Day 30 PAD 2023

 

This poem is presented in its rough draft form for the PAD 2023 challenge and will be revised.

“Again”

Surprise, you’re just not good enough - again.
The stage lights shine through the cracks
of your armor. The faults can’t be held back,
fear and doubt mix like a spring hurricane.
Surprise, you’re just not good enough - again.

You feel the rumbling of hope on the tracks.
Turn in anticipation, adjust the backpack
you carry your future in, to see a runaway train.
Surprise, you’re just not good enough - again.

A lucky step saves you, a flashback
whirls in your ears of times you unpacked
hope with trembling hands, but in vain.
Surprise, you’re just not good enough - again.

You feel the gravel in your sole, falling back
to here and now, the horizon turning black
as the dust on your coat of arms. Nothing but pain.
Surprise, you’re just not good enough - again.

Poetic Form: Dansa

Day 29 PAD 2023

 

This poem is presented in its rough draft form for the PAD 2023 challenge and will be revised.

“I am Here”

I watch my shadow move in front of me, the wind, still angry from winter, assaults my face. My stride is still as quick as my youth, just not as strong as my shadowed legs wobble with another burst from mother nature. For a second I feel my presence cutout of the air around me. I am here. The world is beneath my feet. The wind has to move around me. My gumline stings as I smile. My shadow reflects my existence on the concrete. I am the moment. But then my shadow moves without me, and now I am trying to catch back up with the day.


Poetic Form: Prose

Day 28 PAD 2023

 

This poem is presented in its rough draft form for the PAD 2023 challenge and will be revised.

"You are Forgotten"

There are unnumbered days,
lost between pages not read.
It hurts when you are forgotten.

Chalked boxes on cracked driveways,
are as faded as a past lovers’ touch
There are unnumbered days

we keep in locked journals packed away.
Desires written with cursive initials,
lost between pages not read.

And you find that the world doesn't stop
spinning, no matter the number for today.
It hurts when you are forgotten.

Poetic Form: Cascade

Day 27 PAD 2023

 This poem is presented in its rough draft form for the PAD 2023 challenge and will be revised.

“When it rains…”

It pours forth second
chances to redeem our hearts.
If we would only
let the rain drench all that is,
instead of running away.

Poetic Form: Waka

Day 26 PAD 2023

 

This poem is presented in its rough draft form for the PAD 2023 challenge and will be revised.

“Used to Love”

After - Parachute’s “What I Know”

Every time the path turns, I'm
lost again. Returning to find another him in
your arms. You promise me it’s not love,
and I believe. Taping my heart with
the way you smile. Then you found someone
to walk down the aisle with. What else
could I do? You became a she
I used to love. But that’s not what my heart said.

Poetic Form: Golden Shovel

Day 25 PAD 2023

 

This poem is presented in its rough draft form for the PAD 2023 challenge and will be revised.

“Just a dream?”

The road is lonely at night
as the mind departs from life.
Rewriting the script from the
hours I spent trying to sift through the strife.

I walk on paths filled with stars.
Friends move in step as we walk
then they fade away into
trees, a forest rising around me. A hawk

gives me its feathers, strong and
beautiful. I run, take off,
finding flight to be just as
lonely as walking. I decide to cut-off

my wings, falling back to the
starry path, a crash landing.
Blood dripping from the old wounds.
The forest sways. I feel my fear expanding.

Poetic Form: Endecha

Day 24 PAD 2023

 

Poem for day 24 of the poem a day challenge. Prompts form Writer's Digest.