Poetry Portfolio III

A Small Selection of Even More Poems
Written: 2007
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VISION OF THE DAMNED (Sonnet)

A tortured soul, devoid of all true life,
Its soulless eyes gazing into the fire.
Forgotten by his daughters and his wife;
Fore'er to rot in this eternal pyre.

His hands are gone; his arms are rife with rot,
His legs are trappéd in a mass of stone.
For all his torments, one thing he is not:
In solitude; he'll never be alone.

Six billion souls live here in misery,
With each as misbegotten as the last.
Forever condemned to this fiery sea,
Though all the ages of mankind be past.

I watch them pass and I begin to pray
That I'll return to see the light of day.

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NIGHTMARE

Children sleep in silken sheets
thinking of futures.
Silence lies over the wilds.
The lake lies still, no shimmering
light illumines it.
The forest of firs is hidden from the stars.
Shadows lurk in the hills
Waiting to strike --
no gold can buy them off;
no kindness can repel them.
And the children dream...