Letter to Brian

Originally posted on LATENT CONFESSIONS:
To my dear friend, I extend my hand, but your outstretched arms were not close enough for me to reach. I want to embrace you, but your weak body and soul are too far for me to hold. I want to ease your pain, but I cannot mend your wounds.…

SHROUDS AND CLOAKS

Beautiful words always spill effortlessly from this poet.  I am always challenged writing with him.  Visit him and enjoy his immense connection with nature.  Written by SeanBidd and HastyWords   Can you feel her breath beneath the city lights, Out to walk the streets beyond the mile limits, To touch her scent scattered within a…

MELTING INTO DAYBREAK

I am so happy I found this blog and I really hope everyone decides to visit the magnificence behind this duet. Written by G and HastyWords ◊ I stand an ice sculpture frozen under star light; numbness welcomed under the blanket of night.   I call upon the sun to save me from this eve;…

UNTITLED POEM by Mr. Mary

I can’t classify this as a duet.  I simply gave him a few lines and he created this beautiful piece alone!  This is a part of a series he is working on.  Enjoy!!!! Written by Mr Mary What had started out as a genteel past-time metastasized slowly into his path Memory and how it wanders…

DESTINATION DESTINY

  WRITTEN BY DAVID ELLIS AND HASTYWORDS   ♦ Paris in the night, opaque A glass of wine, on the veranda Enjoying fauna, cuddling a koala On the coast of Australia   Dining on coquetry, cherishing The language of Italian amour Venice, the renaissance So much breath-taking architecture   Get lost in Ireland tiptoeing around…

RAINDROP TEARS

Written by Richard Ankers and HastyWords To lose yourself In a puddle of rain Image collected Rippling in pain   To find yourself Sitting in rust Lips betrayed By hollow trust   To see yourself A ghost in the glass Fade and return But not too fast   To hear yourself In a howling wind…

FIREFLY EYES

Written by Richard Ankers and HastyWords   The flowers were colorful and bright But it was in the dark of night That the beauty they possessed Transformed the landscape for a time   Luminous against the darkness Fragile petals unclenched In the slightest midnight breeze And dusted the land in starlight pollen   Sparkling like…

SKIPPING PAST THE DEVIL

WRITTEN BY PRIMAL NIGHT’S AND HASTYWORDS   The fire burned far too hot Thick blistery bubbles grew On painted yellow walls I felt the camera follow me As I got lost in every hall   My senses, taste and smell, claw at me Sorting through disjointed memories Glimpses of shimmering flesh, and shadow Flash in…

CONCEITED by Gunnar Jones

There is a song by Shane Henry named Beauty in the Struggle that I am always reminded of when I think of Gunnar Jones.  Some of the most beautiful people are thrown into some of the hardest struggles.  I am pleased to publish this guest blog written by Gunnar Jones.  You can follow him on…