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She was buying thyme'just to waste time
Avoiding all windows.
High off of coffee,and I got too little sleep;
Tired and jittery
Jittery and glittery, I snappedWho's ideas was it to
wake me up like that?
Sleep comes and goes; theftof my sanity. Awake
only in regret.
Regret having to get upand go to work
couldn't money grow on trees?
At the tree's large baseBase ethics transforms the tree
Into ash and dust.
Her work-less dreams, now ash and dust, she still
had to go to work.
Lee wrote: "Her work-less dreams, now ash and dust, she still
had to go to work."
Dreams dim, whispers stop
Work stands waiting in the rain
for inspiration.
Inspiration. So uncommon.Thank heavens for the few
who hired us.
Whence inspiration,From the gallows' funny bone,
Or life's accidents?
Her head ached. Her nosewas runny. Thursday’s comics
didn’t seem funny.
Nor would bile or phlegm
entomb her, for Ortha had
no sense of humor.
congestion rules hereach breath is a struggle now
when will sleep take her?
No problem M.Eternal sleep knocked her door
she gasped "that's not the
one I was asking for!"
Into a dreamlesssleep she fell as long shadows
streaked the ivied well.
From the well ghostlyfingers crept. Closer...closer...
unknowing, she slept.
Thank you, Lee. :-) The current chain is very good! :-)
The left-behind handrests without digits or fear
holding out for rain.
quicksilver fingerstrace her name in pale moonlight
through midnight palm groves
Thanks, Guy. I'm a bit rusty. Hope you've been well :)
Ryan wrote: "Thanks, Guy. I'm a bit rusty. Hope you've been well :)"Hello Ryan. I'm very well, ty. Lots of change happening. And I likewise hope that all is well with you. :-)
Silvery grey astrosRemind him of her smile
That for him won't shine
The sky was blackened
When she choose to live no more
Light can't shine in death
Roaming the scorched earthfrom burnt sea to blasted plains,
he casts no shadow.
Being without weightis its own weight, a thin wraith
unbound and not free.
Agonizing captivityNot just the heavy weight
But the long wait.
Nice, Lee!
Darkness lasts a nightYet ignorance a lifetime
When waiting for truth.
"Ignorance is bliss" they said,So she lived sheltered. In
limbo between true and false.
She waited outside,arms akimbo, brow furrowed,
her thoughts in limbo.
Her hair gray, her legin traction, her life seemed now
but falling action.
The rising action, charactersrise to action but,
then they fell.
the murky marsh caught
their fall; branches and dead leaves
gave them an applause.
their fall; branches and dead leaves
gave them an applause.
Ryan wrote: "Thanks, Guy. I'm a bit rusty..."
What nonsense is this? :P
What nonsense is this? :P
The wind howls, trees singamused at their falling
meanwhile, danger lurks.
Storms strewed with brokenbranches the late-spring landscape
of farms and ranches.
The fence's posts sag,a still dance of wood and wire.
New grass jives in sun.
Leslie wrote: "the murky marsh caughttheir fall; branches and dead leaves
gave them an applause."
[Hey, Leslie! :-) Very nice, and nice to see you. It's been too long.]
flames pranced around the
parched grass; stumbling to a path,
living life too fast
[Hey Guy! Yes, it's been too long. I've missed this thread :)]
parched grass; stumbling to a path,
living life too fast
[Hey Guy! Yes, it's been too long. I've missed this thread :)]
Good one, Lee, M and Guy! :)
The first flames confessedto the old barbed wire, “I dreamed
I’m a forest fire.”
Forest's small firecrackled at the forest's edge,
enlightened the dump.
Rats with seldom-spelled,rodential names, scrounged and watched
the approaching flames.
The city’s skyline,
in the distance, beckoned with
a strange insistence.
Arnold glanced at Irv
and said, “Back to the sewers,
to crumbs of stale bread.”
“Farewell to broken
game spinners,” Lew sighed, “and trays
from TV dinners.”
TV dinners, stale bread crumbsOlden pipeline's screech a song
The scent of garbage stings.
The sound of trash canstumbling down the pipe line's song
And robin's dawn calls.
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