Take flight the conquering hero...
Conquered
Tag: free verse
Residual
ten thousand lifetimes in a single breath exhaled...
Descend
Chandeliers flicker, holding dying flame...
Bloodstained
can’t stop tearing can’t stop gnawing...
The Way Things Are
Clawing at stone, frantic, it crumbles away to dust and behind the wall are theater lights...
The Wind Breathes Ash
A broken branch found life again, grafted to a ray of starlight...
Passing By
Waves rolling under iron-forged skies, clouds fighting to hold back the sun...
Careless Gods
Walk with me into this wretched place to sift through refuse left behind by careless gods heaped upon the altars we built to them and strewn over the halls of their cathedrals...
Night Over Cryptic Lands
It was out on the broken glass slopes of mountains that towered as kings over the wild-light desert where I watched the ruby sky turn to ink...
Waiting at the Edge
In the hollow place a desert gathered and scores of the weary gazed across the sand to the far side secrets of the horizon...
The Shape of Moonlight
I saw you as you once were a reflection in a blade raised against the night a being of moonlight in a distant world smiling to yourself at some mystery...
Beneath Rushing Falls
I watched you walk beneath the rushing falls back and forth along the granite ledge feeling the weight of the river cascade upon you...
Beneath the Fruiting Tree
Almost the dark of night is deep enough for this garden of secrets to be planted Soil rich in sorcery waits beneath the fruiting tree ready to embrace the broken seeds...
The Coming of Strange Beasts
Feed my soul the pieces of a shattered sky The sweetwater stars like funeral wine paint visions of ruin across the empty night until the bottle runs dry...
What We Aren’t Saying
Faces laughing, awash in a bloodred glow Whispered truths lost beneath the conversation Glimpses away into secret places...
