I LOVE YOU PROSERS!
Guys, I love you! Excuse me if I sound too corny. Maybe it's adderall or because I haven't gotten some sleep last night, or maybe nothing at all. But I don't care what it is I just wanted to say and let you know that I LOVE YOU!
I recall the past days since I met prose. All what WE been through of sweet, bitter, supports, and even the craziness, makes me feel like I owe you, all of you, indeed i do. I wish I can be helpful and supportive too to anyone and everyone, but as of for now, all I know and can do is LOVING YOU and THANKING YOU for everything you've done for me in all forms and shapes.
I LOVE YOU!
THANK YOU!
Flowers of the Night
Flowers of the night!...
...Come open,
One and all!...
Reveal yourselves,
My little
Flowers of the
Night!...
...Your petals
Drop down
On the
Tombstones,
So slow,
And cover the letters
Of our latest
Inhabitant.
This graveyard
Is gaining
Occupants every year!
...While the
Doomed,
And defiant
On the outside appear
To be perfectly
Happy
With their
Make believe
Beat...
...High alarms from
The city!...
...The sirens, and
Noise,
Keep them strung
To their thread
While the Dead
In their Void,
Buried deep in
The dirt
Wonder why it
Keeps on...
Sweet flowers of
The night!...
You can make it
With your prize!...
...Flowers that
Revive
The aesthetic,
Dying art...
...These bloomers
Do their part!...
...Knowing full well
Every cure that
They provide...
...It is
Death and
Birth
Revived!...
...Flowers flicker
Like a flame!...
...Wonder if
My deeper urges
Will be hard
To tame
Tonight...
...Or just
Contemplate
My breaking
Heart in
Awe...
...Flowers of the night!
...Come open,
One and
All!...
©
2017
Bunny Villaire
Vertigo - Why I Write
Addicted to
writing,
I shake poetry
out of my sleeves.
Drunk with
celestial parade
of shiny words,
tumbling into
rising sun,
praying to
the muse hiding
behind me
in black voids
of rejection.
Time down drain
of moneyless pit,
coded language
that only writers
understand.
Roaring visions
and echoes
resonating,
seeing the world
from my perspective
without winning
or losing.
Mood changing
poetry therapy
polished trances
as I crave
the high
that only writing
can bring.
I drink of it
deeply in
vertigo
of love.
Homage to deceased rogues
—We still play these cards like rouges
faces of kings, queens; princes and princesses presidents, vicars and all renowned
agents that swayed our thoughts and actions
gaze out of antediluvian tombs
laughing at the ignorance and perplexity
of all under the auspices of shadows of those
that once were gurus, movers and shakers
men and women of gold and amethysts
freedom devourers on the surface they're kind
two things; surrender your honor
surrender your soul; plea fealty to the famed
your dignity they devour with satisfaction
—so that even beyond their graves and graces
we remain tethered to their casuistry
continuing this tomfoolery of lost morality
to feel magnificent they must denude you
your unalloyed delights pulverized to nihilism
so that they, a handful of them can influence,
or crown their decayed pates in gold and silver
others adorn diamonds daubed in blood
through toil and moil the monies yielded
spent on another Louis, Charles or Henry!
should the stucco of the palace walls crack
should the eaves fail to prevent ingress
speaking of offhanded autocrats under the veil fairytale! Maybach's bumper-to-bumper,
they'll mince if you fail to make way!
we still cling to this old card game with faith
paying homage to men and women of centuries
lost to us, characters about whom nothing good could be said!
yes, we still play these cards bedecked
with faces villains poised as heroes and heroines
we never ask or wonder why every generation's allotted era ends shamefully...
Innocence Lost: A Prose Original
Greetings Prosers,
It's here! It's live! And it's time for you to find out if your entry was included in the very first Prose Original series.
Around a month ago, we set a new Prose Challenge of the Month, whereby fifteen of you would be chosen to have your entries placed in our Prose Original book. We also announced that each winning Proser will receive 5% of all book royalties for life!
We will be launching another Challenge of the Month if this book proves to be popular, so share the book with your family and friends and get them reading this incredible anthology. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Happy New Year to each and every one of you, let's kick 2017's ass.
Until next time, Prosers,
Prose.