BT

Spirit Animal

by BT

I can feel all of you writhing together
Pooling your heat
You are hot wires running through me
Electric as you cover
Your thin bodies wrapping themselves tightly
racing like wind to a wildfire
You are covering me in flame

Dangerous animals are fleeing these woods
as you turn figure eights
creating paths of orange and red
trails of yellow to black to ash

Heat escapes me as my temp...

Thursday 12th April 2012 3:19 am

Tags: free verse,free form,word experiment,found word,contemporary

Chrysalis

by BT

Chrysalis
Water
Throat
Heart
Root

I am surprised to hear my voice
so bold and sure of it’s self
as if it weren’t my own

and for a second there
I have to wonder.

I listen again,

There is a distant sound
of harmony and balance,
they are bleeding together
the masculine with the feminine

It is a song
A chant

It is spilling out over my lips

But I do not si...

Wednesday 21st March 2012 5:56 pm

Tags: experimental,found word,word experiment,free verse,free form

Candy Apple Love

by BT

I loved you once.

Really, I did.

It was a sweet candied apple, kind of love
a legs wide open, love
a love that knew each and every one of my secrets.

Love?

Do you remember the night
that I wrote testaments across your body?

You a moonlite canvas pale as washed wool.

I dreamt mad Van Gogh blue skies,
wrapped up with you,
my love,

We...