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The you I knew way back then
  haunts my dreams these days
  black and white luscious sin
  the stain it left always stays.
 Apr 2022 Dennis Willis
MissNeona
It's no surprise, I got lost
Got lost, right spun in your eyes
Merry go round and the tilt a whirl
Your amusement rides parked this girl

Coulda got through the gates a bit sooner
Spent fewer dollars on games
But your shiny, blinky lights and attractions got me dazed
Now I am lost and totally fazed

Not sure if it was the one that brought me head over heels
Or the one that whipped me right round
But I'm feeling anxious and a little sick since my feet last touched ground

It's no surprise, I got lost
Got lost, right spun in your eyes
Merry go round and the tilt a whirl
Your amusement rides parked this girl

Don't need a new toy or any trinkets,
Nah, I came here just for you
Didn't know it was Buller's day off
I was wheeling for two

It was wrong for me to assume, the *** is just me, I didn't know there was no second cup to this tea party.

It's no surprise, I got lost
Got lost, right spun in your eyes
Merry go round and the tilt a whirl
Your amusement rides parked this girl
 Apr 2022 Dennis Willis
annh
Marge retrogrades lazily towards the hills;
Her name, printed the width of her cab-over dinette
In crinkled cobalt cursive,
Totters eccentrically as her handbrake fails.

SNAP-AP

Oblivious to errant camper vans (and centripetal forces in general),
Barney speeds maniacally along a deserted city street;
Golden coated and joyously poochie,
His tongue flabbers as fast as his bicycle courier dad can pedal.

SNAP-AP-AP

Mr Blue buys buckets at Bunnings
To match his cerulean suit and shinier-than-shiney satin shirt;
Periwinkle rhinestone shoes carry him unabashedly passed the second glances and sideways looks;
There goes the best dressed DIY-er in town…don’t ya know.

SNAP-AP-AP-AP
Oh, and that’s Antigua Street photography not Antigua street photography. :)

‘I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait some more, trying to remain confident that the unexpected, the unknown, or the secret heart of the known awaits just around the corner?’
- Alex Webb
 Apr 2022 Dennis Willis
Nikki
Tell me
What it means
When everyone’s happiness
Makes you feel even lonelier
Empty to the core

How a mood can change
In an instant
And seem to **** all the light
Out of every smile

Every moment poisoned
By one seemingly innocent instant
One bad thought
To infect all the others
 Apr 2022 Dennis Willis
Lyndsey
Why does the sun have to go away?

Why does junk food taste so much better late at night?

Why do car rides bring out conversations we'd normally never have?

Why do girls with more hope than they should reasonably have, fall for boys that are angry at the world?

Why do boys with beautiful blue eyes and dimpled smiles, like making curly haired girls with mischievous smirks blush crimson and stumble over their words?

Why do sensible girls fall for reckless hell raising boys?

Why do hell raising boys treat some girls like delicate flowers?

Why do girls that are afraid to trust anyone, fall into the arms, beneath the covers, stupidly in love with boys who taste like bourbon and cigarettes?

Why do boys trust girls full of softness with their demons?

Why do girls who feel like a burden, feel safe with boys who let them be human?

Why do boys who drive too fast also not wear their seat belt …
Why do girls wait by the phone…
Why do boys drive too fast…
Why do girls wait for a text…
Why do boys drive too fast…

Why do girls…
Why do boys…
Why…

Why did you have to die?
 Apr 2022 Dennis Willis
Maddy
We have all had enough
Time to get the answers
Be honest, caring,considerate
Have decency and respect
Agree to disagree
Forge a real United States
A Democracy
Republic
A greater truth
Come out of the darkness and get your head out of the sand

C@rainbowchaser2022
 Apr 2022 Dennis Willis
Voahirana
cause I don’t wanna get better
get better and what?
throw away all my hard work?
i knew what I was doing when I picked up that bottle,
and I’m scared to put it back down.
scared the memories will come flooding back,
scared it’ll hurt all over again.
maybe I’m not meant to get better.
when they ask me where I see myself in 10 years I laugh,
laugh through the finality of my suicidality.
my world is on fire and I have no desire to put it out.
I’m stuck in this ****** brain.
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