Robert Lindley Poet Sonnet

Cascading Embers of Heart Driven Fire

Cascading Embers Of Heart Driven Fire

Unrepentant heart, its hot blood there spills
Sad dregs of immortal nurselings of desire
And winter's warm breath blows the woodland fires
Amongst the frozen trees and through the hills
Wanton weariness, invisible veil hides
Cascading embers of heart driven fire
Exploding storm flees to nothing it retires
Where dead emperor in agony resides
Black robe judges, their guilt forever play
Broken guitars without needed six strings
As death's hand taps as the naked ghost sings
In nirvana the prophet chose to stay.

Unrepentant heart, melody just right.
Saw truth, amidst the horrors of that night.

Robert J. Lindley, Jan. 26th, 1972
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Lin Lane August 22, 2023 at 1:48 PM "... death's hand taps as the naked ghost sings..." Your ability to write phrases like that so many years ago is still intact. I appreciate that you share those early writes with us. Robert Lindley August 22, 2023 at 2:02 PM Thank you, my good friend. I was just 18 when I wrote this one. There was no note with them. Almost always I wrote notes on my poems back then. I usually forgot late at night, and just crashed into bed. This poem was one of those. God bless you.