0 no matter what

live
but to dream
that is all I wish
away from the pain inside
free
open to a wondrous world
ready to hold me
no matter
what

2 Creatures of the Night

Streets
at nightfall
bring forth the crazies,
prowling for tasty morsels;
souls,
judged worthy of their sweet kiss,
run fruitlessly; hope
for safety
dashed

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attempt #2 at a Butterfly Oddquain.  additional inspirations for this post came from Three Word Wednesday [3WW=>judge, nightfall, safety], as well as Poetic Asides' Wednesday Poetry Prompt.  part of me thought to entitle it vampires, but i felt 'creatures of the night' worked a bit more.  i'm not really good at the whole punctuation thing.  probably should have just left it without, but i am rather fond of commas.  as for the semicolons, well their half comma so...

0 Kiss

Tears
cascade down
leaving wavy paths;
glistening trails of sadness
kiss
at the corners of a frown
longing for the taste
of someone's
lips

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my latest trek into new poetic form has taken me into a variation of a Oddquain--this poem would be classified as a Butterfly Oddquain.