Let the sunrise chase away
The horrors of the night
And bring about the dawn
Of a new day
This poem appears in “A Collection of Hurriedly Written Thoughts Half-Heartedly Disguised as Poetry” by Kari Edge.
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A Reluctant Lover’s Farewell
I’ve never wanted anyone.
Like I’ve wanted you.
A craving deep down in my bones
A need I feel inside my soul
Something I’ve been waiting
My whole life to feel
It’s agony
An emptiness I never knew
Could exist within the person
That I used to be
In the caverns of my heart
A rush, a roar
Of anger
And of fear
Could this be love?
It doesn’t feel how I thought it would
But what do I know?
You stand before me
Dressed in black
Not white
And it’s fitting.
This is where we part
Thank you for the days
Filled with sighs, lies,
and prefilled crossword puzzles
But I’m afraid we’re
Breaking free tonight.
Farewell
and good riddance.
Unique (Though We Fall The Same)
I am nothing like We are together
the dangerous the most incredible
force of nature. mistake.
Slipping and sliding.
I fall the same
as you fall on cold days
in Spring in Winter.
Gently with no regret
We always fall together.
This poem can be read both horizontally and vertically. This poem won first place in the poetry section of the 2019 DMACC West Campus Creative Writing Contest and will be published in the next issue of West Campus Words.
The Sea Is Alive At Night
Out at sea we roam
Waves beating against
Ships in the ocean
The sea is alive at night
Waves beating against
ragged cliffsides that can tell you
the sea is alive at night
with magic and mystery
Those cliffsides can tell you
These waters are full
of magic and mystery
like you have never seen.
These waters are full
of woeful women with bodies
like you have never seen
with scales that glitter in the moonlight.
of woeful women with bodies
belonging not to them
scales that glitter in the moonlight
and doom all to that dark abyss.
Belonging only to them
is a song that sings
all are doomed to this dark abyss.
In the sea they roam.
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