Missing…
not now, yet then
proximity, coy time allowed
not her…
Category: Poetry
EDC Shorts: Poetry – Splintered
He’d broken nothing…
no rib, no wrist, no leg
an angel left him…
her splintered heart
weeping in his head
EDC Shorts: Poetry – Games
He’d no time for games
she played them night and day
he’d nothing left to say
she kept talking just the same
Danced
Heels and cake – the words of Tanya dancing – re-blogged for PorterGirl – she likes this kind of thing!
danced on the edge of the baker’s knife
the plot thickened
like chocolate ganache
until it crumbled
tension released
in a shower of shavings
over the already frosted
chapter-layered
cake
hands, poised to crack open the book,
positioned the knife
and sliced deeply
then, like cake devoured,
the story
savored,
swallowed,
digested,
and
imbued
baker and patron,
reader and writer,
danced
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EDC Shorts: Poetry – Tears
As she poured he drank
her teapot full of tears
each cup of her
a fear a hurt released
EDC Shorts: Six-Words into Poetry – Tell Them
Write words to right a wrong
Tell them go on tell them
Her need his want their lines
Their spaces merge no sign of
EDC Shorts: six words – lines – ‘poetry’ #146
Behind Them:
She took his hardness
Softened his belief
He gave what she’d not had
She said she’d never give
Sex lay behind them
Love let in begins
EDC Shorts: six words – lines – ‘poetry’ 142
Save Face:
To be sucked in
You cross a line
Left best a fool
At worst ignored
Let conscience air
Not skewed desire
Step back save face
No mirror lies
♦
Please note I’ve also posted this poem at the Go Dog Go Cafe
EDC Shorts: six words – lines – ‘poetry’ #140
Do You Ever…
Do you ever find
you need to say so much
then realise no words exist
that can replace a touch a kiss
Do you ever feel
a longing deep inside
you know will not subside
that will never fade away
Do you ever wonder
why my hand is not in yours
why our eyes can’t say it all
why we believe yet never see
EDC Shorts: six words – lines – ‘poetry’ #139
Dare You?:
Lay between the lines
Pressed by their subconscious
The wet of their wanting
The pierce of unheard screams
Dare you read their needs?
