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Odyssey

Rules:

Read each other’s writing and try to keep an even tempo.

As for theme, I want this to be a collection of short poems.  You should set it out like this…

“~

(Your poem 3 – 5 lines, medium length, no chat language, content your choice)”

Please include the ~ and a line break before your lines when you post.   (Ignore the rule that says only two lines   ) 


And here is the thing.  I’m not going to start it.  I’m going to add lines later.  So, go for it...

Balldinger~

I’ve been gone.
I came back to visit once.
Now, I’ve come back to stay.
kayleeamanda~

Walking away from something
long forgotten - Something I forgot
from the first time I looked in your eyes
whnthestrsgoblu~

Lying in wait makes me ill...
My stomach screams
From its place on the floor.
Judas Denied~

I can not chase that weary beast
His reflection stains me with delirium
As I try to drink him away,
Even as he smolders beside me
Rubbing salt in my open wounds
bleeding girl~

A memory that haunts
He lingers and pauses to taste the crimson
And I cry my melting tears
Odyssey~

Warden of the state of mind and I,
Ride little Dune Buggy nightmares
As we crest the sand hills,
Back wheels spinning for miles
In soft boggy patches of Law
TheOneRomeo~

I once saw the truth
It was given to me in her eyes
There I saw true innocence
TheFedexPope
didacsoul~

I tried to find it and lost
the will to remember why
To will the will I starved,
slowly forgetting why I cry.
TheFedexPope~

The blood in the veins was real
The diamonds eye
Was all too piercing
TheRainKing~

I shuddered as I thought why
the loss of my innocence?
As I stare blindly into the sky
And lose all sense of conscience
Aerona~

I fell into my hatred,
Feared by the worst of all
Held in the darkened embrace of all,
I once knew too well
slydog~

When to twain shores sifting
Through town dross an eye fluttered;
Consider all the ways to paint such laconic
Dreamscapes and tempered senses--
This form is not form of itself
Just sight columns; Colonnades of round emotion...
Judas Denied~

He smothered me then,
The infectious art of strangulation
Laughing at every blind scream I wrote
He called me dear and I knew that
He loved me once when his dreams were
Small gods on the concrete
Odyssey~

Silver fish dart past me goading
The gentle swell with their tails
I discover ocean’s gill-gifted freedom
myrataal~

Hiding within fust of tides
Love opens its vaults
Feeding famished stars with sight
sporkifye~

It once was lost to me, I didn't know where to go
I thought it was somewhere beyond this
But I know better now
than to search the world over
and now I'm back to stay
Cristos~

Hours and days later
and I can still smell you
so vividly, as if I never
stopped inhaling.
Judas Denied~

The charcoal and the rain
Smear me clean with a
Disdain I wish wasn't real,
Because I can not stop breathing him in
Even as my vision blurs with prisms,
Refracting blindingly white dread across the wall
pyrrhic~

Dispersion at work
rainbow in cyan and magenta
imperfections in the glass
reflecting in shadows
Odyssey~

Such a shame to see the
Stain spread like thighs might
React, to the temper of trust
Judas Denied~

It parts an outline on his bones
He always was too pretty for the picture show
Silvered moonlight flesh and a satiny caress
Pallid is the face that haunts my sleep
ByRosesThorn~

Let me hide in my darkness
Away from the light
I'm not afraid to run further
But please hold me tight
theGazzelle~

Yet the statues still plead for his raw
and rough chiselling words:
concrete dust extruding from my numbness
BkwrmBabe~
The wind rustles these open windows
Blowing in dry dusty leaves
I crouch tighter in my dark corner
Soon, soon, I will be free
Judas Denied~

Mirror images
Reflections of a post traumatic
Fireball, burning for too long in the fog
Odyssey~

In small measures notes are taken
So that we may dissect
The way flowers look down
To watch blades, slide into stem
Veins bleeding chlorophyll teardrops
Nyx Iscariot~

Into a pit for a pendulum that's cracked,
where lyricists circle each other
in duels made from ink...
And the cheshire cat smiles on
BkwrmBabe~

"Purr..."
Comments the cat;
Watching me closely.
It's eyes gleam and glint in the moonlight
As I stare into the foggy, distant night.
Odyssey~

What ways she chooses to cast –
Her spells are only that, just spells
But her poems, now they are spells
That cast as hooks…
zara~

...Her words, the bait,
Reeling in the needed company,
Solace for wounds inflicted in supposed love.
These strangers, drawn in,
Will stay, for once, and purr.
Cristos~

marmalade vinyl suspenders
hastily confined to frozen
suspension of assets
amidst time's slow demise
breathing fire, lighting the splendid.

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