Hers was a chameleon soul Flitting with the moons ebbs and whims A freewheeling compass That led her dancing in riddles A blur of soft kisses on the shoreline And kaleidoscope lights in her mirror A million smiles shattered on the landscape And split between them Each claiming he knew […]
@charlisaysCherry & The Bees, a poem by Charli. ##charlisays ##poetry ##writerslife ##amwriting ššš ā¬ original sound – Charli Day And so she smiled that smile. The one he thinks is real Cherry red and bitten inside A bitter stone lodged in her throat Swallowing hard keeps the bees down Churning […]
I don’t remember how I came to be here Myriads of ocean rainbows painting my neck and the warm around me tight as his embrace A halo of hope and love and around and there I don’t recall my feet on the sand or the first brush of blue But […]
Somethingās broken in your ocean, a strike-slip fault, a tiny motion A space that shifts to cause commotion, a fault line in our intersection Somethingās fractured and I canāt mend it, a surface tear, I canāt repair We slid past ourselves again, a rocky grind of phrase on phrase Somethingās […]
@charlisaysSeeking Mermaids. A poem written and read by Charli. ##writerslife ##poetry ##charlisays ##writingcommunity ā¬ original sound – Charli Day Take me down in the turquoise sea Where blue crabs scuttle and silver fish flee Lead me down below the waves And let’s go seeking mermaids Bring me to our silent […]
The sun bleached ghost clothes shifted in the late summer zephyr Gathered on rails, a shabby huddle of refugees, limp and hopeless Dusty cobbles burning through summer sandals etching like parchment The Arabic symbols inscribed forever on her soles, seeping into her skin Freckled shoulders weighed heavy under the oppressive […]
Once it was spring and the butterflies in her mind Fluttered and drank the honey nector Danced as each second passed, her footprints hurried on the golden streets A courtyard snow globe of blossom and the boy waiting. Once it was spring and a thousand blissful days belonged Of plane […]
Black. I let it take me. No skipping carefree from the oily sea that seeps into the dry cracks of my bones, putrid warm. Its diamond crests scooped and closed in that sculpted box Saved and safe, my happy place Our laughter trapped inside, a grotesque musical box for the […]