poetry
“To Wear Your Heart On Your Sleeve” by Katalyn Louis Parks
A secret inside me,
It’s feeding off my wealth,
But I do what I can,
To preserve it’s health,
If whispers reach their ears,
It could jinx it’s core,
And paranoia tears me up,
As it’s happened once before.
This feeling is too real,
And I can’t close my eyes,
It’s stuck on me, I’m stuck on it,
That was part of the surprise,
I’ve seen it [...]
The Gift of Reason
Sadly, it seemed
Everything she had accepted as truth
Could no longer sustain her. Shattered, her life lay in
Ruins. If only she had had
Enough wisdom to
Think before opening her mouth… for
She now knew there were those things better left unsaid
Does It Matter
Does it matter
That I’m from
A different place
Though born
In the same nation?
That my influences
Are sun and sea
And the strictness of West Indian life
Not the cold grey laxity of the British way?
Does it matter
That I learned
A brighter grammar
And the Queen’s so-called English
That I went to school
And stayed in school
That I don’t smoke
And hardly drink
But can still have [...]
Not For Ladies
Pregnancy is not for ladies
Check your self-esteem at the door
It’s not so obvious at the start
When your breasts turn into
Self-inflating grapefruit
Tempting the touch
But so tender
That you want to scream
If anyone even looks at them the wrong way.
But as time passes
So does your dignity
While you trip, tumble and roll
Your cumbersome way
Through the next few months
Snatching sleep [...]
Tonight looked as the Miramar did
Tonight looked as the Miramar did
Reading through the rages which twilight hid
Twinge of white and red bound together easy for sight
In that steam night of Miramar’s light.
Arabesques and arches resounding Caesar’s ring
In lands unimaginable by both Moor and King.
Wherefore is wood and wherefore the ardour
In this land of men rapt by endless [...]
East Coast Sunrise
The sea-fragrant air insinuates itself into your mind,
Wrapping itself around your waking dreams like a warm blanket,
Then gently touches your eyelids, your mouth, your body;
A lover’s caress, to bring you out of sleep.
Outside, foam-flecked waves rear snowy heads
The descend, emptying their essence onto the warm, waiting sand.
Undisturbed by the bustle of wind-blown clouds
The sun begins [...]
“Dreaming” - A Poem by Katalyn Louis Parks
I’m tired of this daydream,
And I’m ready for the world,
So as I opened my eyes,
Everything unfurled,
The water was wet,
And the winters cold,
And the things from my dreams,
Were only stories told.
The world is the night,
And my dreams the day,
Sleeping with open eyes,
And everything looks grey.
But he works as my caffeine,
Keeping me alert,
He can make me wake [...]
Judge, not Judge-?
Ladies and gentleman. a prosecutor shuddered,
Fingering his rep tie and silk-wool vest,.
The girl murdered her mother. Her mother!
The least you can do is put her to death.
Evidence shows a single shot to the head
Killed the victim instantly. Pow!!
The accused and her sibling may not have been fed,
But that is not at issue. [...]
Poetic Slavery of Language
poetic slavery of language
in a marble tide dreamlike
stones for rubies fossils for blood
the eye’s kiss is a sky
the innermost cypress bends
out of winds and rain is
a vanished monument
veined and hollow
that is turned into poetic words
under the sails into the depths of
the wind that blows the clouds
waving the young morning light
into submission
i play with language without [...]
A Blanket Of White (poetic-prose)
Is it naïve to believe that beauty
Might last forever; that sapience
Could reign supreme; that life might
Blossom in gloriously unending colors?
LONGING for that special day to arrive -
IMPASSIONED when at last it does -
RHAPSODIC at times in our pursuits of the intangible …
Beguiled inexorably in times
Continuity; our lives ebb and flow to
Invisible forces around us, while [...]
