It’s Valentines Day.
You didn’t think I’d be posting mushy stuff did you?
If so, that’s ok- here’s a picture of my Chocolate Lab back in 2014- wasn’t he sweet?
And as for the rest of you…well…
Month: February 2018
My Singing Monsters
Each word
every phrase
etched on the page
escaped
from my brain
to my pen
ran
into your eye
hid in your darkness
waiting for you to sleep.
Goodnight
Sweet Dreams
My monsters will sing you to sleep.
Daily Prompt: Conjure
We Request You Smile
Photo A.M. Moscoso
Lower your
voice
look down
hands to you side
silence.
Still
your thoughts
still
your tongue
look down
hands to your side
silence.
Smile.
Always smile.
As wide as you like
as long as you want
With your arms
at your side
but
We must insist
on
your
silence.
Daily Prompt: Insist
Next Stop
Photo A.M. Moscoso
Photo A.M Moscoso
Sometimes our next stop is our last stop.
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Photo A..M Moscoso
Saint Louis Cemetery #1
Patience Has Teeth
Turn on every light
burn every candle
that you have
in your room
to keep the darkness
away.
Close the closet door,
jump up on your bed
and whisper those prayers
you learned in Sunday school
when you were a child.
Maybe they’ll work
They’re so old and comforting.
Like a warm blanket and a warm sweet drink wrapped around your shoulders
sliding down your throat
when it is dark and the air is thick with ice and fog and despair.
Don’t look down to the floor
towards the window
Oh God
did you lock it?
Did you lock the window you scream to yourself
in your head where you thought the monsters lived.
Why didn’t you draw the curtains closed
how could you forget such a simple thing?
What will keep you safe now?
Could you scream for help? Cry to the Devil
to anyone, to someone to save you now.
Please save you now?
Go ahead.
Ask.
Plead.
Beg.
I’m listening on the other side
of your window
where darkness is forever
and I’m not going anywhere.
Daily Prompt: Creature
The Ruined
” I trusted you! ” his eyes were bright, his breath was sharp he pushed his face close to hers.
” I did everything you asked of me, gave everything I promised to give, I broke the rules, changed the rules, I ended lives, I set the hills and sky on fire for you. “
She looked down and he was sure she was smiling.
That’s the way she was, that’s the way she had been since the day she drew her first breath and it sailed down her throat to her empty chest and the place where her heart should have been.
” We had a deal. You made me a promise. You said you’d give me your love and you Soul. I thought you were perfect. ” he closed his eyes and welcomed the darkness he saw there.
That darkness, that abyss was reminded him of her.
His heart burned, it ached, it was no more.
His eyes flew open and burned into hers.
” You are oblivion. You are a cheat. You are a lie. “
She raised her hands to his face, reached up and rested them on his horns.
” And you, my poor sad creature are a trusting Devil.”
