Petals
A Poem
I disrobe all of my black clothes at the sun’s close.
Then let the moonlight illuminate my brown toes.
I allow them to seep deep into the warm soil of the crown rose.
Fertilized footprints fossilizing as the green ground grows.
Beyond my dirty window - it glows - a golden crow
salivating from its silver nose as I slowly decompose.
Its amethyst mouth stuffed with furry toes, and canary yellow shadows.
I start to grow red pincers of adrenaline, while high percentages
of my dangling appendages begin melting away
from the bones of my skeleton.
I am a silverback spider, hitching rides on gray elephants.
Poisonous ambitions dipping white fangs into artificial intelligence.
My brown skin is bruised purple from all the pangs of this pestilence.
I taste the air, and allow gravity to pull me up by my strangled hair.
Chestnut curls curled around the teeth of a tangled snare.
The wind, however, is my ally.
A kaleidoscope thrill ride on a
rain cloud made of oily tie-dye.
Until the day I die, and dissolve
back into the diminishing blue,
I will continue to pedal a path to you -
blossoming petals for your eyes to view.
About the Creator
Kale Ross
Author | Poet | Dog Dad | Nerd
Find my published poetry, and short story books here!
Reader insights
Outstanding
Excellent work. Looking forward to reading more!
Top insight
Excellent storytelling
Original narrative & well developed characters
Comments (21)
A towering and poignant piece! Congrats!
Beautiful words that dance on the page as I read them.
Oof! This is so good. I'm legit going to read this again when I get home. I'm so about poems that rhymn....this is a keeper. Don't be surprised if I comment again on my own comment lol Love this!
Tantalizing! 🎉 Congratulations on Top Story!
This is beautiful, I love it 💚💚💚💚
Congrats on Top Story!🥳🥳🥳
Wow! Wow! Wow! - Stunning language!
😍🥹 love all the repeating oh, oh, oh, ohs. Evoking cries of woe, really beautiful work. My favorite lines are: "Fertilized footprints fossilizing as the green ground grows." and "My brown skin is bruised purple from all the pangs of this pestilence."
I love how your poetry paints a vivid picture and evokes powerful emotions. It's captivating and beautiful!
Love this! Nice job 👍
Beautiful.Congratulations.
This is gorgeous. Congrats on the TS.
Superb work! Keep it up—congratulations!
Congratulations on your top story 👏
I am a silverback spider, hitching rides on grey elephants. Truly inelegant description that makes me feel tingly inside, very beautiful in its grotesque simplicity
Wow! Incredible imagery--I'll be thinking about this line, "I start to grow red pincers of adrenaline, while high percentages/ of my dangling appendages begin melting away/ from the bones of my skeleton." all day. Great work and congrats on getting top story!
Love this poem. Congrats on the top story.
Wonder piece! Latent with imagery and crafted with lyrical wonder. The last two lines were a stunning close
Beautiful. Fragrant, too.
Nature takes center stage in this imaginative and imagery-based poem. The calmness offers an experience of “gray back spiders” and “elephants.” What this poem registers is the precision of thought about the flora and fauna of the world.
Absolutely beautiful. Wonderful, imagery and emotion.