The Artist

To merge my art with lonely drops of rain,
And enslave thunder rolling from my breast.
Where storms are formed by a lover's pain,
And each breath heaves deeply, self-possessed
To render her face drawn within the storm,
As its shades are etched by loneliness.
Where darkness covers, the welling tides form,
They bring rain to dark places that confess.
Alone in my drawing, without a sun.
Drowning by storms dark, my head now creates.
Tethered to my sadness, I cannot run.
I crumble and fall by my own dictates.

This ghost of her face I've drawn, now tore,
Haunts me as I draw it,  forevermore.

contest Rain and Dark Isolate Places
8/24/15
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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La France Avatar
August 25, 2015 at 8:45 PM
Frederick, a haunting sonnet, beautifully penned and thanks for visiting my poem, Argus
Onclaud Avatar
August 25, 2015 at 1:02 AM
from the deep crevices of the mind that haunts us in secret places... this spiked me, frederick; wonderful!.. huggs
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