Tagged: past

romantic poem 0

What’s Said

Poem   is it harder to say goodbye to a person or a feeling can we fall forward into new futures without the wild horses dragging us back to the start i always give...

looking back poem 0

Day One

Poem   When was the last time we felt so alive that our hearts beat out from our chests and we had to yell just to get out all of the remaining fear and...

poem about past 0

In Rooms Like These

Poem   Even now, I see her moon face, those limpid eyes, half slits with sleep, lying in repose beside me. In those days, we lived in bars and boxes. Hers, a refuge in...

poem about mistakes 1

Burial

Poem   I came here to mourn- So many spirits haunt this hall of mirrors. And from within, the distortions are clearer than daylight. This windowless wonder of a world that was never meant...

reflection poems life 0

Dust

Poem   I went back; Picking my way carefully through the underbrush, I realized: I’d never noticed all this poison ivy… Perhaps that’s why the itch persists. I went back; Scratching as I climbed...

poem about memory 0

A Great Way to Displace Unwanted Matter

Poem about Memory   Fume Fret Fumble over hands that fail to pay attention where needed Yesterday we all but shared Tonight stand alone is the order Fumble Easy words stick in the throat...

poetry about life 1

Something You Think About in the Sunshine

Poetry About Life   This, the summer of blackened souls And upturned collars, This will be the first summer of my lasts. Arriving at this precipice, I must hesitate And catch myself between the...

Long Poems About Life 0

Portrait — Part II

It’s falling; a shrill of absence, a dreamy strangling, the days uniform and rationed, where jingles hold the spaces of love and immoderations, and zealotry redeems a country of her past. Gone. Gone, the...

Trance 0

Ode to Merce

So long maestro — we don’t mourn you; you’ve always walked with the sages. When will we enter again that summerspace? Your ethereal garden of pointed light, where birds disperse into spiral oblivion, and...

Abstract Thoughts 0

Unsettled

He came back today. I was not cheered to see him. He looked as bad for wear As the last time the beast chose to be him. My revulsion returned- I fear I have...