Tag: poetry

An Unclaimed Life


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 swirling smoke of extinguished flame dare I beg them stay, join in as the distant sound of music now hauntingly plays like the echo of a long lost voice calling…


Deception

Photo and words © Debbie Berk


The Balancing Act of the Unbalanced

The Balancing Act of the Unbalanced   I stand teetering at the edge of the abyss divided I am half sorrow and half bliss fully mad a monster unmasked stumbling while my shadows only laugh whispering to the voices speaking back “just let go” yet I am still holding even as I feel myself fall…


Skeletons in the Closet, the Clearing

Creative image created using the effects and images within the editing apps on my ipad Poem © Debbie Berk


The Healing Mile……

Creative image created using the effects and images within the editing apps on my ipad Poem © Debbie Berk


The Cursed

Creative image created using the effects and images within the editing apps on my ipad Poem © Debbie Berk The Cursed The curse of blood the darkness of love a bitter soul I am the hardened heart of endless night forever growing old unable to quiet the curse too deep in my bones so deep…


Birthday Stew

A poem and image creation I put together, inspired by my upcoming 48th birthday… Poem © Debbie Berk / www.debbieberk.com


The Crow

  An edited photo of one of my crow pics. Poem “The Crow” ©Debbie Berk 2017


Flight of the Eternal Flame

You may have birthed me in this life my physical mother yet I am not yours alone to claim for I have been the daughter of so many others and I was not born to follow your path or your ways as I have my own journey here to take and I may be of your flesh but…


Dark Valentine

My dark distant, melancholy dreamer raven on your shoulder and the night muse whispering in your ear as the moon beckons pick up your quill reach deep into the ghost of your longing, wake and break the spell of your enchanted sleepers open the scar, deep as the grave keeper of the heart and a never…


Why So Dark?

because the night is dark the world is dark and darkness is dark because life and love has been dark and left me alone too many nights a hostage in a tiny dark room dark as my heart and I am broke and broken as the dark of my darkness unable to afford the ransom…