Uriah Hamilton Poems

I dream I’m in a Parisian café
With a dark-haired girl
Wearing a yellow skirt revealing
Photographic sensual legs
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To find in thought
What escapes reality,
The love of friendship
Separated by time
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The paintings in the art gallery
Remain the same
And continue to reflect
The eternal beauty
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There is no brochure-vacation paradise
More perfect than this silent place
When I meditate in the afternoon
Gazing out windows onto the sunlit avenue.
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Sitting in darkness
Waiting for dancers,
I’m alone and desperate
At the ballet.
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Execution-style romance,
Death flirtation tango,
Bonnie and Clyde, Sid and Nancy,
Role models of violent seduction,
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Someone plays a love song
On the ancient radio
And my heart is stung
With a romantic thought
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You held my hand
Beneath a summer streetlight
An hour or two
Before the dawn.
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The poet dies
In the perfumed night.
Every metaphor
Passing away
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2AM boulevards
Bathe me in lonely headlights.
My soul is broken
Like the crumbling pavement
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