R K Summers Poems

Would you love the beautiful beast?
Does the glass slipper fit?
And what of the princesses who fall from grace to grave?
Will you kiss the sleeping beauty?
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Listen for her ancient songs,
Of twilight and of shades,
It takes her home where she belongs,
A land of masquerades.
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Weeping Sleeping Beauty
Lies on a bed of thorns
Dreams of a poison kiss to wake her
From her pillow of ruin
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If in a thousand years,
You would dry my tears,
And appear at my side.
If in a thousand lives,
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Bedtime;
A four-year old girl lies down
Her head on a soft pillow
Waiting for the sweeter dreams to envelop her.
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A Blind brother calls through the clouds,
Deaf lightning dances to the sounds,
Twisting round and round, ribbonesque;
Flickering like a candle flame, never at rest.
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Frozen in time, the damning divine

The purest child, forsaken and wild
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The Legacy of Angels, a widow’s reprieve,
An absence of sorrow, forgetting to grieve,
A winter prophecy, snowflake stigmata,
The tower of spectres, fate of a martyr,
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The mist grows heavier
Turns to fog
Shrouds the towers
Transforms the turrets into smoke
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Seagulls circle overhead
Like vile vultures over their carrion prey
But more graceful
Screaming eulogies for lost sailors
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