Sharing a poem I wrote, please share any of your own :)

[moonbell]

The creature

Have you seen it ?
It stutters and stalks,
lurking below light.
Hidden behind those of sterling flesh,
Of opal eyes and sculpted marble

Its sunken folds draw a face
downturned eyes spill loneliness
blotched skin over a bloated cage.

Its damp weight brushes and trails
It clings tight and
seeps into my stillness

In my every image it waits,
its ugliness opaque
Painted across my reflection,
my soul
inescapable, indistinguishable

I watch until my edges blur
until its mouth opens
and I am swallowed whole

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thank you for reading,
moonbell

 

[moonbell]

I wrote another poem:

Frog Eyes

In the interstice, look carefully
and you will find
a toad, alone
amidst slender-legged frogs.

And look closer
at his curled uneven features
and see his glass eyes falter,
staring back.

Few notice the toad
fewer remember
and none wish to
remember those glass eyes

Staring

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Thank you for reading,
moonbell