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Day one: Crawled To my foremost steps Day two: Tumbled At the curse of tripwire Day three: Was continuous falling Through the floorboards And down To unknown lows Day four: Realized The curse was truly me So I chastised my own flesh Damning, my urge to draw breath Day five: I spiraled with rage Through…
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He elopes with reveries Firmly clasped In his iron vise Taking off For uncharted skies As his inner demons Prowl, and draw near Into vapor Is the fate Of his long harbored regrets Undone In the exhausts That propel him higher To yearn To fervently dream They are left Tarnished Beyond all recognition In the…
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A tremendous fluttering Dwells Beneath My rib cage An offbeat rattling An erratic thundering Sends static coursing Through each of my writhing limbs How I contort Engulfed By anticipation The heavy burden of tomorrow That lingers, far too long Atop my weary form Do I remain In the dreadful folds Of waiting? Or do I…
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What can I do? Is a burden I’ll never truly shake It thrives Beneath my skin It pursues my roving thoughts Like a shadow Tailored, in the fabric Of misdeeds, long ago How my mind Loves to dwell In the squalor of ages lost How it yearns To drive the sleeping Into the arms of…
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Drowsing away Lamely In the narrow folds of sloth For the day Is but a sheet Of rolling grey Coveting the skies And marauding My hazy thoughts My mind Is placid As it free-falls Into catatonic dreams Far From the summit of anger Where I nest Hollow Incapable And derailed
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Still She rings in my ears As the conqueror Of each shadow-laden day The piercing cry From the pit of my conscience That skewers All in her path She buries herself Within the grey matter Twirling, dancing As done in days prior Refusing To slip away Her fingertips burrowed Inside my quivering psyche I refuse…
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I dwell in shackles Among the throes Of her deafening anguish Beneath Her fog of dismay I coil with fear Bracing In the ordinance of her treads She emerges disheveled Entombed in agony Overcome by her thoughts And the restless sway of emotion To which I take root In the mire of devotion In defiance…
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Salvage my worth Before I am too Far gone Before I am rendered mute By the waterline That claims my all Each night I plunge Is a shrill cry for rescue To be pried, from the wreckage Of my failing form Each night Is but, a hollow endeavor Where I lose clarity And implore For…
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Dusk Became a keepsake jewel Housed, in the hull of memory The clouds were aflame Rolling forth Toward oblivion’s Frozen embrace To be enslaved To be swallowed whole By surging tides of black I basked in the fall Their fiery decline As the earth Was garbed in shadow
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