Ache

 

Spinning alone with old jaded vinyls  

Warm sun kissed floorboards... beneath bare feet 

Bleeding out lyrics life-blood of my soul

Here in my attic room... get high on beat 

Amidst Sandalwood plumes... arms serpentine 

Rich, black mocha-velvet... courses through veins 

Catch for a minute wide-eyed emerald smile 

Full-length gilt mirror... bewitched by dream-gaze

Your scent on my hair... touch lingers, vibrates

Electric prints tingle... you haunt my skin 

I caress grazed lips... remember your taste

Crumpled sheets echo... whisper love’s sins

Wishing you‘d come back... come twirl me around 

Eye to eye, slow dance... our bodies entwined 

Needing you now... on our love’s hallowed ground 

Ache for you endlessly... tattooed on mind

© Debbie Razev 2023 - Violet Moon Poetry

Ghost Ship

 

Inked jet sky, scarred with pain

Demonic night’s mask... paints clouds of rain

Ink dries, love fades... just like fervent stars

My mayhem's moon... where are you now?

Need your light, to ease my furrowed brow

Skulled-moon, foreboding... quite a scene 

Is this truth’s glimpse... of my destiny?

White-tipped eagle hunts… am I its prey? 

Kraken fights bolt-lightning…. ignites lava-veins

Ethereal dreams’ balm... moonshine’s veil

Starred liferafts, nought... bellowing sails

Have I capsized... I feared I’d fail

Wrestled with heart’s helm, tussled with life’s jib 

Am I wind-torn Big Top... or am I its clown?

Anxiety’s cruel anchor... pulls me down

I’m crab pot caught... blueish my toes

My seaweed fingers... strum air harp's hope

Red Admiral once; but my sky wings bled

Now drained and destitute... frail sepia moth

Essence, acrid... chained, spiralling smog

Plastic riddled! Eyes… empty portholes

Whale call echoes... deeply in soul

Tried navigating black, vacuous holes

I'm summoned, somewhere, but I dare not go 

Cast adrift on kismet waves... moods, to-and-fro 

Ship’s cat’s, cacophonous chorus... my pain it serenades

Like a whining dog, I howl, cry out.. Am l moon-crazed?

Moonstruck, labelled madcap... an eerie fairytale  

Sirens spiral, menacingly... compromised bow

We all, to the darkness, eventually must bow

Uneasy, olive branch... conducts my fearful will

Forever will I drown, or could I surface still? 

Hide and seek moon... bright peek-a-boo stars 

Shipwrecked, marooned... banished, sunset skies 

My flayed bones or poetic jewels... which will they find? 

Midnight's claws clutch at me.... death's beckoning embrace

Heartsick’s lonely melancholy... has stolen my face

This Ghost ship’s long sailed, its crew have jumped off 

Doldrums of despondency... disenchanted, dire, disarmed! 

© Debbie Razev 2023 - Violet Moon Poetry