A Referral of a Poet by a Poet

The other day I read a post by my friend and fellow blogger Michelle Lee at my inspired life.

Michelle is an inspiration all by herself, often sharing wonderful poetry and moments and emotions with her followers. Although I was tempted to share a snippet of her poetry (next time!) I wanted to share a poem SHE shared by Michael Raven in her post GALDR Spotlight.

I just thought it a powerful poem. Maybe it just hit me at the time. I don’t know much about writing poetry, but I do enjoy a poem I can feel. 

Please feel free to visit both Michelle and Michael’s sites when you can and enjoy getting lost in their magic.

this is the sea

unmoored and adrift
i reach out for two hands
to plunge me into icy waters
delve into my felon chest
to draw the poison of
forever years from my soul
black burnt pitch thick
with coagulated blood pudding

draw out the fetid fantasies
draw out the traitorous dreams
tear out the scarred soul meat
and
            and
                        kill off the pale, sick-filled me

this dying is necessary
            the vessel, cleared and
                        the soul filled with the
            the ever-moving sea

horizons draw eyes
            for this is the sea

good night, though

in the shadowlands
and their loathsome lonely
I talk to ghosts who
with nothing much to say
they nod and murmur
grow distant, fade
away away away
their talk, idle stuff
small talk soliloquy
lacking depth, substance
phantom words from
phantom mouths
and, like the ash in the plains
weightless, choking
and tastelessly crisp
lost paper dolls
at the forever party
doldrums