Poetry by Terrence Sykes

                Richard P J Lambert CC



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SONATA & FUGUE
             For 
BUZZARD IN FLIGHT 
  
… for the disappointed
buzzard  who discovered
upon dusk laden landscape
I was merely passed out
from drinking too much
… & not dead 
 
 


PALIMPSEST 
 
dusk leads into night into chaos
body mind & spirit into oblivion
saints & sinners palimpsest 
even my soul’s existence
from earth & cosmos
merely stardust remains
who shall follow I
sacrificial vellum lamb

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Terrence Sykes was born and raised in the rural coal mining area of Virginia.  This isolation brings the theme of remembrance to his creations, whether real or imagined.  Other interests include cooking, gardening ,heirloom vegetable research & foraging wild edibles.  His poetry - photography - flash fiction has been published in Bangladesh, Canada, Ireland, India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Scotland, Spain and the USA

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