HERMOSA
...Exiting beauty’s cradle her grasp spans what destiny holds pale.
She has yearned, gained and lost what was fused to her core, yet still she traverses beneath a southern sky that haemorrhages numeric...
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Categories:
haemorrhages, beauty, city, heart, longing,
Form: Free verse
Children of Faith
...Children of faith,
That look up to the heavens,
For help, for comfort,
For a change, for a beginning;
They are like nails hammered into rocks,
They have broken hearts,
They've got nothing,
Com...
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Categories:
haemorrhages, faith,
Form: Free verse
Haeccity Heard
...Hastily stretched, crackled urgent ocean edge relents
Ashamed attempt to escape rejoins campaign of mass
Furtive dig below propels conspirator spasm, next next
Murders brash bouys, cranky spa cham...
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Categories:
haemorrhages, analogy, beauty, change, confidence,
Form: Rhyme
Fear
...It's true
Bunking its task
in the blue sky
Golden sunshine
Lies down morose
In sorrow
Laying its head on the tree trunk
Looking pale
It surprises me
As I see it smeared
With ashes of fear
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Categories:
haemorrhages, anger, anxiety, confusion, environment,
Form: Free verse
Alone
...ALONE
Deserted with his humour failing,
Walks alone, emotions trailing,
Ripped and broken on the floor,
A lover with a love no more.
Torn from it's cage and left in the dirt,
His incompe...
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Categories:
haemorrhages, absence, break up, fashion,
Form: Rhyme
The Inner Voice of Mark Birros Ii (Excerpt)
...THE INNER VOICE OF MARK BIRROS II
From world war two in the Atlantic
I hear the drowning cries of men,
climbing out as in spirit from waters
that lap the steps of the harbour wall ;
time ...
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Categories:
haemorrhages, father, life, love, peace,
Form: Epic