Poetry
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It’s Open Link Night (OLN) at the dVerse Poets Pub! Wishes, no matter how heartfelt how life-or-death-impossible can sometimes surprise you and come true and life is suddenly perfect. Other wishes don’t stand a chance in Hell of turning out and when they don’t your heart shatters like great grandmother’s Christmas ornaments— in sudden, perpetual slow-mo.
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You had me from lunch. That very day, you acquired a permanent address in my heart, complete with its own Zip code. I’ve given myself no choice — but to hang on to a dream that can’t come true. It’s worth it; you’re worth it. But, If things were different… O, if things were different!
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Because you said you loved me more, O, how could those big brown eyes lie? The pretty red flags I ignored. Our cottage perched along Maine’s shore— Some called it a pie in the sky, Because you said you loved me more. Then one day I found on the floor, A love note meant just
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When twilight pales and fades to black, A breeze swirls through the willow trees I wonder what it is I lack. Sometimes I wish that you’d come back Other times I’m glad to be free When twilight pales and fades to black. We let our marriage get off track But you know it’s not all
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It’s Prosery Monday over at the dVerse Poets Pub. This week, our prompt comes from a Yeats poem, The Song of the Wandering Aengus: I went out to the hazel wood,Because a fire was in my head’. 144 words. It was a day like any other. Nothing special or noteworthy aside from it was the
Ergo, the Ogre 