POEMS, MY WORKS OF HEART

There are times my heart speaks for me, this is the place I keep its voice. – Ash

Gray Area (Halloween Spirit)

the whole way home was well lita street light every ten pacesfifteen paces for twelve-year-oldssafe in that direction untilwe came upon the housethe one…

Sleep Away Camp

by cabin four, sitting on a crooked stepforest sounds could be heardtrees whisperingbrooks babbling onbirds fight for a sleeping spot I sit alone and…

The Creature

the creature lurks when light flickers to darkgrowling in the voidslashing at realitydwelling in crevasses, damp, dirty, and soakeddrenched in bad, covered in wrongbroken…

A Night with George

Photo By: Sara Swain street of dampened cobblestonedirty pigeons and trampled smokeswhere marquee lights faded in the creeping sunand police cruiser chirps, shooed onas…

Black and White Memories

Sunday morningI could smell the scent of church perfumeNan must have just leftPop is cooking me eggs and mmm…eggs like no othersspecialfor mehe loved…

Back Before Supper

my face lay against the sweltering rock with one side toward the sun kisses clouds above me stream along shapes and sizes I make…

Turn Around and Let Me See You

I cannot believe that it’s youyou’re differentyou seemed just like me up to a pointnow you’re someone else… but not youI think that and…

Like a Death Warmed Over

twenty-three yearsit was placed in a boxdead for youdead like youflatlined from any more painyou left without a scaras your zombie still chased mebitinggrabbing…

Back Arm Trail

when I was youngI took the back arm way homewhere the town ended and the forest beganthe whole journey protected by those evergreen trees…

A Man Who Walked Through Beads

on the edge of my seat.. bout 6:30my best behaviour on displaythe only way someone else taught meall the rain had just stopped as…

My Feelings

that time in the eveningof a September dayis a feeling a time when thoughts can driftwhen sound stays quietthe road a certain hue of…

Let Me Practice Walking First

hot enough to split rocksthough, that July’s breeze was niceso you were serious, London Dock and lemonadebecause some dude at the dive bar last…

The Dory Between Us

those days we spent in the dorybarely a word was shared aloudour language was unique to only uson the nicest of days that were…

Today, Tomorrow

it is 4:30…almost 5:00a feeling of a brand new day you could tell because the moon is starving for more darknessafter gorging on it…

In the Heat of the Moment

we used to catch grasshoppers on sun kissed Saturday mornings between that and sliding down the hill on torn up cardboard our day was…

From These Tulips

when flowers turn to meI greet them with a smilewe sway togetherif I’m lucky I get a dancesome are shy, but most adore the…

Calm – Haiku

the shore is sleeping as the blanket dark tucks in  night sound til morning  

Doorway to a Rainy Day

a chair with no back black and white paint flicks all over it it’s pulled to the threshold of a spring rain where I was perchedat that…

Little Anthony

on this July summer nightI see you there in the skywhere you are not supposed to be what happened for you to go therewhy…

My May-Day

this is a dream I can’t be awake in this world because you are not in it I’ve searched everywhere but you’re gone today though, the dream changes…

The Devils Hold

I tempted the beast lured it from its dark home taunting and teasing dancing with this devil carelessly unknown my armour has dented, chinked,…

Deadman’s Cove

there was a day when the grass was the perfect green the ocean glistened in morse code each sparkle a story of its own…

Empty

over there, the light right there, darkness down there, too deep up there, just above water I don’t feel the sun I don’t walk…

Here Lies

I called for you last night it wasn’t for any of those other reasons we have this time it was to tell you I…

Come Rise, My Sun

my winter retreat was lonelyflurries turned into stormsdark skies seemed alwayscold bit me every secondice through my veins stiffened from lifesharpen gales to cut…

Falling In Place

It is cold where I linger my body numbs to something sharp all I can do is watch like I am in the clouds only I walk…

Under This One Light

under this one light in the amber hue, I have my portal to then an eve painted in summer teenage banter filled the air…

A Lifetime Between Us

I run toward nothing I have nowhere to go but I’m running away from the person you think I am away from the shadow…

Below My Surface

I am in the middle of the ocean with no shoreat night when there is no daywading in silence, not worth a soundbarely swimming…

This Purgatory

white white everywhere no walls no floor no ceiling just white am I touching anything am I alive where is the door through which I come did I walk through by willis this…

Blueberry Hill

when the blueberries come back…so do you we’re together again scraping and scrounging along the hillside every three paces we fill our cups  the colour blue today…

A Walk to Bartender

6:05 kicking rocks every stride a pebble or twosummer hugging me the whole waythe sun was slowly packing up for the day and the moon would…

Dirty Dare

that night there was a fire in all their eyes each time a heartbeat, another felt its rhythmic passion a guise was given to open the euphoricallow dreams…

A Story Written in Ash

When I write, I give it like blood all my emotions like DNA unique to me only it can be shared with others it passes through to the…

By the Trestle Bridge

no idea where I was goingwhere my footsteps were taking menot long off the bus and my bags still hanging off the borrowed bedI’m…

Out of Body, Into Life

today, the air was differentI paid attention to the seabirdswatched the tide go all the way outto my left, a boat hummed away from…

Whispers Toward The Darkness

Another ten paces and I fall again to my knees the truth is too unbearable like the scorch of the sun, it will burn hot no running will…

Dark Puzzles, Black Pieces

Lying awake in the dares of the night between the seconds of darkness that it created anxious, with a pulsing heart a sweaty grip gripping tightly so wishing…

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