Midnight Snack

Midnight Snack by Curtis Wilson Cost (1984)

We giggle like kids

hide under covers

sneak a tickle

The dogs study us

like we’ve gone mad

then sigh and fall asleep

In the morning

we’ll drink coffee and

read the paper 

at the kitchen table

But tonight we snack 

in bed.

submitted for The Mag, Mag 139

Tempt Me

source

Tempt me

You never know

the things I will

do

the places I will

go

if you tempt me

just so

Paint ice hot flames

around our bed

Dare me 

to enter

with a silent stare

and a guilty smile

Play me

slow smoky jazz sounds

with your eyes

Write me poems

with your tongue

down my neck 

to the small of my back

and dot the 'i' s 

with frost covered cherry blossoms

Tempt me

Master all of my senses

Take them from me

I confess 

I am no innocent

Use me

I am your canvas

I am your book

Bind me well

Keep me

tempted.

submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Fireblossom Fridays, Temptation
Poetry Jam, Hot and Cold
Poets United, Vice Versa, Midnight Snack #5 (Sound/Silence; Guilt/Innocence)
dVerse Poets Pub, dVerse Poetics, Meeting the Bar, A Martian Sharpens His Knife

Hearteater

Love Itself by Tracey Mac

Young hearts you love to collect

Consume them and leave them wrecked

And you have not one regret

Is your own heart content yet?

submitted for Poets United, Midnight Snack, Vice Versa (Consume/Collect  Regret/Content)

Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Tanaga

Grinning Like a...

Alice in Wonderland by YukiValentine

Come back here, you frightful cat

You won't escape again

I'll soon catch you, you tricky rat

and you'll be sorry then!

You say you want to help me

but then get me in to trouble

and instead of being remorseful

you go off and make it double!

I've never seen a cat like you

who grins so big and wide

and no one will believe you're true

because you like to hide.

A cat without a smile

is nothing very strange

but a smile without a cat

is really quite deranged!

So before you disappear this time

I've got your stripey tail

I want you to confess your crime

before you fade to pale.

And if you do not like that

I'll apply a little pressure

Then while you're screeching like a cat

I'll grin just like a Cheshire!

submitted for Midnight Snack, 008, at Poets United

and Poetic Bloomings #26, Life's a Little Weird

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

Don't Forget Your Light

Don't Forget Your Light" by Sudlice at Deviant Art

Bare walls
Bare floors
Barely even here
Another place
Another name
Another empty year
Wasted time
Wasted tries
Wasted every night
Can't outrun
Can't stay here
Don't forget your light.

submitted for Midnight Snack, 1, at Poets United