Three Poems by Carl Scharwath

Wayfaring

City rain breathing
Radiation from the storm clouds
As tar black feather balls
Disguise the avenue.

Ghosts in the metropolis
Leer from empty buildings
Poisonous tomb stones
Rising in the shadows

Devout of humanity
Lifeless and forsaken
On what journey
The victim returns?




ADMONITIO

You are the genesis of today
The cancers of a desperate heart
etched in the loss of hope.

Vision doubled, fractured
fragments give warning.
Blood rushes in a sojourn.

Following the Daughters of Zion
adorned in self-alienation
to a future world, without history.




AXIS

The passion shall escape
While the past,
Flickering hungry
Is Bleached invisible.

You gaze at
The unfeigned light.
Walking out determined
From the world.

Knowing how it feels
To be broken
And have a black hole
On your time-line.




Bio: Carl Scharwath, has appeared globally with 80+ journals selecting his poetry, short stories, essays or art photography. He won the National Poetry Contest award for Writers One Flight Up. His first poetry book is 'Journey To Become Forgotten' (Kind of a Hurricane Press). Carl is also a dedicated runner.