Tag: poem
Surfacing
Glittering, shining, a promise, a hope
The sunlight of a new dawn, new
day, new startings
Bathing me in light, in serenity,
numbing peace
Washing and cleaning of all...
Beautiful Things
The phone call comes at 2 a.m. in the morning on Tuesday
as I’m tucked in bed, not knowing the tears I’d soon shed...
to tell...
La Petite Mort
Sit in the swirling silence;
the darkness breathes across my skin.
The moonlight paints the world in silver,
All the stars you see are dead.
The air contains...
Of Scarves and Snow Days
I nestled into the depression I made in the snow bank by the side of the road, knees pulled up to my chest as...
The Ruin Men
Little shadow man
rubbing shadow arms
back and forth and back
and forth
Powder trails flying
in breeze that’s blowing
through the ruined church.
Grinding down
the world
to dust
Before Elections
’Twas the week before elections, when all across the campus
not a student was caring, not even a frosh.
The posters were hung on the wall...
Part Two
There is a beauty in the way we lie to ourselves,
constantly enamored by the truth and all of its implications,
yet still (desperately) trying to...
Master of the Flame
We still bear the scars from
releasing the flame the heat of sun
in a second, in a single flash
on the people of eastern islands
A cloud...
Solar Lunacy
Visions of a time gone by
the world funnels into a greater gyre
of widening madness;
Hypnosis, blindness, the perception
of things as they were
A blank emptiness of
nothingness
sorcerized...
Writing
Pen stabs paper.
Repeatedly, remorseless.
As the words form furiously
the ink flows as a heart pounds,
beating ever faster, ever louder.
Tension mounts, the air builds pressure, pushing
eardrums...
Conclusion, part one
And so this is my conclusion (of many).
Love is very strange.
It knows exactly how to pry open your heart, and to do with it...
Can peace be for sure?
Lieutenant Colonel Powell knew just what he’d say
When the men came together to pray that day
So beautiful, blue, warm, and clear
It had been chosen...