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POEM STARTER
‘With a smile, you promise to say nothing more.’
Write a poem or short story that concludes with this line. What kind of themes could lead to this final phrase?
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Strangers….
We have known each other years
And we still feel like strangers.
We know each others secrets and passions
And still we are strangers.
We have talked and shared many things
And still we are strangers.
I don’t want to be strangers anymore.
I want to be in your arms forever and more.
I want to feel your lips on mine
And hold you until the end of time.
Strangers we are, strangers we won’t be.
Come get me my love and take me to wherever you want us to be.
I can’t be a stranger anymore.
Our dark love needs to grow.
©️ Jasmine
Dark Love .....
There has never been sunlight in this love of ours.
It's always in the dark.
It's a love that has thorns and draws blood when I try to hold on to it.
A dark Love that burns like fire.
A dark love that kills me slowly each passing day that we are so apart.
A dark love that makes me scream with want and desire for you.
A dark love that yearns to have you near me.
This love is dark and dangerous.
This love is a fire that only you can extinguish.
This dark love belongs only to you and I.
©️Jasmine
Love….. Your eyes are as black as coal. Your skin looks pale from afar. Your hair is black as night. Your heart is cold oh so cold. I see your dark eyes looking at me. My heart aches to run to thee. Through tears of blood I weep. I want to run to thee and live in darkness. They see you as a creature that only breaks my heart. I see you as the one who holds my heart. ©️Jasmine
You tear me down with all your words creeping closer with every breath shaming me for all your wrongs a shove won’t hurt a point in the face won’t budge but that smack wasn’t like another Even worse when it’s from your own brother
when the time came no fear I could show when they said the word go The lies I had to use that benefit only you A whisper you told, every time I obey with a smile, I promised to say nothing more
With a smile, you promise to say nothing more You slowly undress as I softly shut the door
Our eyes lock and we make our way to the bed My mouth is salivating, as if I haven’t been fed
I kiss your neck and grab you by the hair You slowly whisper in my ear “truth or dare”
Before I can reply, I find you on top Looking stunning, I pray this moment never stops
I was scared At least give me that
I was tired Worn down And he He was so sweet
So yes, I made a deal
One that I shouldn’t have
But you see He promised respite And at the point I was desperate I knew it was wrong But his smile was so charming
And later on When he introduced me to his friend Addie Well she seemed pretty nice too
So when he wanted to introduce Me to one more person I didn’t see why not
But who did he introduce you to?
Death.
Fragments of dark matter lay driven in my flesh. As I become superimposed on the barcodes of stars, where my passions may finally rest...
Leering behind the touchscreens of life. An alien model citizen, I conceal my strife. From one generation to the next, I’m dying free, surrounded by their mushroom clouds. Flowers of survived depravity, still mustering human sounds. In reincarnation I’ll stand as the breeze. Nocturnal in the empathy I’ve lost, in this control and seize. Swiping mirrors to deflect the sun. My chromosomes, tearful and heavy on the run. Genetically engineered, I am a worshiper in denial. But there’s magic in those glitches; I used to called them smiles...
-HMG
I’ve said this phrase a thousand times. You say it’s a phase - but that’s a lie. A million words - a thousand lines. Nothing said - hell, that’s just fine.
I can’t write to save my life. I just hand my pain the pen. I can’t right a single line. I can’t say that this piece is mine. You say that I’m a piece of work? You’re right - how true! Gotta run, but I’ll see you on the next line.
I put paper on my mind, you see? It screams and cries on the seams of a whitewashed canvas. It bleeds with the paint of the pain of my searing conscious. I leaves such a stain on a once blank page, I just tear it up, throw it up and fucking watch it reign.
These things will rain down on me. Covering my skin, you see? They’ll cover up my sins, you think? My skin colors your enemy? My faith in God is cringeworthy? My only hopes a length of rope?
I’ll go get the kitchen chair, You wait right there, pull up a seat. Don’t go nowhere!
It’s raining bullets,
so to speak!
Speak slow. Think fast. Retract, Think about it, Then come back.
Speak your mind, friend. Silence is a fiend. Take it slowly. Hurry up and let me know.
Just so you know,
I really don’t care
what you think.
I just care
about you,
friend.
I’ve written a million words, yet said nothing… …Isn’t that something?
As my heart, my fingers crossed, as I prepare for war.
With a smile, I sin and falsely promise I’ll say nothing more.
All alone in the room, I break to a cry, I’m scared of the visions I saw in my dreams. It comes with a boom, a crack and a whine, I feel my intuition telling me to scream.
I let it out loud in a startling manner, Though it feels good to finally let go. Then I allow a look up to the sky, Saw a face peering in and I yelled “no!”
The face has sharp, pointed, shiny teeth, With blood and flesh overflowing. Smiles at me like it’s hungry for more, And lunges down to my fearfulness growing.
With a claw tracing over with lips, Suddenly clapping my mouth shut, I try to break free with a kick to the hips, But it’s over, I’ll end up with bleeding guts.
“Don’t be afraid,” it taunts at me. “It’s only me, your friend from the store.” I recognize this stranger ready to pounce, And with a smile, you promise to say nothing more.
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