Excersize #14

[Lylie]

Ok everyone do you think that you can handle this list? Lets see if you can.

dark
scarlet
skin
picture

So then those of you who have the guts to do this, do you think that you can handle it?

[gryphonpoet]

*From William Heirens*

Through her delicate ivory skin,
one tiny hole makes no difference
from the gaping gashes
raked though her chest and heart.

With her congealing, dark ink, I drew
the picture of the nurse's lost life
until her walls came alive. With her
scarlet lipstick on her mirror, I told the police

"For Heaven's sake
catch me
before I kill more.
I cannot control myself."

[eunhathes]

I picture this world with its glow
Somehow, in words without definition,
That there are more reasons than I or
You, could count. It is our crimson loss,
This dire loneliness, fatiguing our dimly lit,
Broken minds. There is a dark senselessness
simmering far beneath our skin and bones.
Deep within where no one has purchase.
Where no on has hold.

[gryphonpoet]

Sorry if this is too much, but here is a second effort.

*Morning Breaks*

A picture washes your eyes clean again,
you watch the skin of the sky
peel back in layers of
orange, pink, purple and scarlet
until the darkness that once
ruled this awareness
leaves the sun in its wakening state.
Inside your brain, the scent of a new day
grows like a baby
with its clean slate and its hopes
and its despairs and its changes
waiting each in their turn.
You wait for this day as well
even if you don't know it.