Best Angstautumn Poems


Gone Mother Gone,

It began in the innocent spring of life

This of which, never did share

Spent summer of youth

… One in blanket gaze

While, she of long reaching, __ mystic stare

Now stirs autumn winds

Whispers of twice-cried tears

Two stories tell, each welling deep

The chambered nautilus of harbored fear

Maybe forever, shared song of winter’s discontent

Yet strings play on

As purveyed souls, soon greet seasons, never meant

Daggers

Knives which cut through 
    the turgid atmosphere
 Arrayed on our shelf 
     like bowling pins in an 
alley
      Long forgotten quarrels
have left their mark
    on the terrain
and on we(ourselves)
     The deepening red 
of an autumn sun
   Pours through my window 
like a fox
      searching for its prey
      The daggers tempt us
We are left 
      alone with them
Our sorrow runs through 
    the afternoon
On into the evening
  When the light fades
we turn towards the 
   shining knives
   Take hold of one
Slice the night in two!

Burns

Lost amidst the crowd of a billion
Lost everything and nowhere to go
I cower in the shadows of darkness
OH IT BURNS! IT BURNS RIGHT THROUGH.

What did I do to get it wrong?
I was an innocent child
And now I lost my innocence too
OH IT BURNS! IT BURNS RIGHT THROUGH.

Seasons come and go
Spring, summer, autumn and winter
Lost the zeal to feel them too
OH IT BURNS! IT BURNS RIGHT THROUGH.

A cigarette in my left and a pen in my right
That is all I have now
And I wish to pass this night al-right
OH IT BURNS! IT BURNS RIGHT THROUGH.


A Mother Coerced

It was in the innocent spring of life, of which, never they shared
While in the summer of youth, each gazed across or simply stared
Now these autumn winds bring whispers of twice cried tears
Of two tales told, each with the worst of harbored fear
Maybe forever their winter's discontent
Yet
Purveyors of souls, take seasons of which, always had meant

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