In(A) Poems - Poems about In(A)

There is a need for quietness today, I listen to my neighbor's toilet flush, it takes a long time for the sound to drain away and refill, I hold seconds inside my mind between that rise and fall. There is space for listening, the trash compactor chews on when switched off. I hear conversations filtering through the air conditioner, words both distinct and garbled. Yesterdays hurried meal speaks...

Continue reading...

Far inland, in the cold and gloomy, misty wooded mountains, I huddled up to an open fire. I picked up a large conch shell, clad in mother of pearl, resting by the fireplace and listened, eye-to-ear, to its bottled, shanty message. I heard the soft familiar, sweet hissing sound, of the ocean’s breath. Not a roar, not a crash, but akin to...

Continue reading...

His spawning would be free and dedicated to those that were beholding of his challenges, those that began ahead of this time, those that look out beyond this point in time. He would be placed carefully with absolute purity in a diminishing amount of support. The fight was only in terms of molecular structure comparable to...

Continue reading...

twelve of us he choose to paint sons of Jacob in an earthen jar so sturdy plonked us with vehemence directed by neuronal cells skull protecting scrambled delicacy managed by eyes emitting fire spark piercings fingers reading poverty boats ...

Continue reading...

A yellow moon is in the lily pond. Rain gleams within a bucket. The whole wide-open night, like a black cat, is curled around a wooden bucket. Yellow moon, yellow eyes, cat curling all gone. Rain forgets to fall. Lily pad sings on alone. ...

Continue reading...

Misty roses, red with pink haze, orange lilies; Lilac promenade. Purple pansies on the porch, dusk soon to carry the torch. 'At last' roses, peach chocolate cosmos, shrouded, Yellow daisies smile. Gardens loved to distraction, yet hold a strong attraction. Blue irises, blurred and black cherry carnations, near green hydrangeas. Subdued belles wear nature's veil in hued dawn, of small detail....

Continue reading...

In a world where the symbolic parent has faded like a forgotten dream at dawn, children wander among the shadows of a destroyed literate society, we all stand on the ruins of education, family, and protection buried in time, technology has torn apart the fabric of relationships woven through the ages, the separation from the land has deeply wounded...

Continue reading...

Shadows are flying in my head. Emotions are lost . Darkness is running allover,thou life is a mystery. Deeply I feel sad, deeply I feel happy, asking why life is worthless. I can feel anger brewing inside my heart. Periodically hateness is installed in my heart. My emotions are lost in my own world,where I don't have access. I'm lost in my...

Continue reading...

In a dream, I see you shining as a star, your beauty is a beacon that leads me, you shine on me from near or from afar, in my life, your love I shall ever see. In a dream, I shall hold you close in love, an embrace that shines bright as the sun, I shall...

Continue reading...

In a sea of time, seeking happiness like a mirage dancing on the horizon, people confess their desire like a secret, like a confession in the night, and in their words hides a trembling of the soul, a shadow of bitterness, because happiness becomes a project, a fragile construction of dreams, an endless quest, like a journey to a...

Continue reading...

The leather tethers kept loosening. I had to pull at them until they dug into your body binding you to a rocking cross. It was all for nothing you died snapping at unseen knives, arching up, bending time into frozen waves. You once said you were Irish/Scots, Appalachian. You called yourself: Applachan. Sinewy girl --- wiry poppy stems in you, and engine oil to soften tenacious roots. The fever...

Continue reading...

Hyperbole hubris Venal penal Avarice abyss Bucolic tonic? Ironic…sardonic Or Vitriolic bliss mate! Mendacious salacious Algorithm schism Audacious outrageous Vicarious or nefarious Whatever geography Clever hagiography Moderate.. no berate Generate..venerate hate Casting various sordid spells Schadenfreude morbid void Everlasting..well..it sells well (swell) But Despotism urges Nepotism Surges of Plutocracy Merges with scourges of Kleptocracy Purges meritocracy...dirges of Democracy So Resist narcissists trysts Reminisces.. enlighten..persists Sagacious benevolent gracious times Redolent without malicious vicious Murky mucky malevolent mists...

Continue reading...

Somehow, the deluge of cloudburst unwraps my flesh pallid, as if to spill holy water--maybe thickened dew—just to give a name to lapses of my unheard cries, while an insolent breeze fails to listen as I howl in utter despair of life's requiem: The thistle of wet soil chains my feet anchored unto the swell of memories' bend; remaining distant in an...

Continue reading...

You are whatever you are. And I am whatever I want. So take me how? However I come. My stars won't let me fall far. Flowers and rainbows are all covered in scars. So keep counting your wishes like bugs in a jar. Nobody ever tells you that life's is this hard.t They just spin you around until you fall down. Round and round,...

Continue reading...

A child's joy was taken at gunpoint in a long, dark tunnel on a winter night~ as clouds drifted, whispering subconscious fears, stirred by music played by demons, loosed like wildfire in a room of mirrors. A bird chirps~ as if begging the clouds not to crash on the earth... the weight of iniquities, loosened by fire, now too overwhelming for the sky...

Continue reading...