Mark R Slaughter Poems

You say you are lonely.
Are you? Come see MY solitary world.

I am lonely:
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A tower grim; a glowering darkness,
And only brown of red the other hue
– I saw it in the distant eyes –
And yes, He knew, but focussed only
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When peace came,
I showered under streaming light
- Silent, settling -
Effectuating over all -
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Bleed out your beauty, Autumn –
Give up a gentle wrist, and smear
Your bloody hues atop the green.
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Someplace
A field of flowers
Rousing under remnants of the dawn:
Out there! from death, I rose
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Friendship turned and spoke to me:
'Always I'll be there;
Never mind the fretting or the woes,
Nay, tell! - be you in the doldrums, deep of Hell,
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I billowed calmly as a cloud
Upon a course for acid rain,
When in the fog of smoking crowd,
My lungs collapsed in searing pain.
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As black imbued black, so was rendered the pitch of darkness
That befogged this godforsaken yard of graves -
And too the dank, ‘til now forgotten chapel that
Did little to grace these forlorn grounds.
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Entranced in mist –
Mind mist; kind mist –
In a lea near woods –
Child woods; wild woods,
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Rain, tears, rain, tears,
Melding in torrential fears:
Chill of cloud; saddened eye-
In either way, a latent cry.
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