Pools of Lifeless Blood
Experience dark heart
And walk on daunting midnight streets
Ridden with vipers intent on crime:
You might get robbed
Or have your head split in two;
You might defend yourself
And leave a corpse
In pools of lifeless blood…
Life is about the thrill of fear
And ever returning waves of pain,
But how majestic to live and feel!
poem by Uriah Hamilton
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Standing Before The Chasm Of Divorce
You haven’t made up your mind:
If you leave right now,
You’ve thrown away the time
We’ve spent together.
Are you prepared to say
We never loved each other?
Are you prepared to live without love?
I can’t forget you,
I can’t say everything was untrue,
And I can no longer find the man
Who existed before I met you.
poem by Uriah Hamilton
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I Promise
Take my hand
And walk with me into the sunlight;
We’ll take the poetry of Keats
And the poetry of Yeats,
We’ll pray beside flowers
And walk through sacred gates
Of a new beginning
Where every hurt is healed
And dissipates.
I’ll find child-like innocence
In your eyes,
And I promise to believe
That love will never die.
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In My Breast
Weeping at dusk,
The heart only knows oppression,
Desire lingers like a disease untreated.
I’ve been loved
And hurt the one
Who bestowed such love.
The law of karma
Finds me defenseless
In emotional back alleys
And besieges me mercilessly.
In my breast
Is longing unfulfilled
Like a sea never quenched
With ceaseless tears.
poem by Uriah Hamilton
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A Woman’s Dirty Hair
An old car
Moves slowly
Through cold rain;
A modern city
Grows ancient
In the sad fog
Of urban despair.
A woman’s dirty hair
Is pulled
By an oily hand
In a rat-infested
Motel room.
God ignores suffering
But also kindly turns his head
To the indiscriminate sex
That helps the hopeless
Alleviate poverty-born
Unrelenting stress.
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A Solitary Poet
A lone flower peaks
Out over the city
From a tenement roof.
She is speechless
In her small pot
In the immense void
Of cold concrete and steel.
A solitary poet
Brought her there
To gaze upon
As he scribbles
Mad, translucent verse
Disconnected from sterile reality,
Preserving ancient poetic breath
And breeze of idyllic
Romantic past.
poem by Uriah Hamilton
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If We Ever Meet
Recline on your balcony
Situated in the stars,
Pour yourself a glass of wine
And gaze out into the galaxy
Where I’m walking alone
Along some rain-lovely street,
Smiling and happy.
We’ll be a bizarre but extraordinary couple
If we ever meet.
Your body is calling out to me to touch you,
And indeed, I will find your tenderness.
poem by Uriah Hamilton
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Princess of the Cowherd Girls
In another lifetime,
You were Krishna’s girlfriend.
The two of you
Laughed and played
Like children,
Happy pranksters
Eating lush fruit
And sharing furtive kisses.
Any man
Whose inner sense
Is blind to this
And fails to worship
Your small dark body
Will not return as a man again
Though eons of time
Rush to the shore
Of eternity.
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Acquiesce
At the incline
Of the mountain,
Wild roses bloom
Dark red
Like the puddle
Of blood
At a murder scene.
I slowly walk alone
The hillside of isolation
Like an Easter Parade
Depleted of joy
And reduced to a funereal dirge.
I don’t think,
She will ever understand
How badly I was hurt
When she refused to acquiesce
To give me her hand.
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Wifeless World
She was in
The lavender room
Gazing at flowers in a vase
When my thoughts were all lonely
And tearing at my heart.
Her blue eyes
And pale face
Were seared into my soul
Like a psychic tattoo.
Always falling in love
In my wifeless world,
I could hold an earring
In my hand
That I saw her place
Upon her bed stand
And walk into eternity.
poem by Uriah Hamilton
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