Poems by N J Thornton

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  • And that sickly feeling in the pit
    Of my stomach and heart...

  • Today (19)

    Today,
    As I was walking...

  • Stunted fingernails scrape back
    the first slither of orange skin...

  • Tears bead softly through torn eyelashes
    Fond memories effervesce in time...

  • Collapsing into an eternal pit of
    nothingness - not even a shadow for company...

  • I over turned a grasshopper's den
    and kicked up a dust storm...

  • Remember us; forget- me- not,
    my lips now, liked severed petals...

  • In the silent observation of the night,
    the breeze back combs my hair then chases...

  • Gone (14)

    I used to yearn for our enveloped photographs
    to awaken -- again, embracing us in a...

  • The moon appeared whole that night
    At rest, deep within your eyes...

  • He heard the brass ring,
    ‘though the bell was gone...

  • I choose not to comprehend those who guard their...
    with a white picket fence...