I seemed to have hit a literary bump. I really want to write something fresh, but I feel all "Bollixed up". In a desire to spur my craving for prose I’ve turned to gimmickry. First, I thought I would just Alphabetize my Creative Demise: A Brutally Contrived Dialectic Endeavor Frantically Geared, Hopefully, Into Just Keeping …
Tag: Confusion
A Void Dance
It’s Anguish when she turns from me Worse still, I've earned this action It wounds the ‘We’ – I’m sure we’d be It’s a void sprung from attraction How strange to feel the guilt of it It ignites a hole I’ve known The Fable sought – my acts were not The smartest seeds I’ve …
Life Spring
I’ve glimpsed the soul of ‘Life Spring’ as it huddled Doubt filled, hurting, twisting in the dark She ponders my intentions and befuddled Imagines that I won’t maintain the spark Exquisite she, though flawed and prone to finding - Reasons to distrust the love in me Trying to surpass the past’s un-windings Disavowing dreams …
Bed-lamb
It could have been a simple conversation It should have been, but wasn’t, not for me Because it bore the pungent stench of desperation She’s a coin, full in sight, but out of reach She could have said her lines a whole lot better I think I would have liked believability But she never …
Kitten’s Lap
The fire chattered warmly as I curled up, nearly napped With my back towards the fireplace, my head in Kitten’s lap My mind was filled with jousts and kings And lore of days gone by And I did not hear the tear, appear in Kitten’s eye That salt-warm tear ran down her cheek unnoticed …
Walkin’
I’ve seen the mist rising on a dry river bed – I knew the water lay there undetected I’ve seen the clouds rising up behind your eyes – when you felt yourself unprotected I’ve walked the shallow fields of your fallow mind – divining rod twitching in my hand Searching for the soul that I …
Sam VanMusings 