Insomnia

“INSOMNIA”
Original art by
Audrey Schwartz Rivers
© 2013

For Olivia and our AWOL dreams:

Sanctimonious sleep

swat mosquito minutes

While seconds drip

Daymares vex

REM not

Torpor tortures

Fatigue’s final falter

Alarms tattle

 

 

Tweeted on Friday, April 5, 2013 at 4:25 pm CDT

© 2013 by Audrey Schwartz Rivers and Poetweetry

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Worm Hole

“Worm Hole”
© 2013 by Audrey Schwartz Rivers & Poetweetry

 

Serpentine Satan

Arse Auger

flush away Eden

pilfer polyp parasite

I warp into fetal labyrinth

curse each centipede inch

tail between legs

 

Tweeted on Monday, April 2, 2013, 8:30 pm CDT

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We Should Have Seen It Coming

A Poem for the people of Aurora, Colorado —

Bullets cut Superman’s cape

Fly, break neck

Joker poisons self

No baggy tights

double entendre

or Kittlady hiss

Bat signal black

@ midnite

 

 

 

Tweeted Monday, July 23, 2012 at 9:09 p.m. CDT

© 2012 by Audrey S. Rivers and Poetweetry

Whack A Mole

Why pretend?

Mallet always wins

Game rigged

Prize owed

Stay safe in UR hole

But NO!

You smile, pop up

expecting absolution

 

 

Tweeted Friday, June 8, 2012 at 11:32 p.m. CDT

©2012 by Audrey S. Rivers and Poetweetry

Wildfire

Fire tempers & bows steel

Chars forests w/Stygian genesis

Hearth’s comfort

Hell’s ferment

while H2O anoints innocents

melts the wicked

Tweeted on Thursday, December 2, 2010 at 12:30 am

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Grim Reaper

Death’s too familiar

He follows like stray cats

leaves nose smudges on windows

traces cracks on walls

howls @ my jokes

while I forget 2 cry

Tweeted:  January 20, 2010 at 3:55 p.m.

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Earthquakes

Remembering Haiti:

Trucks thunder by

Prius lurches in wake

Ahead road blocked by abyss

Semis angrily flash lights

in rear mirror

only lane slams

in2 barricade

Tweeted: January 20, 2010  at 3:50 p.m.

© 2010 by Poetweetry