Deadlight Poems


And the Whispered Hmm Bites

...sifting shifting streams
falling star trying to get away from the others
Neb you
lah to follow
so powerful e
motive to be a ware-we need more wares
Tiggering (as in like Pooh's Tigger)
spond
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Categories: deadlight, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Is There Anybody In There

...Done has finished finished
Dead lives reflected in the eyes
from deadlight screens
Pull i n g words apart
trying to find some heart
Living in this skeletal prison
Remembered in the slightest ti...
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Categories: deadlight, poetry,
Form: Free verse


I Am Deadlight

...Stranded on a stoney shore
Lift my head to gaze upon a beach of humanity
All half in the ocean as we grasp upon the grit
No grip or girth or strength 
To pull us safetly from the curdled sea
Sus...
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Categories: deadlight, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Fortune Tellers Know

...sitting across from me
you are a hanged man
sacrificing one of his eyes
for a chance at a sacred alphabet
at a chance to gamble to decipher
the blueprint of this life

When will you cheat deat...
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Categories: deadlight, introspection
Form: Free verse

Autumnal Eyes

...Stargazing cigarette ash, growing cold and greyer, 
shaping to a scale model Everest 
in a cut crystal tray; 
a mountain to be climbed by some quantity surveyor, 
or a podium of passiveness 
in ...
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Categories: deadlight, life, sad, seasons, time,
Form: Verse


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