Poetry

My favorite genre to write would have to be poetry.  I have been reading, interpreting, and writing poetry for many years now and this genre only gets more fascinating as I continue to explore.  There are many definitions of poetry, but the individual experience that a poem possesses would have to be its most important quality.

Sample Poem
 

The Parasitic Psychology of Night

Come alive, secret flame,

And purge my missing name.

Release the fragments of ash and coal

For all to breathe.

Burn away the whispers

Of dreams far gone astray,

Lost beneath the rays,

The light of my eyes.

Pierce its home of breathing

Where it dwells restlessly,

Feeding and maturing in gluttony;

Release into the damp air

The cool evening sky,

Wander, lost from sight,

To chill loneliness and awake a scar

Floating as an orb around my face.

The poem bellow was written in response to a dear friend's battle with cancer.  In a lot of ways, we were both battling with the disease in the midst of his struggles.  Many others gathered to comfort one another with the loss of a best friend, brother, son, cousin, nephew and grandson.  We will all miss him dearly and hold our memories close.

A Prophetic Eulogy

Your gentle face haunts me with walking tears

And for hours at a time I sink behind split veils,

Curtained around a lonely corridor, filled with people

Continuing to live their lives while you lay there

Staring into an imaginary sunrise surrounded by darkness

Where have you been sleeping while I lay awake

Praying for a miracle or for a moment somewhere

Outside of time, for you to know what I know,

A glimpse of eternity outside of our world’s beginning

For brilliance and awe to dance together as one,

Laughing loudly and weeping joy into an invisible ground,

And for you to weep as I wept, facing the amazing

Light of God’s face, His eyes capturing your form

And rebuilding you as you stand, kneeling at his feet,

He will grasp your weak hands and lift you weightlessly

Into a blank-light, a transparent, colorless cloud

Where you and I and He will re-unite in perfect Harmony

Outside of time, outside of reason, outside of haunting melancholy.