Blood Waves
...Heated by sun and rock
a mottled snake licks the morning air.
Last night, stones were its eyes,
a blood-chill had frozen the flavor
and flicker
of tongue and taste.
The daylight i...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
sightlessly, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Smoke
...A blind light crashes
through bar windows.
Since they began to talk
her breasts had moved
to a small apartment in his head.
The smoke from her cigarette
shaped words
into sensuous motes.
...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
sightlessly, poetry,
Form: Free verse
My Flame Through the Wax
...MY FLAME THROUGH THE WAX
The smell of your eccentric personality appeases my hot soul
to bring the high and mighty so low.
The rhythmic waves of your peaceful heart calms my whirlwind,
bringing...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
sightlessly, 1st grade, feelings, for
Form: Rhyme
Smoke
...A blind light crashes
through bar windows.
Since they began to talk
her breasts had moved
to a small apartment in his head.
The smoke from her cigarette
shaped words
into sensuous motes.
...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
sightlessly, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Resistance
...RESISTANCE (EAST TIMOR)
A young man
A young man lying
Sightlessly staring beyond the sky.
Resistance…
A fierce wind blowing…
Bitterness trapped in his quietened heart.
His forehead.
a ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
sightlessly, war,
Form: Epitaph
Incidental Story
...Step softly over this silken knot;
Ease into this particular caress..
I have a story
Written slowly on cloth of gold..
The wrappings shimmer sightlessly
Around the nearest ornamental Diary.
And then...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
sightlessly, love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Soul of Man
...The Soul of Man
Authored by Chuck Keys
I saw the pond on the water glaring
was it upside down or right side up
either way, it talked to me of changing times
where men...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
sightlessly, black african american, life
Form: Free verse
In Her Absence
...Here I am once more...smoking
..on the balcony of my dreams.
My heart’s beating gestures of love...pulsating,
...deserted in the darkness of lust.
Ardent thoughts conquer my mind,
While puff...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
sightlessly, fantasy, love
Form: Free verse
Silent Sermons
...So sacrifice the sacrificial,
like a windblown winter thistle,
directionless, unguided missile,
too late, too late, the warning whistle.
Deaf and dumb, ignore the warner,
crouched and shrouded...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
sightlessly, allegory, confusion, faith
Form: Monorhyme
Sedated Hope
...The age of premonition and belief in false speculations…
A firm believer of the grace now devoted to inelegance…
All it stated was an untainted fib…
Darkened fiend now restive within…
Falling b...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
sightlessly, hope, dream, dream, hope,
Form: Lyric
Civil War
...it finally was acknowledged as a problem. something has gone wrong
we must LOOK BACK retrace our steps and explain why exactly
this corpse is still moving. hold the clipboards tightly- what should
...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
sightlessly, allegory, angst, life, people,
Form: Free verse
Child of Amsterdam
...the droplets ran in blurring rivulets,
her form behind the glass a fluid shape,
a naked wraith in smoke from cigarettes;
about her shoulders ghostly tendrils drape
when posing through the pane...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
sightlessly, life, people, places, sad,
Form: Terza Rima
Unrequited
...Croons my fractured heart to you,
a melody breaking on deaf ears;
seeks my lonesome ghost for you,
blindly in dark domains.
Cries my conscious mind for you,
a silent web of silver tears;
...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
sightlessly, life, loss, lost love,
Form: Verse