Michael Kevin Spencer : Writing

Against Certain Freedom I Found Words

Against Certain Freedom I Found Words

A Poem by Michael Kevin Spencer


The black huntsmen has nearly found me I once knew delight, as water in a glass pool With you, sensual and dripping summer Love, the s..
I Too Expect Nothing from Man

I Too Expect Nothing from Man

A Poem by Michael Kevin Spencer


It is impractical to love the dying trees While all around me, silence is trivialized By greed, and the desires that destroy It is i..
You Were As the Furthest Thunder that I Heard

You Were As the Furthest Thunder that I Heard

A Poem by Michael Kevin Spencer


In tokens of our friendship, the consolation Will be, the sweetest of farewells To the family I never had To the lovers I never knew ..
Sometimes we Call Each Other Sun, Light, Angel

Sometimes we Call Each Other Sun, Light, Angel

A Poem by Michael Kevin Spencer


This poem is based off a poem by Circe: http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/Circe/1083025/ And based upon the teachings of Helen.
Desire is the Great Swan by the River

Desire is the Great Swan by the River

A Poem by Michael Kevin Spencer


The Universe is our most difficult mystery She contains us like a candle in a psyche! Her love is like a bird in a fist To hold on to he..
Stooping Through the Wavering Cave of Blue

Stooping Through the Wavering Cave of Blue

A Poem by Michael Kevin Spencer


I have renovated my temple For the modern life, giddy with the grandeur Of the peaks of ecstasy, knowledge, higher joys The sea-surge sm..
For We That Lie Awake Till Late

For We That Lie Awake Till Late

A Poem by Michael Kevin Spencer


My youth is a yacht for sale It is her, little enough to forget My youth is the secret of being human Quickly dispossessed, as if a sacri..
They Say They are One Flesh

They Say They are One Flesh

A Poem by Michael Kevin Spencer


I used to love the dream of love before To thirst for hopes themselves, and nothing more The utterance of eloquence in the flesh The fai..
On Some Aspect of Immortality

On Some Aspect of Immortality

A Poem by Michael Kevin Spencer


You who were once Free, free for what? Free for new hopes, for new despairs? For beginnings and ends, and attachments leaping For you..
The Listener of Windless Skies

The Listener of Windless Skies

A Poem by Michael Kevin Spencer


Naked upon the Aeons of star-rimmed afterwards I arose from the dead, smiling at the world as a lover! Time had eaten who I used to be clean ..