Fair Flower

Memories march on with the changing of seasons

Under an ombréd canopy of midnight blues

Exposed flesh stung by salty sea breezes

Sending shivers that surge and rattle me through.

How long can one heart burn before losing its fiery heat?

Oh, to possess the shining stamina of space’s celestial stars!

But lives are like foam bubbles dissolving in a wave’s sullen retreat

Only the strongest, most resilient ones voyage very far.

Oh, to be as coarse as sharp seashells strewn on sandy shores

Caring not about the scrapes and scars inflicted on supple skin,

But turning cold and callous creates a creature even worse

Dwelling in icy isolation with a fate and future far more grim.

Refusing to fall asunder frozen tundra of glacial glue

Stuck on numbing my emotions like botox for the brain

Each morning I’ll wake a fair flower dressed in drops of dew

Petals seeking sunshine, growing stronger with each rain.

~kfu

Frozen Fortune

She lies forgotten on Gotham’s grim streets

Like a broken umbrella left in a cab’s back seat

With only a sweater as flimsy as a feather

To shield her from winter’s inclement weather

Wounds splay open, unable to heal

The pain they cause she cannot feel

Limbs numb and frozen like icy tree boughs

She spews sad confessions and futile final vows

Teeth chattering at strangers to drop copper in her can

So she may pay Charon for passage to Lucifer’s land

Her eyes like cold crystal balls revealing the end in sight

As this Inferno swallows her slovenly soul with its arctic bite.

~kfu

Winter Weather

(A haiku collection)


Our city of sin
Buried by Devil's dandruff
In a giant's dream.
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Silent snow drifting
Pink tongue catching cold droplets
Before they touch ground.
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Icy crystals seal
Dusted lashes frozen shut
Like cold windowpanes.



~kfu

Bonds Unbroken

Unspoken words spit out on crumpled sheets

Strewn on the floor like evidence at my feet

Revealing pent up emotions, buried deep in a coffin

That begged to come out and not be forgotten

Of times when warm smiles stopped the rain

And heart-to-heart chats eased the pain

Sometimes a step back helps us finish the race

Not like a rat but with dignity and grace

You are not lost, out of sight but not mind

Bonds grow deeper with the passage of time

I hold you near, tucked deep in my heart

Next to fond memories so we’ll never part.

~kfu