Two Poems (Including Guest Author)

**Recently, I was chatting with my sister and was excited when she graciously accepted my offer to submit a guest post for the blog.  She just concluded a class on poetry, so she suggested a poem and I couldn’t resist the chance to dive into this art form with her.  We each came up with a poem and here’s what came out.  Enjoy!  

The Sea

My feet beat

the beach of concrete,

While an asphalt ocean

Roars nearby.

With the crest and fall

Of the cars coming call

And the hazy fog

Of their exhausted goodbyes.

The iridescent glare

Of the oil spills stare

From the black-blue waters

Of the rocky seaside.

But from the narrow gray shore,

I tend to ignore,

The soft spoken sighs,

Of a sea run bone dry.

-Emily Gross, 3/20/11

Eyes close and I wake up

Creations come from within

The characters, faces I have seen

The scenes, places I have been

And the voices, words I have heard

Stories are real but fantasy

Sometimes forgotten

Sometimes not

Now it is just me

And I am

Crying…

I open my eyes and wake up

Beads of sweat and a deep string of heartbeats

Click…click…click

The repetition reminds me

I am back in the world of the clock

The one that does not appear

But just clicks forward

Where does it come from?

Producing torment and sorrow that haunt me

Brings tears forth

I am not safe

In either conscious

I must overcome

It resides somewhere in me

The clock or my dreams

Find the source

Understand it

Reflect it out of my mind

I must awake

-JDG