IN YOUR SHOES

It feels so strange To love so much I crave the intimate feeling But fear its emotional touch You say you love me That you are mine But I make up new lines Re-framing your words Inside my mind I make up dialogue, create new context Sending my mind into perpetual loops I try so…

UNCIVILIZED

WRITTEN BY ST MARY AND HASTYWORDS Thrown into a role for survival This couldn’t be further from me It killed my art and my pride Is it any wonder I’m always anesthetized? The days don’t belong to me And my dreams, well… They are stored inside drawers of metal Inside folders filed and alphabetized Killing…

CREATING STRONG KNOTS

Written by Charles “Gray Poet” Townsend  and Hastywords   I sat in the middle of the trees A circle laid out in front of me A noose of sorts, fibers strong Tied perfect like he taught me Why he taught me, I know not But it calls out to me its allure Will he approve…

LETTING GO

  WRITTEN BY JSTEWART413 AND HASTYWORDS I got swept up Sidetracked Up smacked By inevitability Wind chimed With rhymes Sending me On a reverie Lost track of time Behind feelings As I drifted Floated away Blindsided Without a care Through space Through time A whirlwind Sending me Into tailspins A wondrous ride A carefree world…

rêves romantiques

Check out this wonderful new duet partner by clicking on his name under the picture!   WRITTEN BY FRANZ PIERRE-LOUIS AND HASTYWORDS I’ve counted the days turning into years I have to sleep without you next to me And inside the quiet stillness of the night My dreams craft my own make believe   A…

BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS

  Written by James Sanders and HastyWords Branches, dry and brittle, snap beneath my feet Stained circles of torched grass litter the ground And the sun… Well… It strains to find purchase inside this compound   Oh it’s no paradise, perhaps more like paradise lost But understand, my being here ain’t what it seems I…

THE DEATH OF SILENCE

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! I think marriage is sometimes like being in a horror film.  Communication stops and it feels as if you are a ghost trapped inside the confines of a broken down house. The best part about a horror film though, is the ending… if you aren’t afraid to sit through it all. It can…

PARTY SPIRITS

31 DAYS OF HORROR (LINK UP YOUR SCARY STORIES IN THE COMMENTS BELOW) WRITTEN BY TWINDADDY AND HASTYWORDS Streams of orange Torrents of black Dangled overhead Twisting and turning Ebbing and flowing Driving me mad The haunting grows closer I can’t stand to watch I know what is coming The fear, the bleeding The ethereal…

SOLIDARITY

31 DAYS OF HORROR (LINK UP YOUR SCARY STORIES IN THE COMMENTS BELOW)   Written by Lizzi and HastyWords The tattered Maybe Warrior Quailed to see The hurt contained Within the beastly Monstrosity Such towering Pain and love Conjoined By nine heads Tying survivor Knots into Each others Loosened threads The Demon Snickered, sharpening His…

CRUSH

31 DAYS OF HORROR LINK UP YOUR HORRIFIC TRUTHS OR FICTION IN THE COMMENTS BELOW Written by Matticus and Hastywords Rogue waves gather their strength and formidable reserves, Hiding amongst lesser brethren, stealthily approaching, Caring nothing for fairness, they know nothing of deserve, Emotionlessly crush, sending their victims reeling. Whitecaps surface indicating turbulent seas mixing…