If I’m a mechanic, I’m a novice despite my years,my experience has only been short diagnostic drives,all ears to the issues volunteered and hidden fears.Some have scoffed at my meager shop, disinclined. Not all cars are happy with my prognosis, and sighsaying their better […]
Author: luke22
Broken Rhyme’s Epitaph
Here lies a lost poet’s heart which died for want of rhyme. Though he fought its pull, the lines don’t show it. Rhyme’s addictions he swore […]
The Fallen Fruit
An apple fell on the footpath.It tumbled, bounced, and bruisedAs it rolled on down the pass. The fallen fruit came to rest in slimy mud,Colored with hues of black and oxblood. Oozing sludge clung to the abused skin,worms and rot feasted, devouring it from […]
If I could paint the sky…
If I could paint the sky,If I made it rain so plants would grow,If I commanded seasons “Change,” If the winds obeyed my voice? Nothing in those ifs of minecould match the beauty of this.Nothing I imagine can be minewithout infringing on this. For […]
Bursting Beakers
She would always surprise me as if to tell me “Just you wait and see!”I imagined her like molten metal still hot and malleable,still rebelling against that old time mold. One garment, or shoe, or anything new, bubbles over.New songs or sunsets light up […]
Confessions from an Aberration
She sat alone accompanied by bound friends reading from one,and waited upon by a cup filled with caffeine’s intoxication.Her eyes found mine in a flick, and spoke a barred-up welcome,Then came the sideways huff as if to dismiss an aberration. I was not real, my […]
Magic Shag Carpets and Stale Chocolate Music
When I close my eyes, I can picture grandma’s living room.It was a room of shag carpets, trinkets, and clocks,A sagging sofa accented with a llama skin throw and guarded by a gramophone.That sanctuary of stability, anchoring memories, changeless by so many years. Grandpa’s […]
Dumbstruck Redo
If I could go back to when I first met her,I wouldn’t stamp and stammer sifting through my thoughts,I wouldn’t discuss the weather like my mind couldn’t fathom something other,I wouldn’t stare that way with nothing else to say while my heart and blood […]
That World I left behind.
A world of mango trees,where parrots fly and scream.Markets filled with ripe bananas,giant jicamas,savory papayas,or baskets of guavas,with a mix of art and all forms of necessity.A world of child hood friends,Andrew, Joel, Junior, Ben.A life bubble in the midst of the jungle,where all […]
A Heart Shaped Shoe
We met in that enchanting way in palace corridors spying the other. Our eyes locked and then the world faded as all thoughts of others dimmed to sputters. Awestruck, we danced a careful ballet, hesitant, neither sure the steps of summer. Resigning hope of […]
Ode to Chocolate
What is the point of chocolate? In madness do we question what for, Or study it and say: why does this exist?No, we surrender to savory bliss;Oh, we delight in its earthy flavor!Once consumed and in our bellies lay,caffeine, sugars, creams brighten day, Then […]
Life of a Sock
When life turns tumultuous twisting and churning, Which way should I go, which way is up? …Squirl! What does the sock experience when washed? Does it like the squeezing, rubbing, and spinning? The end will come when the dirt is gone, But to be […]
Blue Smudge’s Muse
On a crisp fall evening I heard the most peculiar thing, when the trees swayed and the wind curled by. There in picture frame reverberating as if to sing, blues and greens, yellows and whites of night’s sky. Stepping closer, gazing, straining silently to […]
Cupid’s Parenthesis
Parenthesis Curved containers Punctuation drawing emphasis Bowed frames demanding considerations Swaying in the slightest breeze, beckons me to see Twins dance in the star light under crescent moons A single noble peak overshadows sculpted furrows Gusty gales rise from mirth’s fount eagerly amused Bright […]
