Christine A Kysely Poet Lyric

Raven's Place of Nowhere

*I entered this Poem in ~Constance~A Rambling Poet's Contest "Among The Dead"

I write from this place of nowhere
This darkened haunt of deep despair
Even a Raven's darkened shade is brighter
Than the mood that has set upon this lair...
There are no words to cheer me.

I look to find a glimmer...
An enlightened shadow of what once was me
But alas that ghost eludes and finds me not
Preferring a labyrinth of happiness, its maze
To the life's webs that now encase me.

I cannot scale these vertical walls
This darkened fortress that surrounds me
And so I dive to ever deeper depths
In this ocean of sadness that seeks to drown me.

No tears can fall from drought-filled eyes
Desert rain has not come bidden
Blood cannot spill from pain-filled thoughts
No apparent wounds to need not be hidden.

A creek of fear and anguish
Feeds into my river of lonely despair
These tides serve to further drown me
In heavier waters with no apparent air.

These words are all I have left within me
To feed what's left of this withered shell
I have been exiled to this lonely oasis
My last hope for water in this, my empty well.

 

(January 23, 2011  Wausau, Wisconsin)

(c) Copyright 2011 by Christine A Kysely, All Rights Reserved

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Constance La France January 24, 2011 at 2:23 PM Thank you for supporting my contest.

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Andrea Dietrich January 23, 2011 at 11:10 PM Hey, is this for the contest with that Raven picture? It has the "sense" of that contest, dark and despairing. Nicely done! I have been trying to return your soupmail but the system won't let me. So I have copied my message and will try to paste it into a new soupmail to you. If you do not get it from me,it means someting is wrong with your soupmail and you must send a note to poetrysoup (see Contact us at bottom of their home page) Here I go now. I hope you get my mail!

Robert Pettit January 23, 2011 at 9:17 PM You have nice wording and rhyming in this offering.