Vanda
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As If...
Crux * Audio Available
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Imprints ~The Trilogy
Red Balloons *Audio Available
Rain & Café Clatter - Poem of the Week Dec 2010 - Poetry Super Highway
That Whiskey Blue Sway~ Nominated best poem of the year 2010 by Muses Review.
The Pen & The Pearl
Wise & Time
Bleeding cries of death’s lullabies
shatter the morning calm
there is no escaping death
or the soft turn of dawn’s light
spun to feeble hands and breathless
--still--
among a manic stumble of pleas
dreams turn dark, reality darker
and black suits are coming
red ants marching onward
for this silent vessel, that
no longer reads the palms
seeking answers from the universe
no longer is this (real)m home
Her corpse lies cold
beneath fleece blankets
stale and still, hands stiff like stones
with eyes fixed upon the gates of heaven
or nowhere at all, I can’t be certain,
my faith in these things
is marked by question
broken like pottery, held like sacrament
against a somber refrain
and the ravens have come
dressed like black Sunday
She is a signature on a framed certificate,
ether or ash, an amethyst sky
burned into the psyche
She is a fucking memory...
shatter the morning calm
there is no escaping death
or the soft turn of dawn’s light
spun to feeble hands and breathless
--still--
among a manic stumble of pleas
dreams turn dark, reality darker
and black suits are coming
red ants marching onward
for this silent vessel, that
no longer reads the palms
seeking answers from the universe
no longer is this (real)m home
Her corpse lies cold
beneath fleece blankets
stale and still, hands stiff like stones
with eyes fixed upon the gates of heaven
or nowhere at all, I can’t be certain,
my faith in these things
is marked by question
broken like pottery, held like sacrament
against a somber refrain
and the ravens have come
dressed like black Sunday
She is a signature on a framed certificate,
ether or ash, an amethyst sky
burned into the psyche
She is a fucking memory...
Apryl Skies © 2011