Haiku
A thoughtless comment
leaving lingering feelings
of sadness and pain
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Daily Haiku – Sun. December 1, 2019
Tag: Pain
Peace
Peace
I feel myself recoiling
and closing down
Shutting out the dissonance
No fight left inside me
One more spiteful remark
will make no difference
Your comfortable chaos
has slowly eaten away
at my core
Calculated and manipulative
Strategically planned
to wound in your war
Peace will only come
in my final retreat
Conceding to the last
Words have left me
As I withdraw from the conflict
and leave you in my past
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
OctPoWriMo - Day 31 - Peace
Linda Lee Lyberg is hosting Open Link Night
at D'Verse Poets Pub
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Love is a Battlefield – Poem of the Month – November 2019
Love is a Battlefield
Exhausted from treading
the uneven ground that is you
I step back into black shadows
Craving anonymity and peace
Fatigued from sparring and
exchanging elevated vocabulary
Scratching and clawing
at the remnants of our life
An escape merely a detour
Wishing for better fortune
Avoiding more conflict
Yet ultimately surrendering
to the unseen enemy
For love is a battlefield
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Prompts
OctPoWriMo - Black
Fortune - WotD
Shadows - RDP
Ground - SoCS
Detour- FOWC
Love is a Battlefield - MLMM - Mad about the Metaphor
Daily Haiku – Tue. October 8, 2019
Senryu
Regardless of time
and space between us we still
feel the other’s pain
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Daily Haiku – Sat. September 21, 2019
Senryu
Still reeling in shock
Your actions causing deep pain
That will never heal
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Demoralized
Demoralized
Like a flower kept from the sun
Or an animal trapped in a cage
Her growth was stunted
No longer remembering
how she got to this place
Her razor edge, now blunted
Isolated from those who cared most
Living in the well of loneliness
Slowly and surely marginalized
Her passion for excitement lost
Becoming redundant in life
Existing but completely demoralized
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Prompt:
The Well of Loneliness - Go Dog Go Cafe
Christine's Writing Prompt by Radclyffe Hall
Image by engin akyurt from Pixabay
After the Love Has Gone
After the Love Has Gone
After the love has gone
and the hierarchy shifts
There is always a winner
and of course, a loser
and the taking back of gifts
Who will be my advocate
in this frazzled, ugly mess
Serenity long gone
just hurt and anger remain
and you couldn’t care less
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Word Prompts
Hierarchy - WotD
Serene - RDP
Advocate - FOWC
Extinction
Extinction
Here I feel safe
in the tranquil coolness
of the rocks
Unseen
by the outside world
A place where I can
heal, away from the
madness that is you
Ordering me, bullying,
complaining until
my mouth works
silently
Logic suppressed
while you rant,
threaten
and intimidate
When did I become
the scared rabbit
fleeing from the predator
who wants to annihilate?
Who will not be happy
until my extinction
is complete
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
In response to Sue Vincent's
Write/Photo Challenge - Within
Daily Haiku – Sun. Aug. 4, 2019
Senryu
The pain you inflict
Will never heal as my heart
will surely now stop
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Daily Haiku – Mon. Jul. 22, 2019
Senryu
Heavy rain falling
Drowning my sorrows tonight
Washing away pain
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©