Author Archives: zastrafan

I’m a 54 y/o male from Ontario, Canada. I’ve been writing since I can remember…not always dark either! I’d love to “give up my day job” and write for a living but it hasn’t happened…yet!

Glistening Words 1

Glistening Words
 
Listening to glistening words
Birds circle endlessly, mindlessly
Finding time, rhyme and primal thoughts
Begotten of stress-this mess is blessed
With the higher pyre
 
Nonsense is at best a defense
Minded, blended and blinded
By single-minded purpose, designed to
Usurp us and refined in kind
In a scheme yet dreamed
 
To enter December in its icy splendor
Pagan rite! Delight in the sight
The brighter eyefest [...]

Revelation and Silence 0

“Till the clock struck fore
Then seven-the silent evermore
And I shall wonder
Once the solution became the cause
Have I slain thee oh Brother?
Have you chained my heart?
Now given and held
Dying at this insight, for wrong it is
No joke made by satanic folly
Is more corrupt than my dream”

For Linda 1

My life
Empty, confused, meaningless
A million miles from here
A desert wind on a blinding sand dune
You appear
A life-line, a dream realized
What was dying reborn
My heart, vision rekindled
So unaware
That beauty could be mine
To hold, to love, to cherish, to nurture
In my world so cold

In My Heart 0

In my heart
Alas, not in my life
Your life initiated
By acts of love
And by this love
We were parted
In my heart
To womanhood you grew
Sad, I did not witness
Nor was I there to hold you
To dry your tears
Never to calm your fears
In my heart
Always a part of my soul
I searched, Yes! In vain
And I waited on tender hopes
That [...]

In Darkest Night 0

These things that bind us to our fears
Are never certain, never clear