Beholder Eye

 

 

 

 

Beholder Eye

 

I am eye

beholder eye

beholding you

through skeleton keyholes

 

your smile, worn like a yellowed bruise

in a garden of boring blood roses

I sup on petals, sip your dew dry

bathed in imaginary connection

 

your laughter taps the nimbus door

and outshines angel choruses

in my soul, a forest burns

to warm your icy solitude

 

arterial cracks vine and bloom

into wounds that lies can’t bandage

my crystalline heart drifts apart

tectonic explosion slow motion

 

from fissures formed of empty dreams

lava love crawls toward beauty

char the apple to cure the stare

that bears the beast-hungry burden

 

you are ewe

defenseless ewe

beholding eyes

of a famished lion

 

sleep deeper than the knife sinks in

fly higher than shrill screams echo

 

I am eye

beholder eye

beholding your

skeleton through keyholes

 

off white beauty

smooth as stone

bones of my affection

Author's Note

trying out horror poetry. any good?

Reviews

[OT]

LOL because your other poems are so full of sun, rainbows and roses? hahaha I'm with kerry, it's disturbing alright, though not outright horrifying lol the insight to a mad man maybe, the keyhole gives me the idea that it's more mental than physical - like he's seeing it or thinking about it as opposed to doing it - nice!

[Kerry O'Connor]

Hmmmm... a beastly presence attracted by it's opposite 'white beauty smooth as stone' and the love-hate contortion which makes him destroy the thing he may never possess... a really strong piece with images to clasp onto:
your smile, worn like a yellowed bruise
in a garden of boring blood roses
I sup on petals, sip your dew dry
bathed in imaginary connection

Strangely enough, I don't find it that horrifying... disturbing insight into the predatory mind, intriguing glimpses of border-line personality...

[Jūdan FyreHeart]

It's interesting. The images of being watched through the keyhole as he assesses his prey. It's creepy and different, certainly worth experimenting some more with =D