Short Guttered Poems

Love.. one of the four letter words that is strong
But yet is guttered out of your mouth 
And captured by a faded kiss that you gave me 
The eyes that I once believed was innocent 
Became the wicked criminal I never thought you'd be...

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DRIVE BY…

In chilled onyx morning 
Silicon tears flowed
Down the plowed valleys
Of ebony skin.

Silicon tears
Leaking from sunken craters:
Red orbs bleeding residues of pain.

In the cold guttered streets
A father’s son lays dead:
A lifeless body riveted with lead.

Another father must now defend
The cardinal sin
Of a living son
Who fired the fatal gun....

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Torturous curves bending vision,
twisting to hide beyond today
what the prism of the future
holds captive down the whispered way.
Lost to us Love's fledgling glory,
gazing too long at cindered skies
till the velvet flame of passion
just guttered out in harsh good-byes.
Frail moths chasing bright illusions,
our palpitant attempts denied. . .
just down the road - to our mem'ry -
we'll lay a stone, "Here sweet love died."

Copyright, May 7, 2014
Faye Gibson...

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chased such a long time
I was behind myself
 
cobbled roads with water
streaming down the guttered edges
pouring into the end of a river
I chased  myself there
alone
nothing this end of town
 
I forgot why I'd been running
a perfect figure
well colored and clad
walked toward me, 
"You needn't run, the chase is ended."
With both hands, he touched my shoulders
 
I have smiled and watched the river
ever since I can remember
once, there was a boy running
and I caught him...

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