Tag Archives: Life

Bigotry

Posted on December 2, 2012 by saffronsound

Bigotry lays there Laden with loss It has no legs To stand on No wheels To move it forward Like a giant boulder It grows denser With each passing year It gathers moss And loses ground And even the Good … Continue reading →

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Beetles Skate For Free

Posted on September 26, 2012 by saffronsound

Break me I say Break me like an egg Thrown hard against A cobbled walk Maybe I’ll dry into a sheen A glossy sheen Hardened under a mid-day sun That’s me, a tropical skating rink For bugs and beetles Or … Continue reading →

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Rise!

Posted on September 16, 2012 by saffronsound

Did the months really fly south that swiftly? Did our passion settle into a slow smoulder for good? And what is that blurry speck floating in the waning distance, where once our young eyes held high in court? Wake up, … Continue reading →

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Miserable Shit of a Day

Posted on August 29, 2012 by saffronsound

This day couldn’t be meaner If it knocked me on the chin and Left me splitting blood and broken teeth. 24 hours rotten to the core, So tainted it’s spoiling all the other days Packed on either side. Today is … Continue reading →

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Still Birth

Posted on August 11, 2012 by saffronsound

I lay there in the dark Precise and still Expectant as an eggshell About crack open From the inside Committed to the spate of love That was my destiny Yet the hours trudged along And no savior claimed me for … Continue reading →

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Teeter Totter

Posted on June 25, 2012 by saffronsound

we’re a lop-sided teeter-totter, you and i one pushes off too hard and sails through the cloudless sky crashing the other to the ground with a hard thump one day i’m flying and the next day i’m bruised black and … Continue reading →

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unfinished collection

Posted on June 13, 2012 by saffronsound

i collect words but only the middle ones no beginnings or endings or punctuation either just words in transit like me

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Flimsy

Posted on May 15, 2012 by saffronsound

If you look too closely You will see that I am just Holes tied together with string

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Forsythia

Posted on May 13, 2012 by saffronsound

…new lyrics for a tune coming soon; about to burst out of itself… Sliver of the setting sun The only thing good in this Crooked old worn out Broken down day All those damaged and wasted times Those shabby places … Continue reading →

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Grief’s Gluttony

Posted on April 14, 2012 by saffronsound

grief doesn’t stop to chew it swallows happiness in giant gulps that lay a lump in its throat and burn its stomach long into the night grief leaves you so cracked and dry you could just crumble and blow away … Continue reading →

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