Tag: Poetry

Because I am studying for 2 exams whilest also composing an essay, I have decided to spam you with some of my poetry:

Canary

Society girl
two coats wrapped about
two cold shoulders
pearls that catch
the reflected rainfall,
they swing from her tree trunk neck.
Eyes that shine
coral on a reef
with fish darting, dancing about
her seaweed hair.
Her lips are a plum,
sharp white teeth
against a black tongue
her fingers, narrow
wrapped about a stiff black cigar
She bubbles and floats along conversations
ever aware that
her canary heart
is breaking.

Love

He found himself ill
about a week ago
he refused to go to the hospital
so she drove him
and paid for his medications
even though he had the money

Now she stands in the kitchen
slowly stirring chicken soup
staring absently into the yellow mix
seeing the future like
an old woman at a carnival
her pale hands resting on the spoon

And he lies on a sick bed
wide awake from too much sleep
reading Peter Pan
like he did when he was nine
years before his path crossed hers

I drive her to the hospital
as she doesn’t trust me enough
to hold the cooling soup
and before I can stop the car
she’s in his room
talking about Neverland

I wait around for awhile
watching them fall in love
their voices raise and lower
in dreams and memories
until the chatter numbs me
and I fall asleep at the window

When I awaken the sun has fallen
and she sleeps in a small heap
next to him on the pale sheets
while his chest rises and falls
and the tiny tubes in his nose
entwine themselves in her hair

I wake her from a happy sleep
and she wakes him with a kiss
and a promise to return tomorrow.

And as we cross the parking lot
to take her home
she speaks of the future
that she saw in his chicken soup.