-
Red roads bleed into “Rome” Into its arteries of gold Where hopes and prayers Converge and collide Its diamond eyes Gleam vain and defiant Fighting off the marsh The sprawled hand of its curse On its serpent back roads Stay the course, stay the course Or be cleaved and devoured By a rumor in the…
-
Untied, we tread softly into midnight Burned down to mere scraps Of rushing moments well-spent We relive our old tempests What was true in our chests Many seconds ago Beneath nights full of embers We are free to cascade When the earth changes colors, Untied, taking off Into the brave shades of old
-
Let them clash Against fortitude at last; The rogue waves in the dark Rushing forward from nothing They reveal this vessel’s every fatal fault, Threatening the hull With a scheming downpour When the vessel is beached With the world astern They will lure him adrift On a nocturnal breeze Until he’s claimed By rust
-
There is no trace of the boy Of the former stray, His mountainous youth Is just a fading thrill His home is a cluster Of haunted peaks Sinking each moment On a spare horizon A homeward endeavor Is the fragile dream Rattling around With his racing thoughts The homeward journey, Cracked and forgotten By a…
-
The fire swept, blackened hills Once nurtured a promise A full life calling For a madman’s stride Now they don’t spare a sound Only wallow in the storms, Slowly wearing them down With their dreary assaults What will rise in their place When this cold downpour Is just a nightmare adrift In tomorrow’s grey veil?
-
Originally posted on Raja's Insight: It was a long and torturous way In the hulls of beasts Through the cold and turbulent waves It was on a thieving wind My forefathers wailed and groaned In the scorn of their bonds It was a plentiful trail For the menacing sharks All prowling in wait It was…
-
Their blood red shovels tear a path To the ruptured well, To the black artery Rushing back to his roots As the moonlight mourns Gleaming cold in the dark Cruel travelers, cleave down Into the truth-bearing rapids They’ll disperse as his friends In the eagle-eyes of dawn, Leave the old earth scarred, Shedding rumors of…
-
Originally posted on Raja's Insight: There’s a new wave of huddled masses Streaming through our ports Strangers, who bear the full weight of our fears “Drive them away” Is the war-cry of so-called natives From the sons and daughters of old travelers “Terrorist” Is scrawled over every proud name Every doctor, every teacher, every wide-eyed…
-
Wading through the reeds and vines In the dark heart of autumn Where the fog rolls to shore Each back-breaking dusk I bleed the earth dry Each criminal voyage Weighed down and swollen With its far and wide spoils I set fire to those nights Sent adrift with new friends Filling daylight with treasures We’ll…
-
The house, With the dead potted plants Creaks and moans all night, Many tired eyes are drawn To the dwindling pyre The house, Overflowing With years of neglect, Sits rotting in the sun Leading travelers astray That house will be lost In the clutter of the past, Undone by the footsteps That left her for…
-
Subscribe
Subscribed
Have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
