Cinquain Train

[B.D. Eyeslie]

With me
you take your chance:
a ticket to the moon
or a boring night of Netflix.
Popcorn?

 

[B.D. Eyeslie]

Popcorn,
pretzels, and beer;
a day at the ball park,
or a neon neighborhood bar
hiding.

 

[kinokonoronin]

Hiding
your heart within
a sealed and leaden box,
you haunt yourself, forevermore
a corpse.

 

[B.D. Eyeslie]

a corpse
in the corner
whistles from his nostrils
until the lady of the house
slaps him

 

[B.D. Eyeslie]

slaps him
with his own words
to echo in his ears
and stir his soul forevermore
till death

 

[kinokonoronin]

'til death
do we depart
on trains to nevermore
would that we could but superplex
demise

 

[Perscribo]

Demise
take me gently.
Drowning, burning, breaking,
bleeding has already arrived
midlife.

 

[ReedAlong]

Midlife
The sun so high
Ready to dip back down
Soon darkness will create the night
We'll sleep

 

[kinokonoronin]

we'll sleep
when darkness calls
amid the petals' bloom
the cold of umbrae blossoming
embrace

 

[Perscribo]

Embrace,
if no one else,
the form of the most high;
the salient skin of yourself
alive.

 

[B.D. Eyeslie]

Alive
we spend our nights
teenagers locked in dance
groping far from a chaperone
hidden

 

[Perscribo]

Hidden
under ashes.
Redacted from textbooks.
Truth becomes an old artifact
buried.

 

[kinokonoronin]

Buried
within our skin,
we struggle for release--
nigh on the fabrication's red
collapse.

 

[Perscribo]

Collapse
upon green earth.
Feel the wind on your skin.
Hear the gray clouds rumble above,
passing.

 

[allyfaye]

Passing,
another day,
passing another way,
gives me hope that all is not lost
but how?

 

[B.D. Eyeslie]

but how
without effort
would your dreams become real
inspiration is just a map
work on

 

[Perscribo]

Work on
what can be done.
Waste not your time in lines
beating a forever-dead horse.
Accept.

 

[Cornelius Coburn]

Accept
what you have sown
whispers the old willow
For if only it could just be
undone

 

[Cornelius Coburn]

Undone
The things that are
cosmological laws
Only to be, re-established
to be

 

[B.D. Eyeslie]

To be
a musician,
master of melodies,
sublime measure to stir the gods–
tuba.

 

[allyfaye]

tuba
and all that is
music fills up the air;
if only it would never end -
softly.

 

[Gramps]

Softly,
dawn emerges.
Sun's purifying light
rips the vail of darkness away,
men quake.

 

[kinokonoronin]

Men quake
on trembling knees,
on threat of just account.
Beware your heart o cowardice;
confess!

 

[B.D. Eyeslie]

Confess
your deepest fears.
Turn from your haunted past.
Obey your new master's wishes
blindly.

 

[Gramps]

blindly,
in the sunlight,
your dark heart cannot search
for what your lonely soul longs for,
relief.