We were more than fingerprints brushed across each other’s wrists we loved recklessly and deeply dipped our hands into our souls pulled out everything we were before leaving our marks across each other’s bodies I had never seen you more beautiful than you were with my handprint caressing your cheekbone shimmering across your heart © … Continue reading Marked – Christine E. Ray
winter settles into my bones making itself at home cold steals silent stealthy under doorways seeps through small cracks in my armor seeking firm purchase conspiring to steal my warmth chilling my nose toes fingertips flat gray December skies speak of snow a flurry or a blizzard? I wonder days grow short nights grow long … Continue reading Winter’s Chill – Christine E. Ray
rains beats heavily upon my morning window I spin words deftly into spider’s silken web I yearn to capture your heart © 2017 Revised 2021 Christine Elizabeth Ray – All Rights Reserved
poetry is oft written by those who love too much too freely hearts splayed open on sterile dissection trays cool stainless pins trapping vulnerable fluttering edges i am a darker object I fear I love too little too miserly my specimen heart muffled below weighted blankets fingers absently rolling small plastic beads that dwell below … Continue reading Darker Object – Christine E. Ray
swimming hard against the current in choppy white surf running barefoot in cold wet sand legs straining aching but afraid to stop to breathe what demons will catch me grasp my shoulders roughly with taloned claws if I risk rest? true danger true threat comes from within not without pangs of melancholy steel gray clouds … Continue reading Evasion
poetry is oft written by those who love too much too freely hearts splayed open on sterile dissection trays cool stainless pins trapping vulnerable fluttering edges i am a darker object I fear I love too little too miserly my specimen heart muffled below weighted blankets fingers absently rolling small plastic beads that dwell below … Continue reading Darker objects
Brave & Reckless 