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• Poetry > Haiku
  Tears

  

  By ChrisJ, Rochester, NY

  Wet streams of despair - bite your lip in quiet pain, hopes of a dry cheek...
• Poetry > Haiku
  Drifting Away

  

  By ChrisJ, Rochester, NY

  I stand here in the midst of a cruel world, Mars has some oxygen, right?...
• Poetry > Haiku
  Boogeyman

  

  By ChrisJ, Rochester, NY

  Mom turns off the lights My fear now cloaked in darkness He waits for my eyes...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Goodnight

  

  By ChrisJ, Rochester, NY

  I hear the leaves rustle violently in the distance as the fast wind sways the trees. I ponder the sky like a detailed painting out of sheer boredom, lying on my back in the warm summer grass. The sun peeks over the enveloping clouds shining light from the bright heavens above, its radiance s...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Swinging on Deficiency

  

  By ChrisJ, Rochester, NY

  We came to a dead-end of lost words and meaningless fights, only useful in eroding our consciences to ash as we persisted into the darkness of a swollen relationship. I remember we would strangle one another with foul language and piercing words until one of us would run out of hateful ene...
• Poetry > Haiku
  Long Hair

  

  By ChrisJ, Rochester, NY

  Like ocean currents flooding from your scalp, flowing rapidly till combed....
• Poetry > Haiku
  An Idea

  

  By ChrisJ, Rochester, NY

  Sprawling around in the free space of your mind like a lost story book in the library of your own philosophy till Reality’s vim unfolds before your very eyes, colliding with fiction - now real....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Abhorrence

  

  By ChrisJ, Rochester, NY

  My heart sinks below the truth, dreaming about the life I want to exist, but doesn’t. Passionate about wrapping myself around in a delusion that does not love me back. It thickens the air I breathe, suffocating me in my personal false witness, smothering me in my own ambitions and fantasie...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Photograph

  

  By ChrisJ, Rochester, NY

  There must have been something wrong with the camera that day, I don’t remember the sky being so blue, like the bright ocean over our heads, reflecting back our mistakes. I remember it being rather dark that day, like the cryptic cloak of the night overshadowing the daylight like it was neve...
• Poetry > Haiku
  Green Apple Picking

  

  By ChrisJ, Rochester, NY

  If green apples lied behind those dreamy hazel eyes, I’d pick all day....
• Poetry > Haiku
  Mouth of the Sidewalk

  

  By ChrisJ, Rochester, NY

  Why is the concrete that bites the dirt underneath stepped on by our feet?...
• Poetry > Haiku
  Identity

  

  By ChrisJ, Rochester, NY

  Hello! My name is: Sorry! No help this time if you can’t help yourself....
• Poetry > Haiku
  Changing

  

  By ChrisJ, Rochester, NY

  Regret oozed like blood down your chin, eyes bleed sorrow from deep sores within....
• Poetry > Haiku
  The Relentless Sun

  

  By ChrisJ, Rochester, NY

  Redness is exposed like a gushing flesh wound from the bitter climate. My skin like a stove, harnessed by the relentless heat, unforgiving....
• Poetry > Haiku
  S is for Suffering

  

  By ChrisJ, Rochester, NY

  Serenity sold to sorrow’s sister, seems so solemn in selling....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The Endless Drama

  

  By ChrisJ, Rochester, NY

  You would not believe all of the childish banter, arrogance, and bluster streaming down these school hallways everyday like wound tumbleweed in the desert of no awareness, or is it just me? It seems as if the many pulses of the school’s ready-made body are now just the cell phones ri...
• Poetry > Haiku
  Our Hearth (What a Sensation!)

  

  By ChrisJ, Rochester, NY

  Your warm carapace compressed like lost lust found, a hearth catching first flame. Gripping mood like the chimney never lit, burns my senses to black ash....
• Poetry > Haiku
  Shell

  

  By ChrisJ, Rochester, NY

  My skin like a dense dress seen in dull colors, worn only by the meek....
• Poetry > Haiku
  Conscience Friction

  

  By ChrisJ, Rochester, NY

  Lives at stake: Red and white paint shoulders, like fire and ice down your neck....
• Poetry > Haiku
  Repent Now

  

  By ChrisJ, rochester, NY

  I can see every sin done through your eye’s swollen blood vessels – piercing. "Clear eyes" will not wash away all of the vengeful spirits, now will it?...
• Poetry > Haiku
  The Break-Up Situation

  

  By ChrisJ, rochester, NY

  “We’re Over” exudes hell’s pain, smolders my heart left beating on the floor....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Leave Me Now, You're Still Here

  

  By ChrisJ, rochester, NY

  Your existence spreads itself thin across the flats of my floors. The cracks between the hardwood continue to murmur your effortlessly painful name left to linger and taunt. Your echoes reflect off the hollow walls to find their way into my ears to murder the mind, and penetrate the thought...
• Poetry > Haiku
  Poignant Moment

  

  By ChrisJ, rochester, NY

  Heartfelt freed through eyes, pupil descends below the horizon of tears....
• Poetry > Haiku
  Slaughter Scene

  

  By ChrisJ, rochester, NY

  Thick rose red blood seeps through seams of kitchen floor tiles, like venom through pores....
• Poetry > Haiku
  Heartless

  

  By ChrisJ, rochester, NY

  Do you know where your heart is? Please show me on a GPS, I’m lost....