Good Teacher

You were a good teacher.

You taught my skin to delight in your caress.

My fingers learned to search for yours.

I learned to listen for your whispers.

My sighs learned your name.  

My desire learned to match your heat.

My pulse learned to quicken with your embrace.

You taught me to thirst for your touch.

I learned the loneliness of empty nights.

You taught my tears to fall in your absence.

You taught me how to say goodbye.

I learned of a broken heart.

© 2018 Penny Wilson

For more of my writings please visit my blog: Penny Wilson Writes

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Bedroom Constellations

Loose a bright and strong ray of sunlight,
Wrap it twice, nice and tight around my neck,
And string me up to hang from the plastic stars
That glow in the dark above your bed each night.

I promise not to make a sound as I wiggle around

HER MOSAIC HEART

By Charles Robert Lindholm

He Left Her
With Her Heart
In Pieces On The Floor
Shattered In The Moment
He Said, “I Don’t Love You Anymore”

She Sat Alone In Darkness,
In Silence And With Tears
And Finally Found The Pieces
She Had Searched For Through The Years

She Rescued All The Pieces
Left Lying On The Floor
Her Heart’s No Longer Fragile
It’s Stronger Than Before

I LIE TO MYSELF

By Charles Robert Lindholm

I Lie To Myself
In An Effort
To Make Me
Feel Better

It Works
For Awhile

HAS FOREVER ENDED?

HAS FOREVER ENDED?
By Charles Robert Lindholm

You Said
Forever

I Believed
You
And Was
Happy

A Tale of Two Towers-Christine Ray & Eric Syrdal

Locked away in stone tower

rest of the world

fades

becomes dim memory

time loses meaning

becomes shapeless

days

nights

LETTING GO IS HARD

By Charles Robert Lindholm 

letting go
of the life I had
is harder than I thought 

BEING ME

By Charles Robert Lindholm 

being me
is hurting you
it’s sad to say
but still it’s true 

The Mist

The Mist

-Linda Lee Lyberg

In the mist

Far away

Curtain Call

Curtain Call

-Linda Lee Lyberg

Did I miss something?

What happened?

Heartbreak Hotel

Heartbreak Hotel

-Linda Lee Lyberg

I know you’re a local

At the Heartbreak Hotel

Your love and leave in ruins

Fits in here so well.

Rock Star

Rock Star

-Linda Lee Lyberg

Did you grow a little taller

When you broke my fragile heart

Did you get a little smarter

When you pulled our life apart?

Birth of a Friendship

Great misunderstanding
Even greater mistake
Lies

Broken

Broken

-Linda Lee Lyberg

Now

It’s real

It’s over

It’s done

It’s overdone

Seven years was too long

To torture an innocent heart.

Just As I Am

Just as I am, my broken heart
To give You the whole, and not just part.

WEAPONS

By Charles Robert Lindholm

 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

twenty six letters
weapons
funny shapes and angles
made into words
telling me things
I don’t want to know 

As If

As If

-Linda Lee Lyberg

As if

Nothing mattered

You threw away my love

With your lies, blue eyes, and red lips.

I wept.

 

Previously posted on Charmed Chaos

Vestiges Of A Life

Vestiges of a Life

-Linda Lee Lyberg

I dreamt a dream of yesterday

When you were not so far away

Love, Today

Love,Today

-Linda Lee Lyberg

The scars upon my soul

Are impressions from the past

A road map of my loves

That left me less than whole.

All or Nothing

My imagination was captivated this morning by the lyrics of Ryan Montbleau’s All or Nothing

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The minutes

hours

weigh heavily

upon my shoulders

in the aching night

where I replay

You

Your eyes are sometimes

All I can think of

When I lie here alone at night

In the bed we used to share

How you used to

Lie here next to me

I Say That I Lost You

I say that I lost you

as though you were an umbrella

that I carelessly left on the bus

after the summer rain had stopped

Our Undertow

Written in collaboration with S Francis at SailorPoet after they uncovered and shared a couple of fragments found in journals.  – Gecko and Mouse

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In the sleepless nights since you left

I have become a ghost

Haunting lonely shores.

My restless legs cover miles

Before giving out.

I am raw, ragged

I Wonder If

I still feel..
your lips on mine
as I held you close
and your hair did shine
under a million stars
when everything seemed to align.

I wonder if..
you think about me too
when you lie in bed at night
under a million different stars
knowing my heart still belongs to you.

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Love Scars & Shipwrecks

by Debbie

      

Being shipwrecked on an island, standing alone in the sun

I realize the waves keep coming in one by one.

When you first left my life, it ripped a hole in me.

Funny it was huge to me but no one else could see.

Time

I don’t hate you.
It’s not you who fuels the insomnia
That tortures me in bed
Each night as I lay awake,
Desperately longing to take back
What I lost.

Because I didn’t lose you.
You were never mine to have.
I know that now.
I’ve accepted that you were free
To meet him and abandon me.
And I cherish our time before:
When it was just us two.

For Just Five Minutes

 

Unsuspecting heartache hiding behind trust’s revolving door,

Jumping out leaving  broken hearts in pieces shattered on the floor.

One unsuspecting moment when hurt shatters  dreams

Changing love into chaos which cannot be redeemed.

The Love’s Gone Stale

The love has gone stale
Like a beached whale.
Sitting in the sun,
Not loved by anyone;
I played the game –
What a shame that was.
You were here, and then you were gone.
Where do I belong?