Your only child
...You lay your only son on a pyre.
Blood dipped in sweat he calls out to you and claws at your sleeves
The very cloth on you is unmoving and unshaking.
He screams unrelentless tones but you are no...
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Categories:
unshaking, abuse, baby, betrayal, child,
Form: Free verse
With Each Morning's Promise
...Reflections of pink, and gold on heaven’s floor,
A hint of memories that came millenniums before,
And the radiance of God’s glory, from the heart's core,
Is a new dawn, for our taking.
In th...
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Categories:
unshaking, rights, women,
Form: Free verse
Nurturing As Love
...Trickling down the unblemished glass
Window, squeaky clean and clear,
…comfortingly still
Quiet as the gentle healing
From the splatter of raindrops who whisper
In soft dripping, soothing, tempt...
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Categories:
unshaking, appreciation, inspiration, peace, rain,
Form: Free verse
The Queen's Letter 8
...Where the candles chase away the darkness, o'dear husband there an stranger in my heart. From heaven descend who voices shall I call dear husband to chase away your decree? Meaning dewell wisdom thy ...
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Categories:
unshaking, lost love,
Form: Sonnet
Alma
...Where have u hidden yourself from me? When I was to rise from my high throne, to put on my suit of war, take my sword from it's place to make war with those enemies I through have done the deed. But ...
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Categories:
unshaking, farewell,
Form: Sonnet
Jack the Ripper
...he played a dirty hand
though he washed them
thoroughly each day.
Brilliant mind, hiding
a hollowness so dark
committing horrendous crime
on the lowly and the discharged,
those forced to fee...
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Categories:
unshaking, death, people, night, night,
Form: Free verse