What brings you here on such a night,
under satellite?
The sirens echo like it’s such a chore.
Oh, the blood and mortar. Continue reading “Elevate”
Tag: dream
Stargazing at Noon
Ask me where I’m looking,
my answer plays the same tune.
I say I’m watching the clouds move,
I’m stargazing at noon. Continue reading “Stargazing at Noon”
A Game of Choices
At first, I was going to make this into a dream poem but I wanted to be more explicit in the description of this particular dream. What’s a Choice? I dreamt a dream I shouldn’t remember. A clever dream, really. A dream more easily forgotten than the next, yet remembered. If only slightly. In another […]
Sunkissed
Meet me in a raindrop,
dress me in your gaze.
Convince me that I’m in control
like those days I got in the way. Continue reading “Sunkissed”
Of Fireflies
A memory in lamplight,
the clarity in the blur
of little lights giving rise
to that spark you lost long ago. Continue reading “Of Fireflies”
It Comes in Waves
I dream of people I want to forget
as I sleep away days and days.
Losing time and patience
to get a semblance of
happy little rays.
Sunshine and
smiles are
scarce. Continue reading “It Comes in Waves”
Future Fear
Father, I’ve seen you too soon.
Your eyes of passion
do not incite when you spot me. Continue reading “Future Fear”
Biblioteca
A bookcase, a staircase.
The Ginsburg lady
can lift you
up to the next landing. Continue reading “Biblioteca”
Dreams of Stranger Times
So I’m thinking about getting back into poetry. But the extent of my “good” poetry is pretty much exclusively dream poems, in which I have a dream, wake up and write it down, then transform it into a poem. So I guess I’ll just share a few I wrote while at university and see how […]
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