Friday, October 13, 2023

Stone Soup Croutons, 10-11-23: Life Rafts and Hot Chocolate


Stone Soup Croutons is a weekly poem I write using lines and impressions selected from Stone Soup Poetry's open mic readers and features. I figure out a title (and sometimes the rest of the poem) later. You can read the other ones I've done since 2015 here.
 
I also have a book collecting the best of my first year of poems. Click here to purchase it.

I'm also still trying for more brevity in these poems. The title is a reference to Prince, but you would have figured that out.

Thanks for reading.
 

Life Rafts and Hot Chocolate

You decide the world 
won't need you around,
and the world agrees.

Just a bug to pick off
later, another casualty
they haven't hit yet.

Helping someone else
could get you arrested.
Drift off in mind's loch.

Remember falling for her
when she made "Starfish
and Coffee" her ringtone. 

Other memories hid
like bodies, dug up every
fall, in house all along.

There's death in Autumn.
There always have been
for a lover's moon to rise.

 
 
Special thanks to Jackie Chou, Bil Lewis, Nancy Dodson, Richard Spisak, Jan Rowe, James Van Looy, Patricia Carragon, Rich Boucher, Dan Speers, Black Byrd and Navah The Buddaphliii.

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