Hate the Opposite of Love HATE Because of me, in the valley of death You die slowly like the petrified trees I remember how you looked How your face would contort in pain When I angrily screamed at you Because of me, you despise the chaos of the city the faceless crowdsContinue reading “Love and Hate – The Flip Side”
Category Archives: Pain/Sadness
Derailed – A Quadrille
Derailed Fraught with anxiety from your polarizing display of how to sabotage this special day My nerve endings are stretched and entwined into an intricate pattern of macrame-knotted pain I am frozen in place and time Numbingly shocked by the spectacle I have just witnessed Copyright © 2021 Christine Bolton – Poetry forContinue reading “Derailed – A Quadrille”
Why?
Why? Why do you ask me? Isn’t it obvious? Don’t you hear me crying? Don’t you see my pain? Don’t you listen to the words that spill from your mouth like a ferocious, raging torrent of festering, poisonous spew? What’s the matter with me? Are you out of your mind? You clearly do not haveContinue reading “Why?”
Into the Darkness
Into the Darkness An ever-consuming sadness envelops your body in a diaphanous veil A storm brewing in your mind Words of reason hide in the penumbra Marinating in suppressed anger that dwells there Instinctively I know what is happening I recognize the warning signs triggering your frustrations What the eyes don’t see Intuition already knowsContinue reading “Into the Darkness”
A Depression
A Depression Clouds race in anger across the sky’s limitless expanse Blown by an impatient wind shaking the fringes of trees Thunder claps its warning of what is to come Darkening moodiness blankets the atmosphere and I feel the oppressiveness of the moment It mirrors my mood as I curl into a ball Unspoken wordsContinue reading “A Depression”
Deluded
Deluded It is when the night comes and the air hangs in silence you again enter my mind Perplexing thoughts refusing to die Filling my head as the stillness struggles to calm Recalled memories still stinging Drawn by your magnetism I was fooled by a charlatan Brazen and heartless Robbing me of joy I wasContinue reading “Deluded”
Misunderstood
Misunderstood Your eyes no longer hide the truth They have become the lens to your dark soul The bitterness written between the lines of your face Chiseled deep into the crevices where it now resides Dragging the once curve of a smile into a permanent scowl The magnitude of your suffering living on display forContinue reading “Misunderstood”
Taken -Poem of the Month – November 2020
Taken Standing in silver light of consumed moon Staring out to sea Hair, raven black Lifted by the wind Palmed rose, thorny Color of blood Clutched tightly to a heaving breast as tears flowed Skulls of saints calling to lost souls in watery graves Where pearls from tissue calcify in salty sea Continue reading “Taken -Poem of the Month – November 2020”
Bruised Sky
Bruised Sky Looking upward I see the blue-grey evening sky sprinkled with peppered clouds Beautiful in its color coordination But reminding me of the ugly secret The creaminess of my skin mottled with blue-grey bruises getting darker like the sky turning purple and yellow like the sinking sun The night comes and envelopsContinue reading “Bruised Sky”
Wake
Wake Wishes that would awaken a silent heart Buoyancy of hopes and dreams once safely tethered are now washed away in your wake Left vulnerable and unsafe Treading water in the changing climate of choppy seas once hot with passion Now chillingly cold as I am left searching once more for an emotional life raftContinue reading “Wake”
Poetry For Healing 