Free Verse

Hour of Horror

2023-10-28T20:54:00.003-07:00

Welcome to the monsters Show

Ghouls rock to their beats

The wolf man howls and screeches

To the new music on the scene

The mummy raps along

Werewolf and Dracula both out for blood

Competing to see who can spit the most

Dope rhymes

This new duo is fresh meat on the street

With sick, suicidal beats

T’is the season of the fiendish

Feasting on your souls

Beware of the midnight hour

A full moon holds power

The monsters and their crew will be out

Looking for you to devour your core

Stay alert don’t let your guard down

Keep away from the cemetery

Bloody Mary walks the ground preying

On her next victim, weak MC’s beware

Frankenstein and his bride are on the loose

Looking for revenge, the monsters

Spinning their web of ill punch

Don’t call Dr Jekyll cause he’ll bring Mr. Hyde

Dr. Frankenstein created his beast

And now the puppet has become

The master

So to all you ghouls and gals

Turn up the volume

And drown out the howling

Jam to the hour of horror

Happy Haunting Boooooo……….

It Doesn't Matter

2023-07-13T00:14:00.007-07:00

June by EK Ellis

2023-06-06T23:48:00.000-07:00

Juxtapose to no beginning and to no end

Unified hurt soul deep and beyond

Nursing a broken heart

Every day a reminder you’re not here

Grim by EK Ellis

2023-06-06T23:40:00.005-07:00

Forbidding love

Obnoxious nature

Unattractive attitude

Aged wisdom

Dire consequences

Nasty approach

Loathing behavior

Gloomy personality

Ugly disposition

Bleak outlook

Love sometimes is grim

One Last Petal

2023-05-24T01:36:00.002-07:00

I stand alone

But I am strong

Wind nor rain has not

Washed away my existence

My roots are deep entangled

With the tears of the ones

Who have beheld my beauty

See I’m wisdom and purity

I am love peace and unity

I stand alone and I’m free

May

2023-05-04T02:20:00.003-07:00

Mesmerizing eyes

Archaic soul deep with -in

Yearning for loves heart

Menace to Poetry

2023-05-01T19:20:00.000-07:00

Words volatile soften

Emotions integrating

Heart and soul

Segregating the weak from the strong

Blood sweat tears

Cathartic healing

Driven to poetic madness

Beautiful anger

Dangerous sword to divide

The connotation of meaning

To words

Symbolically spoken

From the soul

A two edge sword

Dividing and cutting words

To shred

Bringing dread and wanting

Fear to those all whom opposed

The warning

Poetry can be hostile and

Gentle in the same breath

A dagger in the heart of words

A lovers whispers to the spirit

A whimper of a soft moan

Of pleasure

Don’t mistaken for

Menace to poetry

April

2023-04-15T20:02:00.020-07:00

Answer to spring rings true

Passion fruit ripens

Running through fields of green

Insoluble to fathom its lusciousness

Love breaths fresh breeze in April

Your Name is What?

2023-03-15T23:11:00.001-07:00

You have this name no one can pronounce

Ordinary no one can blame your parents

Unique I wouldn’t call it

Redundant to everyone ears who hears it

Not original, but you think it is

Animal mistakenly answer to it

Many have tried and failed to get the right pronunciation

Even you’re not quite sure how to say it

I think it a joke someone played on you

So don’t get mad if you’re called something else

Were your parents drinking when they came up with it

Heaven help me and them I think they were

At mention of your name people burst out in flames

Time to think about getting another name

Your name is what?

Visionary

2023-03-15T01:29:00.009-07:00

Vast amount of knowledge

Insurmountable wisdom

Seeing the future for what it holds

Intellectual refugee

Offering thanks to a power greater than

Neglect truth never told

Air of dominance not found in soul

Renege on a promise you will not find

Yielding insight into creative thinker

Enough

2023-02-28T23:21:00.003-08:00

Sometimes love isn’t enough

Sometimes saying sorry

Means very little if you’re hurting

Feeling miserable for yourself

Blaming the world for the pain

You’re in when you caused it

Looking to others to solve your problems

If you could only look in the mirror

And see your answers there

You can be at your lowest

But there are others lower than you

Be thankful you are not where

They are

Pain

2023-02-14T01:32:00.003-08:00

I suffer your pain as it wraps its

Tentacles around your heart

Strangling life from your soul

In this abyss you have fallen

Where you find no peace

Sorrow has become your

Shadows and comfort

Has no spirit

A place I have known so well

And at times the darkness

So severe light couldn’t find

Its way in

I share your despair the feeling

Of fighting this battle on your own

How many times did I too wage this

War

In my footsteps you’re walking in

Nevertheless, notice there is only one

Set of prints

Pain has its way of stealing hope

Hope has a way of stealing back life

You’ll see the dawn begin to break

Darkness slowly dissipates

Pain vanish as fog rolls back out

To sea

Life is after all beautiful

Unique and you are to

Keep believing in happy ever

After pain is no more

Visual Sense

2023-02-13T20:42:00.012-08:00

Echoes of passion

Enthralled in desire

Smoldering embers

Burst into flames

With every emotion of motion

Eyes closed moans

And whispers of love

Spent you open your eyes

Only to see someone else

In your vision…

Replaced by the image in your head

Broken Vessel

2023-02-08T04:22:00.003-08:00

Beaten spiritually

Regrets too many

Odious feeling of self

Kindred spirit to death

Eulogy tells the tale forgotten

Nuance of secrets whispered

Vigilant ghosts circle a raw carcass

Ebullient they dance to death

Sorrowful tears cast shadows

Solemn words echo across the earth

Exultant warriors beat their chests

Lariat catches the last breath

Tarnished Memories and Broken Hearts

2022-09-08T21:03:00.018-07:00

So many times, good memories

Are overshadowed by broken glass and

Shards of pain

Joyous moments clouded by ugly recriminations

Happy reflections sadden by disdain

Laughter caught in the throat

Does not bubble forth as carbonated water

Tarnished remembrances chastise recollections

Ruined heart and soul excuses relayed half ass

Dynamite explodes revealing true intentions

Cannot hide underneath lies

Feelings vulnerable weaken vessel of self

Shattered heart and corroded memories

Goodnight Sweet Dreams

2022-09-08T20:40:00.007-07:00

Some things not meant to be

Holding on to impossibilities

Chasing dreams always within

Reach yet not close enough

To grasp in palm of your hand

Standing on the other side

Of time making wishes

Futile when they fail

To materialize

You place a soft kiss on your dreams

In the dark you whisper

To all your imaginings and desire

Good night sweet dreams…

Cry

2022-09-05T03:03:00.002-07:00

Go a head bare your soul

You don't have to be strong for the world

Give in to the emotions you have so valiantly

Fought off

Give in to the pain, that has no name

Tired? I know you are

Tired of trying to shoulder responsibility alone

Carrying around the guilt if you let everyone down

Fair? no it's not

You're the one who is up all night

Release that hurt

Don't be afraid

Cleansing your spirit is always ok

Go a head, the gods are listening

Sorrow, is something we all have inside of us

This is your healing, purge those feelings and

Cry

Fragments of Fragments

2022-07-30T00:31:00.000-07:00

Fragments of yesterday

Breathe into today

Bits and pieces of shattered

Dreams cascade from swollen eyes

Fragments of wishes oblivious of nirvana

Splinters of love lay at feet

Fragments catch the wind

Leaving a trail of pain

Slivers of hope peep between

Darkened clouds

Fragments of life piecing

Together the crumbs of tomorrow

As the crumbles of now disintegrates

Intertwined in the fragments of fragments

Dancing With the Devil

2022-06-17T21:52:00.012-07:00

You imagine you are so essential

I am going to set you open

You are evil, vile and

A child of God you are not

First mistake you made

Was putting the name of someone

I love in your mouth traversing a line

Maybe you do not know what it feels like

To lose someone you love

Were you high talking out

The side of your neck

People have died for less

And today their tombstones

Remain unclaimed

Mistake number two you

Should have never mentioned his name

To begin with

Someone you have never met

You have no respect for those in

Life or death

Did not fathom your words would find

Themselves in my presence

But they did

Call yourself a woman

Not

You want to play as one but

Guess what

Sadly, you are lacking in

What it means to be a real female a mother

Come for me if you like

You are a sad waste of life

How do you raise your child?

The one who is raising herself

Well, I do not want to put

Your mothering skills on display

Oops you do not have any from what I can tell

I can take a lot of shit

You should know this

Beware

Mistake number three

You spoke of someone who

Was close to me

Like a son

Someone you never known

Yet you chose to disrespect

Our memories you have shitted on

Who does that?

Did it make you feel like a queen?

When you threw out his name with

The intention to injure

Did it feel good to know you caused pain?

That your aim hit more than one target

You must feel very proud

Sitting there high on your throne looking down

Say shit and disrespect, bitch from above

Come down to earth where it gets real

You are not the one

Now

You have met your match

The dead cannot speak for themselves

Now you are in the dance with the devil

So Long Mr. Charming

2022-06-16T00:17:00.000-07:00

Who can say that being needed led to a breakdown?

In the beginning what was desired,

Prince Charming riding on a white stallion

Ready to slay dragons

And carry burdens

Only this prince didn’t have a clue on how

To ride a horse

And was afraid of his own shadow

In distress he left his princess

To fend for herself and slay her own dragons

What was the need for Prince Charming?

He couldn’t hold down his own fort

Lost the respect of his court

People laughed and made snide

Remarks behind his back

Jeered his ignorance

Still he remained clueless

Needed? Not any more

Now his princess was Queen

Of her own domain and ruled with

Passion and content

To everyone she was the true warrior

With strength and courage

As for Prince Charming he’s still

Trying to figure out how to ride a horse…

Wasted

2022-06-02T16:58:00.019-07:00

Tragedy

2022-05-29T00:05:00.004-07:00

Disastrous end of a love affair

Calamity in the wake of the fallout

Catastrophes bemoan the wind

Misfortune to the hearts involved

Heartbreak came at an expensive price

Ruin reputations bought for a night of illicit passion

Adversity fashioned the road to redemption

Mishap or coincidence lover’s duplicity revealed

Rage of uncontrollable obsession led to an

Upheaval of reprisal sorting out the victims

Cataclysmic tempo builds to a crescendo

Damage to lives unfold

Shattered emotions lay bare

Chaos ensued sorting out the fallen reflections

Bedlam erupted two souls entangled with each other

Pandemonium could not be stilled

Anarchy warped the minds of survivors

As they question why anyone did not see

The tragedy before it happened

Lyfe

2022-05-26T00:31:00.001-07:00

If lyfe was easy if lyfe was sweet

If there were no struggle or ugliness on the streets

If beauty in the world outweigh the poverty surround

Dreams of running through fields of lilies

Smelling a sweet red rose

Lyfe we all wish to behold

Lyfe is what we make it, shape, embrace it, take it, create it

Lyfe isn't easy and sweetness is rare to be found

We struggle each day with the horror around

Peace, we hear about seen rarely

Lyfe, I want to bury my head and not

Listen to all the shit how lyfe is only

Meant for the rich

The poor must submit

Never will they get

To have what they wish

All bullshit

If lyfe was easy, if lyfe was sweet

There would be no crying in the streets

Mothers’ tears would not wash away the blood stains

Of her children spilled

The homeless would have a place to

Lay their heads

The hungry would be fed

And the earth would give back its dead

Lyfe is reality

Early Up

2022-05-25T01:41:00.003-07:00

Another day to

Be put to

The test

Alarm sings

It’s time to get up

Roll over and smile

Taking in the beauty

Lying next to me

Inhale the fragrance

Of promises

Wipe away

Last night’s kisses

No time to reflect

Today is calling

And cannot be

Put on hold

There is life

Beyond these walls

Sunshine seeps in

Reminding the world

Does not stop for those

Who procrastinate?

One last glance

At the clock

And now it is time

Start the day

Early up

If You

2022-05-25T00:35:00.000-07:00

If you give me wings so that I might fly

If you give me a voice, I will sing with angels

If you give me a future I will dream

If you give me encouragement, I will become many things

If you sing my praises with empty words, I will have the wrong visions

If you knock me down, make it count

If you see into my heart and know it's worth

Then why question if I am virtuous

If you see my tears know that I have empathy

If you spit on my name let, there be a sound reason for it

If I curse you my justification will be pure

If I love, you there will be no beginning or end

Only infinity

If you give me, you I will give you who I am