i’m thousands of miles down the rabbit hole
and i don’t know how to come out again
i’m bitten and bruised
covered in dirt
my fingers reaching through the soil
because i fell down that rabbit hole
and i need to come out again
Day: October 4, 2021
Poetry: Day 673
i could write delicate poetry
if you would prefer
pretend that i wear dresses
and sink my knees in flowerbeds
(white wine and alternative music)
i could drive slowly
be polite
and wear my hair down
like the other girls you know
i could pretend that i’m delicate like that
if you would prefer
rather than the thunderstorm inside of me
where anxiety burns like heartache
my jeans are two sizes too big
(i put my foot through the hole at the knee last week)
where loud music resets my brain
so i don’t have to sleep on the floor
and angry guitar riffs make me cry
i could pretend that i’m delicate like how you want
but i’m not
i’m delicate in arm wrestling and fast cars
baggy jeans and sports shorts
halfway between academia and art
never able to choose
(because choosing seems too final)
and i’m delicate…
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Heartbreaker
“How can you not see that you’re the one
taking pieces of my broken heart?”
How can you say I’m the love of your life when time and time again, you choose someone else? How is it that I am always caught in your web, waiting for the moment you’ll discard me like a piece of trash?
How can you not see that you’re the one taking pieces of my broken heart?
© Sarah Doughty
2017
I refuse to be labeled by
your own insecurities.
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Ambling – Poem by Ali Grimshaw
Let's linger in the Autumn glow dusk is on its way to cloak us with comfort ease our worries loose to fall. Pausing here we become one with this seasonal scene of hush before continuing our saunter harvesting what matters most from this day. © Ali Grimshaw 2021 Join us on dVerse for Quadrille Monday HERE Photo take in Portland, Oregon 2020. View of the Willamette River.
Lost In Aphasia – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
“Nothing matters more than when a person discovers their voice ….” Lisa Haynes
Lost In Aphasia What pricks your ears, does it make any sense as you graze the spice rack along the path of discovery, not caring for much at all, how do you muddle through, exponential acceleration or just curating your inheritance, fading out, remaining unaware, silent in anaemic, vanilla habits, lost in aphasia? Copyright 2021 ©Paul Vincent Cannon All Rights Reserved ®
Poetry: Day 675
it took me three hours to get here
exhausted and alone
hungry for sleep
and full of new memories
it took me three years to get here
but i’m making moves
against a tide that i thought
would force me back
Same again (a quadrille)
That night, doubts lingered like shadows
unspoken words hung like heavy chandeliers
eyes shuttered the unbecoming reality
we sat like two strangers
our misaligned hearts
refusing to beat in tandem
but cowardly courage refused to sing
So we went back to the usual drudgery.
Written for dVerse. Today’s host Linda says: The word today is Linger or any form thereof, or even one you create containing the word.
The Reluctant Poet 