American Sentences

[legerdemer]

Neglect

Friendship's thread can be more fragile than love's, the rupture e'en crueler.

 

[Angeline]

5777

New Year's festival in these mountains: blintzes, barbecued pastrami?

 

[Tzara]

Were your story writ in Braille, I still could not read it. But, oh, the touch!

 

[Lyricalli]

Your quiet, urgent words part my thighs; my ecstasy swells from your lips.

 

[KatieJones]

Billy's New Lyric

Isis laughs, Trump gaffes. Dead reef, Alleppo grief. We need to stop the fire.

 

[KatieJones]

I'll never offer what's behind my eyes but the key is in our hands.

 

[Chillestjill]

Precious gems don't settle stomachs as well as honesty.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Youth hungers for life and old age added condiments along the way.

 

[KatieJones]

I don't know who I am so I assume affection is misguided.

 

[legerdemer]

I can too easily talk myself out of anything, except loneliness.

 

[Angeline]

Me and My Shadow

I am alone, not lonely. Imagination sparks my inner world.

 

[Mollie_F]

^i like that

I dream of writing creatively again; synapses are rusty.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

She graduated the school of hard knocks for soft bed of servitude.

 

[KatieJones]

Loss

Once it was a bell, then the phone after midnight and now a lone bing.

 

[Piscator]

Impending loss

The Blue Jays will loose again today and life can return to normal.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

When did I grow so sarcastic and grumpy, is it life or just me?

 

[greenmountaineer]

Plagiary

Why for so short a life tease ourselves with so many projects?
Horace

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Modern collective nouns; an annoyance of dubious Facebook posts.

 

[Lyricalli]

Wishful Thinking

A day that starts with cleaning up shit should have nowhere to go but up.

 

[Chillestjill]

So, how's your goddamn dog?

 

[Chillestjill]

Shit is inevitable; compost is possible.

 

[greenmountaineer]

Wisdom

Grandmother wise now that she's dead said, "Don't put so much paste on your brush."

 

[Piscator]

As one grows older, one learns to appreciate the time which yet remains.

 

[Piscator]

To find a pearl, one may have to open and eat a lot of oysters.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

To find a pearl, one may have to open and eat a lot of oysters.

Better than kissing frogs!