poetry-poems
-
In the autumn of a life The sullen sky The damp lain on our shoulders Like blankets hidden sorrow Fear grows and disdain Aches in a child’s gut Far away from the house of trust In a mile of woods Where all the colors sunk In the hearth’s season’s gloom Wraps its talon into the…
-
I sit watching Life’s flow from someone else’s Youth carved into the moment Was devoid To every mind’s clean slate Cracked from the shocked Shattered obsessive vibrations Replete with things harsh and unclean Against the face of a child Take hold of innocence and protect Against cutting realities reaching To destroy the collective trust By…
-
At this moment paused Time slips back Of days darker laws With storms of rain Street-lit leafy waves Shutters through gut and soul The table of the present holds All things are young and old. When dreams come And below my veins Full of conflict Full of angst I cannot have a balance In my…
-
I am much obliged The night before swims in your eyes And your perfume is leftover bilge So I prefer being extinct to you The morning suffers for you You walk all over it With tremored make-up Speaking from the rasp that you are You grate against all my sensitivity Still, I can’t help but…
-
Secret or poem Perfect or otherwise To set me free From the bondage of my cage The everyday tears at me The same as success or failure In their import The ways I adjust The profits of my praying day. (2) I am so tired in so many ways I do not see the errors…
-
I There, September morning mist Rolling from the forest dew Unto the open field drifts slow It flows gently rolling toward me I am conscious I am everything in motion II Evening in his chair Listens to the traffic choir Lulls the concrete bedlam quiet The choir of the machinery’s Gentle roar drifts with the…
-
Did I blink fall asleep Seems it was all a dream Like Christmas unwrapped And then new years have gone Did I miss anything? Was I Oblivious to any moment It has gone by me like a speeding train Like a flash of lightning. In A Leap In a leap of faith here to there…
-
Upon this winter’s bloom I see you in its womb There was naught but sunshine And all creation is thine. You hold it in your hands A new beginning with you I stand I shall never run from you Only encourage for thee to walk on through To see the wonders that await From the…
-
Winter run Laughter and giggles Screams to sled Fast going down Slow returning up Puffing fog breath To the start Laughing to tumble Roars and rumbles As snow machines Pull sleigh and tire On the flat By plowed ice rinks Skaters twirl Rope toss each other Lovers walk the strolling path Hold hands with each…
-
She was young and unknown Theirs was an awakening He held her against the willingness To seed her flower There in the garden Spilled her on the earth of shame Constance Bane a mouthful of shame A child turned against time As the days spin her dizzy She remembers denial in a tizzy 61. The…
nina gisele 7th 