deveril

[deveril]

This emptiness grows 
within me each day; 
it is a hunger 
that is consuming 
my will to exist — 
a vacancy that 
I am powerless 
to combat alone.

I disappear, and 
no one seems to care 
that I’ve gone away.

— deveril

#poem #poetry #syllabic poetry #original poetry #pentasyllabic poetry

[deveril]

If I were suffocating,

I would not say

“I miss the air;”

I would suffer

in agony,

and die.

“I did not merely miss the air,

I could not live without it.”

I will not say

“I miss you.”

— deveril

#poem #poetry #original poetry #free verse

[deveril]

Winter has fallen

upon my heart, and

the life is slowly

draining out of me.

This is the winter

when the illusion

of hope was buried

in the snows of March.

And all that remains

is a memory

of someone I love,

who’ll never love me.

Insidious cold

steals into my heart,

and the world goes gray.

My last thought is you.

— deveril

#poem #poetry #syllabic poetry #original poetry #pentasyllabic poetry

[deveril]

#kronos quartet #adagio in Bb minor #samuel barber #winter was hard

[deveril]

In my darkest hour,

your light shone on me.

As I was sinking

into my despair,

you saved me, moonlight.

You reached down, despite

your own misgivings,

you lifted me up.

You were the grace that

soothed my troubled soul.

You calmed the storms that

lashed my fitful mind.

You were the light who

ruled my darkened skies.

You were my moonlight.

— deveril

#poem #syllabic poetry #original poetry #love poem

[deveril]

Timelapse, 8 April 2024. A cloudy, windy day in North Texas

#total solar eclipse #solar eclipse #april 2024

[deveril]

Moment before totality, solar eclipse 8 April 2024

#solar eclipse #total solar eclipse #april 2024

[deveril]

8 April 2024, moment of totality, 1:39pm

#solar eclipse #total solar eclipse #dfwtexas

[deveril]

Nothing assuages 
the hollow ache of 
a heart that has been 
unexpectedly, 
wholly abandoned.

From that dire instant, 
the wounded mind, too, 
is impregnated 
with doubts and questions 
that will never find 
their resolution.

And the consequence — 
a life forever 
altered; a future 
of wondering why, 
knowing you failed to 
measure up but not 
knowing in what way.

A simple goodbye, 
an explanation, 
however concise — 
thoughtful compassion — 
would have spared a soul 
the cataclysm 
of a shattered life.

That’s all it would take, 
a little kindness.

— deveril

#poem #syllabic poetry #original poetry #pentasyllabic poetry

[deveril]

And when your heart closed

I heard the thunder,

and solemn pealing

of requiem bells.

When you turned away,

the light of your face

shone away from me,

I fell to darkness.

Angels turned and wept,

fleeing to heaven;

Gabriel’s trumpet

sounded its last note.

My world has ended,

though my life goes on.

I’ve become a ghost,

haunted by lost love.

— deveril

#poem #syllabic poetry #original poetry #pentasyllabic poetry

[deveril]

Look upon the walls

of this scarred muscle —

see the name inscribed

into the bleeding flesh;

hear the weakening,

arrhythmic drumbeat —

harken to the voice,

the anguished echo

of a name cried out

into emptiness.

There is no response.

Witness the carnage

wrought by love’s demise:

a man without hope —

a life in ruins.

— deveril

#poem #poetry #syllabic poetry #original poetry #pentasyllabic poetry

[deveril]

#epilogue #everest #mood

[deveril]

How do I go on,

Natali, when life

without you holds no

happiness for me?

How do I return

to the solitude

I knew before you

brought love to my life?

I cannot return

to mere existence —

the colorless world

I knew before you.

I cannot go back,

I can’t go forward.

I inhabit this

equilibrium,

and I go nowhere.

I miss you too much,

and life means nothing

to me without you,

even though I know

you don’t care at all.

I care, Natali.

That hasn’t changed, though

you abandoned me

without a word, not

even a goodbye

or explanation.

You made your choices,

but you made mine, too;

I’m stuck in a life

I don’t even want.

I would live, for you;

I’ll die without you.

There’s no other choice.

I cannot go on.

— deveril

#poem #poetry #syllabic poetry #natali poems

[deveril]

Proof of god was in

the slightest glance of

your fathomless eyes;

I needed no more

assurance than that.

Nor did I need a

more convincing glimpse

of hell’s existence

than life without you

since you went away.

You aren’t aware that

I cry every time

that I think of you;

time has in no way

diminished the pain.

I would never have

known the despair of

rejection if you

hadn’t pursued me.

But you wanted me.

I wasn’t ready.

But I trusted you,

your sincerity,

and your compassion.

A fatal mistake.

— deveril

#poem #syllabic poetry #original poetry

[deveril]

Moonlight on her hair,

eyes of jeweled light,

the delicate line

of a slender neck;

a voice like music:

A wounded beauty,

lady full of grace,

whose mind is filled with

possibility.

Beautiful girl of

delight and despair,

she holds each in her

hands like phases of

the changeable moon —

full moon of rapture,

new moon of anguish.

She illuminates

the night with her love,

and casts the world to

desperate darkness

when she turns away.

Don’t hope to change her,

or to constrain her

to your will — you’ll fail.

She is the daughter

of the goddess moon.

— deveril

#poem #syllabic poetry #original poetry #moonlight

[deveril]

What do I got to do to make you love me?

#elton john #sorry seems to be the hardest word

[deveril]

Evening descends in

indigo twilight,

the birds have returned

to nest, quietly;

the stray cats have found

their places to sleep.

The world’s gone silent,

and my attention

is drawn to the stars.

What spectacles of

creation linger

forever beyond

my ability

to witness even

with my telescope?

And why do the vast

expanses of space

feel more like my home

than any place I’ve

laid my head before?

— deveril

#poem #syllabic poetry #original poetry #poetry #pentasyllabic poem