I have just had the pleasure of having two poems, "A Blood Song" and "While Others Sleep," published in the online Former People: A Journal of Bangs and Whimpers. You can give them a read on their website. They do good work and have plenty of great pieces besides mine, so please take a look … Continue reading Published Poetry in Former People
dark poetry
A Time of Smoldering Wicks – A Poem
The weight of the ocean floor Pulls at your bones. Bees singIn your ear canal. We now liveIn a time of smoldering wicks.Things, undefined, come to A close. The threshold is neverCrossed; they sink away, andLife becomes a gradient. A letter is pressed to paper Again, again, it is grown pale.Even in type, things turn … Continue reading A Time of Smoldering Wicks – A Poem
Unfinished Canto of Blood & Crystal
Atop the frozen river breaks footstepsThe caravan of rags, thrown from estatesCarried by wind and settled on pathsAhead a horse, rearing, breaks through iceThere is no ground on which to runAll is fragile, shuffling and unsteady they moveThere is no savior where tiptoe may break glassSkin tears from frost, thrashingProduces a long, tender threadIn two … Continue reading Unfinished Canto of Blood & Crystal
Cantos of Blood & Crystal I-V: A Poem of Dark Fantasy
I. So said the hand in clutching pen, Written upon sheet upon sheet in endless scroll With trembling laid down, as the pitch of the sea Fierce rolling summoned in his ink: So began as all began Begotten storm in song. Swung the lantern below in theft of the Sun, Dawning upon the Face of we … Continue reading Cantos of Blood & Crystal I-V: A Poem of Dark Fantasy
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