Black Roses: Poems of Darkness



Of a Love No More


Vomit green car
Coke can falling
Out an open door
Puking sputtering to life
As a pedal touches floor

Blue grey fumes
Exhumed from the grave
Rocking the cradle
Heating the cauldron
Dipping a ladle

Violet sky hue
So high before dusk
So high before dawn
Disinterested
A disheartened yawn

Broken gold heart
In sticky candy wrappers
The chain is broken
Lying on the floor
Parting words spoken...

imachinations


the burning puppet dances
on a sea of flaming glass
tap dancing the mirrored sparks to life
as bloody dew drops gather
on the blades of glass
in the form of a figure eight
in numbers to great to calculate
the reasons for your scarlet imachinations.

carved as runes in wooden feet
by an unseen knife
are your intentions
as hard to touch as infinity
are your acid-etched imachinations.

not limited by reason are you
or the speed of the light
that shines through your stained-glass personality.

 

 

 

 

Monologue


Rapid fire tongue
Frog tongue flicking flies
Snatching words out of the air
The shark smile does not disguise
A twisted tongue oozing lies
From a heart that does not care
For either way the wind blows is fine
And whether the end or means
Is common or divine
Nothing is as it seems
Whether plodding reality
Or rapid fire dreams
That cling with tenacity
To the fly paper of your tongue
That speaks of things to come
Of heroes and gods unsung
Emerging from the thick fog
That blocks out the sun
Will your monologue
Ever be done?


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