Three Poems by Jonathan Beale

To a Blind Poet

(I)

Containment of bones

He is as blind

As the other side

Of the door

Wondering across

the Nevada desert

Dehydrating

To

Madness

The tempests

Vistas

Trip over some

Memory of

A once better time

The night dogs

Howl & spit

To the moon

This four dimensional

Dream compressed

In some

Dark & dank

Mulchy

Blind woody

Realm

(II)

Sculpting the effigies

Of a not too

Distant past

The flames of the

Imagination

Seek air & fuel

(III)

The tigers trawl through

The savannah

Of snow and ice

In the slums of

raw & orange days

pigmentation

identifies the

cause and calumny

(IV)

The tattooist draws

Blood while swapping

For ink & design

The markings cover

And identify

(V)

Gargoyles Stony glaze from the outside wall

Watching, waiting, listening for the fall

Low Mood Months

The eyes slowly sag

With the expiring October

The day of the day brings

a new opening:  a new gate

into another garden, most

would rather not enter.

The leaves red fire

Cannot fire a passion

In these low mood months

The expiring light

Chased away by the

Freezing cold wind--

Hides behind the blankets

And the wood fires

Cinders breathe some

Hope, some life, some light . . . 

Every New Rome

In this new Rome.

This just minted

Metropolis

This absolute &

This eternal city.

Glowing on

Into the deep long night

Take your chance

Grab a handful

Drink & eat, drink and eat.

Until you are satisfied.

Jonathan Beale has 400 plus poems published in such journals as Decanto, Penwood Review, The Screech Owl, Danse Macabre, Danse Macabre du Jour, Poetic Diversity, Voices of Israel in English, Miracle E-zine, Voices of Hellenism Literary Journal, The Journal, Ink Sweat & Tears, Down in the Dirt, The English Chicago Review, Mad Swirl, Poetry Cornwall, Leaves of Ink, Ariadne's Thread, Bijou Poetry Review, Calvary Cross, Dead Snakes Review, The Bitchin Kitsch, Poetry by Birkbeck alumnus, The Dawntreader, I am not a Silent Poet, Pyrokinection, Festival of Language, Festivalwriter, Don't Be Afraid:  An Anthology of Seamus Heaney, Ygdrasil, The Four Seasons Anthology, The Seventh Quarry, Van Gogh's Ear Anthology, The Curly Mind, The Beatnik Cowboy, and Dali's Love Child.