Unseeing Streetlamps
Under the celestial awing
degrees of darkness
Stygian night or silky blue
Secret light seeps out of
manifold hurts
soon absorbed by night's hue
By the quay, lovers watch the light
commit suicide
in dark waters
Only the sleepless see this
and prowlers with knives
killing with passion
Categories:
unseeing, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Blank verse
Shallow as a pond that you can see right through,
I know what to expect, its nothing new
People focus on the silly things, not what really matters
For if they saw what was really valuable,
Their inch deep world would shatter
They have no substance, they are paper thin
To be this way is quite a sin
To only see the outside, not what really counts
This way of viewing the world, will never in truth amount
Categories:
unseeing, humanity,
Form: Free verse
In numbness I bask
Stripped of joy, stripped of agony
A vessel that’s hollow
Life’s curse, life’s sweet irony
The gods I ask
Cruel, unrelenting
Shunned with silence
Dejected, spiting
The sun sets
Glaring, mocking
Shadows are cast
The world is dying
Categories:
unseeing, angst, depression, sad,
Form: Free verse
Shaking, the restless world leads
How the heart did ponder upon the triumph
Thoughts made unclear, fogged as the heart proceeds
The mind as lifeless as a poker-faced bluff
Clearing the skies as if all were deemed fair
The shattered walls rumble in their slumber
Matte, the world sits as all fire not distinguished tears
The flattened blows and pulse had quickened throughout
Those who've claimed conflict as rational,
Damaged, as an undesired clout.
Categories:
unseeing, fear, passion, war, world,
Form: Rhyme
Art
without
expression-
does not see,just
looks.
Ekphrasis after Edschmids comments
Categories:
unseeing, art,
Form: Lanterne