Lifeless

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Original DDE™ surrealistic art: “Broken Hope Hotel” by: rob kistner © 2/22/24

 
S hrouding rains — sanity drains
sorrow celebrates the smothered light
weary winter withers hope’s refrains
no sun to shine, only sour bleak night

greyest grief stirs in the grimacing cold
ghostly mist melts color — this morbid night
on such a night lost souls are sold
broken hearts barren as the blight


Original DDE™ surrealistic art: “Hawk Moon Bog”
by: rob kistner © 2/22/24

hawk moon hovers harsh in a chromium fog
pocking the path from a pitch black sky
foreign and forbidding as a festering bog
this is the dark hour for dreams to die

in this drowning clench of deep despair
horror slithers and dire dejection dwells
horrid misery haunts this harrowing lair
happiness hangs lifeless at broken hope hotel


Original DDE™ surrealistic art: “Lobby of The Lost”
by: rob kistner © 2/22/24

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rob kistner © 2024

Poetry at: dVerse

 


14 thoughts on “Lifeless”

  1. I love Leonard, have most of his recordings! This piece fits the art and your poetry perfectly. Did you see the full moon last night? It was beautiful here in Bend.

    1. Missed the moon last night, Helen, but I’m sure the full moon over the high desert was just gorgeous. I have seen it before several times in the 25 years I lived in Oregon. Bend is a special place.

  2. Broken Hope Hotel. Phew! That says it all….and these words as well,
    “foreign and forbidding as a festering bog
    this is the dark hour for dreams to die”
    You’ve gone to the dark side, my friend, with this one! Well done.

  3. Read this with Cohen playing in the background and have to say, it got darker! Loved this line especially, “no sun to shine, only sour bleak night” — which to me captured the tenor of such a “dark hour for dreams to die.” Talk about atmospheric — chills at the “broken hope hotel”!

  4. I think you used this so well and how wonderful to let the alliterative word have onomatpoetic significance… it works so well and portrays the menace of the darkness well.

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