Submissions by poetree

Icarus

Dreaming…shackled,
I see the world in visions,
cryptic manifestations
of innocence and heartache,
longing and sorrow,
I see in plagues
the hunger of humanity,
the fateful tragedy of existence

and I find myself
still believing in the elasticity of air,
feeling grace in the intangible
silence of holiness
and with a pang
the weeping agony of
separation and loss-
the stillness in sacrifice.

And like death it draws me in,
emerging like the flame behind the smog
of a cremation fire
the Sun,
the...

For Sonny,
Dream Brother



Menrva

In the season of fading light
beneath the shattered fragments of a
vermillion sky
I saw your embers glowing gently
in the aftermath of tragedy

You, Theou Noesis,
Mourning Mother,
whispering secret syllables
in silent somnambulant symmetry

I heard you
Your clarion cry a detrition under
the weight of the universe surrounding,
impedious and fractured by he
crumbling bones of your
senselessly slaughtered son

I reached out to you

and in the sacred...