Melissa, Oh!

Category: Poetry

  • Life is a gift. Use it or lose it …

    So, I’m a little late on the the whole “look back/look ahead” post that comes at the end of the year, but I was too busy celebrating the holidays to take the time to sit down and think about it! So, better late than never, right? Last year I wrote about some thoughts on 2008,…

  • I may suck at writing poetry lately …

    But my friends at poetry assignment are rockin it! Please remember to check out their work and give them some comment love. In the meantime and to try to get back into the spirit of things, I have been designing a poetry book of my work, hoping that looking at it will bring back my…

  • Seeing your byline not always a good thing

    Amy suggested we write about the first time we got published, a topic which should have been easy for me but instead I started getting muddled in the details: First time I got what published? – A book? Dictated from me to Mom, who wrote it down on construction paper and tied it together with string, 1983.…

  • Seeing your byline not always a good thing

    Amy suggested we write about the first time we got published, a topic which should have been easy for me but instead I started getting muddled in the details: First time I got what published? – A book? Dictated from me to Mom, who wrote it down on construction paper and tied it together with string, 1983.…

  • It doesn’t get any better than this

    In case that last blog post wasn’t enough poetry for you: I present a couple of my favorite poems, because today is Valentine’s Day and it’s all about love and I love poetry and poetry loves love. Or something like that. (and not all of these love poems are happy love poems, but as you’ve…

  • It doesn’t get any better than this

    In case that last blog post wasn’t enough poetry for you: I present a couple of my favorite poems, because today is Valentine’s Day and it’s all about love and I love poetry and poetry loves love. Or something like that. (and not all of these love poems are happy love poems, but as you’ve…

  • What better way to celebrate love …

    than with poetry? I bring you love poems written by the very talented writers on poetryassignment.com. Some poems are romantic, some are sad, some know just how to drive that knife in a little deeper – but they are all from the heart, and worth checking out this Valentine’s Day! Here’s an idea – write…

  • The music plays, just for us

    Time stands still as I feel your hand on the small of my back smile up at you as butterflies whisper at me to take a chance I’m having a hard time deciphering which part of this is dream but as I look in your eyes I decide dreams can be reality. And the drum…

  • Life, going down the right tube

    This is by no means meant to be a synopsis of my year – in fact, I’m leaving out some of the biggest stuff on purpose. Just a few random tidbits about time and how we choose to pass it. Thoughts on 2008: – In February I decided to chop my hair off and go…

  • Tipping point found in bubble bath

    He promised her his world but reserved the right to change his fickle mind but she dared him to stand beside his lies make them truths, make things right. Eyes unfocused he saw two realities she knew she couldn’t fix this man So she uses the only trick she has left Waits naked for him, bathing…

  • Sparkle eyes and sharp edges

    Metallic talk burns in mouths hot with anger and his words sting so she fights back with hers both knowing things that are said can’t be erased neither caring as passion and possession are clear victors in this broken and torn battle. He challenges her to make the first move but she sees it as his turn;…

  • Sparkle eyes and sharp edges

    Metallic talk burns in mouths hot with anger and his words sting so she fights back with hers both knowing things that are said can’t be erased neither caring as passion and possession are clear victors in this broken and torn battle. He challenges her to make the first move but she sees it as his turn;…

  • Please, enlighten me

    Don’t force it, you say, Just let it come to you You tell me you can’t do this Tell me you won’t do this Tears streaming down my face You don’t feel them You can’t see them. You bring mystery to this moment, to this twinkle of light. We seek a higher ground dream of…

  • Decorating during a breakup

    He asked her for help deciding what color to paint his front door She looked at him in silence, pondering – Does she take her stand now, leaving him to choose without her, showing him she’s the strong one? Or does she pick – making him think her name every day, each time he sees…

  • A lifetime declaration

    She always felt there should be more art in their world. So they go to a place where dreams become a permanent record Gets his name tattooed right beside her heart Thinking that will fix everything. Afterword he hugs her tightly forgetting how much it will hurt. ———– I’m also publishing this poem at the…

  • One weekend, a lifetime ago

    One night in a crowded bar and she was hooked. She couldn’t tell him how ready she was to love so she instead chose to pretend, as he had, that this sort of thing happened all the time. Then she spent the next years searching for him. Of course, she had to know it was futile. After…

  • Exhilaration of a new love

    Eyes lock across a crowded world and hers – certainly a crowded heart but she will make room for him against all of the rules “I love you” they’ll say – but not too much “I want you” they’ll write and then they get to explain what that means Does the pot of gold actually…

  • (Free) pre-marital counseling at the Cathedral

    They made out with boys in the Fellowship Hall after youth church while waiting for rides passed the time with a game of truth or dare this wasn’t heaven, but it did last 7 minutes. Jane pulled her very best friend Mary aside, and in a very serious tone, broached the very necessary question: “Do…

  • Take me dancing before I die

    She wondered briefly if the smell of roses when there were none to be found might be evidence of brain trauma Brushed it off and convinced him salsa dancing was the way to fix this focused on their connection as they glided across the dance floor. They were lithe and surreal and all the things…

  • Learning baseball from an experienced player

    It was off season for the home team but we parked your car in the back of the empty visitor’s practice lot began rounding the bases anyway No hot dogs for sale this winter day but a look in your eye and time on our side, you pulled me in close. I said, “Honey, let’s…

  • Learning baseball from an experienced player

    It was off season for the home team but we parked your car in the back of the empty visitor’s practice lot began rounding the bases anyway No hot dogs for sale this winter day but a look in your eye and time on our side, you pulled me in close. I said, “Honey, let’s…

  • Proposition in the backseat of a taxi

    “But if I sleep with you I will fall in love with you,” she said with eyes lowered and husky voice her red lips so close to his that one false move meant they’d be in over their heads. They breathed into each other and this decided everything. “I have already fallen in love with…

  • Proposition in the backseat of a taxi

    “But if I sleep with you I will fall in love with you,” she said with eyes lowered and husky voice her red lips so close to his that one false move meant they’d be in over their heads. They breathed into each other and this decided everything. “I have already fallen in love with…

  • When fire illuminates, not smoulders – what next?

    She poured gasoline all over their memories after a very frank conversation in which she asked who he wanted to share his heart with and he said “I could be happy either way.” She knew he was lying and she told him as much but he was driven to take the easy route and she…