
But Can’t complain
Beats the rain
Feeling drained
I’m zapped
I need ice
That would be nice
And To chill
Literally at will
But that sun is hot
The air is steamy warm
Just like in Mexico
When we used to go!
But at least there
They had storms
ThT clear the air!
So I’ll jump in the jacuzzi
When I’m not feeling so woozy!
 Jul 2020 Mark S
Jaye
Fate
 Jul 2020 Mark S
Jaye
Fate**
Memories of the past long and forgotten
The window to the soul is long shut
Penance, for all the grieving that others have done
On our behalf
Fortune what we seek but never fully attain
Lust, constantly confused with love
And hatred constantly given to the ones who love
Wisdom, the knowledgeable shall never gain
And freedom the free shall never understand
Under lock and key we hide our emotions
Yet complain that no one understands
A search light in the dark, forever seeking to never be alone
Without knowing that the Darkness too, feels a sense of loneliness
 Jul 2020 Mark S
Maddy
She played favorites
Breaking a heart that would never heal
That heart sought writing as comfort and befriended it forever
Forgiving and forgetting live on the same plane
Something as precious as acceptance and care would go a very long way
That never happened and it made life intolerable when it never should have been
The greatest pain is to accept it so life as one would like to enjoy it can go on
The echoes come and go but happiness won even though she never accepted that
Despite every effort and still at the strangest of moments the pain still echoes but more quietly
Maybe that is the best way to move forward and on

C@Rainbowchaser2020
Very difficult when you dont like someibe you lovr.
 Jul 2020 Mark S
toady
watermelon cubes
sticky chins and citrus smiles
the sun exposes the peach fuzz across my top lip
but I don't mind

I lay on my back
and still see orange when I close my eyes
grass poking through the gaps in my body
sweet mango grin at the thought of space between my limbs

the grass starts to itch and I know I'm alive
my tongue now a bitter lemon
wild cherry thoughts
wondering how to escape this body for five minutes

blueberry heart
maybe it's just me
and the sun
 Jul 2020 Mark S
Janet Doyle
Lore
 Jul 2020 Mark S
Janet Doyle
Time and again was history lost,
For a tyrant will reign at any cost,
Our books destroyed,
and minds subdued,
Or heroes slandered,
and spirits abused,
But hope, like life will find a way,
A light will shine, there’ll be a new day,
And hidden, kept hidden,
safely away,
Once thought destroyed,
forever to stay,
The wisdom that our ancestors knew,
They kept it for us, and never withdrew,
But waited, they waited,
through the long night,
To be revealed,
when the timing was right.
Fear not the darkness, just use it well,
And when the sun rises, there’ll be a new tale.

JDoyle
 Jul 2020 Mark S
Colm
The only thing
To regret of this dream
Is in the waking up
The moving of
And the wanting to remember
What I never can
Hmmm....
 Jul 2020 Mark S
Whit Howland
You ask
what is the tipping point
when does it all go away

I answer

close your eyes
and listen to the clock tick

it's only then you will see
it melting
and dripping in the sun


Whit Howland © 2020
A surrealist word painting. A hat tip to a poet friend Joe Machetto.
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