The Nighthawk's Poetry Corner

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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

i surrender, dear

leaves, reddish dust collects on the window as three birds whisper about the rainstorms and all the telephone poles are falling and the townhall is bright with lights as the man who collects cans shuffles by on bleeding feet through playbills and hamlet is out and the snow is soft on our wounds... Sign in to see full entry.

Metropolis I

The buses contain the Dreams as outside each face, Hand, touch weaves through Them and Each awakening word contains The melodies As inside each catastrophic Tower of Sculpted industry pulses Rhythmic hypnotic and Every song contains my heart Sign in to see full entry.

Prelude

Hills are the Afterthought of shapes dissolving under a reservoir of calmer chaos, balloons and burgers stand ready; stars and concrete dance, a palmtree forgets as the sunset loves, permeating the stillness; lonely are the many imposed upon eachother: more alone than the streets, more alone than... Sign in to see full entry.

March 7th, 2003: Evening

Above my head The nightsky spreads Itself cross the Park and the tenements: Sing a song of the Sentiments Of a newly risen Spirit, that of a vision In color that also Fills the lost souls With original energy That encompasses the knolls And archipelagos of Time Alone and together in the rhyme With... Sign in to see full entry.

Song For My Father

As archetype of the worldly Sun and trusting moon of moral Action you have been the Constant lion of my struggles Towards consciousness; From first streaming light to the Understanding of a soul breathing The dawn of respect May you nurture everything as you Nurtured me, For the land gladly receives... Sign in to see full entry.

Your Taxes

Banging with a long Pole he somehow fixes the Crater in the road Sign in to see full entry.

(tnemesaep)PARAD(f)OX

(eg)NEVER(gnimusnoc)NOW(yl raed)A(rova)S(o)T(epo)H(re v)EN Sign in to see full entry.

Collage I

after every poem together written words will find know more the mean stoicism of the ing in the snow shade through morning Sign in to see full entry.

Shapes III

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Shapes II

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