Death bookends all life Darkness borders the light Silence follows every sound Blankness every verse. Oblivion catches all […]
Death
Valley of dry bones The breath of life in the wind Life is born of death
Everything born must die, Everything started must end. No one will ever truly know why, Everything born must […]
The cold taste of steel In your mouth, The faint scent of gunpowder Stings your throat. Just a […]
On the road again Back to where it all began, Where it will all end, Where it already […]
Life is not a road On which we walk. Roads can be walked In either direction. Life is […]
Delicate rosebuds Collected in the garden, Sweet smell of summer, Now just dried dead memories As we all, […]
Its so strange to think
That you’re not there
In that little house on Salem Avenue
Sitting on the couch
Quietly reading fantasy novels on your Kindle
While Dad watches NCIS,
As if you’d always been there
And always would,
While I sit here across the mountains
Hunched over a notebook
Writing til my hand cramps
Trying to make sense of it all.
This is a collaborative poem written in the aftermath of the latest mass shooting in America. I’m grateful to have been including amongst this group of powerful poets – JWL
Just another day
just another town
bullet perforated backpacks
spilling loose-leaf lined paper, textbooks
onto blood stained sidewalks
helicopters hovering
to give us the birds eye view
I tried to avert my eyes
out of respect for the dead
the injured
but I could not look away
Christine Ray
Even though I should
Because I am ashamed
At the bullets that rain
At the bullet point pain
Etched in their faces, rivulets in their eyes
They were just children, stolen from their time
Not forgotten in these lines
But to their parents and loved ones
It’s a void they’ll never fill, and it shouldn’t
Lives shredded and ruined
17 times we’ve gotten the chance to do better
and for the 18th, we blew it
Just like those children who looked at their killer
Their killer is not Nikolas
The Killer is you
Devereaux Frazier
For Karen S. Leys (1952-2018) And then You were gone. A spark of anger That I missed the […]
John W. Leys 