Tara > Writing | WritersCafe.org | The Online Writing Community

Nightmare on Comedy Street

A Poem by Tara

I awoke to phantom thrustsand knew beyond a shadow of a doubtI was being fucked again.This time you were straddling my mind.I heard you both laughingy..

Tick Tock

A Poem by Tara

Now that it is Januaryand the year is 2011I can see the corpse of the future.You might think my sorrow is for my children.It is not.They go about the ..

Break Out

A Poem by Tara

In the stillness I sense a flow.Waters recede revealing sand.There is art in the simplest grainand I still believe in these miracles.I am hopeless in ..

Howl

A Poem by Tara

I carry it in my bellyThis silenced howlWhich now has become a song.It exists as flames doFlickering with each gust of air.I prefer it to the ache of ..

Knowing

A Poem by Tara

At one time, I knew these paths.How they bended and curvedwith a caustic indifference.I knew the treesaltered by the yearsrings revealing age,rocks sm..

"Should"

A Poem by Tara

Should the night comewith her shadowsto take you awaydo not fear departure.Should everything you thoughtyou knew disappear into a thin gossamer filmlo..

Island

A Poem by Tara

Before I began pushing back at the wallsI held onto things.The beautiful colors of delusioncan be so hypnotic.I was alone in my own poppy seed gardend..

Tiny Dancer

A Poem by Tara

She closes her eyes when she dancesswaying this way and thathands flailing in the musical air.She is like an island windand we are the treesbending to..

Breathe

A Poem by Tara

Living is as inevitable as dying.I think at some point Jesus said it bestbut everyone seems to have forgottenin their softened slumbers.We have forgot..

Second Half

A Poem by Tara

Tonight I praise the chaoswhich threatens this hollow nest.It is a lovely night for new eyes.I walk in shadowsbluer than my blue bones.Seasons race pa..