Four Poems by Wayne Russell

 

Inaccessible 

 

Within the hemisphere

of thought, rounding a

gauntlet of time, born 

forth a passage; 

innocent in afterlife.

 

We are thrown into this

uncharted tapestry of

life.

 

I cannot decipher, nor 

figure the organic word,

spewed out, droplets

upon fading caressing

night.

 

Living in the hierarchy 

of needs, wants, desires,

held snuggly, while fires

riddle blazen night, and

thought sink, morbid; in

haunted day.

 

 

Don't Take My Sunshine Away 

 

A dark cloud decent

emotional blackmail

I am not blameless

in all of this, a chequered

past, a brutal one.

 

You are not blameless,

we're both at fault, here;

23 years running on a 

quarter century, cutthroat

parade, living in this untimely

bantering charade.

 

Don't take the light away,

don't take my sunshine,

what we have seen, let them

continue in their own special

way; let them bask in the light

of Gods golden beams.

 

 

Bird of Prey 

 

What was the mighty

hawk, now scattered,

alongside roadside of

untimely demise.

 

I drove past, an unwilling

witness to the ghastly

sight, red feathers

strewn.

 

The stars aligned, as I

cried inside, nature will

win out, long after we 

are gone

 

 

Dream Chain 

 

Conjoin the links

of the dream chain.

 

Gaze into amethyst 

flicker of hypnotic flame.

 

A millennium of romantic 

interludes forbidden.

 

These were all but words,

composed six years ago.

 

Words now thrust upon the 

masses, chiselled from stone,

sculpture view and vision stare.

 

Words introduced into a bloody

wilderness, lambs to slaughter;

relics before morning; forgotten.

Wayne Russell is a creative jack of all trades, master of none. Poet, rhythm guitar player, singer, artist, photographer, and author of the poetry book Where Angels Fear via Guerilla Genius Press, it is currently still available on Amazon.