The Reprieve

You flew in my room I'd left the door cracked against the autumn air A wren you were no bigger than a latchkey   Lucky for you it was only me in residence The cat was gone just dreaming perhaps of...

the dream

last night, Rimbaud as the dream dogs howled you tripped on my creased pillow broke in a hundred poems across the floor cobalt hued… ocher, turquoise, vermillion glass glowing under moonlight’s...

dark lighting

a bed to sleep in silver from which silk wings rise your hair brushed by a sad angel my body ripped by bloody moths we will touch each other...

darkness

that evening you left me on the corner moths drank every street light a swarm of locust devoured the moon. *** NEIL BROSNAN: darkness
trinity by Neil Brosnan

trinity

koi pond fish papaya hued glows like burning coal a drawn out ember orange under blue skinned water swims through tree limbs kissing robins flying in fallen sky floating beneath my eyes where for a...
war by George Murphy

The Number of Our Days

Your flesh was a glass chorus of cruel sirens who with every touch chafed the ribbons of my fingers raw. In your blue eyes I notched with a yellow...

last rite

Sunday Christian radio Jesus on every other station the frequency of God stero summoned sermoned into farmland and suburbia I avoid content for now with Lady Ga Ga as I blow past a...
Naked by George Murphy

Naked

Naked Pocahontas cartwheels between sheaves of meadow grass and half truth history Little wanton Matoaka Turns twelve Within the rough-cut walls of sixteen eight Tobacco men of Jamestown elbow through blue smoke pulling on their blackened pipes grin dirty white to see...

conception of surrender

see how softly he whimpers now as the needle that fills him with kisses, weeps a concoction of sincerity cut with compromise tarnished silver teaspoon of grief erasing every meaning   whispering in...
king

the feign king

some twenty flights up enhanced by the light softly pooled on the surface of her shameless picture window’s glow she glides like a tropical fish behind glass slowly dancing...

echo

sleepless night toss and turn remembering when relived again amended to no avail   up-ended brought forth into that darkness promising clarity   absolute darkness entreats   silence traps…   your beating heart resurrects over and over refuses end. *** BITTER POEMS: echo BY NEIL...

mercy

Broken man, your fists, two blue sphinx curled atop a frayed wool blanket guarding what wastes beneath.   And still, that ruthless countenance remembered from childhood… your brute face eyeing me...

promise

swirling banner wind whipped color coded a field of stars a row of stripes remembering when freedom found a country to plant its perfect flag upon made a promise we pledge with our hearts to...

Poetic Puiu. Four More.

I live in the most beautiful island my brain ( exile maze )   locuiesc în cea mai frumoasă insulă creierul meu (exil în labirint)  do not go stay there I'll come later after dark or I'll write by...
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