muse – Page 143 – Scribbled Thoughts

Ocean floor

Hoover of the ocean floor. Water glide, dancing with a mouth he can never see. Only a nose breaking through the surface to greet the salt-free air and taste poison.

Random lines (for future poems)

An honourable inflation of the truth meant to save lives. Chest light, a smile on every breath. A presence addictively eerie shivers through my being. Solid, yet uncatchable. Silent, but all consuming.

(Rough poem) Wind

Helpless branch must bend to my dance, feel my whim and respond. you are stationery, I am free. Hear my song and sing for me.

(Rough poem) Secret

Soft as comfort, a touch of security. A teasing gesture, but a deep affection. A promise for eternity, with a hint of greed. Fear of loss buried from one simple touch. A message, a secret. Can you hear its purpose?

Prompt 7

I had only ever required one permit for myself, ten years ago on my father. My mother had died of cancer four years earlier, a painful process that made her wither slowly before my eyes. My father’s love for her had faded long before that, preferring short-term lust with young women. He had been inContinue reading “Prompt 7”

Rough poem (Between)

The time between day and night awake and sleep thoughts and dreams. A time that sinks away and merges, until nothing seems real, and anything is possible.

Rough Poem (unnamed)

Step into my world where thoughts aren’t your own, but neither are they mine. Life is created, but cannot be born, confined to a solitary mind, who has no courage to unleash it and reveal all to the world. To be so vulnerable is beyond terror and joy.

Prompt 445

I loved this prompt and had a lot of fun with it. I might come back to it one day and make a full-length story out of it. The first time hadn’t been a scam, it was out of desperation. Emma had been sat at her new husband’s hospital bed, watching the machines breath forContinue reading “Prompt 445”

Prompt 227

I slammed the car into an emergency stop, staring through the ground, through the car, at the hundreds of bones I could see contained within the soil. Human bones. ‘What the hell?’ I climbed out of the car, standing and staring beyond the ground until a horn jerked my gaze up again. ‘AreContinue reading “Prompt 227”

Prompt 484

The first few times had been terrifying and painful. A sword piercing her chest from behind. Savage dogs ripping through flesh. A lamppost falling, crushing bones. Perhaps staying in the house would have been better, but she had awoken alone, her family nowhere to be seen. Nothing had been out of place- the car wasContinue reading “Prompt 484”