Poetry
Sauntering Antichrist
Roaming the uneven concrete
like a slobbering bloodhound
A vagabond meandering
through a decorated parade
Mischievous and unorthodox
Offensive and crude
Admittance of displacement
A lurking deadly reptile
Preaching to be resentful
Disfigure emotionally of others
A rancid phlegm among millions
The sauntering antichrist
Evolution
To care is to have patience
To appreciate you have to lose something
To love you have to treasure seconds
To forgive you have to be human
To grow you have to make mistakes
To be kind you have to listen
To be human you have to open up your heart
To gain perspective open up your eyes
To be ignorant close your ears
To be special just be yourself
To live is not to be afraid
To be alive you have to learn to feel
The Bachelor’s Refrigerator
A carton of 2% milk to the left
Thin bottle of apple juice to the right
One shelf
A single cup of mixed berry yogurt
Second shelf
A six pack of Blue Moon beer on the bottom
of the shelf
Random condiments on the inside of the door
Could this be the refrigerator of a bachelor?
Lipstick Diary
Writing with a light shade of pink
Paragraphs of wit and charm
Hallucinations of bitter love
Caught up in unknown webs
Burying summer flings and
hypnotic one night stands
Self inflicted wounds never sewn
The bookmark never leaves
this etched and engraved page
It’s the single page that altered
her perception of love and self
Endangered Self Worth
You gave me
a ray of sunshine to view humanity
You gave me
the glue to put my shell together
You gave me
a hand to hold the weight on my shoulders
You gave me
dripping sincerity and truth
You gave me
the candle to hold the endangered flame
You gave me
a sense of puzzling wonder
You gave me
a band aid to disguise the pain
You gave me
a cold cloth to cleanse the self worth
Overthink Drive (Braeden’s Writing Challenge #2)
Unsettling analytics
Dispersed integers
Abrupt and chilling data
Between facts and information
Controlling emotions
Stepping on to Overthink drive
Distinct calculations
Business minds open
Fearful of making the “wrong”
and fateful decisions
Staring into Venn Diagrams
and Ghant charts
Sleeping beside project management
and waking up to “planning”
Spontaneity is two streets over
On this road it must be on a calendar
Slowpoke Boulevard (Braeden’s Writing Challenge #2)
Crawling like a snail
Watching the hour glass
Staring at paint dry
on the curbside
Playing in the sandbox
Mesmerized by the fallen
rainbows and stardust
Absorbing every minute
Not one second is rushed
Pixels illuminate
Enhanced motions
Days inhaling weeks
Weeks serenading months
Smiling leaves dance
Rivers singing in harmony
Families at dinner tables
Time is a speck
Life is fully embraced
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Mulholland Drive (Braeden’s Writing Challenge #2)
Black and white
photographs pluck
the tears from my eyes
Etched memories
never dissolve or fade
cherishing every kiss
Reminiscing the last
fifty years of preciousness
Embracing every second
Through the heights of
the golden mountains
and blackout valleys
Love never once
sat in the shade
In sadness and melancholy
I have to leave
Mulholland Drive tonight
I spent a lifetime
in this brick castle
with my beloved queen
May she Rest In Peace
as my heart is in pieces
B had asked to me to use this title for poem. 😊
Braeden’s Writing Challenge #2
Hello followers,
I have another challenge. I would like my followers to create a street name and I will use it as a poem title. Please add road, street, lane, and or Boulevard to the end of title. Please have fun with it!
Your title will be in a book. This will be the theme for the book.
~Braeden
Storm of Ink 