Author: Andy Adkins

Wiser Climbs

Unbuttoned light gently shimmers acrossProvocatively perched to reveal partsFixed upon dawns grown from fearless heartsTouring travails exhaled by clenched censure.Writing as trialed torments of hostage,Tragedy kept close to dissuade othersBy quickly laming heedless adventure.Without pauses or questions of knowledge, Kettled enchantments spout promise through coversPressed open and mixed for tomorrows’ cause.

A Feted Mouth

In hope sputtered moribund controversy,Abandoned homes stood lifelessTo starve pay from forgotten neighborsAnd empty minds with vanished literacyGreedily seized to mock survival.Bunched limbs shouted over long tracked arrivalUnprepared & unrecruited but settled in purposeWith sweat & will for freedoms laborsStretched too far along to contest vacancyPosted as allure to settle gentry.

Cultivation

Days passed as centuries beneath forgotten stonesWhere pill bugs burrowed fertility into clayAs epixylic flies, springtails , & woodlicePursued unabated fungivorous delightFrom mineral streaming watermarks tracedBy decay destined shoots & sprigs awaiting feeted midgutsYet to ensnare centipede eyes or spider chelicerae.Hushed chittering belied the quiet harmonyIn which colonies collect & fulfill an unpromised tomorrow.

Loud Whispers

There is music in your eyes,When saccades dart away & nighTo focus rhythmic minds with timeThen play dreams with lullabies.Watching blinks is listening to winksWith drawn out wonders singing complyBleating hearts to patterned erosI am counted amongst the mirroring chorus.Well lit by resilience,But battered, chipped, & muddy.Your silence tones kindled brillianceIn tuned glances to renew […]

Swept On

Presence doesn’t blind, but personas drown me. Your memories stitched dreams played only onceBy threadbare consumed survival questions. Quiet approaches write mirror context With entrained recall of youth built promise Seen as fancy but clear as remedy For daylight fashioned stood even eyesAssembling calm sharpened agency.

As Is

Time wantonly castigates perfection In saddeningly cold reflection;Change is incomprehensive to illusion.Growth outpourings devil diminutionStood frank & awful across tabled eyesWet from agency repressed by surprise.Life binds fancies of everyday madnessAs if bored by knowing what escape is.When stung, defensive minds enact crueltywhile persuaded hope envisions duty.

Incandescence

As if trained telementationally. Impeccable and broken similesMismatch performed duties like destinies;Molting ached disasters from hidden primeMottles rare reflections measured by time.For identities promised in mirrorHappiness enjoins its brightness nearer Than floor struck pitfalls ended commonly.

Nameless

Plaintive horns thinned gold promised by middayAs Jealousy’s salacious deception.Seated high in shielded misdirectionAn honor penned smile drove quickly away.Recognition rarely decides contextsPrefixed by unmitigated sadnessDrawn to kiln, but unwound for love’s purpose.Witnessed chasms need unbridged momentsBecause unknowns are not restorativeWhen begun alone & stung by misreadingClairvoyance as reasoning predictiveLike renewed hues ready-made for judging.

Vexed Amusement

Where bundled ambition tugs sentiments,Cornering quiets objectivity.Its cruel urgency sorts dyad remnants To envision cages carved from allureAs if preening hangs curiosityFrom pedestals encircling demur.

Spoken Turns

Steadfast tongues spend voids on memoriesIn conscious rhythms linking historiesWith thoughts willed in place by impermanence.Time lengthens and shortens their convenienceAs forgotten resistance to hazards.The journey to meaning rolls out in yardsTo exhaust & retire bygone tumultsSeparating tears from smiling results.