The ramblings of an aspiring writer

Month: April 2016

Last year’s prompt for Day 30: Take the phrase “Bury the (blank),” replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem.

Bury the Bitterness

Your tongue won’t thank you
For that terrible taste, you know.
Stop chewing on what you can’t change,
You need to swallow all that spite now.
Your stomach may swell from the scorn
But your mouth will finally know mercy.

If you insist on feeding it still,
Its weeds winding tight inside,
The bitterness will become you.
So for your own sanity’s sake,
Cut yourself from this cruel circle
That threatens to consume you.

Your enemies will evaporate
In the flames of fortitude,
And peace will be restored
To your vexed and weary vessel,
Once you have banished bitterness,
And buried it in the before.

And so we reach the end of this year’s April PAD Challenge. This poem might seem like a bit of a bleak note to go out on, but there is a glimmer of hope towards the end 😉 Hope you’ve enjoyed reading my poems this month!

Dead End

Trapped in this rattling car
I slammed foot on pedal
Desperately trying, hoping
To drive on to dreams ahead,
A destination finally in sight,
Only for panic to pull me back.

So many signs passed by,
But I don’t know which to follow,
I could take the fast lane
At risk of rapid ruin
Or savour the scenic route
Only to get stuck in looming rut.

And so I drive on,
Allowing my auto-pilot
To navigate a never-ending
Highway of hesitations
And chances not taken
That has no clear end.

One day I’ll break free,
Slash this self-imposed seatbelt
And barrel out the doors,
Ready to run again
To the better days
Beyond this black tunnel.

Crumpled jottings
In spidery writing
Might have made sense
Once, in a fit
Of flowing words,
But now tap is turned
Off, with only drips
Left, with no hope
Of a thirsty writer’s basin
Being filled up again.