Submissions by James_A_Knight
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Sunshine on the Garden
The afternoon sun came through the clouds. It lit up the leaves like a crucible spill of cooked emerald. The slowworm took it easy. The toad sat under a patch of large cool leaves. Jenny Wren sang the blackbird answered. The smell of cooking wafted from the kitchen window. It merged with the honeysuckle and a sudden hunger, left over from a bland and rushed breakfast, returned.
The sound of the piano plays softly from the needle to the grove. I don’t want to wake up…but I will.
The sound of the piano plays softly from the needle to the grove. I don’t want to wake up…but I will.
#dreams
#family
#memories
41 reads
2 Comments
Creeping Sea
At this time plants rise
To take back their land
Vines flood across gardens
Climb walls and if left
Tear down vacant halls
At this time
Pre-apocalyptic trash
Clogs up cyber veins
And the criminal grip
On the throne of unlimited wealth
Grows tighter
Like a noose round the throat of us all
At this time roses bloom
To take back their land
Vines flood across gardens
Climb walls and if left
Tear down vacant halls
At this time
Pre-apocalyptic trash
Clogs up cyber veins
And the criminal grip
On the throne of unlimited wealth
Grows tighter
Like a noose round the throat of us all
At this time roses bloom
#corruption
#flowers
#HumanRights
#politics
#rose
51 reads
4 Comments
The Ant and the Blow Fly
"Life isn't always shit," said the Ant, to the Blow Fly.
#animals
59 reads
2 Comments
The Sea Dancer
The Sea Dancer
Will never dance again
She lays on the shingle
Beaten by the salt
Bleached by Summers
Cracked and hollow
An old shoe watching the waves
Warmed by Spring winds
Will never dance again
She lays on the shingle
Beaten by the salt
Bleached by Summers
Cracked and hollow
An old shoe watching the waves
Warmed by Spring winds
#beach
#death
#sea #summer
#sea #summer
91 reads
4 Comments
The Ghost in the Heart
Haunted by the ghost of someone you used to love
Fifteen years and the burn still itches
Haunted by the thought of her voice
You the stray puppy
She the final word on love
Why does it still hurt?
Fifteen years and the burn still itches
It’s a self-inflicted pain
To want the one that will never want you
It drives the hands to write
To paint
To sculpt
Keeps the mind awake
With questions
Wars were waged to forget
The ghosts of rejected love
If love was never rejected
There would be...
Fifteen years and the burn still itches
Haunted by the thought of her voice
You the stray puppy
She the final word on love
Why does it still hurt?
Fifteen years and the burn still itches
It’s a self-inflicted pain
To want the one that will never want you
It drives the hands to write
To paint
To sculpt
Keeps the mind awake
With questions
Wars were waged to forget
The ghosts of rejected love
If love was never rejected
There would be...
#UnrequitedLove
120 reads
8 Comments
265 reads
3 Comments
219 reads
8 Comments
The Daily Doom
If the world is about to end
I am glad you are by my side
I am glad you are by my side
#love
#respect
143 reads
7 Comments
160 reads
4 Comments
219 reads
7 Comments
234 reads
8 Comments
Along a weed blossom lane - a rift in time
A rift in time
Split a man in two
Two men emerged
On opposite sides
Of an iridescent fissure
The second man
A young man heading north east
Not knowing who he will become
After the wilderness of youth
A spiritless well paid career?
Failures and success
Ebbing fulfillment?
Marital acquiescence
Fatherly responsibilities
Accepted…run from…shirked?
The first man
An old man heading south west
Smiled as he forgot who he was
The fog was kind
Wandering to the grave ...
Split a man in two
Two men emerged
On opposite sides
Of an iridescent fissure
The second man
A young man heading north east
Not knowing who he will become
After the wilderness of youth
A spiritless well paid career?
Failures and success
Ebbing fulfillment?
Marital acquiescence
Fatherly responsibilities
Accepted…run from…shirked?
The first man
An old man heading south west
Smiled as he forgot who he was
The fog was kind
Wandering to the grave ...
#flowers
#travel
#mystery #scifi
#mystery #scifi
185 reads
6 Comments
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