"Springtime Beauty" by Elexer

Springtime Beauty

By Elexer

You are beautiful

With hair of 

An orange cream

Sweet delight.

 Mother of Springtime,

Sugar, and Pollen,

You brush your scents

Along noses.

You say, "hello",

Breeze-filled touch

Of lemon and ginger. 

Bringing us knew hope-

Knew wonders- about

The world.

You are beautiful

With our without 

Your exterior.

Sunlight by Elexer

Sunlight

by Elexer

The sweet fragrance

Of your love

Fills me with sunlight.

Your eyes glow

With the hope

Of the North Star.

My internal compass 

no longer points north,

but to you.

Your soul is the gravity 

I orbit 

As your warmth 

Keeps the darkness

at bay.

Locks and Boxes by Elexer

Locks and Boxes

by Elexer

The lock 

and key 

to my soul 

is not a one-way street

you can tear up with your

lyrical jackhammer's,

spilling my majesty 

into the sewer

with your language.

Locking

me up

behind a wall of religious

illusions

of me trying to be myself

and the perfection you will never see.

These rainbows

are my protectors 

and this box

is my chastity belt.

"Spring Pick-Me-Up" by Elissa Rosenthal

Spring Pick-Me-Up

by Elissa Rosenthal

You are not alone 
in this merry meet spring 
fairy tale,
where you fear about failure
with new beginnings. 

You carry a life of work
and willingness 
to improve upon 
your misgivings and mistakes. 

Look at the flowers budding 
around your shoulders,
waiting to bloom 
in delight.

I Am a Ladybug By Elissa Rosenthal

 "I Am a Ladybug"

By Elissa Rosenthal

Your fingers are beetles diving underneath my skin
and killing my appetite. A hand of putrid flesh laced in
maggot infested regret.

Can I dive into the trash and live there? 
The home of the ego yelling like a 
ladybug-
as menacing. 
Do I wish to be?

Kill my thoughts slowly and I might as well be dead. 
I am dead
and numb. 

Who am I? What is this place?
Why do I feel like no one?

A hand stokes my back like a banker visiting his gold. 
I am not gold.
I am a ladybug trying
my best to be my best.
I smell the leaves but cannot see them.
All I see is a plastic lining.

"Firework Haze" by Elissa Rosenthal

Firework Haze

By Elissa Rosenthal 

Bright lights,

bring in a bright year.

One filled with shining stars,

and red and blue flickers.

Stay safe.

Ten minutes where you stood,

could have been a drink too far.

Universal Chaos

 Universal Chaos

By Elissa Rosenthal

Galaxies gaze into my eyes and see themselves,

cradled in the mass universal nothingness,

and yet everything.

We swing on the swing set,

of gazes.

We hear the screams,

the beams of hope,

and the mass explosions destroying both.

Many dreams and wishes never fulfilled,

or never grasped because of social norms. 

The possibilities are endless,

yet have infinite amounts of order.  

Chaos in our universe is inevitable,

predicable,

and grand.