Poems from traffycake
Nice to meet you! Feel free to call me Sam! I'm 25 years old with both a B.A. in Visual Art and in English/Creative Writing. I have a love for dark and unusual free verse poetry. While that makes up most of my portfolio, I do have a few lighter poems. Be warned, I do touch on some pretty real subject matter. Take caution.
Long hours of night are not meant for dreaming.
They are for dreams to keep you awake -
to fill books with imagination.
In the early...
I.
You were the beacon I needed
as we trailed along a scattered glass shore.
Brine on flesh, we wished to sail
against the heartbeat of...
I.
We grew up in the age of idiocy
as children down along the seaside.
Back in the day, I wanted to sail ships,
leave this beach in our...
If there's one thing I should ask you,
if there's one thing you're to keep
well-kindled into memory, it's
"Don't let me fall asleep."
He...
Explosion.
Nuclear warfare ignites the city;
the meltdown happens
far too soon to process.
My eyes flicker open
to hospital lights -...