Artistic
Murals By Tamara Gerkin Presents:
The Late
Dr.
Vince Deabler, Poetry
My
Friend the Vampire Author & Poet extraordinaire...
Imagine a raisin
placed in your hand,
a gift for you.
You stare at the image,
seeing its barrenness,
and yet,
the clefts and ridges
draw you in.
Moonlike, it reflects
the light.
Iridescent!
like a peacock feather,
sparkling.
You feel its weight
touch it with a finger.
It resists your touch
a rainbow of fissures.
It fondles your lips,
odors redolent of wine
and earth.
Sends you to valleys,
then, gently, back.
Tasting, gently at first
the tongue exploring
then a dental teasing,
gently, softly.
Biting, flavors
overwhelming
then, gently, back
to its image.
c 2005, Deabler, V.T.
Written by
deabvt
" CONVERSATION WITH AN ARTIST "
From infancy,
pencil in hand.
Scribbling, drawing
trying to make sense.
Drawing Mommies,
Daddies, trees.
gaining nourishment,
growing.
No sense to it,
just a striving.
Yet, for some
it never leaves.
Developing lives
friends, lovers
compulsions
obsessions......
cannot deny
the depression within.
The need to become,
to be heroic,
can only be fed
by creativity.
The artist in oneself
that barren place,
undefended.
bursts, demands, implores.
Our meager tools
are honed;
we slash through
reality, trying to
understand
what lies beyond.
It must be wondrous
to be God blessed.
A true artist, who,
for just that moment
has triumphed!
Yet wanders on.
V
C 2005 Deabler, V.T.
" AWAKENING "
Light streams,
a second, restful.
The engine starts,
thoughts, incessant.
Her face,
smiling, radiant.
Death appears,
with will, repelled.
Computer on,
messages, alerts.
None from her,
death appears.
As loneliness,
invades, saddens.
Poetry, art,
salvation, solace.
V
C 2005 Deabler, V.T.
The sand is cooling,
sun has bid Adieu.
Like voyeurs
we lie on our blanket,
watching the night sky
dressing in diamond raiment.
The moon is quarter full;
winds have opened
the curtain of clouds.
Ah! The throne of Nut!
Egyptian Goddess
who swallows the Sun-God Ra
each dusk,
to give birth to Him
at eve's end.
I feel your breath on my neck,
warming, caressing.
I open your eyes with a kiss,
traveling past the stars
into your soul,
marveling at the wonder
it arouses.
V
C 2005 Deabler, V.T.
AUTUMN
Each morn
a minute later,
the sun arises
over the river.
Each dawn
a degree south,
on its journey
to the Equator.
Canada geese arrive
following the sun;
disciplined V`s
collapse and rest.
Bees and wasps
flitting lazily,
the sun signaling
the end of struggle.
Leaves depart,
depending on the kindness
of strangers,
for their blaze of glory.
Autumn, inexorable,
cloaks its arrival
in glorious colors,
soon to be blanched
by winters snow.
V
C 2005 Deabler, V.T.
A P O E M
Ever see
at second glance,
something so perfect
it spins you back
to happiness?
In Vermont,
the loons are quieting,
stars impatiently await
the darkness of their stage.
Transported,
I feel your breath
warming me.
V
C 2005 Deabler, V.T
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