Tag: Poetry

#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

Memorial Day

Memories of people we have lost

Everyone together

Many honorable men

Our family and friends

Rest in peace

In lots of places where wars took place

A day to remember

Loved ones we lost

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Dead soldiers whom we honor

A very special day

Young boys who never got to be men.

© Autumn Siders 2001

 

Bobby and Tamara <3

A single soul dwells in two bodies

for just as long as it is able

and when those two bodies meet

that soul becomes unstable.

It knows without a doubt

that it can be separate no longer

and that the two must unite

because that way they are stronger.

Whatever trials they must face

from here on out, they will together

because the soul they share is strong

and the love they share is forever.

© Autumn Siders 2016