All great and precious
things are lonely
solitary beings
alone
In quiet solitude
they linger there
watching silently
lonely
Spending ancient years
apart and separate
unknown depths
solitary
Lonely things these
that are always
great and
precious
Escape
13 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in April 2015, poetry Tags: escape commonplace existence life
My life is spent in one
long effort to escape from
the commonplaces of
existence
Seeking constantly the varied
blissful points of being
in the outer edges of
reality
Never ending struggle to find
things outside of the common
freshening up the minds
corners
Commonplaces of existence
long efforts to escape
how my life is
spent
Art
12 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in April 2015, poetry Tags: art strangest forms creative outlets
Art in the blood
is liable to take
the strangest
forms
Coursing through the veins
different for each one
forms become
strange
Each outlet expressed differently
from each artist’s mind
every one
exposed
Genius madman either one
liable to take strangest forms
art in
blood
Angels
11 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in April 2015, poetry Tags: angels good bad sides life right wrong
I may be on the side
of the angels
but don’t for one
second
think that I am
one
of them
Angels are a real rarity
in this world
even more so in
us
who pretend to be
something
quite different
Because one does some good
don’t think that
in corners of their
soul
they are ever anything
more
than devils
Don’t for one second think
regardless of side
that they are indeed
angels
or for that matter
one
of them
Truth
10 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in April 2015, poetry Tags: truth doubt knowing facts worry reality fear infinite emotions
Any truth
is better than
infinite doubt
Knowing is
always better than
the supposed
Facts are
infinitely more comforting
than worry
Reality can
calm the mind
over fear
Infinite doubt
is far worse
than truth
Jealousy
09 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in April 2015, poetry Tags: jealous monster transformer jealousy life love emotions
Jealousy
is a strange transformer
of characters
Turning
the seemingly kindest
into monsters
Twisting
friendships long held
until destroyed
Causing
no end of drama
flowing constantly
Strange
transformer of characters
this jealousy
Little
08 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in April 2015, poetry Tags: little things important small things life love needs wants
The little things are
infinitely
the most
important
Overlooked
taken for granted
unnoticed
often forgotten
Existing for only
the briefest of time
seemingly
insignificant
The wish I had’s
or could have done’s
what we want most
when they’re gone
In the end
little things
are infinitely
the most important
Stranger
07 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in April 2015, poetry Tags: stranger life invent mind national poetry month
Life is infinitely stranger
than anything which the mind
of man could invent
infinitely stranger
Horrors worries wonders
the mind can create
but life in all its glory
is infinitely stranger
Some seen some unseen
yet still there
slowly creeping by
gone at warp speed
Light or dark places
where the mind is not
life is infinitely
stranger
Imagination
06 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in April 2015, poetry Tags: imagination horror mind imagined
Where this is no
imagination
there is no
horror
For it is the things
imagined
that bring the most
terror
Those that dwell in
imagination
dark corners hidden spaces
of the mind
Horror in complete
reality
truly ever exists only in
imagination
Lunatics
05 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in April 2015, poetry Tags: lunatics crazy life dull insanity
There are always
some lunatics about
not very far away
either
Those that walk
beside us
in front or behind us
about
Lunatics
inside us
concealed yet let out
always some
Keeping us entertained
somewhat crazy
it would be a dull world
without them
Deborah Horton Writing 