Shady Smiles
A poem by Rikku
A friend, a friend
My lovely friend.
My friend, my friend
Her name draws a blank.
Her beauty
Her smarts
Her angelic smile
Her silence and her niceties
A small translucent cover for her demonic aura
Her style of speech cuts me like a scythe.
Her admonishments evoke blood tears.
Her deeds, her sins
They’re worse than death.
Her piercing look
Catches the unfortunate in a viselike grip.
She sears her opposition
With a couplet of shady smiles
As she slips behind your back
Stealthily stealing your lives.
Like a vampire
She’ll drink until she’s satisfied.
A friend, a friend
My lovely friend.
Her name, her name
It draws a blank.
Her breath, her breath
It’s choking me.
She’ll greet you with her shady smiles.
Spring 2007 Poetry:
FEATURED POET: Anna Russell
EDITOR'S CHOICE: Deepak Kapur
LAYMEN OF HISTORY by Ananda Osel
A GOOD HIMALAYAN MORNING by Nitin Das Rai
NOW 2 by Leonard Gontarek
WINNING by Miles Christian Daniels
WHITE CLOTHES by Juliet Powys
BREAKDOWN by DB Cox
THE DANCER by Tabitha Anderson
SHADY SMILES by Rikku
THE WOMAN GIRL by Brittany Jungck
A POEM OF THE NIGHT by Michael Lee Johnson
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