Perspective
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Split Sky
The sky before me Is split in two One side flashes with lightning The other’s a glorious blue One side thunders With looming black clouds The other is teeming with birds Making musical sounds One side crackles With bristling intensity The other side glows With a radiant glory A beautiful contradiction A perplexing paradox And… Continue reading
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Wrestling With Words
We writers We wrestle with words We grapple with Our deepest hurts We lasso letters Subdue sentences Assert alliteration On prose skeletons Phrases follow us Verbs vex us We’re haunted by imagery Of our past failures And all of this In desperate pursuit Of seeing our problems From a better point of view Continue reading
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Great Rocks of Time
There are two Great rocks of time Standing by us On either side The past and the future They tower and loom Casting shadows Of fear and gloom They are always Threatening to topple on us The future from fragility The past from failures But sitting between These two rocks of time Is a thin… Continue reading
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They Still Don’t Understand
I don’t knowWhat more to doTo explain to peopleWhat I go through I have written poemsOf light and darkTo show the battleThat goes on in this heart I have revealedPulled back the curtainOf how writingMakes vague emotions certain How it turns wisps of cloudsInto blocks of stoneSo I can break them downAnd move them on But still they don’t… Continue reading
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The Warping
A dark forceWarps the landscapeContorting architectureOut of its shape Tall treesAre spun into spiralsTowers rippleAs if they were tidal Kind facesGlitch into sneersAnd hearty laughterMorphs into jeers Light from street lampsAre sharply deflectedEven the sun’s raysAre being affected A man walks the streetSo long on his ownUnaware that this forceActs on him alone Continue reading
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Hope is a Fire
I drank the fireAnd my eyes were opened The skies above me Split open like a curtain I saw the stars The constellations And saw that I had been Heading in the right direction This dark night That had drawn so close I realised was no more Than a fading ghost And coming soon Was… Continue reading
