Poetry
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When my world turned a shade of coal, A shade of ebony. A shade too many the detail of corruption, As you departed, free from me. You were the many sails atop the ship, The many hours for the diseased patient Who spits blood upon their immaculate attire. You were the essence of the wind,…
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Love called the dust away From the ropes you carry in your arms, As you walked free from the ladder That carried your will. Do not end, this way When I still love you. Eyes are all that is left, Before they ever close. Do not lose What we hold between us, Not the ropes,…
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Walk with me, I implore you, Through busy sunrises Where eyes meet Like when the moon eclipses the sun. Your face upon mine, Lips nestled and entwined. Your white against my blaze, As I see through the fog and haze. I lifted myself From shallow smog In a city’s atmosphere of heat. I wanted you,…
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Grand as the world stands Idle, upon my knees. Your face, buried in my grasp Of two palms to each of your cheeks. Let love travel in circles, Like all cycles to life. Let love reach its destination Back to the happiness of yesterday. I love the wind for its freedom, Among the ocean for…
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Something leaves wounds open Like the cracks in the soil, to make the rivers. Something forms time, Though it will not come. Something creates sounds for listener’s ears, Though I am deaf. With all of my pain, I hold my future, in rotting hands. I speak with brittle words, Reciting delicate verses. I write down…
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Keep thy aromatic form within the soil, Anointed in oils, To which the priests did select. You were given praise by those of God, For I am meager, in contrast. My love is nothing, it seems To His own. Reincarnate yourself, in His womb, In His paradise. Leave the rest behind In the dismal leaves,…
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Romance seems to be All that love grows to see, Of your face in my hands, Where I can bow my head to kiss All the tears away from the Earth, your cheeks, All the snow away from the fissures, your lips, All the cruelty you’ve experienced, in your eyes. Bliss is deafening, Almighty in…
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I’ll see where life crawls Back to the womb, Back to the safety of that hollow tomb, Back to the walls, the sheltering ones That mask themselves by the world’s gloom, Showing faces that do not wince, Nor eyes that do not blink. There are portraits, hanging thus Upon where safety is certain. There is…
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Do not treat The shame with scorn. I have only thought to love With eyes upon the sun, that is your heart, While my mind, the universe, is broken. Love me, as you would love a shell. Just a man of the latter, as I was once a former. Just a man of the now,…
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Don’t let these strings loose To be unfolded at our feet, For they wrap like snakes, in coils To tie you against me. Love holds shed skin Like shed tears, We are two serpents against the other, Just the liar upon the liar, With the truth we call the truth. We have merely shed a…
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What was it, that let you loose Upon the stones, held on by the noose? Was it your simple yearning To see where the ocean travels? To see the startled birds, as you dove across To watch the tides pass by? I saw your lips smear the sand with scarlet, Though, I figured it to…
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She wore a white flag Pierced on her delicate bosom, For some man of surrender Annexed her form, during one dim night. She wore her eyes, Worn down to be discolored. She wore her cheeks, Swollen with the bruises of hands. She wore her lips, Always quivering beneath the moon. Most of all, She wore…
Modern Romanticism 