CRIMSON

blood from my fingers drip
fill quill with ink...

I will have my drink
with the darkness of words
in letters transferred
scribed by lip sync's
where my thoughts are not blurred
puncturing nails,
screams are now heard

I bleed this art
in the depths of written word
and follow the hidden trails
of creation, in this relation
I a poet of tales shedding scales
of frustration

I suffer the cost but love has no price
fueling fire and ice rhyme is my vice
to fill my view, a silent squire
in a cheering crowd, the parade of liars

visions implore the depths of my core,
long in wars, a crimson enslavement,
a vacant arrangement,
I look on as the crowd roars,
my fingerstips dripping blood
on pavement....

© 2011 Rene Velez

Author's Note

been doing dark stuff lately, don't know why, just my mood I guess...

Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

I like your words this evening. A Poet of life must live and seen many things to be able to write and tell.
"I bleed this art
in the depths of written word
and follow the hidden trails
of creation,"
I like the ending to your outstanding poem.
Coyote

[Tkess]

"I bleed this art"

I think for some writing is just a past time; something to do when they are bored. But, for others it needs to come out. We wake up at 3 in the morning. We skip lunch. whatever it takes to get the words out. Excellent write.

[emmajoy]

The dark stuff often comes from a mind that's deep in thought.. maybe troubled, maybe just filled to the brim with 'stuff' .. tis good to let it out in words.. to let it ooze like blood until the spirit's lighter again.
'.. a silent squire ~ in a cheering crowd ..' those words just meld!

[Judy Ponceby]

indeed, dark writes, however, your rhyme and rhythm lend themselves to the feel of them. pulling the reader in more deeply to the darkness. brilliant write once again rene. :)

[WatashLegend]

Things get darker when the sun goes down. This may be my favorite one of yours that I have read, great penning.

[...]

. brilliant title ... brilliantly justified ... extremely vivid and excruciating writing ... "the darkness" of your "words" is intensely expressed and intensely moving ...

[Kenneth The Poet]

Heavy write, dark and bloody, very different from what you have written before. I understand where the darkness can take us, and sometimes it makes for excellent work. Bravo, Rene.

[joshua deathdealer]

Deliciously dark lol nice. Well written and great imagery..xx

[November Gold]

Brilliantly dark and powerful in meaning :) Sometimes our darkness reveals some of the most intense growth and some of the amazing written flow of expression.