Everyone writes poems about emotions and fears
And one day I said, "I want to write a poem about
Ice cream."
About Dilly Bars on the drive from Tucson to Phoenix
The Dairy Queen across the highway from the ostrich farm
With the dust devil's raging by
About soft serve cones at the Desert Museum
Always Twist. Never Vanilla.
On all those hot Saturday afternoons
Watching mountain goats sleep in the shade
A poem about Friday nights after pizza
A different flavor every time
And eating straight from the carton at Dad's
While netflix plays on the wii
And sitting on the rooftop watching the stars
Ice cream bar in hand
About the store by Big Lake
W
Whatever Came to Be by urbuddiondreamcrack, literature
Literature
Whatever Came to Be
Breathe in, no air,
Suffocating by lack of hope
An ember fizzled out in the cold
Burnt bright once, red and alive,
Like the cherry blood flowed through veins,
Spilt over the ground, dying out,
The light disappearing,
Eyes glassed over like frost,
Warmth buried deep somewhere inside,
Hidden from the dancing orange flame,
Pale moonlight touching earth and steel,
Reflecting the life it's known,
One slice, then another and another,
Releasing the pain, outcast, sticky redness
Throwing it away as useless
A vile evil to destroy at every cost,
Starts a frenzied rampage,
Forget, remember, slice, cut, remember, forget,
Til there's not a place without s
Standing at the Edge of the World by urbuddiondreamcrack, literature
Literature
Standing at the Edge of the World
Playful wind lapping up her restless hair
The cliff before, jutting against the cloud enduring sky
Waves giving greetings of merry meet,
Breaking acquaintance on wet earth and rock
Her body shivering from the cold salt air
Finger curled, clenched tight, unsure
The horizon endless to her sunken down eyes
Rose petals she drops down below
Crimson like the blood dripping off her arms
Never healing scars,
Stained cherry her clothes, her soul,
Backing away to collapse,
To cry one last painful memory
Fog, a sudden presence rolling in, covering her shoulders,
Draped around her like a woven jacket, safe,
She turns from the precious sea,
Turns and fall