When you were running
along that freeway to no place
I passed beside you
and my motor idled
just long enough to see your face
translucent and tragic
putrid and magic
you were everything I wanted.
You were
distant and vacant
dislodged and awakened
way before your time
too early to take it
couldn’t start, stop or make it
you were everything to me.
When you were a journey
you were miles and days too early
and I was waiting there for you
white lines kept you straightest
you kept moving; didn’t waste it
it was everything to you
and you
you were running off down that road
you were crazier than this town
and you
you were everything to me
putrid and magic.
© ryan
putrid and magic
photography by kidi
deliriousgirl, 2 months ago
just long enough to see your face
translucent and tragic
putrid and magic
you were everything I wanted.
Ahhhhhhhhhh, crap! this made me quiver with almost forgotten memories and vague black shadowy figures flitting through the brain!!!!!!!!! JFC!!! You got it goin on hon!!!!!!!!!!!
deliriousgirl, 2 months ago
YES!!!! Hey check out a new t-shirt Jaybee’s got goin on, speaking of wicked.
flower68, 2 months ago
one of your bestwithout a doubt.Like those lines too.
natapee, 2 months ago
putrid and magic.
wow love it.
Yasemin Sumner, 2 months ago
this is so lyrical and heartbreaking in that dark highway kind of way… love this.
JaneAParis, 2 months ago
‘translucent and tragic
putrid and magic’, Super writing. I felt it. I loved the read. Thanks! Smiles from Jane:-)
KEITH R. WILL..., 2 months ago
very nice poetry
aglaia b, 2 months ago
hey you!....love the way all those words mix happily! x great! x
mtda, 2 months ago
Great write, this has such a pull to it. Dark and wicked but with a soft flow, really beautiful.
TeriLee, 2 months ago
This is awesome!!! Fantasically written!
Ushna Sardar, 2 months ago
beautifully done Nicole!
girlinthestars, 2 months ago
Fantastic. I enjoyed this!~*
Keeli, 2 months ago
Excellent writing!
LisaG, 2 months ago
Putrid and magic – this I understand totally….
Wonderful…..
Zolton, 2 months ago
Really great. Made me feel a little frantic. : )
Taine, 2 months ago
Excellent piece, coldn’t help but read a few times…might be a relly good tune that goes with this, I can almost hear it now…...
mstrace, 8 days ago
great pace and cadence to the words, the last four or five lines are show-stoppers!