Nick Perritt Poems

Flying under water
Swimming in the air
Listening to half light sing
Drowning in your stare.
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The air is hard to breathe
My eyes failing to see
There's music in my ears
Silence deep inside my tears.
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O where is your glow my ghostly moon
Alone and palely wondering
All joy and mirth drained from your face
And you no longer sing
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There is no sleep for the dead
No life for the living
No joy in breathing
No pain in bleeding.
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The preacher teacher, manic creature,
Spouting and shouting, bleeding and reading,
Infectious hysterical madness off the pages of her starving crazed soul!
Raising high the chocolate cake of mud on the altar of fanatical unintelligence,
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Birds fly in smoke rings
Their marriage wings disperse,
A cage inside a funeral hearse
Holds birth the curse immersed.
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We sleep till sunrise,
Your iris undressed, horizon,
Breathe in, flowers open,
Every breath an ocean.
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Float me now ocean kiss
Our torn romance forlorn caress,
Cremation lips seared hearts eclipse
Ignite my severed soul as mist.
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We rise
Shattered wings
Nostalgia past
Bare lamenting heart.
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Weightlessly they drift
Amidst a melting orbit kiss.
Two distant spheres tethered to the void;
In their unfrozen breathing
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