Change (O.S.I.)

Hi all,

Happy New Year! The theme this week at O.S.I. is change. I wrote this poem from the point of view of New Year's revelers. I pray this New Year will be full of happy, beautiful, and amazing experiences.

We smile as if we’ve met before
In the tumult of our daily lives
As we stumble, the subway rumbles
Setting all our cares aside

We laugh like chocolate cake
It is smooth and black
And has a sweetness rising giddy
In our stretching achy bellies

We are strangers glancing at a ball
That drops its diamond face
And tells us the New Year is upon us
And beckons our foreign lips to touch

We part a sky of streamers
Of horns and serenades of love
And pray this moment won’t change us
Being young and full of hope

Reason (Acrostic)

I believe every thing in life happens for a reason. This is the inspiration for this acrostic.

Right or wrong
Every moment possesses
A better answer
Summoning new courage
Onward we face
Now seek change

Metamorphosis

Hi bloggers,

Today, I'm participating at Leo's Haiku Heights site. The theme is metamorphosis, which weaves in beautifully with my last poem.

Shedding off her tears
The heart exhales in sunlight
Hidden girl now free

55 Fiction: Change

For the New Year, I would like to write more prose and fiction. In previous posts, I experimented with short stories but given the length, I'd like to try something a bit more concise. This is my first attempt at 55 Fiction so I am still learning the craft:

She wreaked ingratitude like sweat dripping on hot asphalt. The stench lingered on the ends of her hair and weighed heavily on the soles of her feet. Her tongue was drunk on insults and frustration. She desired and lusted but she could not attain. In an instant, her life changed. She missed life's greater purpose.