AprPAD Day 23 Prompt: Social______

SOCIAL AWKWARDNESS 

I often feel like 

An outsider looking in,

Not allowed to talk.

I'm not supposed to be there; 

Maybe I should just go home.

Caren E. Salas

AprPAD Day 22 Prompt: quirk

THE COST

It was just a twitch, a quirk,  

A stutter once in a while

He wasn't really worried.

He figured it was the cost,

Of falling madly in love

With someone so wonderful

Caren E. Salas

AprPAD Day 21 prompt: love/anti-love

BY HEART

There's no love like family
It's unique, crazy, sometimes
Difficult,but always true.
Not just your blood family
But those you've adopted too
Family chosen by heart.


Caren E.Salas

AprPAD Day 20 Prompt: Isolation

ISOLATION

In isolation

My mind begins to wander

Imagining worst

Case scenarios, dire ends

Even dying by myself.

In isolation

All I can think of is you

Being far away

Even though you're not that far

You're not where I can hold you.

In isolation

I hear the echos of life

Growing feint each day 

As time steals special moments

Which will never be returned.

Caren E, Salas

AprPAD Day #18 prompt: Message

DEATH BY VOICE MAIL (messaged in haiku)  

Hello, I'm not here
If you want leave a message
But I won't call back

Hello? Are you there?
I hope you get this message
Your car is on fire

Hello, this is - no,
Wait, it's none of your business
You can hang up now

Hi, how're ya' doin'?
You just won a million bucks!
Haha just kidding

Hello? No one's here
But cameras are watching you
They're always watching

Just saying hello
But if you don't call me back
You'll be dead to me



Caren E. Salas

AprPAD Day #17 Prompt: Exotic

ANCIENT STREETS                                      


As I walked the ancient streets
A strange combination of
Auto exhaust and spices
Filled the air, Distant music
Danced through my mind and voices
Whispered unfamiliar sounds.

The sky was growing darker
As I reached the upward path
And lush green grass hid crickets:
My welcoming committee;
But as I reached the entrance
The gate was shut and locked up.

Hundreds of miles I'd traveled
For rocks and stones translated
Thousands of years in the past;
Still I was happy to be
Where goddesses had wandered
As I walked the ancient streets.


Caren E. Salas

AprPAD Day 16 Prompt: The Last ______

THE LAST TIME

The last time I saw you

Seems forever ago

The way that I miss you

You can't possibly know.

Only limited minutes

I can see your sweet faces

To hear your laughter

When we're different places.

I pray for an end

For the longing I feel

For when I can hold you

In my arms for real.

The last time I saw you

Didn't know I'd be wrong

Thinking all of this craziness

Would not last this long.

Caren E. Salas

AprPAD Day 15 Prompt: Dream

AQUA

I dream of aqua

And swimming with Lionfish

In coral filled seas

Caren E. Salas

AprPAD Day 14 Prompt: Form/Antiform

THE POEMS

The poems pick their form...or not

They rhyme or don't, a bit or a lot

The words they choose don't always make sense

Sometimes they're frivolous, sometimes intense

They have a mind of their own I say

But if I'm their slave, then lock me away!

Caren E. Salas

AprPAD Day 11 "Control"

I NEED ANSWERS

I have some questions
For whoever runs this show
Who is in control
Of the lies and omissions
Delays, mistakes and red tape?

Pettiness leaves us
With no real guidance at all
We need answers now!
So stop with the name calling
While numbers are increasing.


Caren E. Salas

AprPAD Day 9 An Ekphrastic Poem

SHE

Innocent
Naive and carefree
Until he
Fluttering
Shot an arrow through her heart
Tempting her to love.


Caren E. Salas







Painting: 'Young Girl Defending Herself Against Eros" by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
This has been my favorite painting ever since the first time I saw it many years ago at the Getty Museum (which is now the Getty Villa). It now is exhibited in the newer Getty Center. I have visited it there and look forward to when I will be able to go again.

AprPAD Day 7 Lucky/Unlucky

NO LUCK

I used to say 

I don't believe in luck 

I make my own plans

Live my own life

But life was jealous

And took what was mine

Again and again

And I found

That my plans 

And my life

Were not my own

But thrown like dice

Dependent on luck

After all, turns out.

Caren E. Salas

AprPAD Day 6 "Trap"

LUNCH

Scrambling for freedom

Meek squeeks of panic and fright

Lunch time for a snake.

Caren E. Salas

AprPAD Day 4 "Wish"

WISH

I wish I could fly 

Far away from here and now 

To where there's no fear

Caren E. Salas