Rock Bottom, C.L.
This stinging,
The smoke,
The nicotine to my head,
It’s something I’m grateful to feel.
Because the heartache,
The tears,
And the memory of you,
These wounds will never heal.
Who is this?
This shell,
This tired, lonesome girl,
Who had never felt so glum.
A stranger,
A mystery,
The reflection I see…
What have I become?
I can’t believe,
It meant nothing?
Every look you gave,
A lie covered by a smile…
And so [...]
Heartbreak Repeats
The beat that skips with your touch,
The gasp that draws when you clutch,
The urge that pangs when you look,
The grin that forms with what you took.
The butterflies with every kiss,
The longing for every breath I miss,
The frailty that grows with your smile,
The memory that falls with every mile.
The deepest insight to your mind,
The love that [...]
where albatross rise and dive
in the deep solitude of dream world
where scent of spring unmasks clouds
in the Aegean blue
where butterflies elliptical
fly into a serpentine stream of gold
with limitless steps to every climb
painting ethereal corral grounds
where sea Sirens sing Delphi oaths
seeking mirage of gods and goats
beyond the beauty to conceal
skin storm- driven passion play
of stone gaze [...]
Two Kores ( two girls)
you are veiling
my wind
pale voice still
of your unknown hill tops
movements and breezes
and summertime kisses
you stand and you hide your smile
your mona lisa pride
i touched your skin the other night
not by design just simple desire
in the white secret bay
my eyes have seen you lay
i paint your lines
in my trembling mind wishing your touch
and make you mine
the [...]
in the amniotic greek universe(streets,museums)
your glow has diminished in the eternal now
leaving behind a thin trail of darkness
that is more of a feel a smell in the night
and i barefoot i with my oracle kiss
with some thought of solitude without faith
that leads me outward to you like love
mystical and shy without any art of persuasion
a saint on my last [...]
Notions of Drowning
She lay beneath the blanket, fully awake –
another sleepless night
and she mindlessly counted
the drips of water as they gently
splashed into the bathroom sink.
1, 2, 3, (the number of times she
has given birth.)
4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, (the number of years
she has been remarried.)
10, 11, 12, (the number
of years since her divorce.)
and on she went [...]
eros anikaten mahan(cannot win eros)
like a forgotten work of art an ikon hang in a wall of flowers
left idle by time and social system in the open air monastery you are a
purified rose against my thorn of lust
corrupted by your beauty rituals
a stream of light you radiate
clothe me with grey looks of erotic eyes
shadow lips that have the taste [...]
dark sonata
embedded in a total sadness
darkness
of sensuous apprehension
without love’s harvest
that makes the east wind blow
flowing away the images
that springtime will be dancing
from the static cold caprices
of winter arabesque music
of long melancholic nights
where the inner frame of soul
only dreams and suffers a greater silence
as I the poet of discontent will
sleep in the stuffed museum
dreaming of salmon- color [...]
sirens in the aegean
at the sunset voices of children were born
self-imposed loneliness in exasperation of
olive branches of coral wind to
translate the nocturnal purpose
of flesh and blood libraries with no books.
word and image smell dust and oregano
salty zephyr the force of confrontation
of the the distant symbols of life
underground tour de force lamented over the sea
acting deteriorating like a surrealist [...]
My birth with sea light
Arrived then the harmony of light and it was april”s whisper
and i came out in the world
as the sea waited for the embrace of time
to live in her womb and in her loom of dreams
as the sand danced and gyroscoped
kissing the skin of mine i slept with seascape breast
of low mauve light her breath
liquid aquatic [...]
