Obscura Poems - Poems about Obscura

. for public domain Humanity Obscura Masks preserve anonymity, words reveal some humanity. We study to lie, to the ear and the eye, to shade our own grim inanity. We will to have Truth to believe in, but lies can serve Grace to redeem sin, we are not what we seem, on the stage or the screen, but there's Blessing enough to forgive sin. Not knowing what...

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As we all know, April is “National Poetry Month.” Last year’s Poetry month, was like a month-long superbowl. We all enjoyed the fireworks, the rhyming-parades, live televised poetry jams and interpretive dances (ick). Speaking about last year, once again, the Academy of American Poets has asked me to take the month off - for ”the sake of poets everywhere.” “Dear Anais Don’t...

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through the lens darkly piercing the vail starkly past the thin veneer of the world into the next, past the bones of this incarnation and gravitations greed through the lens of the past, reflexing into the future of a world never known or understood, a thin film on paper the chemistry of magic steals the essence...

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"50 Words for Poe: camera obscura" The Night Flower turns in her bed in a dark room stories of wraiths like flies buzzing in her head and blood-sucking bugs that bite Rippers and lovers dead come to collect her from her ornery black-balled plight The box is closed it would seem, tight. She returns to her Chronovisor, a mind, tincture of absinthe blind she dreams...

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It first began looking, at my great grandparents, in old pictures albums or on the wall, so I did not understand longing, for simpler times or why, I would think I would see a picture of me there. I would always look but never seeing me. It never stopped me from looking, when I was...

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you view the world through your very own lens with a picture of you and me that could never develop in your dark room. and you'll never see the world for what it is when you're always focused on the negatives. we couldn't keep the pose we held before the flash, then we started to lose focus- things were...

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