Mist
Words minced
Unconvinced
Tilt over
Wilted lover
Sits listless
Lips kissless Continue reading Mist
Category: Romance
Lyrical thoughts about love
Corner
Around the corner
Down the street
I found a fool
Who looks a lot like me Continue reading Corner
Just
Don’t take me seriously
Just take me
Don’t think of me nefariously
Just think of me
Don’t hold a grudge agin me
Just… Continue reading Just
Wings
Friday nights were
Saturdays her
Sundays we
Mondays blur
Tuesdays flee Continue reading Wings
History
Fell in love with
A faint recollection
Like a broken jukebox
Stuck on one selection
An unspoken request locked
Inside of her rejection Continue reading History
Audrey
If I said you look Like Audrey Hepburn And I like George Peppard Would my advances you spurn Would it now be my turn To swing on your dance card Did you suppose When the band members rose When I … Continue reading Audrey
Greener
Risks you avert Chances I convert Routine is your game Adventure is my name But the grass is always greener At my house Greener than the green unseen Gardeners tend not pretend Growers grow not put on for show Weeds … Continue reading Greener
Squirrel
She squirrels away a place in her heart
Where she keeps a nut like me Continue reading Squirrel
Transfix
Pour that elixir
I know I can fix her
The aroma
That’s what tricks her
Mocha Java
I will mix her
Thick stir will transfix her Continue reading Transfix
Fetched
Forever bound Tightly wound Heart engraved Soul saved Mind caged Body engaged Love found Memories etched Future sketched Notes embossed Fingers crossed Arms tossed Wings lost Angel fetched Continue reading Fetched
Sticky post
Align
Autumn breeze
First freeze
Brown eyes
Gasping sight
Hands slender
Clasping tight Continue reading Align
Talk
Long conversations Now distant memories Wrong motivations Now listen in misery Relationships feed on hearing Ears gone to seed lips quivering Hands on hips eyes on swivels Nose sifts sniffs ayes only civil Self-imposed cone of silence Shelf life of … Continue reading Talk
Art
Stumbled through the door of your heart Velvety vocals tuned my tension Bumbling, fumbling soul found art Brush brown eyes brewed my attention Simple smile pursed lips beckon Nubile thoughts paint hues of passion Nimble strokes caress the cotton The … Continue reading Art
Elevator
I got you out of my head But my heart is out of control I hear your voice and what you said Then the elevator starts to roll Buttons start depressing Unseen fingers on the numbers Floor by floor I’m caressing Every memory I sought to encumber As I imagine your whisper The lift rises higher still Motives mired with not her Give way to thoughts she will Hope hoists yearning to the cranium Unchained desire opens the door The guitar of my mind starts to strum You were gone now you’re not any more Continue reading Elevator
Alike
We are so much alike
I know what you are thinking
And I agree
Our one mind makes a mess of me Continue reading Alike
Poetry by Carrick Cross 