
darkness


The Girl Who Waits at the Edge of the Tracks
I keep her ghost as if she were my own and though I never knew her I can feel her stirring within my bones, can […]

The Warrior
It is through the distance of the deepest darkness slow and long that I find the dawn touching the face of hope as I trace […]


Self Portrait, the Light and the Dark Half
“Because beauty is not always beautiful but mostly flawed and brief in its moments of glimpsed light at the right angels beyond the shadows of […]

Midnight Dreamer
Dark as the night the moon in her eyes and poetry in her veins all mystery and bold a warrior and fallen angel full of […]

Eulogies of Love
The words, they come like memory distant as the dawn waking within dreams whispering like grief and again the sorrows speak remembers the shadows that […]


Overfed
Mixed media image and poem ©Debbie Berk 2017

It Watches……
A short story I glimpsed again the shadow, heard the sound once more, a faint, desperate cry……distant. There was a knock at the door, […]

In this living that is not…
all that is left of the sacred are the sorrows lost to the mourning shadows of shame in the deep wounds of knowing of no […]

the Invitation of the Uninvited
The day is gray and silence save for the soft whispers of the slow moving shadows that so inviting they sway dancing like the […]