Showing posts with label poetry by Elissa Rosenthal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry by Elissa Rosenthal. Show all posts

Saturday, March 24, 2018

Sugar and Rainbows

Sugar and Rainbows
By Elexer



Sparkling white sugar 
brushes my face 
and makes the air smell sweet,
like honeydew melon. 
Rolling in the bleached flour 
of not yet baked bread,
I see a rainbow
of dancing clouds
smiling.
As they sing
and waltz across the skyline
I follow their steps
in my missing boots
and the fluffy coat 
my mom
always made me where
 on cold winter days.
The child within me smiles
with the clouds
as the adult warns about the time wasted
creating daydreams.




Saturday, February 10, 2018

"Fluttering Wings" By Elissa Rosenthal


 Flutter Wings
By Elissa Rosenthal




Paint your way into my flutter wings,
and cup them to your heart. Wondering,
with chipping hope,
how
you could brush my dreams away
like a vain rabbit.
Milk into my ear
how your hopes
holed themselves into obscurity.

Saturday, February 3, 2018

"Twisted Rainbow" By Elissa Rosenthal


Twisted Rainbow 

By Elissa Rosenthal




Your lips are a twisted rainbow
made of cotton candy floss 
and salty popcorn.
Soft clouds of syrup 
grace my tongue,
and fill me up 

like the glass jar
holding my heart. 
  
Limbs, vines, curling around my legs,
latching me to the sediment 
of our river of light fractals. 
Magnifying lenses examine me,
petting me with your light and shadow.

Saturday, January 27, 2018

"Warm Chill" By Elissa Rosenthal

 Warm Chill

 By Elissa Rosenthal






The watching windows 
are like the eyes 

from above me.
Windows full of memories 

creating a warm chill 
to keep me up at night.

Hold me close douglas fir
as wind wallows through you,

as my tears 
water your roots.


Saturday, January 20, 2018

"Biohazard" By Elissa Rosenthal


Biohazard
By Elissa Rosenthal



Syringes of toxins pierce the shriveled spiderwebs under my skin.
Mortal,
cherry red
nutrients is drawn out like a verbose speech.
The push and pull
of an uneven tug of war match
drags my body along the ground
which sandpapers me into nothingness.
My body is a nuclear reactor 
full of slow deaths 
of people I do not know.
I see needles as my eyes close for the last time,
wishing they were cat scratches 
from the one who truly knew me. 

Saturday, December 16, 2017

Vanilla and Licorice by Elissa Rosenthal

 Sweet Tea
by Elissa Rosenthal





Fragrant waters swirl in clockwise motion, 
steaming from the brew.
Glasses fog with scents of vanilla and licorice, 
bringing the desire to taste. 
Lips meet warm liquid nourishment,
setting the heart in front of its' own private fireplace.
Muscles rest from their tight positions, 
and melt into the cushions surrounding them.  



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Saturday, November 25, 2017

Glowing Hope


Glowing Hope
By Elissa Rosenthal 

 




Glowing radiant hope,
touched my fingers with a tingle of electricity.
My heart bounded like a hamster,
wishing their wheel was an escape route.
"What is this?", I whispered in the darkness, and looked upon the orb.
I could still hear the drip coming from the broken pipe, from which I would drink.
The bruised apple with a piece eaten still laid next to the pile of abandoned misfit pieces I used as a bed.
The light was new.
To the world and I,
this light was new.
My mouth expressed a gasp,
as I saw that the light was coming from me.

Saturday, November 18, 2017

Black Money


Black Money
By Elissa Rosenthal



I gave up my dreams to serve you,
toxic overlays of unrest.
Sleepless gasping on dead waste,
clogs your nightmares.
Gaping holes filled with money,
so sticky they pull you into,
the consumption.
You crave for needs not met by your own,
filling your graveyard with the dead touch,
of long dead beings,
so you feel like you have at least received,
gentleness from something.

Saturday, August 26, 2017

Sweet Tea

Sweet Tea
by Elissa Rosenthal 






Lulling breezes glide against my puckered up flesh,

Leaning toward the cool embrace full of fresh,

Lillie's, old spring daffodils, morning tea pulled through mesh,

Let me keep this feeling of being blessed.


Looking out the window I do not feel alone,

Loving how this quite house now feels like a home,

Leave me and let me live with this feeling I have sewn,

Lifting up the piece of pottery I used to condone. 


Lips filled with sweet fragrance and relished calm,

Lucky me to have this time of peace within my palm,

Little figures brush against the porcelain consuming the warmth of the dawn,

Living like this I know with not last long.