Month: June 2016

#tbt

I remember a time

with not a problem I couldn’t fix

with a little finesse, hard work

and duct tape all in the mix.

Now it seems even a fix

in most cases just won’t do

and by the time you give up

it’s too late to buy it new.

© AUtumn Siders 2014

I Heard a Phone Buzz…

The buzz from my phone

jolts me awake

and I stare first at you

before I attempt to take

the call coming through

that beckons me back

to the lonely and real world

that somehow seems black.

I swipe my finger left

and throw the phone to the floor

and turn back to you

to be in the light once more.

© Autumn Siders 2016

Are You Decent?

You never knock

and you never ask

if you may enter

while I bask.

You may think

this matters not

but a cat’s privacy

is all she’s got.

So before you enter

remember this fact

I choose whether or not

my claws retract.em2

© Autumn and Emilita Siders 2016

Forgotten

I had this great idea

right on the tip of my mind,

but by the time it reached my mouth

the great part was left behind.

A distant memory lingered

just waiting to break free

but no matter how I tried

this idea just ceased to be.

All the forgotten ideas

must have some place to go

someday I hope to find them

and free them from their woe.

© Autumn Siders 2016

Wilted

A rainy day

the April way

and my thirst

is quenched.

A sunny day

sometime in May

and all seems

so well.

The warming sun

June is on the run

and I trail

absently behind.

The boiling sun

and July has begun

and the heat is hard

to handle.

A thunder shower

brings August the power

but I seem weaker by

the hour.

No more showers

September has no flowers

and for the first time I see

I am wilted.

© Autumn Siders 2016

#tbt

Every Thursday I reminisce

on all the life I miss

while I am stuck in my head

keeping my soul fed

and I know for sure

that being a connoisseur

of words and feelings

is by far more healing

than posting a photo

of me 30 pounds ago.

© Autumn Siders 2016