guy scutellaro

1d

William J Donovan

My heart bleeds
Love's old scars,
planted sad seeds
in a sky of stars.

2d

Carlo C Gomez

~
A scribbled note passed
from one insider to the next.

The day she runs out of people
she'll conference with birds,
fall asleep a child
and wake up a woman,
broadcasting from home
on the night in question.

A hundred years from today,
she'll hold on to dead flowers
from the fairground encounter.

She will avoid the bridge,
circle instead around
the walls of Jericho.

She'll write upon the wall
like it was her heart.
~

#melancholy #encounters #letters #memories #childhood #womanhood #trauma

2d

zozek

Vanitas

Vanishing
vanities of life
eventually...
disappear
in the hands of those living
Skulls and roses
time and dice
and...
wilted flowers
all wry and dry

4d

Anam

Death of a million evils

Your birth marked the death
of the 'endless' pain
The cries of the evil
subdued, they went to vain

My joy was born
with your very first cry
with you, 'my joy' was immortal
swore to never die

So, if death takes you
I shall follow thee
for without you,
I sink, even in the shallowest sea

4d

William J Donovan

Drunks Leaving Slurred Messages

We mean each and every word understood.
Fill in empty blanks with what should.
Wild minds on fire and doused with wine
our thoughts are sincere almost divine.