• SprawlingInk commented on the post, belief 2 months ago

    I cling to this sunshine
    that wraps around my arms
    pulling my skyward
    and smoothing me with hope
    instilling the belief that
    I can go on
    for now

  • SprawlingInk commented on the post, maze 3 months ago

    I stumbled through the maze
    the walls of leaf and vine
    and wondered if I would
    my destiny soon find

    I came to fear the middle
    though branches I did rend
    for there was the ever-growing fear
    that there I’d meet my end

  • SprawlingInk commented on the post, walls 3 months, 1 week ago

    The walls close in
    as I breath out
    mimicking my heartbeat
    sealing off my shout

    The walls close in
    as I breath out
    and slowly suffocate
    on doubt

  • We build fences
    We make defenses
    We cower
    To cover
    Our tender
    Emotions
    Never realizing
    That we separate
    When we segregate
    Our feelings.

  • AudioPicasso wrote about the word accordion 4 months ago

    We expand and contract
    Fight and surrender
    We come and go
    As we please
    We understand the bond and
    how the music should sound
    We are instruments of
    Our love making

  • Phlox wrote about the word crisp 4 months ago

    The morning air was crisp as my breath fanned out in a mist in front of me. I couldn’t tell where I was, or what I was meant to be doing. But I figured that was the exact premise of Life anyways, so I continued moving towards nothing, the frozen grass crunching beneath my shoes.

  • SprawlingInk wrote about the word sparkling 4 months ago

    The snowflake sparkled in the moonlight,
    flitting in daring spirals through the silence,
    until it came to land
    on the curve
    of her cheek
    mixing with the teardrop
    as graceful and unique
    as the flake that had descended
    from heaven

  • Phlox wrote about the word dozen 4 months, 1 week ago

    A dozen thoughts grace her face at the same time, muddled together to form the indescribable look she gives me. She extends her hand, but I back away, not really sure what to believe, as I can tell she isn’t quite sure herself.

  • amylee wrote about the word glimmer 4 months, 2 weeks ago

    Lines of your shoulders, the outline of your hair, light glimmering on your chest shadow of your collarbone. It profiles your perfect face. Rawr bite.

  • The crash of thunder
    echoed
    against the curve
    of her skull
    pounding away, an omen of some
    as yet unseen,
    lightning

  • Let my horses run free
    to the edge of the earth
    and come back untainted
    with the glow of rebirth

  • She played by the rules
    and colored in every line
    so no one would notice
    her complete lack of spine.

  • SprawlingInk wrote about the word shuffle 6 months ago

    He shuffled the deck of cards, his hands gracefully performing the practiced motion. I studied them, his hands, wrinkled and worn by the ravages of time. Hard and calloused from growing up too much too fast in an age now long forgotten. Hands whose fragility belied the strength behind them and held a thousand stories [...]

  • SprawlingInk wrote about the word tires 6 months, 1 week ago

    She tires easily now
    it seeps into her bones
    like a dull acid rain
    eating her slowly
    from the inside out
    until finally, finally she ends
    in a glorious implosion

  • And the undeniable gravity of her own desires pulled her in to a spiralling fall, inexplicably compressing her until she was nothing more than a pinprick of brilliant light.

  • She cursed as she felt
    her hair slick
    to her forehead
    its strands weighing her down
    creating slithering strangleholds
    caught in a downpour
    powerless to resist
    and as she grew heavier
    she wondered
    how anyone could see this
    as cleansing

  • It was a combination
    of lust and rage
    that freed the demon
    from its cage
    because who can ever
    resist the whim?
    The carnal temptation,
    the night of sin.

  • She wanted her life
    to be a profound
    statement
    unfettered by the mundane activities
    that were currently stifling her
    from the outside in
    a bland docility
    where wildness
    wouldn’t grow

  • The epiphany came
    in a growing
    effervescent glow
    creeping up
    the tips of her fingers and hands and limbs
    until it swallowed her whole
    Shivers danced across her skin, stars
    flashed behind her eyelids
    As she reached out her arms
    beseeching him to return

  • if the light from the sun were to burn on my skin, if the depths of the ocean should drown my soul, if the winds of change should ever carry me away, it would be as nothing compared to the power you possess over me.

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