Dark Chapel Poems

The Contest

I would like to enter, 
and sometimes I do. 
Occasionally I even win, 
to my surprise. 
How cool!

The true rule, 
to every fool,
or pirate...

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Protecting; To the Last Breath
(a dark moment)

My dear friend told me I was a good mom today. 
I went into the bathroom and tears sprang...

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Dark Times

Times we celebrate, to be who we are not. 
Bleak times, diseased remembrances. 
Why?
You know.
You know because deep inside…

You have hid under a blanket...

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Rule Breaker

Risk taker, warrior maker…
Stand tall. 
He is with you. 
Do not fear, what they may say…
as they would say it any way, 
if you...

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Calling

The wind calls my name. 
I have been here before. 
It is the place between…
where I should be, 
and where I am going. 

I have...

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And the cemetery was
quite and intensely sullen;
a damp breeze blew
anticipating a cool rain...
an open gate led to a chapel.

Two marble angels stood
by the Gothic bronze...

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I know you see me from up there,
from halfway up the steep and twisting lane.
In early half-light as you take your walk
I no doubt seem...

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False prophets, not saints
Hide behind crosses
Judging the whole world
But forget their sins,
Or can't remember

Every Sunday,
Seethe in glory
Backstab and lie
Never repent,

Their actions;
Are imp-like
Spirit is dark

In Hell
They...

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"The music in my heart is from the tolling of the bell"



I drove in silence, watching the road closely as it coiled along the rocky...

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