to a lash of hazy life we cling
a blink away from awakening
the wind between our flimsy palms
a song of whimsy from beyond
the moon presumes our innocence
while making room for immigrants
no longer cozy in this dream
we flee our self-imposed quarantine
#vss365 #sunthing #poem
will you marrow me?
i want you to slurp my bones
be the buzzard in my desert
leave me littered on the stones
life is overrated anyway
all of mine have been a bust
but death gets better every time
so hurry up and spill my guts
#vss365 #satsplat
#poem #sunthing
over the busted lip of the land
a depression
the rubble around me tumbles
a percussion
i claw the cavernous cheeks
a confession
i want the moonlight on the creek
an elision
even a glimmer of serenity
a completion
#vss365 #bravewrite #thurds
#sunthing #vsspoem #poem
i have quit the quest
for a foreign euphoria
ditched the DeLorean
for the beautifully boring
the mundane of a Monday
park bench perfection
the lushness of daily life
the vibration of little blessings
#vss365 #vsspoem #bravewrite
#poem #poetry #sunthing
a salty lady salivates
a sandy child is brunch
she ate me
kelp the garnish
but the fist of my mother’s instinct
broke her blue jaw
when i inspect this
memory amber
i am lost in that lady’s swirling belly
yet all i feel
is my mother’s grip
never letting go
#vss365 #sunthing
brutal the daybreak
on your dead academies
sprawling the land
like shattered skulls
the brains
they fostered
now lining
our pearly labs
oh the knowledge!
but in mining
the universal currency
of a deeper math
we had to turn
elsewhere
#SciFiFri #SciFanSat
#vss365 #sunthing
horizon
of a curling leaf
dome
of a heavy eye
push
of a deep belief
death
of a deeper lie
#vss365 #bravewrite
#vsspoem #sunthing
#poem #poetry
a child on a crystal staircase
a spiral somewhere pristine
a glowing hand cradling
a desperate people’s dreams
a planet’s circumstance
a brink of cosmic change
a promise to would-be wayfarers
a labor for life regained
#scifansat #scififri #vss365
#bravewrite #sunthing #poem
The alchemy of apology
is only fragile—
every animal has pawed
that dirty paradox.
Early error kindles caution
& the lightning in your test tube.
Your moral experiment
flops fantastically:
is the syrup of a sorry
sweet enough?
#vss365 #bravewrite
#vsspoem #bardbits
#sunthing
It’s not really a confession
with that candy in your cheek.
So open up—tongue to roof.
Bend over & cough.
Flare your nostrils
till I can see your soul.
Your nauseating array
of improprieties
are now my purview.
Just don’t look at mine.
#vss365 #bravewrite
#sunthing #vsspoem
.
murmurs of renewal
ripple the fallow fields
their coat of quiet
itching to be shed
a wilding at the edges
hints of confiscated hope
even hearts of grain
are untamable in the end
.
#vss365 #vsspoem
#bravewrite #bardbits
#sunthing #poem
Each emotion is a petal
wilting in a vase of flesh
Let the beauty ravish you
then die upon your breath
Exhale yesterday’s bouquet
so today’s will not be missed
Even petals of grief & rage
hold momentary bliss
#BraveWrite #vss365
#sunthing #vsspoem
#poetry #poem
If you need me, I’ll be in the cellars
with these dusty jars of dreams
& the shelves of amber bottles filled
with the ferment of our screams.
The roots of our human family tree
are busting through the roof
while above we choke upon
our own bitter fruit.
#vss365 #Sunthing
The river with the infected mouth
left you half-digested on its lip
so you renounced rope swings,
ice cream & Sunday afternoons,
staying inside while your family
swam through summer.
As your inner river sludged
the culprit rippled its way
into self-forgiveness.
#vss365 #sunthing
I seek
the sun’s
answers
As if my strings
could play that
molten music
And flames
the only way
I ever die
Pardon my dust
while I billow
in the vastness
Even suns
are lit by the
burning Why
#vss365
#sunthing
#micropoetry
