Sorry x2 (an acrostic poem)

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So, I haven’t posted here for a couple of days

Of course, I hate when that happens

Really, I wanted to post, but I was burning the candle at both ends

Reaching a point where the words would not come

You can be assured I am sorry and will try to do better in the future.

And now a bonus poem/story…

She wanted to tell him she had been wrong in what she did

Or maybe not quite wrong, but maybe more mistaken

Reaching out, she cupped his cold face with her hands

Ready to finally apologize for what she had done

Yet she couldn’t though since he was already dead

Smoke (an acrostic poem)

Smelling the wood burning brought it all back

Memories of singing and dancing

Of friends that became family

Knowing that the night was never going to be long enough

Eventually the fire died, but I will always have that scent

 

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A Pleasing Aroma

The sun beat down from on high as Melvin selected a very crooked stick from the pile.  It fit how he felt that morning.  He turned it this way and that before nodding and sitting on the old stump.  The remains of the old oak tree fit his backside perfectly after a little wiggling to get comfortable.

He pulled out his eight-inch bowie knife and began to whittle.  He prided himself that he could slowly peel away the bark from tip to stern with one long stroke, turning the piece of wood a little at a time.  Soon the twig was naked.  He threw it on top of the shavings in front of him and picked up the next stick, sizing it up before doing the ritual once again.  The motions came quicker and more assured, the shakes that plagued him that morning seemingly evaporating under his meticulous gaze.

The sun waved goodbye as it lowered itself below the tree line.  Mabel would be home soon, wondering what Melvin had been doing all day. He chuckled as he pulled out his Zippo and flicked it to life.  Where he applied the fire the flame doubled, then tripled.  Soon his labor from that day was ablaze in glory, a burnt offering to his troubled soul.

As for Mabel, he would just make up the usual story about fishing or some such this way she wouldn’t worry herself none.  He put away his lighter, cleaned and sheathed his knife, and began to tunelessly whistle as he ambled home, the smoke swirling around him with its pleasing aroma.

 

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Bubble Blood Bath (100 word story)

Cascading bubbles filled the air, popping on the unsuspecting fools below.  They might scream for a minute or two while the hydrofluoric acid burned through their skull, but those cries are like a symphony to me.  No matter what happens from here on out I will go down in history.  I just hope that when I drink my bubble solution that I burn away before the bullets do their damage.  I must purge this mortal body of the pain and agony the world and those fools below beset on me.  And to think, people are dying for a bubble bath.