Posts Tagged ‘Darrell Lindsey’

Published by Poetry Editor on . This item is listed in Issue 26, Issue 26 Poetry

Five Doors

doorStranger’s shadows
and blue angels appearing
in a broken mirror.

Snow in the long hair
of a one-armed hallucination
bringing us firewood.

The nearest distant mountain moving
like the nimble fingers
of a pianist.

Our daughter playing with a doll
that has lost its hair
and has a trembling voice.

Crows filling the front yard
with a pregnant answer
that locks all the doors twice.

 

 

 

 

Darrell Lindsey is the author of Edge of the Pond (Popcorn Press, 2012), and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize (2007) and a Rhysling Award (2014). He won the 2012 Science Fiction Poetry Association Contest (Long Form category), as well as the 2014 Balticon Poetry Contest. Most recently, he had two poems published in Outposts of Beyond (January 2015 issue). He loves the imaginative leaps found in good speculative poetry.

Published by Poetry Editor on . This item is listed in Issue 26, Issue 26 Poetry

One Persistent Eye

persistent-eyeIn the throes of that almost lost day,
telescopes became blind
to the infinite spirals
at the edge of existence,
yet one persistent eye
along the winding river
mirrored the velocity of colors,
gathered an array of galaxies at twilight
without so much as a blink.
I leaned into the face of the future,
saw shapes of dreams
come together like a jigsaw puzzle
no longer owned by ghosts.

I stepped out of the helix,
and only weighed a melody.

 

 

 

Darrell Lindsey is the author of Edge of the Pond (Popcorn Press, 2012), and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize (2007) and a Rhysling Award (2014). He won the 2012 Science Fiction Poetry Association Contest (Long Form category), as well as the 2014 Balticon Poetry Contest. Most recently, he had two poems published in Outposts of Beyond (January 2015 issue). He loves the imaginative leaps found in good speculative poetry.

Published by Associate Editor on . This item is listed in Issue 23, Issue 23 Poetry, Poetry

Greek Fire by Darrell Lindsey

 

Greek Fire by Darrell Lindsey

Illustration by Sue Babcock

Clouds of fire rise from shadows
of broken centuries, the nameless, voiceless,
leaving in glass starships at the silky river
where a thousand nightingales no longer
flinch in song.

How plentiful and pure the orchards
in celestial cities to come where these
travelers of light will taste the first fruits
of their own being and hang their old
smoky clothes

on some fading star of memory.

 

Darrell Lindsey is the author of Edge Of The Pond (Popcorn Press, 2012), and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize (2007) and a Rhysling Award (2014). He won the 2012 Science Fiction Poetry Association Contest (Long Form category), and has garnered numerous international awards for his Haiku and Tanka. One of his poems is included in Haiku In English: The First Hundred Years ( W. W. Norton & Company, 2013).