gnarled up, bones like logs
trapped in your words, frog’s ribbet
No air to finish—-
My work:
Patheos,
The Job, The Space Between Us, Green,
The Unlikely Bounty, Straight Love, The Heart Factory, The Half Paper Moon, I am Bexley and Atonement by JMS Books
Silent Bites by Eukalypto
Excellent work. Looking forward to reading more!
Oh this has so many interpretations - excellent imagery!
Well-wrought! As a short piece this really kicks, especially the suddenness of the last line, as if one has run out of air!
Where far too many of us live.
That felt so suffocating. Loved your poem!
I feel a little claustra reading that, like I need to take a really deep breath
SAD! We have all been there.
I know the feeling Sis 💕🎈
More stories from Melissa Ingoldsby and writers in Poets and other communities.
The soldiers masked as Men, took me to a strange pen I was once a son. —- Can you make destruction look like something that shines?
By Melissa Ingoldsby10 months ago in Poets
As days turn to months turn to years, you find things once unimaginable no longer so absurd. . From running 5Ks to barely able to walk.
By Stephen A. Roddewig7 days ago in Poets
Put them on the paper Maybe they would disappear like vapour Wasn't sure if this was the right place Maybe I had left too much space
By Christopher Beard2 days ago in Poets
Cinderella had always dreamt of marrying a prince. She had dreamt of nothing else since she was a small girl. Now, however, as the Prince’s wife of three days, she had to admit that the reality was not as she had dreamt it to be.
By Dionearia Red3 days ago in Fiction
Comments (7)
Oh this has so many interpretations - excellent imagery!
Well-wrought! As a short piece this really kicks, especially the suddenness of the last line, as if one has run out of air!
Where far too many of us live.
That felt so suffocating. Loved your poem!
I feel a little claustra reading that, like I need to take a really deep breath
SAD! We have all been there.
I know the feeling Sis 💕🎈