10 posts tagged with "poetry"

Elisa left reception surrounded by light. Seams of it cracked the high-rise towers ahead of her, gilding her retinas. For once, she didn’t mind not knowing where she was headed, starting a new journey with no destination.

To hold hands
Is to be in chains.

I made you in my image
So you could have everything I’m proud of.

You wave
At everyone.
Usually goodbye,
Sometimes hello.

If I had slept ten minutes, I had slept a lifetime.

Barlow beams as the escapement begins to rotate. His workshop is laced with tobacco and damp and the fading scent of industry.

I came upon an ambient glow:
that of sunset
peaking between looming skyscrapers.

Trees are still trees here.

A solitary gull
arced over stone,
mimicked
by a white vessel
far above and away
which could not flap its wings.

Life is in children raised and grandchildren cherished.
A warm smile greeting missed family at the door with
Countless conversations, accidental catchphrases,
And inevitable farewells.