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 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 19 Prompt: Use these 6 words: Embrace, bump, resolve, lonely, fixture, howl

CREATURE OF THE NIGHT

He woke up in a cold sweat
Startled by the light fixture
Mistaking it for the moon
The full moon he so dreaded
Life is lonely when you are
One who goes bump in the night.

How he longed for her embrace
But their love could never be
With resolve, he vowed to leave
Else fill her life with peril
Broken-hearted, packed his bags
And with a howl, departed.


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 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 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