the poet alone


midnight
weeps
in the quiet
where you toss from lack of sleep


from pitch-black skies
into the caverns of

black on black
and blood shot eyes

 

a poet talks without lips
tongue tied
grey old wrinkled soul
shadow stretched across remembrance


shades of ruin

lie lost
in verse
between his stormy weather

 

large calloused hands
can stretch across the sea
and grab America

imagine every poet in his poems


like a discrete tattoo of an ice berg
here the winters are grim
it’s hard work conversation

and having a way with words


a certain toughness
to beautify this art
from a whip of indiscretions

the pain is so familiar

forget it exists

obsessed and repressed
to blend
in the absence of speech


left

awaiting love
but only the utters, and moans
are here with the poet alone

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jgupta's picture

Enjoyed your thought!

Enjoyed your thought!

running_with_rabbits's picture

:)

:) you have a way with words my dear

loved this part, like long lasting love which lives after death love this part!

large calloused hands
can stretch across the sea
and grab America

imagine every poet in his poems 


Much Love

Ashley

foolforlove's picture

Lovely...tugs at the heart.

Lovely...tugs at the heart.

That_ginger_girl15's picture

wow this was really toching

wow this was really toching <3

nightlight1220's picture

Speechless. Utter beauty of

Speechless. Utter beauty of expression and nothing else. When you write well....it is so jaw dropping. :-) thx.

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...and he asked her, "do you write poetry? Because I feel as if I am the ink that flows from your quill."

"No", she replied, "but I have experienced it. "