poem – Page 3 – Secret Thoughts Within

Weather

My best friend moves with the weather while I sit there trying to talk down the storm

Sound credit: click here I’ve realised I’ve packed a part of myself away (again) I put it in a box marked dangeroustucked it into the basement It’s the sensual side I hide the flesh in me that craves pleasure allows me to embrace desire and being desired I’ve realised too late what I’ve done the lock is rusting corroded by a legacyContinueContinue reading “Locked Away (with audio)”

Become the Dark

My pain drops like blood onto the page angled words dominate the lines of my life through their descriptive blackness, I become the dark

Sore

Image found here on Pinterest My body is sore from our frantic love-makingfrom your touch and thrust my everything’s aching If my body remembers I really don’t mind this kind of sore is my favourite kind 🦊

Deeds and Discomfort

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com What deeds am I to do with my brittle faitha world away from the pains of war and pits of hunger? Whilst contemporaries debate which sin is worselives are lost across the shore Souls slip away unnoticed caused by injustice and shuttered Western eyes Helpless, my heart shakes their horrors will neverContinueContinue reading “Deeds and Discomfort”

Predictable (with audio)

For the poets who love to rhyme: we love to write a predictable rhyme in fact I do it all the time it’s the way the syllables come to rest every time you take a breath there’s a comfort in knowing what comes nextwhen perusing poetic text A little bit of poetic silliness for you 💜 PsContinueContinue reading “Predictable (with audio)”

Lovers Can Change (with audio)

Each ignored momentevery emotional brush-offputs more distance between us Your empty thrusts in the night do nothing to fill the void you’re leaving inside me Your lack of love is closing my legs Your minimal effort is breaking my heart You’d better stop ignoring this – Lovers can change to Othersand you’re starting to change me I don’t know about you, butContinueContinue reading “Lovers Can Change (with audio)”

Away (Haiku)

I will back away from the love my heart once felt when you looked at me

Distracted By Memories

Baby, I’ve got a problem I’m distracted by memories of you – placing kisses on my skin your hands brushing away my hair I can’t focus and I’m at work – but my body is pulsing, remembering your touch these interruptions are too tempting not to indulge I’ve got to sneak away find a moment alone and see what I can do toContinueContinue reading “Distracted By Memories”

Sentimental (with audio)

I loved her once – her lips soft as cappuccino froth laughter like a bell chime calling me to church She kissed me once – pressed her chest against mine sighed into my mouth until her mother called her home I cried over her once – she wed the man who lived next door while my mother patted my hand andContinueContinue reading “Sentimental (with audio)”