Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Sliver of Night



It only takes a drop or two; 
a dab of silver and gray to highlight the sky, 
and my mind is illuminated with poetic lines 

A curtain, a blanket, No! 
Only a sliver of night and I am made 
fully alive by the sounds of a howling moon 

I pray for highlighted clouds 
to make the rhymes aloud, then lull me to sleep~ 
the sleep of midnight’s eternity 

 First published by Sudden Denoument


Image by Robert Karkowski from Pixabay

Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Leaves



A nip, a chill, leaves trickle down
floating on chilly winds 
to the once grassy hills, now rusty brown
The season of warmth, turns to gold and red, as
cheerfully, we wander amidst cold wind's threats


Free image from Pixabay, Rebekka D

Saturday, October 14, 2023

Vanished




This week we dive into the world of speculative/psychological horror. Listen on soundcloud or read it on my website, Harken: Poetry and Stories for free.

Saturday, October 7, 2023

The Back Room

 


Listen to my latest story, a creepy tale, about a haunted castle. You can also read it on my blog.


Free image from Pixabay.

Saturday, August 26, 2023

Music in the Heart



The beauty in music and creativity

is it owes no allegiance to any entity

Free to enter the minds of all,

and soothe what ails the troubled soul

No politics or ideologies needed,

just an open heart to absorb it freely



Image by Ri Butov from Pixabay

Monday, May 8, 2023

We Forgot



We blotted out their names- and why was that  when passionate insights, laid fame to their claims  through scribbled words and wild sparrows 

A fount of verses, poured in 

from half-baked minds, 

high on nature and opium arrows 


but still, words that hydrated the brain, 

with philosophies of clouds, roads, 

and the mad winks 


of peculiar intellect. 

Flooded with the pain of desire, 

their words screamed in poetic inks 


decorated in cursive lines, dipped in the lust 

of celestial bodies- forgotten, by too many clicks, 

though always there to make us think