(Photo by Mohamed Nohassi on Unsplash) There today, gone tomorrow, mere specks of gold dust Making and marring memories like a camera with astounding shutter speed Fragility is the name of the game as one progresses at the speed of light from glitter to rust Unpredictable and held ransom to fate like winds buffeting a thin and helpless … Continue reading Manufacturer of Memories

(Photo by Spacejoy on Unsplash) Unbridled joys, untrammeled delight and cackling laughter Deception galore Happy hours with whiskey, wisdom and wit for company Illusions furore Wanton gifts, wistful wait and viscerally unselfish sacrifices Condescending uproar Philosophical musings, metaphysical deliberations and literary debates Studied encore When the carefully constructed castle came tumbling down Realisation MORE (Word Count: 49) Sammi … Continue reading Shattered Dream Productions

(Photo by Yoann Boyer on Unsplash) Like the curse of Sisyphus and his bloody boulder Sprouting gashes ravaging body and soul Treating the physical scars with many a bandage of futility Ignoring the unimaginable hate and hurt to the soul Droplets of blood can be offered a respite that is permanent A decimated soul knows neither respite nor … Continue reading The Gash

(Photo by Gio Chanturia on Unsplash) Screaming inside yet sitting stoic and bolt upright Crying from within yet dry as a desert to every sight without An Alcazar that keeps out help, heart and happiness A dangerous quicksand that keeps beating a hasty retreat Immune to coercion, impervious to cajoling and inured to chaos Closed to reasoning and … Continue reading Ring Fence

(Photo by Jake Nebov on Unsplash) Dazzling rays boring down an already overheated asphalt The world whirring by in a whiz of screeching tires Time for contemplation is a foolish man's paradise Data monitored by chatbots is the new sacred alchemy Pissing in water bottles while driving monumental trailers Getting thirty nine plus one winks before stacking warehouses … Continue reading Skedaddle

(Photo by Shawn Ho on Unsplash) Interpreting, Intuiting and Invoking motives Goading, encouraging and perpetuating sibilance Glint of deadly steel as knives are sharpened Deadlier anger in the form of cascading emotions Blind world. (Word Count: 28) Sammi Cox Weekend Writing Prompt #271

(Photo by Possessed Photography on Unsplash) Guzzling pints of beer with Deep Purple in the background rupturing our ear drums Deliberating over Gin & Tonic, sexual liberation, Foucalt and Marquez Hammering out complicated tax structures that generated reasonable incomes Achingly close yet oblivious to a variation that sent me careening towards a maze Where did … Continue reading Love’s Labour Lost

(Photo by Xavier von Erlach on Unsplash) Is it imminent lethargy that makes us let our guards down? Or is it an innocent trust that makes us pay with our lives? Being flippant was once nothing more than an irritating bent of mind A careless whisper today however leads one to the gallows in the centre of the … Continue reading Utopian Illusions

(Photo by NII on Unsplash) Bereft of intelligence and shorn of common sense Brevity plagues Mother Earth. (Word Count: 12) (Sammi Cox Weekend Prompt #265)

Photo by Dino Reichmuth on Unsplash Fascination is when the rubber hits the road Revelation, when picturesque mountains & lakes mysteriously sprout Realisation, the acceptance of man's infinitesimal place in the grander scheme of things Supplication the final culmination of the transformational journey within Salvation becomes me, desire less within and divine without Hollow in form, brisling with … Continue reading Vista