Poetry – The Abject Muse

Self-preservation

October 4, 2019October 15, 2019by The Abject MuseLeave a Comment

A heart can only break so many times before it numbs itself to pain, joy, love, sorrow. then all it can do is beat — until it doesn't.

Poetry

The London Pickpocket

August 9, 2019August 15, 2019by The Abject Muse2 Comments

I wasn't even trying, wasn’t even thinking about it. So far out of the wild blue I almost didn’t recognize It. Serendipitous, yet quick and sly — like a London pickpocket. That sweet kind of suddenness is the best part of falling in love again.

dVerse

Synchronicity

December 13, 2018December 13, 2018by The Abject Muse24 Comments

It's Open Link Night at the dVerse Poets Pub! Your lips move In sync with your hands, giving a voice to the words that live in your heart. You write them on the air (in permanent, invisible ink) and my heart can hear ~ So clearly ~ What my ears cannot.

Fiction, Poetry

Shelve It

December 1, 2018December 2, 2018by The Abject MuseLeave a Comment

You’re the last chapter In my tattered Book of Love. It's time to shelve it. dog-eared pages torn clichés fade to sepia like yesterday’s dreams and you flicked what’s left of my broken heart off my sleeve into the dirt. Thought I’d saved the best for last; you proved me wrong for [...]

Poetry

Imagination

November 1, 2018by The Abject Muse1 Comment

letting go of you is as unimaginable as never having known you at all.

Poetry

Synonymy

October 18, 2018October 18, 2018by The Abject Muse2 Comments

Some pursue a chimera— the heart’s fantasy, knowing in the end they’ll live happily never after, mindlessly hoping that maybe on the off chance… Others simply accept the bitter nothingness of reality. Same thing only different.