Solemn recollection walks along the city,
as a blanket of pure pearl snow whispers gently from within,
while a feverish calamity speaks to their sullen hearts,
slipping away from the reflections of silver pocket watches,
and eternally streaming an elegant lullaby promising silence.
The crackers sing of grey paradoxical lore,
jumping upon the English plates speaking for a lonesome gentleman,
perching at the seams of scattered black lace always perky,
swimming in the sea of a fine dining deliciousness,
swirling and dangling from the silver bubbly spoons,
and never swaying from a chattering matinée from the gentle ladies!
Eyes of grey
Mess of curls
Button nose
Lips unfurl
Freckled cheeks
Gentle curves
Forehead crease
Tender nerved
Love for life
Open hearted
Too much at times
Trouble started
Head up high
Feet on the ground
Concerned for all
Virtue abound
The sound of wings echo in my ears,
little birds sing far and away in the branches of
trees I could only dream of,
they itch at my skin.
You said, "No one gets out,"
and I believe it every once in awhile,
watching men cling to cheap bottles
and cry for courage in the corners of their aging eyes
as I stare blankly at them, saying, "No."
Birds don't sing in the incandescents and the neons --
Mother told me that the night is the most alive,
but I still feel nothing.
The night sky's dead,
smothered in smoke
and the glow of the burning embers.
The drips of rain reside on a murky shadow,
whose face illuminates the forest as pale and cold;
the fragmentation of something deep hidden upon the surface,
wandering the valleys and intricately entwined within the soil,
stark from emotive glimpses and memories of the nightfall,
d u s k
s a y s h e l l o
t o
m i s e r y.
you southern belle
with your rosy cheeks
and round smile,
your eyes are the color of the forest
my dreaming mind makes up in its sleeping wonder,
you're a forgotten memory I've been kindly reminded of,
some distant neuron, a stranger spark that pulls, orbital,
magnetic charm,
your words are the arrows piercing my heart with that stranger still buzz,
killed when I remember the distance,
by saved when I look again on your face,
you're a dream,
you're a fantasy,
be with me, be with me
I could scream, but you still wouldn't hear me,
except maybe,
by satellite,
except maybe through these words I write
half asleep, slightly medica
The moon is pale
It seems
With illness
Its gaze is sickly
Unfocused
Distorted
A whistle of wind
Plays out against the night
With fingers thrumming
Out a dirge--
The houses ache
With what can only be
A biting cold
A persistent cough
The town is plagued
By sickness
And churns with nausea--
And all the people sit
And sleep
With dreams
Of health
The flowers dance
Beneath a quilted sun,
And petals shout regrets
To mourning masses
The stars are dizzy
With their fever;
Lights sway drunkenly
Above our head
The dirt demands
A cleaner street,
And all the grass
Feels shame
The world is floating
High in the sky
With willful dreams
And petty thoughts
Featherlight footsteps
Flit through the wind
Leaving traces
Of probability
And a whirlwind of sound
Hums a hymn of daffodils--
Of stars and dirt and grass
And everything between.