Charles Sperry

poem by Charles Sperry

I lie in this my city bleak, abandoned, desolate The crumbling rot of grandeur past with no one left to care, Repeating the same, repeating the same, repeat of mistakes of before This burden grinding me to dust is more than I can b... Read more

poem by Charles Sperry

"Little Hansel, Little Grettel!" Comes the doctor's siren call "Oh my dears how you are suffering, here Just let me make it better. I'll Get rid of useless pain. Don't suffer there in vain." We step in for consultation "Take ... Read more

poem by Charles Sperry

Where are you echo of my soul, Whose heart I echo back? This yearning I've been forcèd to control, Lest through it I fall to the black Gnawing of my lower will- The beast that eats and hungers still. But as I scratch my falt'... Read more

poem by Charles Sperry

Oh little child, you do not know how close Your smile came to never seeing the light Of day- As we, your parents, fought the blight That robbed our cribs and haunted like a ghost. But judgment came to us in mercy's pose And off... Read more

poem by Charles Sperry

Electrons on my blinding blue light page Flit endlessly- to exert my will Exemplary of this ephemeral age Of permanence of the intangible. My heartstrings must reflect another's words The endless fun house mirror my medium And... Read more

poem by Charles Sperry

Sometimes life needs a little burn The reminder you're alive After wrenching iron plates off the rough concrete floor Or setting fire to the craftsmanship of a skilled cigar roller And the liquid peaty richness in a glass of disti... Read more

poem by Charles Sperry

Friedrich Nietzsche steps out armored in a towering suit of steel His spear is dripping, crimson with the deathblood of a God His lips drip caustic words of maddened truth and eyes reveal Bleak prophecies too potent to maintain the... Read more

poem by Charles Sperry

We are the birds Perched on the pinnacle of greatness Surveying all below Declaring Mine is the kingdom and the power And the glory Forever Amen Unseeing, ignorant Of the mountain of stone and sweat and paint and tears The... Read more

poem by Charles Sperry

In a world of gears and logic I remain, a fragment Of what's gone on before And what is yet to come In electron streams I hide A choking whispering lament That recalls what you once were And foretells what's to be done - ... Read more

poem by Charles Sperry

Americans under a stop sign Between ages eighty and three Chat laughing about beer and peach wine (The youngest is staring at me) Americans walking the town square The courthouse looks solemnly on The children who sing in the ... Read more

poem by Charles Sperry

"Smile, it's free!" Says the note on the wall But trussed up in muzzles And bound for his troubles The harried cook struggles To breathe free at all. Would anyone see him or spare him a glance As grease, oil, and fire Togethe... Read more

poem by Charles Sperry

Dear Wendy is a loving lass, she keeps the grey at bay In conversation I'm an ass, She shapes her speech like clay Like clay upon a potters wheel, while I would fly away But Wendy keeps up her appeal, a stream of words at play Wen... Read more

poem by Charles Sperry

I promise to myself "It's just a poem." With every line my pen ascends the stage. My madness- buried, lurking under loam- Begins to rip and claw out of the page. And in this passion- wild and unfettered- A curse is given me while... Read more

poem by Charles Sperry

Copy paste the algorithm straight into your mushy brain Rant and rave to others rhythms cut and taste the rotten strain As we out ourselves and others Swatting stars we see online While we break our broken brothers Cruel cura... Read more