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Ignite by Gioia

Will we break with our own hands? Just another guitar, once loved, left in pieces on the stage — a victim of the stress and blinding lights that guide our everyday lives. / In the heat of the m… 161 words

Realize by Gioia

So I will express this / desperate sentiment / the only way I can - 48 words

Nowhere to Run by Gioia

Don’t know what to / feel. / Should I feel? / Not this. / Not for you. / Build the walls. / Stop. / Don’t get closer, / please. / I can’t bare the / cataclysmic / aftermath. 30 words

Fear. by Gioia

The irony of / holding your breath to / preserve fragile happiness. / When it comes crashing / down. / We must relearn to breathe. 20 words

Bragging Rights by Gioia

So what is it you won? 44 words

Puzzle. by Gioia

You whisper / “It’s time to be whole again, / but I can’t seem to find my myself.” 77 words

Pirouette by Gioia

Holding our breath 47 words

Flood by Gioia

And yet I am awash with it, / all the same. 31 words

Too Far by Gioia

Whispers are nothing 32 words

Regret by Gioia

There is no forgiveness 25 words

Gambler by Gioia

Stray touch / Lingers. / Friend and..? / A categorical crush. / Tug of war: / Fear and faith. / High stakes, both sides. 18 words

Selfish by Gioia

Yearn to be wanted / But do not care to want — / My detached attachment / Leaves vacancy for / A lonely lover. 20 words

Blank Canvas by Gioia

I think outside my head. / Ideas too large to be / captured; / controlled; / created. / I am not / the Renaissance / I claim to be. 22 words

Mirage by Gioia

Between us lays / A desert of doubt with / One passage through. / A path paved with / Insecurity, / I am guided by / Mixed signals. 22 words

Player by Gioia

Block the world with / Beads of sound, / I cradle this creation. / A shield against silence - / Portable home, / No walls. 20 words

Paperthin by Gioia

If every word is an ounce / With what weight should I speak? / A soliloquy to hold you down / Or a silence to set you free. 25 words

Speak Up, Girl. by Gioia

“I love you…” / What did you say? / What are you thinking? / Those words are unwelcome here. / The profanity of a modern age / Afraid of it’s own heart. / Pity the romantics &… 38 words

Apathy by Gioia

Am I entitled to disappear? / Full of breath, short of feeling / The consequence of thought alone. 16 words

Taper by Gioia

Sweet nothings in folded birds / Flying north for the Spring / The fragile paper courier / Losing wings and words / Survivors - / Not all I meant to say. 26 words

On Watching Someone Sleep by Gioia

Pretense of a kiss hung on parted lips / As captured by the silence of sleep. / Lured by tepid breath on taut nerves / A whispered touch weighted with intention / He will never know. 32 words