Category: Poetry

an underlying sadness


She is

Patches and pieces, scabs, scraps and scars, darkness, pain and a broken heart, a hot mess of chaos within the quiet, she is poetry, haunting photograph, an abstract beauty, and an ever healing wounded soul, she is an on going work of art, a masterpiece in the making Art/Digital Art/Poem Debbie Berk 2020


on wings of darkness

Maybe, I imagine, that peace comes on the softness of wings, of being carried away the blackbirds as they croak and caw, soothing me to sleep with the haunting call of their poetry and song, tucking me deep within this nesting I never want to leave as dark feathers cover and keep me while I…


where the lonely go

Into the darkness follow the shadows, that deep call of the void, follow, follow the dark sorrows home Art/Poem Debbie Berk 2020


New Art

Sucked into the void ~ Debbie Berk 2020


in a garden of longing and empty

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The beauty of

Photo/Poem Debbie Berk 2020


the Truth

is not meant to be soft as a kitten’s paws, no the truth has much bigger, sharper claws often leaving deep puncture wounds within you as it whispers ”fuck your feelings,” coming like a harsh light of burning reality 6/19/2020 ©Debbie Berk 2020


A far away dreamer

you’ll never reach her, she’s long on her way to touch the stars, free amidst the darkness, only the love of the moon can keep her   7/11/2020 ©Debbie Berk 2020


I Cry

for the days lost and for the knowing no change comes in the tomorrows I cannot seem to reach though I try, yes I try but I am tired so very, very tired July 3 2020 © Debbie Berk 2020


Wake up call

Art, photos and poem © Debbie Berk 2020


Cater-fly

half caterpillar and half butterfly I am mostly darkness with a little bit of light and just enough hope to believe that still it may be possible to fly in spite of these foreboding and ever turbulent skies       6/4/2020 © Debbie Berk 2020