Watch, Wince, Repeat

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She lies

Bruises easy

A fall she can't recall

She lives in fear; she dies within

Silence.

................................................

Daughter

She sees it all

Can't wait to leave this house

She weds a man who hits like Dad

Repeat.



submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Today We Scream
and d'Verse Poets Pub, Poetics, An Evening of Short Verse

Cinquains For a Saturday

Change or Die

Hanging

On the door frame

Opaque chrysalis clings

Butterfly inside its tight skin

Black, dead

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 In the Bush

Robins

Eating berries

Holly bushes rustle

Squawks and feathers fill the chill air

Dog barks

submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Weekend Mini Challenge, Cinquain

He Loves Me Not

photo by Laura Hegfield

You gave a five petaled bloom to me

kissed and tucked behind my ear

You said that you must set me free

but your intent was very clear

You did not wish to be here

submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Sunday Challenge

Time Out

"Time-Out" by Ella Wilson

I hope this bench is here when we are old

We'll rest when we grow tired from our walk

We'll reminisce of all the times we've strolled

These very streets as we watched life unfold

Or maybe we'll just hold hands and not talk.

submitted for Thursday Think Tank at Poets United