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Love in low, blue lights

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By Melissa IngoldsbyPublished about a year ago 1 min read
Love in low, blue lights
Photo by Nikolett Emmert on Unsplash

if you were the weather, you'd be lightning—-low to the ground and a sudden, blood-curdling jolt

Do you sense the crammed music inside the fleeting sunrise? Does it scream like the way you want me to feel your anger?

I can't taste anthing but a drought, an extended starvation mixed with murky, muddled blue lights, hanging low, low, low and it tastes like still water, ancient below an inactive volcano

Your words starved me, a greedy drain from a force I didn't see until after I heard it, like lighting, hitting my nervous system, tumbling like a unstable set of blocks.

fact or fiction

About the Creator

Melissa Ingoldsby

My work:

Patheos,

The Job, The Space Between Us, Green,

The Unlikely Bounty, Straight Love, The Heart Factory, The Half Paper Moon, I am Bexley and Atonement by JMS Books

Silent Bites by Eukalypto

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Outstanding

Excellent work. Looking forward to reading more!

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  1. Compelling and original writing

    Creative use of language & vocab

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  • Testabout a year ago

    i love this

  • Cathy holmesabout a year ago

    Raw, powerful and completely amazing. Well done, my friend.

  • L.C. Schäferabout a year ago

    Loved this! Speechless!

  • J. L. Greenabout a year ago

    This is lovely, well done Melissa :)

  • "Does it scream like the way you want me to feel your anger?" "it tastes like still water, ancient below an inactive volcano" These were my favourite lines! Loved your poem so much Merly!

  • Oneg In The Arcticabout a year ago

    This is truly beautiful

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