Poet Tellaferro Poet Free verse

Burning: a Dream In Madness

Burning snow falls quietly on
cold rusted wire and brittle bone.
An ancient creature looks to the horizon 
feeling is body built of razor wire and old bones, cold,
a delicate tone transmits from on far...
Wraiths walking in the burning 
snows depths, as it falls, it drifts...
In eyes buried burning bright,
across this delicate armature 
of wire and bone skeletal hands clutch. 
Bloody foot falls leaving no footprints,
upon the burning snow lies cinders of stars.
Transversing transcending reflecting 
in a vast landscape of desolation. 
While ash gray clouds drift 
on oceans of spirits they race,
undulate flow to rhythms eternal.
In frustration and rage as brittle fingers trace, 
each a wreckage of eons past 
like broken fine china ruined 
in department malls, 
dead cars and neon bars.
Alone in shopping marts 
eyes of the damned...
Faces blistering burning bright
listening to black concertos 
in dead concert halls as eons fall.
Someone something ethereally framed
by elections runs glistening bright...
A silhouetted figure in distance thunderstorms, 
lightning wreaths it fragile face
it walks among the ruins
the wreckage of rage 
in ancient graves,
Insane dominions blaze...
A boney fingers trace 
secretly a wooden oblong box 
full of oblivion and infinite, 
feel the burnt primordial clock,
a face still cracked bold but 
keeps the time as death comes
as memory of all is lost.
As mortality is crucified 
on wire and bone a thin 
delicate in tone resonates in grace.
Walking still onward in the burning snow 
feeling the drifting imagery, 
cascading across its face, 
an armature of wire and bone 
walking forever in foot falls
of time as it falls apart sublime. 
In the darkening cityscape 
lightning filigree fragile and frets. 
Alone on horizons distance edge
lingers an oblique and obsolete monstrosity 
it drifts in the burning snow 
forever alone in the forever more...

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