Charles Darnell

Charles Darnell Poems

• Alone
  I walk along a melancholy strand, Hearing music played too far To be meant for me. Drifting down the beach,
• Lazarus
  Ah Jesus! You do me no favors! You give me life, but not my life! You raise me up, what am I to do? You are borne away with the crowd,
• Waiting For Joy
  We tell ourselves that it will come. It will descend upon us While we are busy Or simply laying about,
• Judas
  Well Lord, Here I am in the last scene of that last act. This how you wanted it, right? You got your crucifixion
• Orlando's Blood
  In the early morning hours the blood dries from arterial red to sullen black on the floor,
• Air: A Love Poem
  We lay together, Reclined in dark, Your silhouette outlined By ambient light,
• Sail
  The spray hits you in the face. The swells bring the distended belly Quickly up then settles with a greenish hiss, Another and another.
• Yahoo Buckaroo!
  “Yahoo buckaroo! ” Your bare butt bouncing To the clop of your cowboy boots, Six guns high in the air!
• Pompeii’s Lover
  You lay in all your splendor, Haughty in your grace And beauty, As if saying to Rome:
• Flight Of Words
  There they go! I knew it would happen. They were hanging around Pecking at the surface
• Quarter Moon Waxing
  The moon is in its first quarter. It grows as it crosses the sky Travels among the background of stars Shines like hard diamonds.
• Crows Of Cain
  A murder of crows Feast on another kind. The dried gore A new dinner
• Empty
  Coffee sits cold on the kitchen counter. I turn the pages of the paper, Reading just the headlines. The house is quiet,
• Confession
  Father, I offer this confession in answer to the purpose of my life. You sent me in your love before your people To show them a path to Heaven.