Embers Cast by Torchlight.

I like imagery..

Embers Cast by Torchlight

I own the night,
the veil of black over your eyes,
the grain of sand in your tears...
a dream of horror.

In the fields of twilight,
you are stalked
by feelings contemptible,
overflowed by prejudice and sin.

Like the stars that fall from the sky,
you disperse into ambiguity,
a wish cast upon faltered hope-
that was to never be born true.

Under a bloodied moon,
you shred your faith,
in a tortured sanctimony
of blasphemous sacrilege.

And with the encroaching dust,
antiquity blows your ashes away-
whispers of yester-years on the wind.
And no rain falls for your fate.l

Birdsong(A Sonnet)

This is my Shakespearean sonnet, Birdsong... If anyone reads, I hope someone enjoy it. It's scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

Birdsong

With the voices of birds softly singing,
could you be sure the world was still turning.
Melodious like bells gently ringing,
their pitch will carry with gilded yearning.

And when the birds sing, would you please listen,
then attempt to catch melody; fleeting-
their sparkling words to forever glisten,
alight with wings abreast and slow beating.

They speak secrets long lost to the ages,
testaments to nature's sealed mysteries.
It hides clandestine whispers of sages,
and images of rusted histories.

Combing through a thick disparaging throng,
elated by the transient bird's song.

Voices of Hunger (A Sonnet)

This, is actually the first Sonnet I have written since I was, I dunno...sixteen? Anyway, composing sonnets are fun, and so I attempted a version that I had not dabbled with before. This, would be the Italian sonnet. It has a ABBA, ABBA, CDE, CDE rhyme scheme. Anyway... I did not write in in true pentameter, I believe, but seriously - who uses that anymore? Anyhow... without further ado, I present Voices of Hunger. I drew this from history~


Voices of Hunger

Was it a question? They only cried,
when bread rotted and helplessness arose.
Or was it uttered when their voices froze,
with the soft lament, "Had God ever tried?"

When would the unrelenting pain subside?
Staring blankly at the circling of crows,
while caskets are piled into lengthy rows.
Would you watch as children's prayers all died?

A war waged for hungry bellies to feed,
bodies burned with no mountains laid of grain..
Famine emblazoned a relentless brood.

Powerless, with people begging in need,
watching each expire with guilty pain...
survivors left to die in search of food.

Some Haiku

I have been writing some actual poetry lately(structure, I mean)... Enjoy some random Haiku.


Summer Downpour
Thunder strikes blindly,
a fearsome shout of the Gods,
calmly fading; still.


Flooding
Dark waters rising,
swallowing homes and profit..
A new day dawning.


Lotus
Reflecting in pools,
ripples dance within beauty.
poisoned, devious.


Dewdrop
Nature cries with salt,
blanketing dawn quietly,
tears wept in silence.

Promising Clouds

So, finally, I am up to posting some new writing... This is one of my free verse poems... I thoroughly enjoyed writing it..and I liked it.

And yes, I was watching the skies as I did.

Promising Clouds

Promising clouds,
a distorted dream-
was no more reality,
than fiction.

My mind lies awake,
alight in abysmal thoughts..
hoping for Sun rays,
to fill my sleepless conscious.

The sky's eyes shine,
like mirrors into the soul,
of generations long passed,
flown back into the arms of the world.

And was it the spotted grey
of the inky night firmament,
that forced my thought to flutter..
away into the starry twilight.

Even the roaring waters,
brought peace to my soul,
flowing with the escapist's view
of free thought to the shackled.

Breaking out of a concrete mire,
to swim among the nestling breeze.
Solace was laying my eyes shut-
to dream of promises made to clouds.