Companion

I never worry that something I said was taken the wrong way. You know exactly how to read me, your hand in mine— sitting next to each other... from across the room.

Anderson AriesJanuary 13, 2020Comment

The Carriage My Family Laid

If any splinter you carry should tell you differently, shed them like tears upon its dry surface and watch how easily they’re absorbed...the wood beneath shall remain.

Poems, PoetryAnderson AriesJanuary 13, 2020Paul Basel, andersonaries, staircase, poem, #andersonariesComment

Surfaces

“as close as the moon can be to the sun without withdrawing from its earth / hemispheres within hemispheres / we are all determined by hurt.”

Anderson AriesJanuary 10, 2020Comment

Can You Stare into Mine

It called to me against my will / A light that defined heart / A distant solemn cry like burning amber in the deep

An Angel's Child

Her words turned into a song that to the world set the sun itself, but to her Angels, she was simply asking them not to cry.

Poems, PoetryAnderson AriesDecember 1, 2019Angel, andersonaries, Roberto Nickson, water, twilight, dusk, woman, stars, ifinity, #andersonaries

Truth Equals

Truth is cruel giving man the capacity to choose the way man treats and refusing to interfere.

Anderson AriesDecember 1, 2019

Nonexistent

What sacrifices should I have laid at the risk of being the torment I hoped not to be, becoming a stain on the walls you were forced to paint over, the results would have been the same, you would not see me, but you would know I am there.

Anderson AriesNovember 20, 2019Comment

The Betrayed

A graveyard of broken angels, their spirit and wings shards within the sand / their vigil mistaken for being on their knees

Anderson AriesNovember 5, 2019Comment

Romance

Only after my heart has been denounced into a fine dust and I have to breathe deeply to vacuum what remains of the ashes back into my chest…

Anderson AriesOctober 26, 2019

How I Remember Her: The Isle of Ireland

The magnificent display of pride in a simple greeting/ having your very care chaperoned as if to say bring no worries, we do not worry here.

Anderson AriesOctober 16, 2019

If Stars Could Say

We are all of us a force to be challenged, and quite capable of making decisions for ourselves. But we are also governed by a grand design that, we have to admit, is quite provocative.

Blogger, Poems, PoetryAnderson AriesOctober 14, 2019#andersonaries, andersonaries, anderson ariesComment

The Wind

We require a sleep where we don't rest until we earn our bravery / trusting the wind to pass through us / take with it its power and claim the rock that is rooted.

Anderson AriesOctober 14, 2019

Spirit

They bleed a darker ribbon which we would cut at the completion of their sacrifice/ a continuance of hope passed on to our keeping for protection. Their spirit is ours. And it is not for sale.

Anderson AriesOctober 9, 2019

Nitrous Oxide N2O

It turns on all the body’s inside armaments and finely tunes them to safely channel the discharge that sends each pore of your skin tingling with what you wish were an inexhaustible feeling

Anderson AriesOctober 6, 2019

Beneath the Skein of Light

It’s not neglect that it goes unnoticed, it’s a symptom of hard times waiting for hard luck to meet its peak and the pool fills with the unlikely light of good things gone awry / just a full paid flight to anywhere but here

Anderson AriesOctober 5, 2019