There are times my heart speaks for me, this is the place I keep its voice. - Ash
This Purgatory
white white everywhere no walls no floor no ceiling just white am I touching anything am I alive where is the door through which I come did I walk through by willis this … Continue reading This Purgatory →
Blueberry Hill
when the blueberries come back…so do you we’re together again scraping and scrounging along the hillside every three paces we fill our cups the colour blue today … Continue reading Blueberry Hill →
A Walk to Bartender
6:05 kicking rocks every stride a pebble or twosummer hugging me the whole waythe sun was slowly packing up for the day and the moon would … Continue reading A Walk to Bartender →
Dirty Dare
that night there was a fire in all their eyes each time a heartbeat, another felt its rhythmic passion a guise was given to open the euphoricallow dreams … Continue reading Dirty Dare →
A Story Written in Ash
When I write, I give it like blood all my emotions like DNA unique to me only it can be shared with others it passes through to the … Continue reading A Story Written in Ash →
By the Trestle Bridge
no idea where I was goingwhere my footsteps were taking menot long off the bus and my bags still hanging off the borrowed bedI’m … Continue reading By the Trestle Bridge →
Out of Body, Into Life
today, the air was differentI paid attention to the seabirdswatched the tide go all the way outto my left, a boat hummed away from … Continue reading Out of Body, Into Life →
Whispers Toward The Darkness
Another ten paces and I fall again to my knees the truth too unbearable like the scorch of the sun, it will burn hot no running will get … Continue reading Whispers Toward The Darkness →
Dark Puzzles, Black Pieces
Lying awake in the dares of the night between the seconds of darkness that it created anxious, with a pulsing heart a sweaty grip gripping tightly so wishing … Continue reading Dark Puzzles, Black Pieces →
A Pedal For My Thoughts
You are a flower a flower long picked from the garden homewith just today as a reminder of when you began to growseasons pass … Continue reading A Pedal For My Thoughts →
Fading to Black
In the night like a ghost nothing is ever seen premeditation a superpower skewing the real, while dancing with the devil visiting worlds very far apart the sky in one, … Continue reading Fading to Black →
One Saturday
One Saturday an old used-up weekend in my life back when I was a small boy who took shortcuts home I remember that Saturday and how golden was the … Continue reading One Saturday →
The Shadows Are Still There
I stood there high and saw the sorrow from loss below my heart did nothing tomorrows came with tears all around but still nothing why did you … Continue reading The Shadows Are Still There →
Beacon of Heart
I wrote a letter on a beacon of hope gave fate the return address but sadly, I still sit and wait for tomorrow and … Continue reading Beacon of Heart →
Dances with the Devil
In the hours where most sleep I sit in a purple lit booth something beautiful catches eyes as they adjust neon lights flicker as it dances…I watchsoft … Continue reading Dances with the Devil →
Days In Our Lives Together
I was with you for a whileevery one of those moments I playback when I think of youwhen my heart is calling out for … Continue reading Days In Our Lives Together →
Me and the End of Summer
Red sky evenings I remember them stretched highway at eight o’clock over the overpass to watch there is one last summer night coming out to play my pace quickens … Continue reading Me and the End of Summer →
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I loved as much as you’ll receive carried out right hereThe sketch is attractive, your authored material stylishnonetheless, you command get got an nervousness … Continue reading Deleted Spam by Ash’s comment section →
A Harbour Night
Boats sway nestled to portquietly breaking the ocean toward the shoreits laps catch my ear then, I seeI watch as the moorings dripcounting seconds … Continue reading A Harbour Night →
Just Before The Bridge
four shadows passing by midnight the king, the jack, the ace, and the joker pushing and shoving…jousting in jest their laughter lulling the moon as street lights froze … Continue reading Just Before The Bridge →
A Night That Almost Lost Tomorrow
That night was eternal drifting toward a forever sleep voices falling faintthoughts of tomorrow escaping with time slipping away I walked toward a light I was not scared to followbody … Continue reading A Night That Almost Lost Tomorrow →
Celebrate Good Lines, Come On
Hey everyone, I would not sleep very well tonight if I did not let all my readers/followers know that I was approached to do … Continue reading Celebrate Good Lines, Come On →
Rainy Nights Devils Dance
rainy nights devils dance their guise of secrets under piss-yellow street lights in the alleys cast shade when monsters come out to play who can barely see a thing as Hyde … Continue reading Rainy Nights Devils Dance →
Young Summer
took a walk-in summer grass picked a blade, made a sound the air was country wild strawberries sweet like lazy cats we lay for hours In the filthy hot, in the … Continue reading Young Summer →
Lonely Poet
my lines are barren of wordsno one pays attention anymore I walk away to try and healchange those emotional bandagesstop the bloody hurtwhen my lyrics … Continue reading Lonely Poet →
Losing My Religion
I’m sorry you were alone when the faces drifted away.When your days got stolen and good nights emptied.Just a vessel that you God, abandoned.Someone … Continue reading Losing My Religion →
They Are Never Gone
The other night, I looked up for the moon To ask him for a small favour “Knock for me…at that heaven’s door” I was alone and needed … Continue reading They Are Never Gone →
Walked To Death
It was as midnight as midnight could bethat late, dogs cried at the moonall the way downas I followed you straight to an early … Continue reading Walked To Death →
Unfather’s Day
Today, I don’t want to exist.Tomorrow is fine, but not today.Today, I don’t deserve anything. I hate the happiness, I hate the gift ideas.I … Continue reading Unfather’s Day →
Far From Home
I walk this earth an alienno place here for a castawaysurrounded all the timestill alone My blood, it’s not like yoursit repelsit taintsit makes … Continue reading Far From Home →
Dukes of Habit
Irish nightwith a few black beers for luckstood elbow to elbow in the midst of strange drunkardsthree sheets to the windplacing little wagers before … Continue reading Dukes of Habit →
Unbroken
Dead of winteras the winds howlI’m still out there searching for youfootprints quickly coverforgetting how far I’ve comemy hands, no longer feelmy breath, stolenmy … Continue reading Unbroken →
Pool Boys
A cold beer ran down my lips, to my chinin a moment I knew would last a lifetimethere was a pool table…balls rackedready for … Continue reading Pool Boys →
PublAshed
Hey all, I wanted to drop in and let you all know that one of my most recent poems has been published on Spillwords. … Continue reading PublAshed →
Days Gone
Take me to a Springwhere every day was as young as Iand the sun would come winking through the curtains
Virus
I’m looking around,at him, at her, at themmad, confused…mostly scaredof something that may not even be thereand all I can think about is you
Ash To Dust
i look, turn around, and see your facethen, it falls away like dustlike a living dreamnot even yours in the first placeso, I keep … Continue reading Ash To Dust →
Happy Valentine’s Day, Everybody!
Love is like the heart losing its breath, and there’s only one person who can return the air. – Ash
My Heart in a Bottle
Like a bottle in a vast ocean…I’m driftingfurther and further from your beautiful shore, I floatmy body breaking against violent waveswhich pull me far … Continue reading My Heart in a Bottle →
From Dark
I walked in the shadowsbefore I knew any lightashamed, guilty, and full of regretmy only out was running toward the darkwhere I belongedthere, to … Continue reading From Dark →
The Elf All About Himself! (For the kids!!!)
Once upon a time, there was an angry little elf.Who thought of absolutely no one, but of only himself. He’s always so mad, which … Continue reading The Elf All About Himself! (For the kids!!!) →
What Does it Call For Tomorrow
the ocean called out for me todayits salt carried to my lips by a piercing winda message kept from a childhood forgotten
Betrayal
Between fact and failureI lay face down in muddied waterNeck broken, heart stillMy sweat unrecognized, salts cold bloodFor I am left behindjust like othersfind … Continue reading Betrayal →
A Heart to Live, Not to Love
Sometimes, I think my heart breaks without telling meLike it’s trying to feel something it once did beforeThough, if I allow myself to give … Continue reading A Heart to Live, Not to Love →
Recovery
This time it didn’t matter if I held youI guess my heart grew stronger from all the breaksLike a junky with a kicked addictionmy … Continue reading Recovery →
Bar Keep
When I turned that key, the night was finally overIt wasn’t easy, they threw a few fistsMad that the ale had dried up Now, … Continue reading Bar Keep →
Like I Wasn’t Even There
Sure, the memoriesBut, the smell, the taste, the touch,All still left to make believeI miss…The very startOpening characters, scene oneGreener grass, the bluest skies, … Continue reading Like I Wasn’t Even There →
My Heart’s An Open Book
Every day…I write you a love letter.No pen, no paper, just what’s inside my heart.I know they never reach you.But, right now I’m OK … Continue reading My Heart’s An Open Book →
Dream A Little Dream Of You
tell me how I can make a dream come truelike the one I had last night of youand then there was the night beforeand…well, … Continue reading Dream A Little Dream Of You →
Plagiarized Love
my love for you is like a book with stolen pagesbeautiful words eraseddeleted lines…replacedeverything’s torn from the very bindwords rewritten that were never minean … Continue reading Plagiarized Love →
Bum Stories
a weathered man greets me on a cornerhis face, aged ten times and his smile barely cracksbut I know it’s there as his eyes … Continue reading Bum Stories →
What’s Staring Back?
It’s black inside the oceanespecially in the shadows where sharks pretend to sleepmy eyes barely banish their staresuntil what lurks finally confronts mebut…why have … Continue reading What’s Staring Back? →
French Island
surrounded in the francaisschoolboys like I, chase through stone corridors in jestpass tank topped bread makers andrum runners filling dark sackswho was I to … Continue reading French Island →
Send Me an Angel
I haven’t looked up in a while I did…last night you were there as promised with a smile that saved my day
I’ll Just Be Here…
Tell me to turn and walk away I’ll just try harder than I did today Tell me to move on and completely forget I’ll … Continue reading I’ll Just Be Here… →
Unmark My Grave
I don’t want a broken heart any more take this blood that flows my veins the air that fills my lungs the laughter that … Continue reading Unmark My Grave →
you there?
Two lonely words… I’ve said them a few. They always stare back, when they’re meant for you.
Salty Secret
Where were the tears that day? Our loss must have voided my heart. Each time I taunted with emotion, my soul would squeeze even … Continue reading Salty Secret →
Safe Place
My throne upon wet stones. Waves crashing making me get lost. Howls of violence outside stop me dead in almost silence. No one would … Continue reading Safe Place →
Last Call From Beyond
There was an alone never felt before. The night giving way to the morning. I watched the mist dance. Skin crawling from a day’s … Continue reading Last Call From Beyond →
Grave Turn
I’ll stand that day, at the foot of your grave. Just past the last of those who cared. My presence will be for a … Continue reading Grave Turn →
Wilting Love
I held the prettiest flower this morning. It reminded me of you. Sadly, it too had been plucked from its roots.
Harboured Feelings
I had you for a while, then…I lost you to the sea. Alone in these narrows, until the day you return to me.
For That Moment
I sat one day. Alone, on a palette chair. Sit in spatters and their quiet stories. Did watch as pebbles danced in entertain. For … Continue reading For That Moment →
Maybe Tomorrow…
Late at night, when it’s just me and the moon. We both pray you’ll return with the sun.
Tainted Blood
A lonely peer, a doorway. Most still lay asleep. Strangers, cloaked as lovers. Lineup…for the rabbit hole. Their smiles, fake, and you know it. … Continue reading Tainted Blood →
Past Eight
Whistles silent, brews stress pinched to the nape. TV flickers black and white but can’t turn it off. Frozen mittens dry from the blessed … Continue reading Past Eight →
Forgotten Notes
Let me sing to you, my daughter, so I may make the strings of your heart, play music that’s in between.
The Red Road
I walked a path less travelled, on a road covered in red. Evergreens bowed before me, to welcome back an old soul. Draped, lonely…in … Continue reading The Red Road →
That Song
I remember that song. Every note just for me. Sweet melody, aimed straight toward my heart. Our souls in tandem with the music. I’d … Continue reading That Song →
Lonely Heart
It barely even beats. Doesn’t matter though, now. Given this heart… only to stare at strangers, thinking that for a life’s blink, that stranger … Continue reading Lonely Heart →
No One Cares About Superman
I’ve saved the day…so many. With a cape that’s now tattered and torn. Bullets are starting to pierce me, with an ego that’s badly … Continue reading No One Cares About Superman →
Dark Fantasy
Oh, beautiful moon, why do you tease me? With fantasy, I know is not real. Darkness always has another plan for me, where light … Continue reading Dark Fantasy →
Whispers From You
A lull from the hillside early morn, like a whisper from you. I stood in the chill… …with a tear reminder, of what I’ve … Continue reading Whispers From You →
Journal Entry # 108 – My Wounds, My Words
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains. – Criss Jami
Come To Me Again
If my trial has ended, why do your stones still lay at my feet? My deepest wounds will never heal until their forgotten. No, … Continue reading Come To Me Again →
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Earth To Ash 