dreams like ash

By slow.burn.star


everything was falling apart

   wet feathers
   white driftwood
 
   stardust
   in our veins

ignited when we touch

                             a memory that has yet to be made

bumble bee

you were
a mouthful of diamonds
a tongue like black snakes

lighting me up
twisting my
hardened heart like
burnt amber ash


take it away

                 the love i had imagined

                 all this time

                                just a dream

I'm floating again
tasting your golden blood
lips tingling

I'm digging again
white knuckled
& numb
.
     
       haunting me
       he's turned out to sea
       cobwebs of clouds
       and a coral melody

with a whisper
gilded romance

teach me those songs again
  child
  infinite and eternal

with eyes like
a kiss of blinding sun
on the horizon


you will find me


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Copyright 2010 slow.burn.star
Published on Wednesday, October 13, 2010.     Filed under: "Poetry"
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  • A former member wrote: Another of your beautiful works that I've currently just read. (: Loved it hun. It's amazing

  • Adam On Friday, December 20, 2013, Adam (242)By person wrote:

    Interesting, read it twice, got two different versions of a story. I enjoyed the read - both times :) Scholar

  • Lady Poetry On Saturday, November 23, 2013, Lady Poetry (38)By person wrote:

    This was amazing...potent and full of darkness! Very well penned x Livvi x

  • A former member wrote: Symphonies played in my head. Innocence so sweet..

  • Malice In Wonderland On Friday, April 1, 2011, Malice In Wonderland (976)By person wrote:

    I never know what to say after reading your work, but I'm shaking now:) Good to see something new... Scholar

  • Solace On Saturday, October 30, 2010, Solace (1065)By person wrote:

    So much within such a small space - even more nuances in the third reading than I thought possible. You have a way with words, symbols, nostalgic referentials - this piece is a tapestry finely woven. "cobwebs of clouds/coral melody" I could gorge on this ad infinitum.

  • A former member wrote: so raw.. these shreds and fragments of beauty.. you weave the natural imagery into something glittering and treasured.... there is an underside here that is so passionately tender...

  • Bella Butchery On Friday, October 15, 2010, Bella Butchery (696)By person wrote:

    somber, and raw. i never get to see a piece this short from you. trully in this respect, fewer words produce a more powerfull effect that you seem to master

  • slow.burn.star On Wednesday, October 13, 2010, slow.burn.star (84)By person wrote:

    Thank you, so very much. :o)

  • A former member wrote: I'm so glad you've posted something new. I got such butterflies when I saw, and still... you gave them such an honorable death in this... I want to wither and die within these wastelands you paint, smoldering landscapes that still tremble with petaled longing... such crushing beauty. Lush, vivid... a quietness... and above all, art.

  • Anth On Wednesday, October 13, 2010, Anth (1126)By person wrote:

    sublime work, ive missed that feeling your works inspire, im reminded of no wings - (flash to;) your poetry runs through fields with a torn dress and kisses in the rain(flash to;) wonderfully thought out structure that just mesmerises because it is so integral to the feeling your words give, this is a poem to read until it is remembered off by heart, and i will do

  • Anth On Wednesday, October 13, 2010, Anth (1126)By person wrote:

    I would love to exist in one of your poems, i think the scenes you create are more epic and full of longing and darkly adventurous romance than any film i have ever seen

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