we filled the scrapbook with many things we all poured everything we could think of into it hoping it would swell instead that made it hunger
more memories. more time.
more and more and more and afterward
we gave up
we filled the scrapbook with many things we all poured everything we could think of into it hoping it would swell instead that made it hunger
more memories. more time.
more and more and more and afterward
we gave up
The road itself, was immortal.
Countless people had crossed it, Countless others would eventually come
This truth was one of only a few That the road had always known
For it held no memory, save for the places where wind and rain had etched deep patterns, over years, into it's sides
The road could feel through expressions through the plants and grass through winds playing through flowers
The road could show great joy
It had grown large fruit trees Shading travelers Feeding them Providing respite
The road was happy
I approach the door I see in my dreams. The shifting dreams I've had for the past few nights. Sometimes its the same door, sometimes it's new. So each night, I focus and describe it in this journal The door, so that one night I can choose.
An obsidian monolith is before me Darker even against the somber room it's housed edges shimmer a glassy surface shining with a glint a hungry wolf smiling
I walk closer, not prepared to see the dark of this doorway simply
fall away ~
I could see a world, from high above
a storm cloud that looked like prairie smoke dancing with light casting dispersions on a purple field far below
a step closer
Fields of thistle colored trees wavering hard hugging coral coastline water surging, pounding cliffs with spray as golden as an egg yolk
A tempest in resin
I hadn't noticed but wind is beating my face pushing me back yet
This world beckons
another step, as I pause
A long vermilion shape, emerges far below breaking free of the thunderhead wriggling disjointed movements a hypnotic site as a dragon pulses upwards towards me
The dream ends I hear it call me
whispers
“come back”
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I approach the door I see in my dreams. The shifting dreams I've had for the past few nights. Sometimes its the same door, sometimes it's new. So each night, I focus and describe it in this journal The door, so that one night I can choose.
The air left me. Gazing at the brilliant abalone moulded door.
pink coral decorates the top of the frame.
thick seaweed wrap – fall dark emerald tendrils swaying listless, limp reacting to something in the water
I take a step closer to investigate as little fish hastily swim schools obscured by the abalone colorful sheen
I start to move closer
A small motion, in the door stops me.
A great horizontal slit opens slowly and scans me.
The handle, which was no longer a handle starts to reach out the briny tentacle reaching towards me.
Dark violet water falling silently, reaching towards
I woke up
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I approach the door I see in my dreams. The shifting dreams I've had for the past few nights. Sometimes its the same door, sometimes it's new. So each night, I focus and describe it in this journal The door, so that one night I can choose.
Walking towards this door is like waking up on the first day of summer. I can feel the heat escaping, like sidewalks and grass clippings. Its morning as you touch the door frame. Intricate vine designs pour across the ligaments of its frame.
The gentle pulse, like the heartbeat of the wind, cool ~ dandelions puffs sailing into the afternoon heat.
Laughter. So sweet and innocent I almost instinctively grab the door handle and twist, but thats when I see the door handle.
Gnarled and dark, spent. Examining the opener I see faces. Faces that have been twisted and turned so many times the bodies are indistinguishable against each other.
A throne of faces wound into the intricate turner.
Macabre and beautiful, youth forever locked in a dance
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words are weapons. through rosy lips, venomous through pens, backstabbing through dance, words are subtle transformed a line a glance motion becomes – statement that cries “get away and softly states “please, please stay
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When the door closed I felt the wind roll out The small world we'd cultivated burn Its ashes, not even fine enough to hold
That's not what I want to remember I want to remember the winter Wrapped tightly under a blanket To see your face smiling To watch sparks play across your eyes To be there again
Walking hasn't felt the same since that day Coming home to no one Sitting drinking coffee with no one
But the sun, is getting stronger the wind has started to rise
I hope I will too
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The journeys end like a sidewalks path
The flowing water falling sharply down broken glass
The way two lovers speak each word tumbles past
A reminder That even when the die is cast
The moment fades The endless thoughts get off parade
That you were there That I was too
That for a lifetime
Or maybe just a dot
Things were How they could be.
not. how they were. not
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I stole a word once
Didn't know I had until in my heart in my heart, her whisper a soft plea for release
the yearning bleats of her cries had at the time made me turn inside to see the captured component in pandora's new box
I felt it so deep me sitting with a lighting bolt or a butterfly wing like id capturing a ring of water held onto the intangible
and she stays with me even to this day
endless chatter, sadness, depression colder now and nothing she speaks matters
the word is mine my precious possession
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The connections we build. With the places we live The places we work
Mine are no different I realize As my eyebrow raise
The nervous system, of dust tattered books and creaky tarnished flooring alerted my gut that she
She was here My wait over
I could see her fingers wrap around the present id left her
Again I felt her settle to the floor
Then I slowly stood, taking care to lay my own book down I would sneak this time and so I did winding like a python through the underbrush of literary volumes flowing until I could hear her hum
Standing there, opposite a mirror her bookshelf between us I knew this might be my last chance
I let my vision fall, one shelf at a time until at last i saw the book held in front of her Her chestnut hair flowing down onto frail shoulders Her humming slight and sad The sound of a pages turning hungrily
“Excuse me” I began, but the book she read dropped A turquoise shimmer of her skin as my eyes met a cerulean blue it felt like a bubble popped
One moment there, the next, she was not
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