Everyday Life

  • DarKarsean

    As the Horny Horns Played On by DarKarsean

    The Horny Horns played funkadelic as the sound of
    trombone, sax and trumpet rent the air
    There within the music, minds travelled
    to where beats of soul echoed through the psyche

    Always in the groove giv…

    126 words

  • Donna Driver

    ~ We are ~ by Donna Driver

    Could it be
    that the anger we feel
    towards life
    is a knowing in our spirit
    telling us
    that all is not right…?

    263 words

  • George Yesthal

    The Darkenbog by George Yesthal

    If dusk mayhap should find you
    On the road ’ere it gets dark,
    And owls hoot more often
    Than warbles the meadow lark
    And up ahead, before you creeps
    A cloying and deepening fog
    You know you must be brave …

    285 words

  • Leon A.  Walker

    Equinox by Leon A. Walker

    I pray there may be peace,
    for the souls of the long unsettled

    88 words

  • BiographyofRed8

    Puzzles and Paradoxes by BiographyofRed8

    The knocking noise your tongue makes
    Pauses of the silence, spit-back to open a weary insessant scapula bite
    Riding a nightmare of twin razors-your refusal to sleep
    A glass artifical lake lapping at an …

    173 words

  • byzantinehalo

    the interference of time by byzantinehalo

    cause an ache for what was

    42 words

  • LoveWitness

    Sink not into fear by LoveWitness

    Sink not into fear
    Though all may cause you to tear
    Sink not into shame
    Though darkness claim
    To be your blanket
    Your comfort
    Rise to the light
    Rise to love
    You have only one thing to fear
    It is to not dazzle…

    104 words

  • George Yesthal

    HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY! by George Yesthal

    Just a thought that is directed at no one in particular, only most. Suffice to say if the shoe fits…

    All day I’ve been reading pick ‘n’ paste posts about the bravery of those …

    241 words

  • Stephen  J. Vattimo

    "Guess where I am calling you from ?" by Stephen J. Va...

    I was inspired to write this short humorous story by a friend of mine who like to hang on the phone for long periods of time,and does every thing
    209 words

  • LauraBroussard

    Hello, and the beginning of Goodbye.... by LauraBroussard

    Well, everyone,
    I have been contemplating the existence of my account here, on RB…..
    and, I really don’t spend enough time here anymore.
    I feel like a ghost, coming around and viewing,
    when y…

    185 words

  • George Yesthal

    Stone ‘em by George Yesthal

    Think of the indications. All my life, and I am now sixty, I have been aware through school, the media, etc. of the very serious overpopulation problem. If I’m not mistaken, in my lifetime alon…

    507 words

  • gudmike

    Less than alive by gudmike

    …society will nourish
    or kill the monster.

    46 words

  • Rhenastarr

    The Music of My Broken Heart by Rhenastarr

    The music of my broken heart
    Keeps playing in my mind
    The bow drawn across the
    Strings
    As the violin reveals my pain
    And the love he left behind
    Sweet tortured melancholy
    Sound
    That swells within these walls…

    220 words

  • wildwomenlove

    Pimps and Pinups... by wildwomenlove

    I’m sitting in a colourful cafe on Queen Street…

    542 words

  • Daniel Martin

    Sonnet #34 by Daniel Martin

    Tend to me, as I wither book covers dry

    And hold my head in palm spring hands.
    Withered, dying and doth my mortal soul sigh,
    Take me, wherever thou go in heavenly lands.

    From closing eye’s, I tak…

    238 words

  • Daniel Martin

    Sonnet #33 by Daniel Martin

    Ballet trails thou dance, art gleeful evermore shoes
    Dancing upon gliding softly sands and diamond toes.
    I hath emotion sores! O’ kindred spirit amuse.
    Watch for words silver for I hath written pr…

    114 words

  • Daniel Martin

    Sonnet #32 by Daniel Martin

    My heart enraged by love’s kept so far.
    Anger manifests O’ compassion tides of woe
    Come my fair maiden, be art rosemary star.
    Enthralled Was I, my fellow jesters in her glow.

    And as I, bite …

    116 words

  • Daniel Martin

    Sonnet #30 by Daniel Martin

    Pay the piper. Odious O’ squire’s estate in thought,
    Sing! Sing to us, my fellow cheek queen
    And make’th Natalie blush. For what hath bought,
    Go now Jester, for thou repugnance fresh; …

    121 words