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fuzz

tell the fireflies

the foot it stomps so to crush

scream beatles please scream

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different

open your eyes

close them; pray

feel your age

make the bed

feed the dogs

pick up yesterday

wash your hair

fight sorrow

open the closet and dresser drawers

think about cutting your hair

start all the machines you will empty later

fight the fear

make the coffee

walk your mind through everything since opening your eyes

try and not stroll back through the mud of it all

manufacture pleasantness

smile

exhaust yourself holding up that fourth wall

earn your part in funding whatever new war of one people and gains of another

hit a stride just in time for your attention to be broken

fill your tank up with 3 hours work

drive that 20 minutes of soul separation … and breath

make the coffee

fight the self talk

empty the machines

feed the dogs

open and close the closet and dresser drawers

force yourself to sweat and hurt and drive your mind into soul separation

try and remember all the sentences and thoughts you will forget later

wash your hair

make the messes you’ll clean in the morning

write away the sorrow and the pain and the mania

feel your age

crawl in the bed

close your eyes

pray that if tomorrow is not better, it is at least different

Cover image for post they dance, by Plexiglassfruit
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they dance

1’s and 0’s and wifi whirled - carrying letters and grammar and such

with words and sentences- curiosities, lonely hearts, racing minds…

and in remembered familiarity of human contact, they danced

reading turned to talking turned to backlit liquid crystal displayed smiles

and laughter… and tears … and beautifully awkward commonality …

and as afternoon sun set into evening, in a bit of shock, they danced

still mirages to one another - still just seeking feeling something outside…

outside of sad, of grief, of inside-out, of life, of anger that made no sense…

outside of darkness in new thread of light, with the idea of life existing outside- they danced

in friendship and strange ethereal stands of what if and maybe…

…of absolute absence of fear

the sky opened up and the road brought to them -

music, warmth, soul ties, familiarity of the most absurdly necessary —

and in immediate promise and covenant they did dance

worlds unfolded, reorganized, and crumbled into new piles

a process of continued rebuilding in perpetuity of love, under God;

where once walls blocked out everything…

in everything… they danced

For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn,

but that the world might be saved through Him

and under the God who so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son,

that whosoever believeth in Him shall be saved- they were -

so that he and she became they in a cord of three, they did dance

the seasons of the world went on, drawn outside the lines

seeds of healing, scars uncovered and loved, 108 epochs explored

in tears, laughter, humility, and in Christ, they danced

near a full trip around the stars, all the terrible fears and mishaps arise like the sun-

and the previous everyday struggles stay aflame all around as the moon

yet under the stars of hope, courage, a second chance…

in the storms raging and breeze cooling, they dance

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tacky

black and white landscape photos

sipping coffee too loud

branding; paying top dollar to have a stranger's name on everything you own

band t-shirts as fashion

"i love that for you"

chasing trends

posting ai writing

lamentation of lack of freedom in America

snideness, racism, low brow humor, and designer thermoses

rude comments on people's natural appearances

"i love you to the moon and back"

sticky

cheap

intrusive to the brain and devoid of real

clicking nails on everything

bleached hair

not tipping

"i feel like we have known one another forever"

2017

rage bait

use of cursing as handlebars

hotmail

little plastic bands tightly on the neck

ignorance

forcing campy into tacky

my personality

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clover

weeds pulled and the dirt fed

i let the clover grow

and the vine it crushes the overlap

where the brush meets things man-made

the end of the green meets the beginning of blue

or brown

or dark of night

so, i let the clover grow

i let the clover grow, and the field does not suffer for it

the grass does not pay a price

and the sun shines down with plenty --

where i let the clover grow

@r2

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Plexiglassfruit in Religion

musk of life

the winding spiral of nicotine tasted remarkable

until the next morning when i swore it off forever

the smell of beer on his lips was intoxicating

though i have never really enjoyed any strong drink

the warmth of the burn felt like all time was standing still

only hours later i would hate the textiles it touched for their coldness

i swam in ponds of water so soft and fertile i felt refreshed by them

only later to not be able to scrub hard enough to remove it from my skin

i loved

and yet i hate that i did

in my youth i preferred walking the dirt roads barefoot

i would break up with this desire the second i slipped into new socks

the relationship continues this way

never a child

forever childlike

i spin in circles of cruel and etherial unsustainable joy

a power source with no energy

i drink from the stone cup of my fathers

honey, that drinks like silk, and poisons me

deep breaths find me in all emotional voids and fill me

and also at summits of the best moments in life- to remind me

i am

and nothing is more powerful than turbulent contradictions

grounded to contrition

anchored in blood

drowning in air when water sets me free

i will die

for

i am

at any opportunity

R1.9-15

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the first death

when kindness dies- it is never sudden

it may feel like it

when you realize it is absent in a way where you are startled when it comes around

saying goodbye to the dog you've shared your life with for a quarter of your own

that lonely is missing the kindness true agape love brings

kindness dies slowly a bit at a time

as your phone rings less

the mail stops coming

when your children out grow you

each funeral a specific warmth leaves you

and as time goes on the distance between goodbye and cold nostalgia rips apart

youth divides and goes on in a different universe

new experiences become less interesting

with each decade you will lose something about yourself that you once cherished

you will not know it is gone, until it is

the things you saved along the way- those thing that reminded you of kindnesses

go into storage to be someone else's keepsake or trash

if you throw yourself into work, when you slow down

and you will have to

the anxiety of 'still' will become painful

if you throw yourself into religion you'll rebuke fake and false so often you stop interacting

knowing the difference between kind and friendly will separate you

if you bow before God

when kindness dies

you will exist in contrition, and a joy literally based in the promises of death

if you struggle to make your dreams come true

rather than live and be happy along the way

your bitterness in failure will haunt you and you will become somehow feral

escaping domestication is only for youth and should have a time limit

but so long as there is kindness you will push back your time limits and deadlines

and in those cases it catches up to you and kills you faster from within

you will attempt to offer kindness or make it

but the world changes and redefines emotion so often it will be futile

your plans will die

someone will do your life goals better than you

if you are lucky- you will remain void of depression in trade for hope

but if the kindness in your life dies off

hope starves

bitterness gets some people by- but in the times they are without distraction from self

they are the most miserable liars on earth

unable to even recognize kindness

and that is the first death

to survive it

plant seeds, make something better, do- give

even if you have to watch them from afar

or know you have provided an opportunity for something you loved to be rich in kindness

impoverish yourself of anything that could be something somewhere else

when kindness dies out, accept it for sanity

and in an effort to be kind

lie behind smiles

smile around lies

and encourage opportunities

even when you don't care for them not to be your own

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Plexiglassfruit in Dreams

next to the light

under the moon

where if we both look up

we stand together

wherever we are

under the moon

we both are seeing it together

under the quiet

around the things unsaid

where we both messed up

i now stand alone

wherever you are

up in the sky

i want to be back together

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Plexiglassfruit

.hapY.

i've a certain joy

an everlasting resolve

always i'm happy

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Plexiglassfruit

.done.

every project in my house i finish

every room that comes out perfect

every detail big as the roof, small as the perfect night light

every check on the list

one step closer to done.

every morning i wake early

every letter of the book i digest

every chain reference reaching into my own life

every check on the list

one step closer to done.

every day i get through it

every moment i keep myself in

every opportunity i give to others from my own

every check on the list

one step closer to done.

every kindness i offer

every love i freely give

every time i step away from myself

every check on the list

one step closer to done.

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