Misery

When someone asks me what i'm scared of i play it basic and say the dark, somtimes i'll say heights,...

Her tempest ripped through clouds
Shredding sound into reams of scattered light
As raging...

An irritation's growing.
A drop of water flowing.
Doggedly more annoying.

*drip*...

Red stains the air
As small lungs gasp
for love to care
With eyes that bite
and...

Deep within the bowels of the Earth
(dark visceral centre)
immensely distant from the...

I'm starting to feel uneasy with anxiety and pain
My heart is going out to the country of Ukraine...

'Neath a coral moon
Cradled in ebon cocoon
Cadence tis Borealis light
Shadows frolic...

For the 43 years of my life I had felt like a lonely apparition. I could never sleep, I had an endless...

He’s down on his luck
He’s missing you
No one to talk to
When he’s, feeling blue...

crafted before onset when people of color
got acknowledged for twenty eight or nine days
...

Capricious tis Trojan heart
Citadel secured to Cupid’s dart
Chastened by inured locks
...

© 2022 Karianne Gabaldon

(Verse 1)

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

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

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

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

I tilt slow to the left,
Finding your word bereft!
Of living foundation,
Any wise...