Reticence
I hold my silence in your distance
that you may live peace
In this place devoid of life,
where emptiness leeches
the color from my world, I linger.
Having failed to purge you from my
Blood, the plague of loneliness
pulses a cold I cannot shake.
My heart, shackled to your eternity
sees you in every stillness.
Your face in the beams of an
early morning moon.
Hears your voice in the song
of a whispering wind.
Your heartbeat in the flutter
of dragonfly wings.
She searches in endless frenzy,
thirsting your taste in the fog.
Then in the dread of night,
she seeks you in my dreams.
A lifetime of full moons
and starless skies spent
captive to her restless pull.
I am wearied from her plight.
For an empty heart is heavier
than a pillar of stone.
Yearning
Time speeds along in haste
clutching my flesh savagely.
I stumble along with futile
resistance as I am dragged
to trail the ramblings
of her meaninglessness.
Yet my heart heeds no force
for her will is greater than
the pull of ocean tide.
Her hold the strength of
a cyclones raging fury.
For she still feels the song
love strummed on her strings
playing in the hollow spaces,
though it’s harmony has changed.
Sadness tunes a lonely chord.
A solemn melody plays endlessly
to an aching rhythm
she cannot silence.
Meaninglessness resounds in
the void of languishing moments.
Every beat bleeds empty.
Nicole Surginer, is a poet from the small town of Bastrop,Texas. She is inspired to write by her love for nature’s enchantment, a fascination with the power of raw, intense emotion and a desire to express the beauty of love in it’s purest form. She has been published in Tuck Magazine, Anti-Heroin Chic, Indiana Voice Journal, Tuck Magazine, In Between Hangovers, Your One Phone Call, Sick Lit Magazine and Oddball Magazine, with pending publications in the Contemporary Poet’s group anthology “Dandelion in a vase of roses”.
Carl Scharwath, has appeared globally with 80+ magazines selecting his poetry, short stories, essays or art photography. He won the National Poetry Contest award for Writers One Flight Up. His first poetry book is ‘Journey To Become Forgotten’ (Kind of a Hurricane Press). Carl is a dedicated runner (“that’s where his art ideas spring from.”
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