Free Verse
A Sense of Peace
Dear Teacher
Death Can Strike Twice
Drunk Driver
Empty Dreams
Echoes of the Future
Facets of Life
Forgotten House
Freedom of Imagination
Hidden Danger
Hidden Truth
Huddled in a Doorway
Humanity Abandoned
Innocent Lives
Irresistible Force
Kaleidoscope
Legacy
Lunar Echoes
Merry? Go-Round
Mighty Weapons
Moment in Time
My Friend
My Journey
Odd Socks
Predator
Realm of Fiction
Released by your Touch
Remember Me
Shadows of my Mind
Shadows on the Edge
Spring has Arrived
State of Mind
Stones
Storm
Take Me As I Am
Tenerife
Thread-Bear
Tidal Wave
Touching Lives
Turbulence
Winter Numbness
Rhyme
Bullied
Computer Addiction
Dare to be Different
Hydraulic Arm
Hair Rebellion
Imagined
Life Is An Express Train
Loneliness
Related to the Addams Family
Words
Snippet Challenges
A Wintry Ballet
Acceptance Denied
Disarranged
Distorted Image
Homophobia
Jilted
Journey To A New Life
Lost Village
Memorial Candle
New Beginning
Nightmare Trip
No Compassion, No Dignity
Old Age
Opening the Book
The Estate
The Matrix
Tears glistened, on wet cheeks,
Falling soundlessly onto a sodden pillow;
Body wracked with sobs,
Grace’s heart was breaking.
Anger and despair filled her soul
as she relived the cruel way
he jilted her;
casting her off
like a speck of unwanted dirt.
The pathetic tale he spun,
a cunning ruse,
to get his desire –
illicit intimacy with another.
The sight of the two of them together,
too painful to behold.
Recalling the jocular laughter
in his piercing blue eyes
bile rose in her throat;
nausea threatened to overwhelm her.
How could she face the world?
Death felt like a welcome escape.
Unobserved within her,
a new flickering presence
began its tenacious hold on life.
Words used - behold break jilt jocular ruse rose tale tenacious grace glisten
©Nina Simon 2005
