3 posts tagged “poem”

I know I have been posting sporadically at best. Busy, Busy, Busy... I am focused on my full length novel and other bits of short fiction. The Naked SunFish is proving a great place to feature some of my shorter pieces.

The poems come to me as they do. I do not try to force them and I am playing with some different styles and forms and I have been reading some modern and poets of old - to learn about style and form and generally improve my craft.

I have also been freelancing or trolling for more projects.

In addition to all of that... I have schedule a poetry reading and will be participating with other contributors to the Sunfish in a read- aloud!

The biggest announcement - I have been accepted to the Kenyon Review's Summer Poetry Workshop! I am very excited about the workshop! I applied on a whim, after seeing it in the Poets & Writers magazine.

Write On!

Spoon full of glass
Fun sparkles on my tongue
as the choking - through my throat they pass

Fire in my gut
Ache in my heart
Screaming I slam my eyes shut

Spoon full of glass
I feast upon at breakfast, lunch and tea
Praying for salvation at daily mass

My eyes bleed as I struggle to hide
This gut wrenching God awful pain
Riveted I religiously consume what I cannot abide

Spoon full of glass
Shredding my heart
Agony my new master class

Simmering just below the surface
A conundrum of confusion
Wisdom of no purpose

A spoon full of glass
Choked down pound for pound
Holding my nose, ever fast

Vocal cords silenced complaint
The cries in my head louder by the day
Bloodletting - required compliant

Spoon full of glass
Release me oh tyrannical devil
I can swallow no more alas

For small bits to shards
Have ribboned my soul
Drink no loner the pain retards

Spoon full of glass
Returned to sand by the winds of change
The direction determined by the broken compass

SHATTERED
bits of glass
fissures in the icy surface
shifting accusation bursts
building to the crash

FRACTURE
clean jagged edges
the rip of fierce energy
Free falling - let go
Abrupt ending yielding a marred smoothness

SHREDDED
burst of pieces, into a silent void
corrugated disjunction
repetitive screaming madness
Industrious destruction

IMPLOSION
a forceful explosion internally contained
a silent madness burning, embers of brightness
awake the Phoenix - no more shall she slumber
Awash in bloodless agony reborn