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

PAD 2022 Day 18: We BLANK

 This poem is presented in its rough draft form for the PAD 2022 challenge and will be revised. 

PAD Prompt: We BLANK

Poetic Form: Free Verse

“Fate Hates Us, We Don’t Stand a Chance”

Tarot cards

And crystal balls

Tell different stories

But they agree

That Fate is a jealous lover

She makes you believe 

That this life is a choice

We can make with our hearts

Or minds

Or some combination of

But she has a choice already made for us

Only she won’t tell what it is

We have to pay the price 

As she gives us the silent treatment

Or changes the mood in the room

With a single glance

Or a casual, “It’s fine”

Just when we think we can’t take anymore

She snuggles close

With an unexpected kiss

That tempts us with its passion

Tempts us to believe

To believe that we are all right

We draw her near

Breathe in the scent of flowers

From her hair

Heart hurting from the joy of the moment

Then we make the mistake

We move

We ask if she wants anything

She turns her head silently

The look says we should know

We don’t

And the temperature drops 10 degrees

Suddenly, it feels like Fate hates us

We don’t stand a chance

Poetic Form 9: Katauta

I believed your smile

Seductive with promises

I didn’t know how to keep

Poetic Form #9:Katauta

A katauta is a Japanese poetic form with either  5 / 7/ 5 or 5 / 7 / 7 syllables per line.
It is also an incomplete poem addressed to a lover. Multiple katautas combine to form a sedoka poem.

 

Poetry Challenge Day 2: Space

 

Somewhere between now and then

Somewhere between now and then

Between you and me

A vastness exists

    Like the space between words

    The hollow knowledge in the middle of the letter O

    Emotion shown between the parts of an exclamation point

We are defined by the use of this space

Watch as the distance changes from

    Stranger to

    Friend to

    Lover

Each defined by the physical 

    As it decreases

    emotion increases

Like a letter

    that combines with another

    to create a word when combined with another 

        forms a sentence

            that enlightens our meaning of this space

Because we only understand it by what we construct to take its place