lazily scanning contact lists on different fora -holiday well spent who would I like to wish and who can be dispensed with? responses measure warmth of all relationships I forgive a few maybe they are occupied - it just shows my love for them perhaps holidays are created to take stock to discard all junk … Continue reading Re-assessment
Challenge Poem after the sun departs and we are greeted by constellations or what we could see past the rising light of the city The elitists of the day go home A time of opportunities has gone down with the day But what would the night bring us? The start of a new journey and … Continue reading Goliaths of the Dark
Wisdom .... by Helene Valliant
I see your fair face peeping from yellowed pages of the drawing book you once treasured so much- to draw blue mountains in summer winter mountains call we scale through autumnal peaks not sure we’ll make it let us feel the warmth of love once again – before we leave my unstable hands flick through … Continue reading Fuyu No Yama- Winter Mountains
my thoughts
put to paper
my safe space
where sentience
becomes
more
substantive
willing exposure
deciding
to share
myself
with others
I
figure out
who
I am
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Celebrations in my life never end. I celebrate the success of a carefully constructed image meeting its purpose. I celebrate the inability of my opponents to compete. Then, I move on to reveal my skin under the mask, and send a few people reeling with shock. Blind idiots! They deserve this for being so naïve. … Continue reading Mystique
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This week’s prompt:
after the sun departs and we are greeted by constellations
or what we could see past the rising light of the city
The elitists of the day go home
A time of opportunities has gone down with the day
But what would the night bring us?
The start of a new journey and to be one with the city
Never in the eyes of a 9-5 type
Source: https://hellopoetry.com/words/buildings/
Like his mum’s teeth, it was at night when he came out.
He liked being out in the dark. He could hide in the shadows, pretend he was someone he wasn’t, avoid confrontation by slipping into the alleys and gulfs of society and no one would notice or care.
The daylight worried him, he was far too vulnerable, visibility was not all people thought it was as exposure brought scrutiny and he never wanted any of that.
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