Haleistorm (United States) published:
PROMPT: Becoming Human
When first I met the Day, I was a child,
A'dancing on the cliffs beside the sea.
He twirled me round and sung my name and smiled,
But soon enough ran out of time for me.
I fought the night; I fought to stay alive.
The light in me was dangerously dim.
I found in me a desperate need to dive,
But not a fragment of desire to swim.
One shard of shadow in a world so wide,
I blew...
about 2 years ago
Haleistorm (United States) published:
FREE WRITING
These last five years,
In this town that at first
Burned my eyes with its dazzling skies
And froze my heart until it cracked,
I have lost and found myself like an old toy.
I have harmed and mended a handful of hearts,
My own included.
I have passed through friendships
Like neon, like moonlight,
And the momentary glare of a solar eclipse.
I have bent under the pressure of a thousand winter nights
And risen with the force of...
about 2 years ago
Haleistorm (United States) published:
PROMPT: Open Prompt
You there,
You have some nerve showing up here.
These are my dreams, not yours.
You have some nerve, speaking to me tonight,
When I haven't seen you since there was life in me.
Get out of my dreams, ghost.
Get out of my poetry.
Let me go.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Oh no, I saw your face.
I don't love you.
I don't.
But why does it hurt so much,
When I get so much as a glimpse of you,
...
about 2 years ago
Haleistorm (United States) published:
PROMPT: What Came Before
Without a coffin to call home, it takes the human body about ten years to be reduced to a skeleton.
It only took her two.
How could I let you get her?
I fought with everything I had.
How did you get past me?
You were the darkness, she was the light, and I was the line in between.
She was everything I loved about the world in five feet and four inches of strong bones and limitless love.
...
about 2 years ago
Haleistorm (United States) liked Never Give Up by Catlover (United States)
over 2 years ago
Haleistorm (United States) published:
PROMPT: Novel Writing Competition 2017
over 3 years ago