![[ If I were a painter I’d paint you in colors ]](https://i0.wp.com/poetscollective.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/spring-is-in-the-air.jpg?resize=439%2C300&ssl=1)
[ If I were a painter I’d paint you in colors ]
If I were a painter I’d paint you in colors Of emerald and olive and amaranth-red, Agleam in the beam …
Tag: Thain Emrys Bertin
![[ I fell into the riverbed in desperate search of sleep. ]](https://i0.wp.com/poetscollective.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/sleep-deprivation.jpg?resize=439%2C300&ssl=1)
[ I fell into the riverbed in desperate search of sleep. ]
I fell into the riverbed in desperate search of sleep.
The winter melt had long since gone (the waters were not deep)
Yet Autumn’s early frost had rimed the trickling river’s tears.
Engulfed in such as this all other thinking disappears.
A song of departure
When the touch of warm flesh has returned to your lips, And they yield as they once did on mine, …
The Minstrel
The oak she leaned her back against was twisted, gnarled, and bent —A fitting place for one last song, one …
![[ From out the Frozen North he comes ]](https://i0.wp.com/poetscollective.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/krampus.jpeg?resize=439%2C300&ssl=1)
[ From out the Frozen North he comes ]
From out the Frozen North he comes,Areek of fetid sugarplums;He bears a sharpened blood-cord caneAnd drags behind an emerald chain. …