Showing posts with label free verse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label free verse. Show all posts

Monday, August 19, 2013

Excerpt from 'Mayhem'


While there is music, there is mayhem

Where rocks sit peacefully also violence survives

Only guesses tell where the start is

Bad and evil people who have become

Who've had things taken, stripped, burned, broken, buried

A life, a means, a quest for happiness: destroyed

To make way for the contagious wrath of misfortune

Wrapping, squeezing its way around air pipes

Thieves create thieves and murderers, murderers

A vicious cycle

Ever-present

Fear gained

Nothing spared

Strength of hope tested

Suspected initiation from the deepest south and west

So many rocks to throw

Or be hit by

Mayhem covers this land

From every which way
There is no end

Sunday, August 11, 2013

Excerpt from MFAU


A broad landscape revealed
Rounding a corner to be blasted with light

Its beauty is cracked

Chasing the horizon; futile
Gabriela has found no resolution
And upon bestowing massive magnificence

Answers fly further away