Tag: death

A Late Summer Eulogy

  These are the dying whispers of our final days as the sun hangs low – slipping into the darkness below and we wear December’s ghost to fashion the dead with grim decay written into the ages, our time kissed faces dreaming from the not so distant grave Poem/Image ©Debbie Berk August 7, 2016


Reality


Darkness

Words & Image by Debbie Berk, Photos used in this creation are the property of Debbie Berk.


In a Dream


Remembering my dad today,

It’s hard to believe you’ve been gone eight years now. It’s true, you left me with a lot of scars and yet you could never fully kill the love I keep in my still mending heart for you……


4/14/2016


This Is A Poem


The Devouring

Trapped in this dark space soul lost to an even darker fate and time moves like a slow curse in the belly of the ever ravenous worm the watchful predator with a devoted kind of sickness, mad and twisted like love stalking its prey, waiting in the silent shadows to collect what is owed, eager…


The Night The Darkness Would Not Die

Words & Image ©Debbie Berk 2016 / www.debbieberk.com /debbiedberk@gmail.com


Morbid…

Photo / Poem by Debbie Berk


Ode to the Pretty Poets

So eloquently their eyes mirror empty and yes, we are told that this is what beauty really is and that to suffer is to truly live so we ignore our own deaths get lost in their depths and praise being lost in the nowhere places of the nothingness spaces we long to call home if…


The Haunted House

This poem and image will appear in the Spring/Summer 2016 issue of The Stray Branch along with a few of my other photos.