Tag: senryu

witness and you shall inherit it: dawn is yours

feral moons wander the autumn night sky

slow and deliberate hounded by ancient wardogs you the prey feel the life drain from your legs the hunter pausing and observing from the darkness enjoying every moment of the hunt the whistle of a dart missing target and striking root just a hair’s breadth away the chase is over in your mind as a low growl emerges from the undergrowth you had miscalculated from the start never was the hunter in the shadows but inside your head all along

moondust dipped fingers tracing the curves of the cold autumn mist the nights hears your debauchery and trembles

unashamed unhidden truth stirs: in darkness we share blindness

the slow autumn light dims a symbol of ash and circle burns cold on bare chest

bind smoke into ropes bind nothing to nothingness and proclaim the emptiness of the void this act is enough to seal flesh to pact

to glow without witness to die without applause a star learns shame when it falls into the sea

in odd tantrums the autumn rain falls at last

moss for hair a cradle of roots for a heart the beast peers wildly through deer skulls scrutinizing its kingdom of green