Published in ILLUMINATION·Jun 9The Fog of PTSDI’ve awakened in a fog. In every direction I look, I see nothing but grey and clammy mists. I know that I’m near a beach — I hear the waves crashing and feel the sand at my feet. …PTSD3 min read
Published in Put It To Rest·Updated May 31What Comes Nexta rhyming poem — Ruby lips make me ache with suspense, imaginings of what whispers and sins wait within. Same thing with certain slivers of skin, carefully chosen to make me think about where to begin. Not that I need to, I know where to start; right below the belly-button and move my way up to each side…Poetry1 min read
Published in Put It To Rest·Updated May 31Sickness in the Distancerhyming free verse — Poetry1 min readImage by Лечение НаркоманииSickness in the Distancerhyming free verse----3
Published in iPoetry·May 29Stepping on Our Futurea poem for Uvalde — Another day, another life, wasted — it’s getting real hard to wake up and face this. We keep saying our way’s the best way when dawn and death mark every single new day. So many souls, now, but a name and face; one moment’s pause before we turn the fuckin’ page…Poetry2 min read
Published in Five-Minute Fiction·May 29Nothing Left to Provea short rhyming poem — The snobs say my poetry rhymes too much I say I don’t think I could give less fucks. Their work could’ve come from a Jr. High bus; Found footage lets ‘em flex on the flow from us? Poetic specialists with syllabic steps, aware of all the hate out there, but couldn’t…Success2 min read
Published in iPoetry·May 28Cold Dinnerrhyming poem — Alone in the dark, cold noodles in the pot, she shoulda been back now, I guess she forgot… I should clean up, instead of making this into something it's not. Instead of thinking that she’s out breaking my heart. I tell them to hush but they just won't stop, so I sit, alone…Relationships2 min read
Published in Five-Minute Fiction·May 25Another Onerhyming poem of grief — Grief1 min readImage by MomentmalAnother Onerhyming poem of grief----1
Published in Put It To Rest·Updated May 11For the Ladies of the Nighta rhyming free verse (or rap) — Her Daddy’s ashamed till she buys him a car, then he sees the money in it and just how far you have to bend over to fuckin’ make it, and how its twice as hard when you’re a girl and a man thinks that he can just take it and use his size…Put It To Rest2 min read
Published in Five-Minute Fiction·May 8Trying to Surviverhyming verse — Sitting here puffin’ on some dank type herb thinking once more over thoughts disturbed by reflections of a life, twisted and turned, and whether any of it was really deserved. We’re all products of choices, multiplied by the in and the outside voices, with the end of the stick being…Poetry1 min read
Published in Five-Minute Fiction·May 8It’s Not You, It’s Merhyming verse poem — Paintin’ pictures with pain and burnin’ trees to the face. Blindly finding my way through this place, blunt after blunt, drink after drink. Dawn leads to twilight; each day is the same. Smash all the mirrors to hide from their face… Stuck in disgrace with no hope of change, now fleeing relief and…Five Minute Fiction1 min read
