VINCE GULLACI
KALEIDOSCOPE
My mind
through a prism
its greatest beauty
and beyond
the prison wall
its transitory flight
caught in
a dusty beam of light.
DARKNESS
There's
a darkness
claiming to be
the first light
that to embrace
diminishes.
THE PIRATE
To the victor
the spoils
the vanquished
a walk to the deck
and the plank.
FANTASY
Can't
i have
a little fantasy
to ward off
the creeping chill
of reality.
PAVLOVIAN
I was
so obtuse
i didn't get the message
until
delivered
with pain.
DELUSIONAL
Delude myself
my star will rise
when i am
the caged bird
dying in the mine.
COMEUPPANCE
The morning's
seredipitous
turn of events
a confluence
of happiness
a fleeting joy
that sings
of my comeuppance.
MAGPIE
The magpie's
melodious song
belies the angry beaks
that tear
to protect it's nest.
REMEMBER
Remember
that innocence lost
i took to my ways
with a vengeance
regardless of the cost.
MIRED
Feeding poetry
from the mire
of pessimism
but know
no flower wakes
from such a genus
but weeds
that slowly kill
the fields
of golden daffodils.
FADED PINK
A washed out rose
faded pink
poked over the chain link fence
an old fashioned rose
starved of good soil
and water
nearly covered by rubble
a tough old standard
it's magic perfume
stopped me
in my tracks.
DREAMS
Not as dark
as it seems
nor as light
as the dreams
but somewhere in between.
DREAD
The light
had come
to wake me
from the feeling
of dread
and banish the shadows
taking root.
INNOCENCE
Remember
that innocence
the truth was
i didn't care enough
for what gifts were mine
and what was lost.
MORTALITY
The darkness
no more
than the light
but the day
is life
and the night
forever.
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