strong (Remove filter)
Love: The Truth
Real love is life threatening
It’s not serene, sweet, dream love
It’s not romantic, rainbow love
No
True love is torture
Gut wrenching pain
Hands and knees, love
Need it to breathe, love
It’s enough to put you away, love
But never pull you away, love
It’s masochistically addictive
It titillates and irritates
Possesses every bit
Until you have a fit
...Tuesday 23rd November 2021 11:15 am
I am not locked up, I am the lock.
I am keeping a secret with myself
for myself,
clutching it within like a bird’s claw,
the carrier pigeons have been shot,
guess I forgot to warn the men with rifles,
suppose it wasn’t a clay pigeon after all.
My mouth is a gold crested envelope,
my lips are licked with wax:
they are an inked kiss,
the pout is the stamp,
my mind is the scroll:
bound and bound,
re...
Tuesday 10th July 2018 2:23 pm
Fingernails
My hands are patterned by ambitions,
these lines on my skin are wishes,
palms marked like the sky after a shooting star
and shining when they interlace with your fingers,
your skin's wrinkles and crinkles.
The crevices of our skin do not match or meet
the way coloured paths on a map synchronise and intercross,
reaching destinations.
We are separate pieces of meat
but
...
Monday 31st July 2017 2:40 pm
Recent Comments
Dee Allen. on TWO MODELS
4 hours ago
Patricia Ziel on Window-Shopping
8 hours ago
Dilsonn A. Mejía on A life of a character
8 hours ago
Pete (edbreathe) on 3
8 hours ago
Tom Doolan on I Need Some Loving Loving
13 hours ago
Ciaran Cunningham on VERDIGRIS
13 hours ago
Ciaran Cunningham on VERDIGRIS
13 hours ago
Tom Doolan on I Didn’t Want To Speak Out Loud
14 hours ago
Graham Sherwood on VERDIGRIS
16 hours ago
Larisa Rzhepishevska on keith jeffries
16 hours ago