Rainbow Dancer

O Rainbow
your soft glow
echoes
pure love, ‘tis glorious

Would I know
if again you show
tomorrow
amidst agonies of my sorrows?

O Rainbow
Cast your halo
below
where rivers of tears flow…

Where my anguish grows
and throws
a shadow
against the window

[...] Read more

poem by Lyre Bleus
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

The Irony of Bloody Sweet

They spend more
huge budgets for war

excited about the prize
a lucrative enterprise

weapons in silos
and despair in ghettos

They caress warheads
foreplay of the living dead

Then missile rain
And splattered flesh

sweet blood stain
as ‘civilizations’ clash

Genocide redefined
Holocaust modified

[...] Read more

poem by Lyre Bleus
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Silent Pages

Another passing moment
writes a line in the firmament
And the passing days
Write their own verse of phrases

Another passing year
Writes another stanza,
Of an episode
Whether an elegy or an ode

Every passing generation
a new chapter adds to the collection
Every passing age,
filling another volume of pages

Every thought and deed
known or hid,
that lived and living lives articulate,
hath but no exact duplicate;

[...] Read more

poem by Lyre Bleus
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!