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  I Wore Crocheted Slippers

  

  By Skyset, Wichita, KS

  I wore crocheted slippers my petite size six feet resting in the tightly laced fabric in a fit that matched the very length of my toes. In my crocheted slippers I leapt up over the river of fallen stars careful to mind their collision cracked whispers. In the clouds I crafted my own ball...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Where The Street Pianos Play

  

  By Skyset, Wichita, KS

  Down red cobblestone streets a tune whistles up from the curb a melody meant for the dearly departed of this dusty, heartsick earth. A song spun for tears that splashed noiselessly onto sidewalks, and a tribute for the street pianos that sweep music up to history. It is then that a...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  My Roots Were Shaken

  

  By Skyset, Wichita, KS

  "Rotten weeds," you said and carelessly too, your flippant attitude burning just as much as the arson words that left your mouth the dandelions heard your two word speech and I saw them wilt a little for it I wanted to tell them that we can't all be daffodils, but by ...
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  It Only Takes One

  

  By Skyset, Wichita, KS

  It only takes one. One drunk driver behind one wheel. It only takes one second for a collision to occur, and possibly even less than that to take the life of one human being. If one person dies due to drunk driving than it’s too many. Driving under the influence isn’t an accident, or a mistak...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Even Oceans Have Their Secrets

  

  By Skyset, Wichita, KS

  Clean, dazzled water unwilling to show the rusty bits of Titanic still lingering in shadow thrown depths. Secrets that are buried by the crushing aqua do not resurface to tell of chilling misfortunes that only starfish speak of....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Never Fade

  

  By Skyset, Wichita, KS

  I used to ride mango rivers determined and convinced by my blue swirled nautilus that impossibilities were but mere suggestions given for those who couldn't touch it's beach. How many people ignore wild fields of imagination or never taste the lemon sweet icing of adventure? ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  What Sleeping Beauty Dreamt

  

  By Skyset, Wichita, KS

  Yes, after the journey out of the forest, they load poor Beauty with glittering stones, satins never suspecting that she felt the wood and sky more than a gold coin- but then one crimson drop forces her lids to shut for one thousand years... Reveries in that space of time came of eart...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  It Sounds Like Thunder

  

  By Skyset, Wichita, KS

  I can still hear those bangs echo throughout the city, causing the bright lights to ingrain themselves into the eyeballs of the joyous holiday revelers below them. I can hear the hoots and claps ringing out as yet another fiery burst marks the sky, and the yells, hollers, the sizzling of fire as it ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Tears Over Curses (or Beauty and the Beast)

  

  By Skyset, Wichita, KS

  That night I cried, yes cried with salty, liquid drops on my cheeks and the name of a beast on my tongue. I cried, even though the stars danced all around us, even though fireflies burned like torches in the night a soft glow in this sorrowful castle. Petals from a withered rose ...
• Fiction > Action-Adventure
  Memoirs of a Superhero

  

  By Skyset, Wichita, KS

  And I remember that Patrick wouldn’t stop flickering, right before the snowflakes fell. And I remember that she smiled wistfully at me, her usually caustic mouth silenced by the gravity of what was about to happen. And I remember Shade’s last words to me, the warning that he always gave right be...