Depression Waters Poems

i thought
i was
in a safe
home away from
home place

woe is little old sad me

it seem the heat fighters
and the crime grapplers

are in league with which doctors

because...

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Submerging myself with water of wistfulness
Trying to be rid of the loneliness in progress
I missed going outside and swimming in a precious, pure water
I’m looking...

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Storm Front

My voice is quiet. 
I have little to say. 
I am listening instead…

I can hear birds. 
Not a couple, but many.
They are all around....

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I had to get away from home as far as I possibly could.
His life was mine and my life was his, but now he's gone.
Never...

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Author Dana Redricks
August 3, 2017

Flowing waters from my eyes, why does my past still trouble me? Bitter memory wrapped up in tears. God, I ask...

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It's a hole in my heart, the shatter of glass
It's dark, it's the cold, it's the end of the class
The void in the stars, the...

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Dancing Waters
They drop like leaves
They cut themselves like Branches
They transfer their heart to their back
They paint themselves in red

The guns and boots are resurrected
They tattoo...

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Raging flood waters, rush to the sea
Grace the land renewed well watered  
Recede, recede leave bright flowers
Rush to the sea, raging flood waters

Is not...

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Streams of blue fluid 
Flows downward 
As fragile carcasses decay 
Without a peep of a sound

We’re in the brink of disaster… 

Who invited such fear...

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God calms the raging waters and stormy seas.
He replaces life’s storms with a “gentle breeze.”

He brings stability and speaks; “peace be still!”
This is his purpose...

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