Literary Chaos Magazine's Poetry Page - Fisher Thompson -- Universal Eternal Dogda

2 Poems
By Ernest Williamson III

About the
Author:

Ernest Williamson
III, discovered his
loves for painting
and playing the
piano at the age of
19. He has earned
a B.A. in Creative
Writing from the
University of
Memphis as well
as the M.A. in
English from the
University of
Memphis.

Currently Ernest is
a doctoral student
in the field of
Higher Education at
Seton Hall
University. Ernest
is a versatile artist
who has had
poetry published in
over 35 poetry
magazines both in
online and print
journals.

Empty Cup

we met in Grothel's vineyard
she, as wet wheat in the burrow below the sky
left of the cabbage patches,
loved me without words
I've sustained millions of diluted wounds
in heart and mind
flown from flight to ideas of levity
with wishes coated in real feelings unfelt
a kiss in mind
but lips dry with truth
and yet in Grothel's vineyard
wine gravitated away from my tongue
as if I were a thief of the green
with nothing to grasp, feign, or drink.

The Orchestra of Things Seen

what if weeping willows were songs
accosted by the rivalry of shaped emotions heard
I watched melodies resonate in the exhausted posture
of the trees
yet the coda was a recurrent paralysis
denoted in the trunk, the roots, the inner core
I'd sing will them in the rain
with ragweed burning in my mouth
reaching for the magnanimity of the willows
which cry and brag at the same time
in the same park
yet in different daze