Melissa Rose Miller

He opens the cupboard A set of coffee cups —The first picks of course With their voluptuous curvature And the type of handles That a...

Only hours away I was taking you To the happiest place on earth — a birthday gift I wanted to share with you… Foolish to think you...

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever f r e e . ” Remember reading for the sensual and emotional Pleasure And remember writing for...

I stare into the night No moon; the pickup’s headlights stare At their invisible friends or lovers, Everybody trying to get to a...

Then, I said good-bye, and I drove home. I read the book again that night because I knew that if I didn’t, I would probably start crying...

A cup of coffee, Too hot to drink. He was reading Gandhi, And she was in her ink. What are you writing? He wished to ask. But voiceless...

“Zoom cameras must be on” foreign faces behind distant screens with some opaque boxes of names that you’ll never put a face to. “You must...

How hath you claim to love me — And yet you pierce me with your hatred. Stabbing underneath the skin, Jolting my being, perpetrating my...

Oh, how you play me with those deceiving eyes, An innocent look redressing your cunning lies. What lover? You’re yet a stranger, in the...

The vacancy of midnight Shone of flickering street lights Precipitating the hot, summer air The spiritless strips of Long Beach The...

I lie awake, I lie alone. Living for myself, in terms that I, Departing from this world, only but the bone. Temporary waves of people,...

Softly tucked away at my thigh, As he peaceful slept by and by. Gracefully shut, the cocooned eye, Awakening the fluttering lashes — a...

In pain you find meaning. You find out the true value in what you take for granted, and you find the true value in those who don't take...

Breaking through not just drugs but transcendence. Inspired to name the band after Huxley's The Doors Of Perception. A natural introvert...

How does one control the mind? The mind has a mind of its own. It wanders through headstones. Gazing at the minds, Of those who’s been...