My Poetry
All my work has a dark side. I find it makes for a more interesting read.
I've been writing poetry for around 15 years now. I like to take a simple moment in time, and find the beauty and poignancy within it.
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Through a Verse, Darkly
ISBN-13: 979-8651533497
Have you ever admired the delicacy of a dead butterfly's wing? Do you notice when a stranger is no longer there? Or perhaps you pine for long-ago nights, filled with frantic kisses beneath neon lights?
'Through a Verse, Darkly' is the first poetry collection from Reagan Lee Ray. Touching on subjects as diverse as dementia, murder, madness and lost love, this anthology is a journey through the mind of one woman who sees the world in a slightly different way.
Each moment is captured in words, inviting the reader to stay and enjoy the beauty of darkness.
The Last Levitation
Sheets,
stained and tangled,
top the mattress on the floor
peeling paint
falls from damp walls,
the flakes adding
to the carpet's debris
her needle,
threaded with stars
sinks deep,
finding a vein
she is
a magician's assistant,
levitating
above it all,
body held in torpor
warm waves vibrate
through emaciated flesh,
filling her
with night skies
and diamond breath
through cardiac pulsing,
brain sews glittered patterns
as body gasps
and strains
her last levitation
leaves her
spent and extinguished,
sunken cheeked
and sallow skinned,
one pleasure
too far
Dear Diary
trembling hands
turn untainted pages,
salvation offered
in their simplicity
the blankness
calms her,
their purity cleansing
the sins she holds as her own
she breathes -
a previously forgotten thing
pen scratches surface
and all is left behind,
the callous hands,
barbed tongue,
the shame and the fear
the lost innocence
telling the diary
all that she is powerless to stop,
all that she cannot say,
she trusts in the silence
of the book
wrapped safe and hidden
as she wishes she could be,
she leaves her pain
in black and white