Archive for Rockefeller Center
Imagined Music (One Stop Poetry Challenge)
Posted in Image Poetry, One Stop Poetry with tags Blog, dustus, Imagined Music, New York City, One Shoot Sunday, One Stop Poetry, photograph, picture prompt chllenge, poems for, poet, Poetry, poetry online, Rockefeller Center on December 26, 2010 by dustus
I was young when fever swelledTracks of tears, crushed off course
Alone with thought each afternoon
Imagined music I can’t sing
Happy Holidays!
Posted in Image Poetry, One Stop Poetry with tags american poetry, Blog, Christmas Tree, dustus, Happy Holidays, One Stop Poetry, online poems, photograph, poetry online, Rockefeller Center, short poems on December 25, 2010 by dustus
Wishing you all a happy & healthy holiday season!
Like An Angel
Posted in Image Poetry, One Stop Poetry with tags Blog, dustus, Imagined Music, New York City, One Stop Poetry, online poems, photograph, poem, poet, poetry online, Rockefeller Center on December 21, 2010 by dustus
Grownups feared the wall’s cave
Specialists could save my life
Winding under river currents
Downtown breaks through tunnel light
Risk of rupture, whispers strange
Worried look on mother’s face
“And your is them”
Leaking sounds
Wanted a puppy
Balloon scan found
A ghost that year
Rushed surgery
Remove from stem
What makes brain bleed
Boy, being petrified
No stuffed animal to hold
Blocking ears they think can’t hear
Tape over eyes with wads of gauze
Doc spoke to me real easy
Dad claimed it routine
Afterward at FAO Swarz
Said he’d buy a toy for me
And so that past Christmas
Time I can’t forget
Six years old, held back tears
Right side of my groin blood let
Hearing hums
Revved drill bit
Pulsing, throbbing
Did I see this?
Constant ticks of lids and lips
Machine kept beeping, click-click-clicks
They stopped my heart
Chilling soul
100 degrees
Reduced to cold
As it happened
I had quit
Opened mind
Spirit split
Flat line
White light
Shocked to relive
Heard that “Clear!”
My self defibbed
Like an angel looking down
From above the gurney, gowned
Thought I watched myself die there
Could not tell what’s dream from real
*photo by me
Rockefeller Center (NYC)
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