Terrence Sykes is a GASP …Gay Alcoholic Southern Poet & was born and raised in the rural coal mining area of Virginia. This isolation brings the theme of remembrance to his creations, whether real or imagined ....other interests include cooking, gardening, heirloom vegetable research & foraging wild edibles. His poetry, photography and flash fiction have been published in Bangladesh, Canada, Ireland, India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Scotland, Spain Turkey and the USA.
Elegy
We say goodbye
only to the body
Heart mind
Soul & sprit
Slipped away
over the past
few years
You took
your life
I hope
It gives
you peace
We living
go on living
Remembering
Perhaps
just a bit too
envious
of your
Courage
Mirage
(deKooning @ MOMA)
judgement day descends
interrupted by
a littering of
fallen angels
upon
the time of fire
&
the fire of time
interchanged
as I pray
in the attic of
the itinerant chapel
embers burn
&
the tea is cold
to the tempted tongue
to the smoldering fire
to the raging in my soul
landscape abstracts
merely a figure traveling
over black mountains
ashes of the city
tangled amongst
barren moraine
ice desert
grey palisades
Intercede-intrude-converge
upon black friday
lost in a labyrinth
seeking
the truth
&
the door
to the
Irresolute river
I kneel
&
forget
to drink
from the bitter-sweet
wine of remembrance
yet I awaken
easter monday
only to miss
the resurrection
