Time to rev your engines!
Hurry up and wait!
We need you taut and ready
For an unspecified date.
We need you to be vigilant,
To guard, to anticipate
The problems that may never come.
So hurry up and wait.
– SR Romney 2023
Hurry Up and Wait (National Poetry Writing Month 2023 #3) Leave a comment
Sea of Diamonds (National Poetry Writing Month 2023 #2) Leave a comment
I woke to a sea of diamonds
On a dark velvet veil
Their beauty was a sight to behold
Because each glistening diamond
Is a story of passion
A story just begging to be told
I woke to a sea of diamonds
On a dark velvet veil
Their brilliance was unabating
Because each glistening diamond
Is a beckoning siren
Each song is truly captivating
I woke to a sea of diamonds
On a dark velvet veil
Each shimmer, a memory I'll keep
Because each glistening diamond
Is a warm woolen blanket
As I finally drift back to sleep
– SR Romney 2023
First and Last (National Poetry Writing Month 2023 #1) Leave a comment
There's a first time for everything:
A first step,
A first dance,
A first thought coalescing.
A first breath,
A first love,
A string of firsts until
We reach our list of lasts.
A last meal,
A last dream,
A last thought reminiscing.
A last smile,
A last chance
A last time for our every thing.
– SR Romney 2023
Won’t You Come Show Me The Way? (National Poetry Writing Month 2022 #30) Leave a comment
My love found a place
Building up my thoughts like bricks
This is what my heart's been waiting for.
Alone in my room, I still think of you,
Oh, I wish that I could read your mind
Won't you come show me the way?
Heartbeat pumping
Like a dream ready to explode
This is what my heart's been waiting for.
I'd steal you the moon, and the sun,
And the stars, every one
Won't you come show me the way?
Complicated feelings
Always rushing through me
You keep me holding on
So when the night falls, I'll be on your side
I know that I’m worthy
Won't you come show me the way?
– SR Romney 2022
PS: This a cento, and I took the lines from various songs from the anime Carole and Tuesday. If you haven’t seen it and are a lover of music, I highly recommend it. Links to songs used below:
Show Dog (National Poetry Writing Month 2022 #29) Leave a comment
I disagree with the degree,
With the level of self righteousness
People feel due to their pedigree
Prancing around like prize pups
Barking when told, wagging their tails
To other people's oohs and ahs
What makes you better than others?
Why are you more valuable
Than the dog I saved from the streets?
I don't think you are, in fact
I would go as far as to say
I'd take a thousand mixed mutts
Over one show dog
– SR Romney 2022
Hazy Day Dream (National Poetry Writing Month 2022 #28) Leave a comment
I'm dreaming the day away
'Cause I've got nothing important to say to you
So we'll follow routine like we always do
I'll just follow you
Time ticks on to more of the same
There is nobody to blame but me
So I'll sit in my head like I always do
I'll just follow you
This world doesn't mean that much to me
I'd rather stay inside my hazy day dream
The day was bright and full of sun
I wish I could go out and have a little fun
That's not something that you want to do
I'll just follow you
There isn't much to do inside
But the confines of my mind are great for hiding me
So I'll hang out here like I always do
I'll just follow you
The world doesn't mean that much to me
I'd rather stay inside my hazy day dream
– SR Romney 2022
Outlaw (National Poetry Writing Month 2022 #27) Leave a comment
Tired of being a criminal for who I am
Aiming to be treated equal to my fellow man
But fellowship is just shit, I see the knife and it slips
See my friend's gentle fingers stained red
It's said man is a pile of miserable secrets
Regrets and mistakes,
Just one more crack from a break
And yet when I think about all that's at stake
I take a deep breath and step forward with reverie
'Cause no one likes a fight with a foregone conclusion
Our rights are just illusions, it's time to cast a counter spell
There's people running through hell with this confusion
So set the record straight, stand up for yourself
Become an outlaw
– SR Romney 2022
Migraine (National Poetry Writing Month 2022 #26) Leave a comment
Ice pick eye
Sharp and stunning
Make my vision sparkle
As my brain starts burning
Electric shocks
Convulse in my head
As light becomes fire
Thought becomes hazy
Darkness falls
As I close my eyes
With little relief
I drift away
– SR Romney 2022
Guitar (National Poetry Writing Month 2022 #25) Leave a comment
Early in the morning
I always here your music calling
Dont know who I'd be
Without this Guitar sitting next to me
Beat by beat
Chord by chord
Anytime I'm feeling bored
I pick you up and play a tune.
The brassy buzz that turns to art
As my fingers brush the strings
Rhythmically, I feel the texture
Of your scales ascending
Beat by beat,
Chord by chord,
A world of joy is stored in you
I pick you up and play a tune.
– SR Romney 2022
Packing (National Poetry Writing Month 2022 #24) Leave a comment
Put my life into neat little boxes
And pack them nice and tidy
Memories, dreams, hopes
Everything in its place
Carry it around with me
No matter where I go
Until it gets to heavy
And starts to grow roots
Then I'll let it flower
And grow into something beautiful
Until it's finally time
To pack my life up
Nice and tidy
And move along again
– SR Romney 2022
Shame on The Universe 