Poetry by Sergio Ortiz

Words

carry shadows
that break the voice of stones
the loneliness of pens
ink's void

Men hang their tongues
on oil-free streetlights
with the knot
that tie’s their shoes
to extinction

Mute words

know more
than the taciturn?

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Let’s Sail  


There are footprints that persist
in the fertile land of silence

and oblivion capsizes
between luminescences

sunrise gathering
on the skin. It was mine,

the dance you denied.
There are dreams

that should never be tossed
into the current or into doubt.

Let’s sail together. Our vessel
can never be sunk.

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Bio: Sergio A. Ortiz is a two-time Pushcart nominee, a four-time Best of the Web nominee, and 2016 Best of the Net nominee. 2nd place in the 2016 Ramón Ataz Annual Poetry Competition sponsored by Alaire publishing house. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in FRIGG, Tipton Poetry Journal, Drunk Monkeys, and Bitterzeot Magazine.  He is currently working on his first full-length collection of poems, Elephant Graveyard.