Michael Kevin Spencer : Writing

When Earth Cannot be Had

When Earth Cannot be Had

A Poem by Michael Kevin Spencer


I want to know just how you have suffered That I might taste the bliss in you now, more truly! You once insisted I be patient, and I was ..
Our Privilege to Suffer

Our Privilege to Suffer

A Poem by Michael Kevin Spencer


Pain has an element of blank That cancels out ourselves I cannot recollect the memories When I to myself did disappear I took mysel..
The Rich and Varied Voices of the Waking Day

The Rich and Varied Voices of the Waking Day

A Poem by Michael Kevin Spencer


Oh here, the air is sweet and still I am alone in my own holiday Where I remember so many hundred years And Plotinus and Shakespeare! ..
Love is the kind of shadow I taste

Love is the kind of shadow I taste

A Poem by Michael Kevin Spencer


I can taste the tin in the sky The joy of morning tears, pouring again! How it has become my fortitude To suffer as I do, uniqu..
Unserviceable

Unserviceable

A Poem by Michael Kevin Spencer


The trees having been diminishing In the dreamy-house of after-yous My eyes ache with white, the nearness of snow My heart is on a t..
Grief & Anger Exorcised

Grief & Anger Exorcised

A Poem by Michael Kevin Spencer


I stare awake for my desires like coals Your body the last mosaic of the stars to me! I am cold in sorrow now, wounded and burning ..
Splintered Snowflake

Splintered Snowflake

A Poem by Michael Kevin Spencer


I am a stubborn scene of November graveyard My heart is black like coral flint The hard-hearted emerald of my investment gone Such p..
The Death of Autumn

The Death of Autumn

A Poem by Michael Kevin Spencer


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Lo, The Vain Promise

Lo, The Vain Promise

A Poem by Michael Kevin Spencer


I gave the right of all I had to give Beloved, when I think of how you said we’d be friends And now my silence sinks and I find ..
As if Any Share Were Mine

As if Any Share Were Mine

A Poem by Michael Kevin Spencer


Warm lights from your secret chamber shine Lovers that you took after me, once you found your new meals I set new words aflame from old refrains..