by breathwords | Dec 27, 2024 | Extended Exhalations, Wicked Words
midnight mango and orange blossom a slow singe singing across sacred skies you called this a delightful warmth but i am left craving the burn you hold me close but your eyes are closed give me the h e a t a gaze seared into skin ice blue flames shouting rage a...
by breathwords | Dec 24, 2024 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
lightning only strikes when we lie. must be why it storms around you all the time. lips pressed so sweetly to my chest. kiss my heart and cross your fingers. promises mean nothing if you never intend to keep them. you make them anyway. bundle them up in a pretty...
by breathwords | Dec 19, 2024 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
disharmony slid into our bed. ambivalence set the table. apathy took up residence in the living room. and we permitted it. let it soak into our skin until we were possessed by it. indifference and indecision becoming the blood in our veins. until there was only one...
by breathwords | Dec 16, 2024 | Drink In the Dark, Extended Exhalations
the perfect silence. the deep hug of night. storm clouds settling in the sky. chaos. and calm. the collision of the two. a hint of melancholy. being swallowed by the sea. eyes shut tight before they succumb to sleep. the way you gasp when you breathe. the spaces i...
by breathwords | Jan 26, 2021 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
night strolls towards day crawling inch by slow inch until amaranth blooms across the black because not even the dark plays for keeps love propels us to the moonlight but we are icarus when the sun rises we shake the embers wash off the soot until only the smell of...
by breathwords | Nov 16, 2020 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
behind this orange, ominous view, the warmth within became foreboding, more lovely terror than light of promise the walls are still crumbling into splintered disdain memory lane diverged the path of hope once uncovered by a voice of reason is overshadowed by an evil...
