Mirror, Mirror

Scar
by ~AnnaMariaDeMari

Get out

No more chances

Promises, promises

Take your sweet words and choke on them

We're done

Too late

Save the tears to water your lawn

I've cried too much, too long

Without you, babe

I'm strong

submitted for Poets United, Midnight Snack 007

Ducks and Swans

image courtesy of Magpie Tales

I was never beautiful

Never swam with the swans

their soft feathers

graceful, white necks blooming with

bright pink buds of

boys' affections

Beautiful girls turned heads

I turned pages of books

My lovers were paper

vellum princes

who didn't mind if the princess was

too fat, too skinny, too, too, too

What if the ugly duckling 

never grew into a swan 

but into an ugly duck?

Would anyone love it then?

or would it be hung 

by its gangly neck

in the window of a Chinese restaurant?

submitted for Magpie Tales 87

and One Single Impression, Prompt 190, Paper

Lullaby for the Lost

No funeral

No flowers

Put it out with medical waste

No tears

No prayers

Sympathy is for the chaste

No one's bringing you a casserole

No one's sending you a card

You caused yourself this grief, this sadness

Now no one cares if it is hard.

No right to mourn

Carry the scorn

Your choice, so you said

Time to move on

Glad that it's gone

Flush it away, it's dead

Your dirty little secret

You kept it sterile, clean

No name for your lost baby

The one that could've been.

submitted for dVerse Poetics, Taboo Subjects, at dVerse Poets Pub

Number Five

I dance on the edges of dreams and wakefulness
I hear your laugh
on the car radio
You've been whispering my name at night
I don't believe in ghosts
so I know it's you
You love me; you love me not
You love me; I'm tied in knots
Words puzzle me
How they fit together then
fly apart again
I wash my laundry in beer
How is it
that your face is in every ink blot?
You look so beautiful with wings.

submitted for Poetry Jam, Your Assignment (laundry, laugh, ghost, edges, beer)