Once I met a little orange cat With whiskers long and fur so flat He sat in the rain at my window pane A little orange cat. Once I touched a little orange cat His paws were white, his tail was matt. His eyes they cried like winter skies A little orange cat Once I …
She didn’t think of it often. It wasn’t right somehow. To intrude on a past that existed perfectly well without her. An expired country and she, a faded intruder watched wide eyed from the long grasses by the bank. How beautiful they were. With their crisp white skirts and neatly laced shoes. Their long ponytails …
The forest swallowed her. Left the cinder path. A lone Gretel lost in a tangle. Dark ferns muffled footfall Until she no longer felt herself. Was one with the heavy black. Breathing its baited stillness Swallowing the dread that caught in her throat and beat against her chest. Hers to keep, a sullen crow. Fingered …
@charlisaysAn extract of “Letters To The Moon Goddess Selene” by Charli. ???Read the full poem at charlisays.com/letters-to-the-moon-goddess-selene ##writers♬ original sound – Charli Day I accepted sweet Selene, sister of the celestial. That hard pull upward to your lunar light. Stopped still in the street, pulse dropped, as time seeped into the cool Athenian night.A dreamers …
@charlisays Take Me To The Sea a poem written and read by Charli. ##writerslife ##charlisays ##amwriting ##poetry ♬ original sound – Charli Day The ocean calling pulls me from my grimy city dream, a mirage of cerulean depth Stumbling blindly towards the shore, a magnetic pull of my sign Weary limbs alive in liquid sapphire, …
@charlisaysOde to a valley – ##charlisays ##poetry ##writerslife ##writers ##poetsoftiktok ##nature ##writers ##poems ##writing ???♬ Classical – Piano Classics: Masters of Relaxing Solo Piano Music We came upon a valley that summer day. Emerald green and thronged with swallows, bees and the lightest silk butterflies. A herb scented Eden with a breeze that kissed my …
@charlisaysDay Zero is my latest piece of writing. ??❤ ##writing ##writerslife ##charlisays ##lockdown ##writersoftiktok ♬ Haunting – Common Man Music They say the shock makes you tired. Stumbling drowsy through haphazard facts The reporter mouths empty words on the screen They replay in a loop at night. Distant words she can’t quite make out Seeping …
‘I was a survivor once’ she said. ‘Watching shadows and listening for voices. Sirens rounding desolate corners and a helicopter above. That hawk could take out each of us mice. Scuttling between trees, making ourselves invisible. We resisted. Some fickle bravery coarsed veins and filled heads. I joined them. Defiance in our eyes and on …
Trees blur in my salty snow globes A dark seaweed wash for this bright forest and a bramble scratch in my throat. His hand rests on my leg, a dead weight. I fold my hands like napkins. White and edge to edge on my lap. Crisp and careful. Unavailable. I don’t want to be touched. …
Loosen your limbs it said Loosen and let me take you. My black rock heavier than your shallow breaths A delirious sleep that fills your ears and thick as treacle wraps your lungs. You won’t feel it. Just a fleeting gasp and then nothing. Close your eyes if it makes it better. Just close your …