Two Poems

Sunburnt July

The bay splashes me

with its mirrored water

until my daydreams

surrender to the waves.

Reality is too cold under

the sunburnt July sky.

Why swirls above me

with the seagulls and

for a few short moments

I don’t care there

isn’t an answer.

©Susie Clevenger 2014                           

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Kool-Aid And Brimstone

 We drank the Kool-Aid

and searched the horizon

for the end of the world.

With our boots laced to brimstone

we toured damnation until

love was supplanted by fear.

Summer stirs my unholy ghosts

with their songs of blood echoing

through the questions I never asked.

I still feel the pain of wearing wool.

©Susie Clevenger 2014
                                         

photo credit: Adam Foster | Codefor via photopin cc

The first poem is written for Margaret Bednar's challenge at Real Toads
Artistic Interpretations ~ Life On An Island

The second is written for Real Toads Flash Fiction 55