#poetry prompt
“Bones”
From my second prompts series, prompt provided by @/abrochine on Instagram
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“Loving me fiercely is not the same as loving me above all else.”
“I refuse to let you make a monster out of me. I will do it myself.”
You put me back together, but you didn’t do it right.
Something lovely grows inside you.
I hope you are full of all the love you ever wanted.
There are pieces of me left in you. I want them back.
“Who are you going to hold when I’m gone?”
“I can’t even remember the last time I felt whole.”
“You are a hundred miracles bundled into one.”
“How many times did you have to make me cry until you were satisfied with yourself?”
Sometimes I am too tired and I cannot be the good friend I wish I was.
Shallow
©2017 By Patricia Harris
#December pen challenge #6 @tenthstreetmiscIn life we learn to breathe,
To feel that hesitation.
We have to become
The expected,
The sheep following
That shepherd to
The pastures edge.Though the hill is too great
The climb more than we
Expect to find,
Still we follow behind.
Each individual lost
Becoming what society
Required…
Shallow.
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Helpless Drift
©2017 By Patricia Harris
#December pen challenge #8 #mehwhoneedsorder @tenthstreetmiscHands tied,
The internal compass lied.
Life turned not up,
Nor down,
Slid sideways and
Turned around.Caught up in the current,
No way to plan or prepare.
Held to being helpless
Just drifting everywhere.
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Apartment Door
©2017 By Patricia Harris
#December Pen challenge #1 #startedlate @tenthstreetmisc
In the moment of pride I
Wrestled with the urge
To push it back open,
That damned door.
The other side is the
First apartment
With my baby inside.
I know that this
Is normal,
Chicks grow,
Learn to fly on their own.
That doesn’t seem
To ease the hatred
I bear the door
That is saying that
I am not needed anymore.
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Lost song bird
©2017 By Patricia Harris
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Softly trilling
Memory willing,
Hints of what once was.
Once upon a windy day
The beauty under my window
Flew off into my memory.
Leaving me audibly
Hanging on
Merely memory.
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Last words
©2017 Patricia Harris
#December pen challenge #3 #latestart
When all was finished
We said our peace,
Still left was the last thing
The words we all needed
To avoid.
Unspoken,
Easier to ignore…
Spoken
It becomes more real,
Concrete.
Unavoidable..
So delay the utterance
Delay the words
We neither want to say.
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Grass meets water
©2017 By Patricia Harris
#December pen challenge #4 #startedlate
At the edge of what
Reality is,
Where edges blur.
Where the grass meets the water,
Fantasy begins.
Faeries dance,
Splash and play
In the space where
Grass meets water,
And dreams are made.
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Demons
©2017 By Patricia Harris
#December pen challenge #10 #outoforder @tenthstreetmiscIn my lovers eyes dwell
Something that I know too well,
Darkly turning,
Hope is burning…
Desire a tool that pricks the
Heart towards Hell.I see the demons,
Mirroring the ones
Residing within
The eyes reflected back
When into my own face
I attempt to see.
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