Terry O'Leary : Writing

Gothic Nights

Gothic Nights

A Poem by Terry O'Leary


My chambers teem with tensions, taut, that logic can’t withstand,fragmenting mental masonry with memories unplanned,as bitter tears from amber e..
War is a War Crime

War is a War Crime

A Poem by Terry O'Leary


Once wars were fought with sticks and stonesto flog the flesh and batter bonesand conquer lands, defending thrones -though gods provoke, not one atone..
Galactic Glimpses

Galactic Glimpses

A Poem by Terry O'Leary


Galactic curls in spirals swirl, entwining twisted mystery,where time unrolls in blackened holes, no longer bright and blistery,but writ like runes on..
The Circus Is In Town

The Circus Is In Town

A Poem by Terry O'Leary


Come join the unraveling circusquite soon to be passing our way,with the clowns in a clamor to twerk us -line up as they lead us astray!Arriving, the ..
Rough Roads To Roam

Rough Roads To Roam

A Poem by Terry O'Leary


The flames of the furnace (well-travelled by windslowly glazing the rags of gray women chagrinedat the sight of a hair fleeing tresses now thinned)som..
Love Without Hope

Love Without Hope

A Poem by Terry O'Leary


Above, the blushing blood moon vexes silken ebon spacewith shadows in the mournful mist recalling, pale, a wistful trace -her farewell smile I viewed ..
Rat-A-Tat-Tat

Rat-A-Tat-Tat

A Poem by Terry O'Leary


The typewriters tap,with a rat-a-tat-tat,like a fourth estate rapto provide us the pap(that serves as a snack with a rat-a-tat-tat)in a newspaper scra..
Now and Then and Now Again...

Now and Then and Now Again...

A Poem by Terry O'Leary


1Though still within our infancy,we strive and thrive, but woefullywe flash and flaunt our 'primacy',display our trophies pridefully.Our terra firma e..
A View from a Window

A View from a Window

A Poem by Terry O'Leary


The dawn unfolds beyond my fractured windowpaneand breezes tease while drapes, like serpents, slip asideexposing worlds that race and run aground, ins..
Limbo

Limbo

A Poem by Terry O'Leary


Six steeple towers, cold as steel, drab daggers in the sky! Their hallowed halls no longer call when breezes wander by �"for, filled with ..