Love and Pain Sacrifices Of Love „[T]here was no meaning anywhere outside their own hearts“ Graham Greene They were unashamed lovers, Like ancient Aztec priests Ripping out each other’s Hearts: burnt offerings to gods Who lord over riotous feasts, Scavenged by passion-hungry mobs. But jealousy was the still sharper knife That finally brought some peace… Thomas White weiterlesen
Schlagwort: poems
Judy Zarrella
Blue Poems BLUE This closed eye. Godless. Godforsaken. Bluebird. Dead. The crushed egg. Blue bruise. Blue vein pulsating. Blue as a blunt blade. For-get-me-not. Cracked blue halo. Blue idiom. Blue embrace. Feverish blue. Like midnight, sometimes. Casual blue. A gesture of hands. BULB Amazing burst of beauty shimmering on a fragile stem. Purple bells nodding… Judy Zarrella weiterlesen
Monika Graf
vier atemzüge liebe I eines nachts wird meine liebe sich behutsam über dich beugen und ihren körper in deinem atemrhythmus hin und her bewegen und mit geschlossenen augen lächeln II deine wärme kommt wie sanfte wellen über mich und mein bauch, die dunkle sonne, beginnt zu strahlen III einmal wenn du schläfst werde ich dich… Monika Graf weiterlesen
Scott C. Holstad
Knoxville Poems Horrorshow I wake feeling dampened pillow, turn on the light, and see the pillow and sheets rusty blood red, soaked through from my arm, which hasn’t stopped. The wife’s going to be pissed. I cut because I enjoy it. My doctor says it’s an endorphin release and an understandable substitute for other things,… Scott C. Holstad weiterlesen
Nanya Nyssen
Silenced Voices Buried in a box; In a cellar; Two fully grown generations later. Only curiosity led to the box being opened and the voice finally heard. Much pain, sadness, loss, anger, terror and death since the voice was immortalised in pen on paper. The winter – your last night on home leave before returning… Nanya Nyssen weiterlesen
Carolyn Smale
5 Online Poems OUT TO SEA In your tattoo, rose-dust clouds pulverised stars & bones; nothing left except skin & squealing. The big dipper up and down over the years creates its own electricity , losing all its colour. Your voice vibrates like steel at 40 storeys, your leached face voodoo mask glued to your… Carolyn Smale weiterlesen
Gwen Leanne
Two Poems EMMY JANE The coach rolled to a clanking halt Amid the swirling dust and yapping dogs Men raced to horse‘ heaving sides To grapple with stiff harness, chains and buckles. Spewing from the coach in straggling lines Passengers emerged disgruntled The stout, the thin, the tall, the short, Children tugging at their coat… Gwen Leanne weiterlesen
Paul Hardacre
Four Poems John’s Gita russian ballet bookstore intersection of vulture & boundary shelves ache from the weight of summer palaces yachts state banquets troops in review gold & lapis lazuli the river god Lennon carried aloft trademark specs ramshackle palanquin & saffron-clad ju-ju devotees eyes down absorbed in text eunuchs bound in green muslin the… Paul Hardacre weiterlesen
Ruark Lewis
something just in case I die autopoem1. JUST IN CASE IN CASE IN CASE NATURALLY ENOUGH, ENOUGH OF IT NATURALLY ENOUGH A GOOD THING WHEN, IT SEEMS AND SURPRISE, AGHAST WHEN, IT SEEMED A SURPRISE THEN ALL OF IT THEN ALL OF IT WENT SUN-STRUCK THROUGH YOUR FUCKING FACE THING IN THE NATURE OF ITSELF… Ruark Lewis weiterlesen
Michaela A. Gabriel
Five Poems nursery fingertips focus on careful shapes, odd colours rectangular sounds tentacle their ways around red-cheeked rooms babies‘ eyes scream with dreams unheard of i swallow blithe bubbles, meandering mouthfuls of life and push the darkness back into sunlit corners orange crush on evenings when the sun sips orange crush i fall in love… Michaela A. Gabriel weiterlesen