spreading wings
By Mina Ellyse Warren
September 2, 1996

alone
in the shadows
i feel your breath beside me
i hear your voice call my name

and i dream

reality can be so binding
finding barricades built up around me
so many echoes from the past

and i wander
amidst the wreckage of my creation
wondering
where i lost my way

and i know
the dreams i seek
stay close around me
awaiting the realisation
that other dreams have died

reality can be so yielding
as the barricades fall find me there
so many echoes fading to the past

and i wander
amidst the pristine world of my creation
dreaming
of losing myself in you

and so to you
so far away
i whisper sweet words of love
and i feel the dreams awake within me
and i spread my wings
to the sky
and i fly

Copyright (c) 1996 Mina Ellyse Warren

smudge
By Everett A Warren
August 21, 2007

if i should chance
to see the world
in shades of black and white
leave it to the rain
to bring shades of grey
to blur the distance
smudge the edges
ripple my reflection
the solid made less so
water soluble like a
moist supernova
expanding until it
dissolves
leaving what remains
floating in solution
until surface tensions relax
and wash it all away

you see things
for what they are
as they pirouette
with the flow
as they cling
parasitic
as they thrash
in fear
that they are
who they think
they are
and
don't
want to be
and when the sun
comes out
rainbow smiles
disguise sullen hearts
as their heat dries the earth
turns to desert
at their touch

Copyright (c) 2007 Everett Ambrose Warren