My Dearest Vacuum Cleaner by Faith Wagner My dearest vacuum cleaner,My precious lovely treasure,Please don’t underestimate,The worth you are to me.You’ve seen my battle scars,When blood seeps through my clothes,It flows into the riverAnd know one ever knows.Only you can see them,The sins I have […]
Verbum Dominī Manet in Aeternum by Rose MacPherson The grass will wither and the flowers fade,And each man dies who out of dust was made.Man, by his sin entrapped, will soon decay,And never can he reach eternal day.No man is holy; each deserved his deathBefore […]
Old Houses by Marit Faugstad What memories do long-lived houses hold? Each fallen beam, each dripping, sagging eave Remembers vibrant years long gone, and grieves Upon the rotting boards, the choking vines, the mold. What passing ages did the glass behold? What sounds once filled […]
Autumn Leaves by Greta Faugstad The green leaves of summer must take their final bow,giving up the stage for the vibrant, warm colors of autumn leaves.Spinning and whirling on their delicate toes,the ballerinas of nature tease the frost-bitten ground,which is eager to clothe its barrenness […]
Heavy rain falls against my skin. I can’t feel much else. My cat stares at me through the window curiously. She doesn’t understand. Would she ever understand? It’s been three years since you’ve passed, and I still can’t fathom the fact that you don’t get […]
Could you write me a poem? A short one, please. Of course! Here’s a short poem for you: The sky whispers low, As the soft winds blow, Time drifts like a dream, Through moments unseen. Why do you like to write about dreams so much? […]
Deep darkness encompassed, encroached, and enforced its power upon the landscape and all who dwell there. Engulfing the sidewalk, road, hillsides, and city, the tenebrific night left nothing untouched. It smothered the branching trees and harnessed the endless sky. The condescending darkness weighed down on […]
Crunch… Crunch… Crunch was the only sound I heard as I tramped through the woods. It was a quiet day, but that was okay, it left me time to think. Fall was the best time to go on a hike and this specific hike reminded […]
Always running, always rushing Never enough, never enough Always one thing, always another Always a task, always a reason To be running, to be rushing Always a class, always an assignment Always studying, always working Always wanted, always needed But there’s never enough Never enough […]
mi cuerpo está contaminado como los ríos y los bosques como las guerras y el aire mi cuerpo está contaminado mis brazos están contaminados quiero bañarme hasta todo a que mi piel se enrojezca y tu contaminación no es como la de las serpientes quiero […]