Composed 4/10/17
Description: Inspired by today’s Daily Prompt: Blindly. For NaPoWriMo.
For your undivided eyes
A shy and cautious smile
And your hearty laughter when
I slide in a small tease
For the uncontrollable tremors
Falling to my knees and
The excitement, nausea
And flush to my cheeks
For a chance at a dance
That radiates sincerity
And the warmth of home
For which I’m waiting
For such things
Though it’s naïve
And possibly ill-conceived
I will follow blindly
Composed 1/11/17
Description: For a daily prompt that fit the evening nicely: cling.
I think about you so much
I forget the radio’s on
And when I hear it
I belt out every song
Time, distraction help me forget
For a moment
Then the race is on
Consuming my mind and my internet history
You stole all the keys and now you control me
With wit and laughter, eccentricities
And now I try too much and
Sit when I yearn to stand and leave
When there is no reason
No hope
No plans
Why do I bother?
Why do I contemplate and scheme?
Why is it that when my mind is tickled
It clings?
Composed 8/2/16
Description: n/a
There’s something romantic
About those hard gray songs with
Their open, blunt, and silly words
That play loud on short road trips
That somehow connect to me
I wish I could write you one
And sneak it onto the airways
Lace it with words that would spell your name
As the DJ gave you mine
Feel the guitar riffs through your finger tips
As the bass resets your heart
Let the sound sink in and please you
Let the energy radiate, make you grin
I hope it’s a song you’ll hear again
You’ve been hidden in static speakers
Muffled and compressed
Loving hands hid your complexity and sound
And the radio censored your messages
Now do I listen only because I can?
Have I been bewitched simply by the sound?
Perhaps I’ve fallen into the music and lost my ground
And now I hesitate
This could be my favorite song or perhaps you’re just
An alternative
Composed 4/13/16
Description: An acrostic.
Obsessed I let you consume my thoughts
Be my everything especially at night I
Just let myself fall into thinking about
Exactly how wonderful you could be you’re all
Consuming so much I fear that when I
Touch you I’ll feel empty
Composed 7/8/15
Description: Inspired by the weather. A more musical poem regarding infatuation.
The summer heat makes my bones weary
There are burns on my arms and gnats in my eyes
Some love the heat and call it home
I long for the comfort of a misty day
It breaks the hours of sun and the same
You say your love will rain on down
You’ll roar each day with the downpour sound
But you can’t have rain without the clouds
And without the sun we’ll flood the town
With all that rain I’m sure to drown
I loathe revealing all my skin
It’s fresh and pale, vulnerable to scorch
Some make it a habit and call it beauty
I long for the comfort of a cover’s squeeze
On a cool day, just a bit of heat
You say your love will rain on down
You’ll roar each day with the downpour sound
But you can’t have rain without the clouds
And without the sun we’ll flood the town
With all that rain I’m sure to drown
Sun nor rain can nurture alone
It’s a balance just as all nature is
Some call drowning a pleasant demise
In drought I’d curl up and blow away
Either way the outcome is the same
Don’t you see the vital flaw?
What’s loved must not be the only gift
A rainy day needs a bit of sun
That’s the beauty
That’s where rainbows come from
You say your love will rain on down
You’ll roar each day with the downpour sound
But you can’t have rain without the clouds
And without the sun we’ll flood the town
With all that rain I’m sure to drown
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