Micro-poetry jewels

Poetry, Aug '14
By Bauke Kamstra

Your eye

when it sleeps

leaves me dark

open

it is fire.

***

Cries for help

only draw

predators.

***

Still alive

still with passion

not rendered

inconsolable

by the memory

of pain.

Bauke Kamstra, artist and poet, resides in Nova Scotia, Canada. His book We All Reach the Earth by Falling will be published in November 2014. You can often find him offering poetry on Twitter https://twitter.com/Wyrde.