Poetry inspired by a prompt
The world quiets beneath a blanket of white
Sounds are muffled
Time slows
There is no hurry here
The landscape sleeps
Stillness, like a spell
Descends upon all things
My mind wanders about in this peace
Leaving no footprints in the snow
I am freed of my burdens
Allowed to drift like a shade
Below the frosted boughs
Delighting in the joy of winter’s slumber
-gws
Can you keep a secret?
Lean in close to hear
I see the wonder that you are
Whenever you draw near
You light up every room
You always seem to glow
Your spirit is so full of love
And everybody knows
You are a wonder to behold
A notch above the rest
Keep being your authentic self
You are the fucking best
-gws
When you came into my life
You promised to be my everything
You destroyed everything instead
My hopes
My dreams
My confidence
My joy
My ability to love you
My ability to love me
So I made sure to take everything
When I left
-gws
I would send you a bouquet
Of newly sharpened pencils
If it would inspire you to
Write a different ending
Draw a greener pasture
Dream in color again
-gws
You refused to take responsibility
So I accepted it instead
Until the day I found
You in someone else’s bed
You didn’t do the right thing
You clutched your pearls and said,
“If only you had been the wife
You promised when we wed”
At first I shrank around the wound
Thinking you were right
Believing that it may be true
That I’d been a lousy wife
I thought of all the arguments
That were constant in our life
The years of ugly, cutting blame
The insistence you were right
But then the rage came rushing in
You would gaslight me no more
I said that you were full of shit
And kicked you out the door
I realized I had done my part
In holding up my vow
It was you who failed on every front
I’d not be blamed right now
You made choices on your own
Now I have made some too
So hit the road, you selfish prick
Gaslighting days are through
-gws
I smoked a joint with the moon
She insisted it would allow us to see the world's beauty better
As herbal clouds drifted lazily across her round face
She rambled dreamily about the midnight sea's endless dance with her voluptuous celestial body
Spoke stanzas of star songs
Sang of wild wolf hunts and their howling choruses
Described forest galleries full of freshly woven spider webs bejeweled with moon-dazzled dew
She waxed lyrical about the endless stream of hopes and prayers whispered to her
Giggled as she fondly recounted the numerous myths humans had crafted about her
I listened contentedly
Basking in her hazy light
My heavy-lidded eyes glistening half moons themselves
Safely ensconced in her keeping
-gws
Black walls splashed with red light
Black pedestals shoot up from the floor
Every odd stalagmite topped with dark tributes
Each a void
A violent event horizon
Containing a blackness so deep
The minimal luminescence of the room
Feels blinding by comparison
Like calls to like
The black hole I hold
The emptiness that inhabits the center of me
Demands it’s recompense
Otherworldly hunger crawls up my throat
Forcing my chest to expand as I open wide my jaw
I inhale deeply
Tears stream
The void within me begins to consume
Every point of absence in the room
Monuments yield their hollow prizes to me
Each devouring punctuated by a scream
Inhale a void
Exhale a scream
Until there are only walls
Red light
And echoing screams
-gws
Beneath her surface lies
Unfathomable truths
Jealousy guarded
Her roaring a warning
That what she takes
Will not be returned the same
All are tithes to the moon-drunk sea
She takes all manner of tribute
Hopes
Dreams
Prayers
Secrets
Grief
Gratitude
Messages
Stone
Glass
Vessels
Bounty
Life
She is not picky
Transmuting all inside her churning depths
Into polished fragments to be left
As glittering pieces amongst the sand
Some emerge as treasure
Others tragedy
Everything transformed
-gws
In my reflection
A good and loyal person
Looks back lovingly
Happily openminded
And just a little bit weird
-gws
I ignite
The brush of your lips upon my neck
The reverberating purr rumbling deep in your chest as you press against me
The grip of your fingers tangling in my hair
Each sensation its own spectacular pyrotechnic show within me
The heat of your breath on my throat
The tension in your arms as you pull me into you
As if any room between us is too much
My lips swell from our eager, crushing kissing
Goosebumps pebble every inch of my too-hot skin
Sparked into existence by your exploring fingertips
My hands gripping your arms
Your hair
Your back
Your hips
My nails sometimes teasing
Sometimes scratching as I surrender to this tempest of desire
Sighs and moans
Gasps and groans
Hunger and need
Primal and demanding our surrender to it and each other
I have no desire to resist
Neither do you seem to
We are wonder and fire
Surrendering to this conflagration
As we quest to find in this consuming bliss
The evocation of when our essence
blazed as brightly as stars
-gws
Words Wishes and Wisdom 