gregory collins

gregory collins Poems

• A Pearl Far Away From Its Shell
  You have an innocent smile that touches my shoulders. Vowels supported by darkness itself. But i can can't see death pushing aside the
• Rules
  Regret can be your pet. Our brains have a beautiful taste. One more problem makes all the difference in the world. Maybe i am only homesick if i don't want to be a runaway.
• Born Before Fields
  If life is just a game then i can dance in the trees like a bird
• Preachers And Tramps And Forgetful Faith...
  There is no escape from God anywhere. I don't care if your t-shirt is kicking the stalls beyond all recognition, or if you invented silk, or the fear of sex. I don't care if your the mother of a prostitute that recognizes fast,
• Seasons Of Emotion
  I haven't seen clouds lately, i wonder what must be wrong. But not knowing where to go to sit face to face with the sun, even if i am all alone
• Do Not Cry A Tear That Rows Off
  Into each others eyes, we listen to each other breathe. The modern society: when the cell phone rings it is mingled mournfully, and abortion is looked at like a cave drawing.
• Like A Flower With Numb Ankles
  Like a flower with numb ankles, i cannot go a single day without a drug or a drink. The tears itself, like paper i could pin my hopes upon. The way the vines
• Aged Each Time I Go Looking
  To be afraid of death is bad luck to me, a fear i expect no justice or mercy from. The fact that my soul has twisted so much, i think the
• A Beach Made Of Tears
  Could there be a beach made of tears, like music of snow thrown from the fingertips of a lady. Then photographed balancing on a sharpened knifeblade,
• What The Sky Smoothes Out
  Forgetting beauty, will break you in half with the right look, like light cauterizing darkness and spinning my soul like a top on mirrors
• Buckets In My Dreams
  'i had a lover's quarrel with the world' epitaph of Robert Frost
• Where We Dreamt Together
  The black of the night sky adores the paralysis of my eyes. Like a mirror told me birds cannot reach where there are no walls; Like i sometimes look for mushrooms
• A Dream On The Sands
  I could have been there down by the sea, with pockets full of silence and a priceless smile between the legs. Maybe like a smaller love song that begins to shed her dreams
• Daughters Of Light
  Something is on my mind, and it is a dream i planned out for you, and i know it wasn't what you wanted. But you must earn the ransom,