Tag: poetry

Evolving Emotions: Anger- Poetry
A’s, B’s, C’s, and D’s
Planted on a peculiar carpet
you examine the lanes
sectioned off with yellow stripes
and white lines
Patches of green grass
encircle the buildings,
each with their own symbol
and saturated design
Behind you is a dull
knock
Against your back
lay the bulk of your once proud tower
A’s and B’s
C’s and D’s
strewn about the carpet
By your side
is a pigtailed girl
with pronounced teeth
and corduroy pants
She did this.
Swept up
you shriek and scream
a gut-wrenching howl
over the tower lost
and dignity torn
Tears flow down
with a scowl of bright fury.
Outstretched,
your hands wave
pleading for attention,
a witness to this injustice,
this crime of heinous intent.
You cry out for the giant
looming over the threshold
to bring about your uprising
and snatch her and her pigtails
in a fit of glory
With a turn of the head
thunderous booms
and scooping arms
The giants lifts you,
meeting the air
This is not what is just.
You shriek once more
flailing limbs to break free
from this traitorous captor
Your eyes meet the lettered blocks
and the hands
rearranging them
before you are carried away
For an hour-long slumber.

I wonder what happens when I lay beside you
If I rest my head on your shoulder
I wonder if I can hear your heart tremor
To the beat of my nerves
I wonder if you tread carefully with your words
Pick and choose phrases that will make me listen
Riesling over liquor
I wonder if you have lost thoughts
Tremble at their release and take them elsewhere
Whisper without me
I wonder if you hide your truth
Mask feelings in sweet nothings
Hide dark in the night

Sagas Among the Arcana: Four Haikus
Judgment
she opens the mind
weighing scales for those once blind—
those that surrender
The Hermit
it— a lonesome beast
now striking the match itself
to light its own lamp
Two of Cups
snakes are arduous,
both in their love and their hate
they’re bound together
Queen of swords
student of judgment
sword polished for punishment—
she falls without detachment