89words: “She wore a dark silk dress and her hair was edged with two silver clips set with pearls in the pattern of jasmine flowers.” — Meena Alexander, from “Fault Lines,” originally published c. 1993
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shi-saa: Novalis, Heinrich von Ofterdingen: A Romance[originally published 1802]
Emasculated! I was cut down to the quick over a cellphone!
Poison Danger lies before you while safety lies behind Will you drink the offered cup, or fear what you may find Is it bitter poison or is it sweet beneath Will it make you gag and choke and cling against[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ain’t So Sweet So ya say that I’m the nice one And I take it with a grin But I ain’t nobody’s buddy And I ain’t so clean a’ sin It’s all a trick with light and smoke And it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A part of the darkness, the light of a flare You show off your pretty mirrors to hide what isn’t there The curve of your smile the edge of a blade you don’t dare posess what your mind has forbade[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here I am again, I might as well be seventeen. Let that mindset prevail, so comforting, and clean. I am not a creature who can live the usual ‘vie’ I exist only in stories, and they exist in me. And[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Unkept Jealousy breeds a taste for death, in e’en the trembling hand though it might hear a long lament before it takes command. How long he lingered on the edge of the laughing, smiling three He wallowed in his solitude[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In Memoriam: Octavius These aching arms carry so much weight but not enough to lift my burden and so I am borne down by hate. I wonder what moment sealed my fate. Does it take so “little” to break a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Its amazing what random scripts can do. This poem was written by the random Haiku Generator. http://www.everypoet.com/haiku/default.htm Try your luck. crows babble, bleak ink beckoning castaways dream free; delirious
Dance in darkness, pretty thing, Heartbeats only dissipate But in shadow, creep thee still, Bound to nothing, only fate
The insistant whisper of the dice begging to be cast But I always hesitate held back by the past Take my hand in yours it’s the only way if you make me throw the dice maybe I can play. I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I want to be a ghost. I want to be completely free of all duties and responsibilities. Not just to other people, to myself as well. I don’t want to have to think about eating, or sleeping. I want to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One day I just picked up and left it all behind I didn’t really think that anyone would mind But now I face the task to start it all again And can’t help but regret what once might have been
Here Lies Death by Overlord_Mordax Here lies death, born and bred amidst the scars of angry red. Amidst the flowers, blooming bright she gentles down to that goodnight. Here lie dormant all her woes, anger, sorrow, impassioned throes. Across the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I counted the legs and found it odd that there were only seven as I had come to expect more from such a creature.