Sad poems

Sad poems — a collection of the best works on Poemship.

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Dave Bonta

Tweaker

in a din of light meth being little pleasure now I become very homely and sing a thin thought

Dave Bonta

Treadmill

all day o rat I work as a blind heart

Dave Bonta

Molt

winter settling in my mouth still and sad you dancing raw in the world this first night that I ever lie with a stone

Dave Bonta

Bought a tree in a pot, took it back to the flat to occupy a nook where sunlight guttered from a lack of air. A tree in a pot is an odd thing to see. Roots are not meant to resemble a club foot, a wrist without a hand, an unthinking fist. Grotesque the feelers with no way to grow but endless recursion, open, shut — a dead brain in a body automatically fed. Branches without birds look out at birds without branches. Only the cat on the windowsill seems lonely for whatever all of us once were living for.

Dave Bonta

Chatterbox

on a day of tragedy words dance out of the mouth

Dave Bonta

Soliloquy

accidentally said little word to end the quiet no one to talk to supper is only a pear

Dave Bonta

Of ice

cold people work at the ice even over love our one well

Dave Bonta

Caraway

Halfway home on the train, my tongue discovers something hard between the molars, left over from a rushed breakfast at a diner in Brooklyn. The molars break it open & the tongue remembers: rye toast. Our last meal together. Caraway seed.

Dave Bonta