poetry month

Departing the light

April 20, 2018PelgrisLeave a comment

Caution breeds
Egg casings populate
Drab halls
Pupate steps taken away from safe
Away from sleep
Each step into unknown
Fraught peril
Drink draught
Last cacophony before
Senescence

Frission between wake and sleep

April 20, 2018Pelgris2 Comments

Dream sleep functions
Unreal until dances the leaf
Last kiss
Last touch
Last time
Remembered night
Growing cold
Waiting for embrace
Skin shivers
As I
Unmoved
Stand

Ends and beginnings and ends

April 20, 2018PelgrisLeave a comment

What grows when thoughts of possible
When all seems bright
Expansion begins
Rooms long closed open
Thoughts long dust and dusty
Rejuvenate
Hope bursts as bloom
Fed fat on spring and blood

These rooms pass time empty
Doors swing shut
Sighs like lamentation in the downstairs closet
Sleepy forms just waking
Turn over in their uneasy beds
And at the end

I dwindle
To bared steel
Sharp eyes
And a heart once whole
Thrice broken
And slowly
Slowly
On the mend

Storms whimpered rage

April 19, 2018Pelgris3 Comments

Wall of dust
Come swallow me
Let me disappear within you
Flay flesh
Flense to the bone
This vehicle has outlived usefulness
I’m ready

Hard to see when you are lying to yourself

April 19, 2018Pelgris2 Comments

Stumble fall
Anxiety dissipates
Leaving the shattered remains
A broken puppet to its designs

The lie
He tells to make him feel better
That it was all anxiety
That it wasn’t his fault

But it is
It was
Pay attention
Wake up
Done

Ugh

April 19, 2018PelgrisLeave a comment

There is no poetry for how I feel
No cure for distress found in words
Nothing will suffice
Except her
True talk
Fuck

No words
Churning gut of worry
Wondering if you are ok
If you are hurt
If you need help
And can’t say
You say that it’s fine
But the word choices aren’t you
And the worry ratchets up
Are you under duress
Or is it some mood I haven’t seen
I’m inches away from doing something foolish
Or brave
You can never tell which
Until after