April 2020

… and darkness spread

Poetry Drafts / / By 
… and darkness spread across the land,
like paint from an overturned bucket,
Magnolia at its best, making the
Old Masters superfluous





… and darkness spread across the land,
calling forth the wind and howlings,
speaking truth with no ears fluttering,
the silence dropped its anchor





… and darkness spread across the land,
and men tried and men tied their
laceless shoes, stumbling onwards
blindfolded





… and darkness spread across the land,
the rivers sourced in unseen eyes,
an unending supply of salty





water

the silence

Poetry Drafts / / By 
There is no protection
Against the silence,
The words desperately
Wanted; the never spoken
Neither lovingly nor in
Anger. The silence
A dagger even blunt
Turns the kindest of souls





Into murderers

control

Poetry Drafts / / By 
Con……………Troll
I imagine
Having both / qualities /
Striking twice the
….Luck
My brethren I declare
….this is not the ebb
The flow, or the ultimate
….low-ride
A mere flat, a
Puncture of the veins
….of life
An unbeaten heart still
Beating
A flat roof leaking
….red wine
I imagine more
….each day
That is my insanity taking --





 control

As your words fell flat

Poetry Drafts / / By 
As your words fell flat,
I picked them up & I nailed them
Or with glue attached them thus:
To a piece of papyrus; deadwood.

As the stack grew higher,
Piled up towards the heavens,
I chose a few for safekeeping,
To get me by when times got rough.

Now with the bells tolling, the
Time is right to say the things I
Never minded then; back when the
Storm raged in full.

I will bind you; line your legacy for a
Future you; a future me to watch,
A ghost among many ghosts

To haunt me

an eerie silence

Poetry Drafts / / By 
There is silence,
An eerie silence,
On the dark side of the moon,
And in the bedroom,
Where you once roamed





The dark bark of the dog gone quiet,
The limp limbs of nocturnal rendezvous,
Neither amiss considering the plights,
The might of fear at night turned
To life





Itself
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