Renier

Writing sporadically since forever... writing steadily since 2018.

109

Writings

Followers

Following

Renier

Writing sporadically since forever... writing steadily since 2018.

109

Writings

Followers

Following

Everyone Knows

Renier

1 min read

(The last stanza needs help! How can I fix it? Suggestions?)

He told me it could never be.

I died inside.

It’s killing me.

She told me that it had to end.

It’s true, it’s cruel.

I’m just her friend.

I told her she should tell him too.

I hope he knows.

Good luck, you two....

Poetry

Nope.

Renier

1 min read

Um… no it’s not.

I got nothing else to say....

MEMORY OF TREES or The Burden Of Memory

Renier

1 min read

Ring within ring—

Arc within arc—

The old steady bole,

The gnarled bare bark,

Bending not broken,

And shaded not dark,

Long-standing, remember

The burdens they mark....

Poetry

Doors

Renier

1 min read

We tried the door on the left.

It was locked.

We tried the door on the right.

It was stuck closed.

Maybe we could force one open…

It was useless.

We turned to each other but couldn’t see each other clearly.

It had grown dark.

Then footsteps approached. They came from behind the locked door.

We heard a key turn in the lock.

There followed a long silence.

Unsure what to expect, ...

Thriller

Mystery

By The Maple Tree

Renier

1 min read

Rebecca,

I know it was you.

Meet me by the maple tree.

What a foolish thing to reveal at this moment. The letter will burn. The maple tree? It is red now. Passion is red. Anger is red.

Who is H? It could be one of several. It doesn’t matter. Soon whoever wrote this foolish letter will be dead.

They will be found by the maple tree. The fool should have known better....

Drama

Crime

Fairy Tale

Renier

2 min read

“They make a huge fuss about it.”

Snail yawned and rolled his eyeballs.

“It’s supposed to be their coming of age trial. Each one is given a unique task. If it’s done properly, they get wings. But you would think they had survived a plague and slayed a dragon to hear them talk. As if the little tasks were such valiant affairs.”

“Of course, because none of them ever has to do anything actually h...

Stillness

Renier

1 min read

By the side of the road

Was stillness

Looking at an empty path

Standing silently

Leaning upon a staff.

By the side of the road

Stillness sighed

Every time a one speeds by

Never stopping for a glance

By the side of the road

Every breeze is alive

Stillness fills the air while people pass

Fluttering wings and scraping twigs

Rustling blades of grass....

Poetry

Champion

Renier

1 min read

Form me tireless feet to tread way,

Form me the strong legs that carry,

A straight back for the burdens of the day,

And for the night’s rest of the weary.

Curve me the lips that will pray,

Sweet eyelids to cover the sunlight,

Hidden shell curves in the clay,

For I must have ears to hear secrets.

Smooth me to glow full of health,

To play, to dance, and to love.

Shape me and shine me with warmt...

Poetry

Surfeiting

Renier

1 min read

If music be the food of love, play on:

The sad, mechanic exercise, like dull narcotics, numbing pain.

Make me a willow cabin at your gate, and call upon my soul within the house.

In words, like weeds, I’ll wrap me o’er, like coarsest clothes against the cold.

And all those swearings keep, as true in soul as doth that orbed continent the fire that severs day from night.

For words, like Nat...

Poetry

Gold

Renier

1 min read

Do you covet wealth?

Behold the source of Alchemist’s need,

The Userer’s bread, the miser’s greed.

Time stands still as desire remains the same.

Unchanged, avarice may change its name.

Pursuit of ages, treasure hunt of fools.

Finders keepers, he who takes most, rules.

Does the lust for wealth die or grow old?

No, but fools do. Then remains fool’s gold.

Do you covet power?

Then market it, ex...