Raptured Tempests

Verbose crystalled tears bestride
Flaring high on ornately veined clouds

Racking thunderclaps fracture the horizon
Protesting the abdication of daylight

Here the morose summer showers weep 
In heavy erosion washing yesterdays pains

An ascending dusk pursues the mislay moon
Lost in the felled bodies chafing the steely skies

Phantoms murmur atop flamed winged steeds
Dancing on the peaks of the worlds rooftop

Tombs satiated in truth opening with echoes
Are purified by the banks of rolled morning mists

And the harmonious stillness of dawn
Drones out the silence of innocence
Copyright © | Year Posted 2007

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January 11, 2009 at 8:21 PM
Your imagery is just astounding. Wow. Very, very well done, Charles. Donna G.
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