Tag: Poetry

Poetry

Quietly Wild

.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Behind me wreckage lies
Before me cinders fly

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The Light Is On

.Reading time 2 minutes.

I have ticked forward. One eternal second on the clock. The small thing that feels like forever.

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Prelude

.Reading time 1 minute.

Am I already singing? Is that my voice or hers? My image in the mirror looks the same, pleasantly unglamorous, growing slowly older. Except that now there is gold dust on my lips. I smile. I can’t help it.

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Shadow Of The Toad Woman

.Reading time 5 minutes.

Is she marking me or erasing a mark? Some long ago scar that I have chosen to ignore at my own peril? Or am I marking her? Finally claiming her as mine, telling her to come home? I sense that we are dancing, suspended above all these questions, for in the end it is the simple act of contact that matters.

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