Author Archives: Michael

Poem 18

Posted on October 5, 2013 by Michael

outside the dawn approaches. beside me you lie, I watch your breathing, your body at rest. your skin,soft in repose. I am looking at you, I marvel at you, I lust after you, I want you now to awaken you … Continue reading →

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Poem 17

Posted on October 4, 2013 by Michael

I watch you, across the park, striding, pacing, head down, intent, What did you say to the man, the woman, the child playing with the dog? Was it spying to want to see you in the everyday?   Later I … Continue reading →

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Friday fictioneers – Squawk

Posted on October 4, 2013 by Michael

Squawk! Squawk! Squawk! Charles will you stop with the squawks. Squawk! Squaaaaaaawwwwwk! Charles you are being childish now. Squawrrrrrrrk! I’m not listening to another squawk. I’ve told you a hundred times in this flock I’m top gull and I get … Continue reading →

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Ligo Haibun Challenge: Torture

Posted on October 4, 2013 by Michael

  I sit and listen to you, minute on minute, hour after hour. Why do you go on so. My ears are burning from the onslaught of your words, your vitriol cutting me to the bone. I have felt this … Continue reading →

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Poem16

Posted on October 4, 2013 by Michael

there are recesses in my mind where demons lurk. they connive to make me doubt, cry, rage, envy, whatever it takes to undo me.   monsters gather in the gloom, feed me messages I hear them, sense their claws tearing … Continue reading →

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Poem 15

Posted on October 2, 2013 by Michael

You have held me Every fear, every concern you have acknowledged. You have given me a solace. You have let me reveal my soul, You have absorbed my grief, my pain, You have held me within your grasp, Your strength … Continue reading →

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Poem 14

Posted on October 2, 2013 by Michael

I look at you, Asleep in my bed. I listen to your breathing Watch your face, your eyes aflutter in your dreams. Are you in a place where magic happens? Are you running from fear? Do you see me? Your … Continue reading →

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Poem 13

Posted on October 1, 2013 by Michael

  The ones who seek to find Will wonder when the hour comes Why the doors were closed Turned away to emptiness   as the dawn emerges from the gloom lone figures run the horizon heralds of hope, of rebirth … Continue reading →

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Prompt 23 Anais Nin Quotes – My Wife

Posted on September 29, 2013 by Michael

  “I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage … Continue reading →

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Prompt 23 – Anais Nin Quotes – 4

Posted on September 29, 2013 by Michael

  “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.” … Continue reading →

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