Photography: courtesy of Creative Commons and Leslie Moon
Clouds veil summer light
The sound of rain distant rise
Shadowed flames leaking.
*For One Stop Poetry’s first ever One Stop Poetry Form…today’s subject: Haiku.
FIFA eat your heart out:
Such fury in a moment!
There is a hush before the roar,
silent intakes, glowing hot
the eyes alight to see
the rush of bodies.
Tumultuous crash,
explodes in multitude of howls
as bones and blood are rent–
on, on, into the breach
spilling over fields of blood.
Dig in, draw back
the swing is in the air–
the crowd is nothing less than chaos,
buffeting the air
as hope and skill pours on into the mass
and presses to the
Goal!
There is no rage so great
as this running of the bulls.
There is a tingle on the wind
Like thunder in my skin
The air breathes
And the light quakes—
Shivers, breaks—
Such force is this!
This sudden heat,
This fireless heat
That beckons from the clouds.
The world elates to hear
The fury of its passing.
I thought I saw the street
But the signs were bare,
No cars or coaches anywhere.
Cracked cobbles
Ran the road—
Broken bricks
Snapped beneath the silence.
Such oppression—
The strongest path
Would fade.
Round and round
The wheels spin—
But in the silence,
All is still.
The world dies
Without the motion–
Unused.
There is a force inside of me—
A sound unheard
A sight unseen.
Sonic bursts
Explode within my mind,
Springing forth
Menageries
Of ruptured thought—
Half-man, half-beast
Tumbling through the hoops
Of society’s round-top.
They shrink,
The world below
A sea of eyes.
If I brave nightmares
The dark will tear asunder—
Silence breaks with dawn.
