Category: Short Fiction & Poetry

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Gravid reticence

Seachange of promise and loss

Snow dots the landscape

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It was such a pretty snowy morning.  I couldn’t resist taking a quick picture and the words just fell out of me.

Lovely girl sitting on her swing, swing, swing…

Dark hair shadows her face like string, string, string.

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Her feet kick out and she goes high, high, high…

Faster and faster, into the night sky, sky, sky.

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Softly, she whispers about a hole, hole, hole…

Where she should have had a soul, soul, soul.

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Her deadened eyes stare into mine, mine, mine…

Something about her brings about the shine, shine, shine.

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Around her mutters, with your soul I would be complete, eat, eat…

With those words, I beat a hasty retreat, treat, treat.

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But who knew that lonely girls could float, float, float.

I felt her cold fingers around my throat, throat, throat…

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As I fade away, I feel her kiss, kiss, kiss.

Her bony hand takes mine into the abyss, abyss, abyss…

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The lovely girl was just skin and bone, bone, bone…

The lonely girl is no longer alone, alone, alone.

Blood swirls through

from the heart to your veins

Only to cycle afresh and anew.

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Its sanguine scent

while heady and sweet

colors scarlet the bitter brew.

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Risen by the call

of your heart’s heavy beat

and the splash of tears you’ve let slip.

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Returned, I have

though my spectral presence

lades your soul with dread.

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While it may be

that I am no more

Romance itself is never dead.

Image by Oliana Gruzdeva from Pixabay

Pumpkin man, pumpkin man

You journey west and to the hills

Your stick legs carry you far and away

Pumpkin man, pumpkin man

Seasons have changed, autumn has come

The people bay and call for your blood

Pumpkin man, pumpkin man

It’s the time of the Harvest Moon

The torches are burning, run for your life

Pumpkin man, pumpkin man

Are you okay? You’ve turned part of your stem

Into a staff and can barely continue on your way

Pumpkin man, pumpkin man

It was a valiant try but your head has rotted out

And your twig limbs have become too dry

Pumpkin man, pumpkin man

May your seeds take to the earth

So that you may live another day

Image by Benjamin Balazs from Pixabay

Aliens and teddy bears

Occupy the mind at night

Hidden deep below the stairs

Extinguished of all light

Visitations from monsters

Hesitation, flight or fight?

Circled like a table of mobsters

Pistols drawn below the surface

Trapped like a tankful of lobsters

Claws made useless on purpose

Choices in all directions

Struggling through it all like a circus

Fists up and smile wide

Life wasn’t meant to come with a guide.

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

Fried egg in the pan

Is it like being on drugs?

Not when you’re around

Mmm, you smell so good

I just want to eat you up

Don’t take it that way

Friends are like bacon

Sweet, smoky and a bit crispy

Where did Bobby go?

Image by Alexas_Fotos from Pixabay

Portal through a washing machine

To another world that doesn’t care

Where everything is just as bad

The grass ain’t greener, I declare

There isn’t much else left to compare

The only plus is all the left socks

Instead, the right socks go missing

Perhaps that’s the only real difference

The governments and the world are dehiscing

And the people are just as dismissing

It’s exactly like here but different

If I were you I wouldn’t bother to go

Now all this could be tales, lies, and hearsay

So let’s be honest for a moment and forgo

If you haven’t been there, what would I know?

 

Image by Ryan McGuire from Gratisography.

I think of you as the night goes by

And wonder if you think of me?

A simple text would do the trick

Or even a quick phone call

Instead, I sit and stare through space

And know you are just down the hall.

Image by Ryan McGuire from Gratisography.

His fingertips feel nothing still

Eyes like spheres trapped in cages

No pulse to pump fluids, only the will to live

The future is now

Cold, hard, plastic and metal

Gleaming and smooth

All that is left is brains and fingernails

Image by Wolfgang Eckert from Pixabay.

A simple smile

Loose strands of hair fly free

Beauty in the moment

Memories washed away

As time carries on

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