Category: Poetry

Poetry

Dream of the Soul

What shabby spaces does my soul sleep?
What darkness shames my sorry sight?
In a cave I dwell with bated breath
No shadows to see in any flickering light

Yet something pulls me down and out
The entrance is dim and distant but there
No color at all, but hot flashes of bright
With a flash that x-rays the hollow of my soul

A hole so tiny yet vast in vacancy
A pinprick of moment that is nowhere at all
Such a draw that dances in dervish delight
With sole-less soul it lets ME go

In sudden I see YOU coming to me
I wait for your kiss, yet you pass me by
When I look to your back I see nothing at all
Then I know I AM gone….in…

Poetry

Sentinel Stone

A fortress of matter seals unborn destiny
A guard stands blindly watching and waiting…

 Dark light pregnant with time and space
Dreams in death so deep and daring…

 Echoes of a past not yet conceived
Both fallow and fertilized, humming in silence…

 Like a borrowed grave in a nameless new garden
Death tosses and turns in restless slumber…

 What force could awaken such an impersonal landscape
With depth of complexity buried within?
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