Poems

© 2022 Karianne Gabaldon

(Verse 1)

Cry yourself a river,
Drown inside, it’s smothers...

It was olive who could not live without you, she wanted to conjure the dead,
She lay down parts of...

Quite thoughts are the loudest
When you don't wanna hear a word,
I sat upon a mountain to...

If I'm honest it's like a knife cut right through the core, like a fugus with some enchanted spore, I...

Don’t frown your silk skinned face
It’s supposed to last for many days
Wrinkles crack and...

When I am no more?

Who will cook in this kitchen when I am no more?

Who will wander...

Oh Mermaid and Merman
I have seen you in my dreams

Your tails are bright and beautiful...

She was tongue tied, too shocked to even speak

As he mounted off his wonderful white stallion, and...

wonder why
the ghost on my mystery wrist
has vacated all of my watches
so time slick...

© 2022 Karianne Gabaldon

(Verse 1)

He had a heart made up of fire,
Then I found out...

I’ve written to write from
my heart, and life
events.
At times bitten off
more...

Your love is like chocolate
Melting in my heart like chocolate ice cream
Chocolate love...

Yours truly (an amazingly,
gracefully, and markedly modest
passively aging baby boomer -...

In the end we buried them
Somewhere in a garden
The rose heads

They were dying anyway...

When it came to compassion, God didn't show him any.
He decided to drive his car after having a few...

Like eyes staring out through glass
Watching life unfold, blinking
Like it’s all filtered...

The early bird and night owl met one day
What time it was I cannot possibly say
If it was...