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C. Vera

Foolish to Write Poetry

12/29/2014

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Foolish to Write Poetry
 
It is foolish to write poetry
if you plan to hide your heart,
foolish to kiss a woman
if you plan to keep it.
 
These coffin circles
surrounded by blank-faced statues
eyes illusions filled with paper-mache tears
if death be an ugly master
then we are not so much slaves
as children watching puppies devouring kittens.
 
Stop.
 
Look at my hands, my mittens the color of bleeding cardinals
My dark boots broken make no tracks across the snow.
For I am late, my form is partial. My breath a wisp in the chill.
The whole of my time, a stained photograph of
half-remembered lights and colors, pleasures and weeping,
hanging softly in the oldest tree of a forgotten forest;
 
Nothing but a poem that has never been read,
a foolish kiss on yesterday’s lips.
 
 
 
Christopher Vera
Author, publisher, poet
chrisvera.com
facebook.com/chrisveraink
twitter.com/christophervera

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    Christopher Vera

    Christopher Vera is a San Diego poet and writer. He is the author of "Transmissions to the Mystic Nebula" and the "Left Hand of Light" He is a student of the natural, the unnatural and the supernatural. Vera blends science, love and spirituality into his work. Find out more about his works by liking him on Facebook, or visiting his website at chrisvera.com or by the works he will be sharing with his readers right here on Blank Stare Corner.

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