Matryoshka Poetry
Black-Out poem by Karen Barton,
Source Evening Song, John Fletcher, 'The Way Of Poetry'
​Karen Barton is a poet, and creator of minor-mayhem based in a cottage held together by plaster made from hair and mud close to Avebury Standing Stones. Her work can be seen at The Curly Mind, I Am Not A Silent Poet, Quatrain Fish and forthcoming in Thank You For Swallowing. She blogs at: thepapercutpoet.blogspot.co.uk
Journey
Soft rain sprinkles stars
Lightning bugs flicker
Phosphorescent jellyfish
illuminate dark waters
Your boat, lantern starboard,
weaves the river, searching
for lost ghosts that float just
above the mist
Their sensuous voices lure
towards jagged cliffs
seek companions
on their journey
If you follow
you will drown
in the quiet water
your eyes will glow
like glimmering filaments
in the blue of midnight
You will be carried
in quick-moving currents
through rocky shoals
to the open endless sea
And moonbeams
will enchant you
into the night sky
where you will dance
in the heavens
no longer earthbound
in the deep
black
grave
of dark water.
Jay S Zimmerman, is a visual artist and poet resides in Muncie, Indiana His work appears in Three Line Poetry, Flying Island, New Verse News and the Rats Ass Review.
The poems on this page will be added to an archive magazine during the coming week.