Brenda Markgraf

Placerville, California, USA

I have been writing poetry for 10 years. I also write song lyrics and children's stories. I am also an artist and have done illustrations for a children's book. I am currently working on published in anthologies: Journey to the Stars, Paths Not Taken, Best Poems of the 90's, Best Poems of 1997, and Best Poems of 1998. My poems, "Vacant Moments" and "Imprints" were selected for Sound of Poetry and published by The National Library of Poetry; also Awarded Editors Choice Awards. I am a member of The International Society of Poets. Poetry is the road to self realization and healing.

Those Days

Those Days I remember well
The curse that haunts me
straight from Hell
The obsession just to see your face
no matter what the cost
The bittersweet sting of loves wasp
The jubilant joy the driving pain
The languish that still remains
All others they still pale
Against the magic of you spell

Vacant Moments

Vacant moments where
Silence trembles
Grief's face wailing
Mournful tears
Taunting curse of
Departed years
Like thunderous clashing cymbals
Uttered words of love unspoken
That lie upon a burning vision
Demon spirit of scorns
Haunting incision
Retorted rhapsody passions mystery
Fleeting moments cold as stone
Gaze upon the lilies white
Hush interrupted by the
Silent sounds
Echoing in they hallowed shrine

Imprints

Inspiration and Salience of Beauty
Optimism progressive face
Realities and dreams worlds apart
Out in other space
Hope stares out from its hiding place
Behind mask of the skeptical eye
It bleeds
Cynical citadel of imagination
In a cruel and heartless world
where Intellectual madness rules
The poor and hungry abandoned
In despair
While the opulent wallow in their
Seething greed
Poetry not from the mind cerebral
From the portals of the heart unfolds
It strolls until its steps are steeped
In the heart leaving Imprints
Upon the enlightened soul