poetry – Page 8 – Ugly Child Blog

Still

And I wait In the fallen leaves of spring thaw For you, like spring snow to melt and be long forgotten If there’s a season to wash my soul clean of you It is summer, that you have yet to touch And summer it shall be, And summer it shall be

Sea Bird

Broken bird, high on the mountain Where the green-blue lakes swam with your reflection And the willow-sad reeds brushed your feathers Off into the endless sky, Sapphires dripping off your wings The eyeless wind against your beak Like an ungrounded angel Soft and dainty stretched from wing tip to tip Ropes tight across your chest,Continue reading “Sea Bird”