Friday, March 9, 2012

A Dirge Adrift


beautiful fractals float
atop the rotting wood—
wind-stains adrift

slanted dreams
a felony of

groves barren and forgotten
are those moments past a reapers swing

gorgeous surrender
tempt me naught

for the greyest cloaks of strangeness
guide the shadows now

to where the weathered stones denote location
to where fragments bathe in muddied earth

it’s message, is one of certainty
providing clarity through dates and name,
leaving but the questions mankind’s wrestled all his days

3 comments:

  1. Keep that reaper away from the cat, no swining allowed at his mat. Sadly those questions will keep going on to, for a long as man is around. Unless some big shiny guy, thing, alien, whatever decides to answer us all, but even then we prob still wouldn't believe his call. So the questions will remain throughout the ride of life's train.

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  2. Some really gorgeous lines in this, Fred.

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  3. groves barren and forgotten
    are those moments past a reapers swing...think those were my favs of the images you're using here...and think the wrestling and seeking will never stop as long as this world spins on..

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