Poetry and Prose by Russell Wardlow
1 minute we fight, 1 minute we love
1 minute we hug, 1 minute we shove
1 minute we talk, next minute a fit
A whole minute we kiss
Next minute full of some venom we spit
It’s back and forth, but I put you first
Yet you wear your heart on your sleeveless shirt
So I’ll leave you first, instead of leavin’ hurt.
I let my shoulders speak, amongst the coldest peaks
No woe is me, no coat on me
My Edgar Allen Po-etry, flows in me, floetry
When focusing-
I’m a poacher for hope, when hope is hopeless in a culture
When the coach is only me-
And the phone don’t ring, I cope
‘Cause internally, my heart still beats to the songs I sing.
Passing time, when it’s still a test
30 something, you still a threat
Leggings cool, but you’d kill a dress
I mean “I am” when I say Im-pressed
No secret, you kill the rest
Yo’ secrets, still a guess
Victoria Secrets, if you confess
Soul seekin when we connect
They say beauty is so vain
Well you have beauty in your veins
Because I see beauty in your pain
I think beauty is your name
Addic-tions
Prescrip-tions
Afflic-tions
Convic-tions
Constric-tions
Conflicted Deci-sions
Ten-sion
Drifted vi-sion
Commitment is prison
Content with colli-sions.
My vice is your eyes, I see the sunrise peaking
Sucked in, I’m intertwined- in your Devine secret
As the stars align – I see you are my Venus
My weakness undisguised when you start speaking…
I’m speechless – my heart hanging on for dear life-
A leaflet, blossoming with forbidden fruit-
Ms. Eden, I’m feigning, to bite- as if I’m teethin
Ms. Misleadin- you’re such a seductress
Teasing yet so appeasing
Bashful with no treason to your values and reasons
You a year in a day, in your own way
My 4 Seasons.
In love with the love in “love word”
In love with the love in “love verbs”
In love with the love in “love works”
In love with the love in “love first”
In love with the love in “love hurts”
In love with the love in “love her”
In love with the love in “tough love”
In love with the love in “thug love”
In love with the love in “much love”
In love with the love in “trust love”
In love with the love’s in “love, love”
In love with you love, there’s no love,
I don’t love and I can’t get enough love
In love with the love in “ex-love”
In love with the love in “next love”