His use by infinite
Her best before conditional
Buy one get one free
Fate stocktakes and schemes
Category: Poetry
EDC Shorts: Poetry – It Did
He’d not said before
implied a maybe
once said ‘what if’
she’d said ‘didn’t matter’
both knew it did
EDC Shorts: Poetry – Haberdashery
A pulled thread
a stretched seam
sewn buttons eased
blushed pink released
EDC Shorts: Poetry – Says
He says …
she shakes, tumbles into night
She says …
he wakes, trembles into day
EDC Shorts: Lines & Poetry – Writing
His words
of and to strangers
relative and otherwise
of him yet not …
EDC Shorts: Poetry – Not Now
Missing…
not now, yet then
proximity, coy time allowed
not her…
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
