Category: Poetry

  • Honeysuckle

    Lingering sweetness. Dark tendrils at my feet. Just out of reach. The scent of honeyed nectar bathes my senses in sunset and summer breezes. Death, my constant companion, ever present as the branches I hold shatter. Within my chest a grief wells up threatening to overtake me. A river too deep to wade; I walk…

  • The Offing
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    The Offing

    A distant mirror, the horizon and the sea. Heavens kiss their reflection at the edge of existence. Clouds lazily lounging, sail into the great Expanse. Stars rise and dance upon the waves; Fire in the moonlight. The moon high; Locked in time with its aqueous doppelgänger. Ecstasy is the velvet night that caresses me. The…

  • Unbound

    Unbound

    Here she is again today, lonely in un-lonely ways. Lost in love and lost in thought, of things remembered, once forgot. Of muffled cries and giants breath, bound by hope and prayers for death; a lien against her innocence. Crying out in vain. Yet, emerging in the now, a roar that crashes with no sound.…