Friday, October 28, 2022

GAS Featured Poet: Terrence Sykes

 


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



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