poet tree / a list of eight

i am about to share some of my poetry out into the interwebs this is quite a frightening venture for me. i can't clearly formulate the reasons for this fear in my head, but they include concepts such as:

     a. my poetry is quite angsty.

     b. my poetry is quite poor.

nevertheless, i'm releasing these vagrant poems from their paper cages. they are mostly from a slim volume of poetry circa. 2014, and they are mostly drawn from pink floyd songs, thinking too much, genuine boredom, and cute boys. and there is also quite a bit of Jesus in them as well. they are long and quiet summer nights, when my mind was wretched and raw with sorrow, and they are my memories, and they are my insecurities. but i'm not a poet. 

i'm letting these pieces because i need to be more honest with myself and you; you need to know that i am not a poet and i need to stop taking myself so seriously. i wrote these poems because i wanted to write poetry; i'm not a poet.

FEBRUARY THIRD, 2014 - the story speaks

welcome, wayward warrior,

to the river of my soul.

enter, hopeless wanderer,

to a scattered, silver shoal

and inside my mind enscroll

all that's left of your control,

and on the ragged page unroll

the blood you never bled,

the words you stole.

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??? / 2014 - northern skies

the howling fire of the dawn,

the cracked and bitter sun:

you fade as night's dark ocean 

falls to cloak the winter sky.

this sunless fabric rolls 

across the shoulder of our ground;

yet still with hope, the faultless stars

pierce chasms in the sea.

i fell in love with northern skies;

they hold my heart in slavery.

encased in ice, my lungs whisper

in wonder of the stars:

the faultless stars.

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FEBRUARY TENTH, 2014 - enjolras

do you remember yourself

in your quivering past

when your coming of age

ran away with your rage,

and the gathering stars 

slept beside your head.

but the blood in your veins

stained the paris streets red.

you fell for freedom,

and all your dreams

fell with you.

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JUNE TENTH, 2014 - the storm: an experiment in slant rhyme

you saw my heart in fractures,

and you pushed your fingers in the cracks;

the wind is falling from my lungs.

my skin is drying on the rocks

of shale, and shaking in the sky,

with feathers frayed and black eyes dim,

the raven reads between the lines

and shudders at the story in

the clouds, and when the city lights

have faded and the sea runs red

you'll find me on the rain and 

in the rain, and of the rain: sad

lifetimes chasing through my hair;

grey ghosts inside a neverwhere.

we are the only ones left there:

the silent clouds.

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??? / 2015 - she's a sculpture

she's a sculpture: cut and dry,

carved from mountains, born of sky.

ocean salt is in her veins;

she's an artist, scarred with stains.

silver stairs dance in her hair:

golden fire in her eyes.

she's the only one left here;

elvenfolk left her behind.

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SEPTEMBER 24TH, 2014 - there are tiny moths in my room

shivering, quivering, inaudible wings -

the black and silver dust:

the charcoal beings.

shuddering, fluttering, i can never escape them - 

they, the mass of bodies:

the mass of ghosts.

chaos above, below. i huddle in the darkness - 

i'm shrouded in whispers;

the whispers of flight.

chaos below, above. i see constellations -

they correlate the sky;

they've taken my ceiling.

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MARCH 2015 - a poem about God

you are irregular: lovely, terrifying.

i need you, but i am afraid.

you are the sky: soft, gentle, angry, terrible.

i cannot control you.

you are an enigma: a sword or justice, a cross of love.

i can't wrap my head around you.

you are the stars: brilliant, soft, full of rage, powerful, cold,

so near, and so far.

and you are an ocean: enthralling, dark, unfathomable.

i'm sinking into you.

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AUGUST 2014 - the mourning star

a flash. a wave of light:

the rimless shell of light that fell

over his face...

his face is like the sun, the stars.

his eyes are full of tears: 

the world's tears, yet 

my tears, your tears.

in his eyes, all the sadness

of the world. the light 

that warms my skin in Jesus,

the mourning star.