Hidden are my motives
Sweetest within
A dark layer
Full of sin.
*
Tracing your porcelain
Hand over my
Velvety petals
Whispering secrets
of
Rich and intoxicating
muses.
**
Blindingly you
Cast your
Doleful eyes
Away
From the turbulent
Seas of
Our being.
***
Have no
illusions that
I am
A ship
For your safe travels.
****
Beneath
My planking,
It is riddled with
Hollow.
****
My thorny red roses
A shadowed offering
Will pierce
Your heart and soul.
******
Only to witness
You bleed
Oh so slowly.
********
Just one request
I have for you.
**********
Refrain from
Spilling your
Crimson life force
On my pure
gilded vessel.
About the Creator
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My New Book is Finally Here
My poetry collection Beautiful and Brutal Things is done. It's actually done and finally published over 270 pages. Over a year of my life went into this book. More than a year, really. Long days at my computer, sometimes seven days a week because I couldn't stop even when I probably should have. Then two months of editing that felt harder than the writing itself. But it's finished, and I'm still standing, and the book is real.
By Tim Carmichaela day ago in BookClub
Comments (5)
This was so intense and poignant! I freaking loved it!
Okay, now I need a cold shower..., & some oxygen. Though I can make no promises over the blood, as such a poem pierces the heart, near demanding it break open & pour itself out.
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The stanzas with a couple of words make it easy to read and keep my attention. Well done!
Loved it! keep up the good work! Daphsam