Own Poetry by Martin Kellner

"Own Poetry" by "Martin Kellner"

The Sun Within Even though it's raining outside and life is pretty rough nowadays there is a sun within that's shining through the clouds A sun in whose company the glow of a cigarette fades to nothing A sun that keeps me warm feeds me heals me needs me
A Scar In Eden In the early morning while the grass was still wet from morning mist the snake snuck into Eden Through a hole in the fence If there ever was a fence around Eden But I'm sure there is 'cos it's so hard to get in And something was lost through that hole The hole can be mended though but it'll leave a scar Even Eden has its scars
Inner Garden Those gardens inside of us where we grow our ideas and dreams Whether foul and rotting stinking and malevolent or sweet as the smell of thyme in a summernight In the summernights I'm strolling in my garden All the smells Sweet, seducing full of promises You're my neighbour Occasionally I can feel the smells of your garden Like a whisper in the air There is a dark corner where the shadows are deeper down by the old appletree I don't dare go there during the nights fearing what might be dwelling there In the grass wet from morning dew there are huge footprints Why don't you come over to my garden there is a hole in the hedge, I know Together we could bring light to that dark corner
I don't know if this is another part of the last poem or a new one, but anyway... My inside is full of beauty and I know that so is yours The beauty of a frozen garden All the flowers dead Frozen at their most beautiful Still beautiful in their frozen barrenness still gleaming and glistening Through the long winternight
By a Fallen Friend Your face is relaxed now finally the beasts are silent and the torment in their tow in which you were indulging The sun comes in through the broken window shining on your fair white skin broken flowers don't have any use for sunshine
The Last Pages Another cigarette burns another five minutes away another cigarette Five minutes they say The last pages in the book of life The last black ones That tell of breakdown and decay I tear them out and roll them into cigarettes I don't want them anyway
Before Darkness Falls Love now before this day is done before autumn has come before it's too late to run into my arms mayflies on the ice of this little pond memories of a lost paradise before autumn had come The last rays of sunshine let's catch them on our wings the last days of summer taste of next spring
Love now darkness is on its way freezing us into ice forcing us to stay on the surface of our little pond
The Silver Rays of Night Let's dance on a moonlit beach fast till time no longer has any meaning till the moon sinks into the sea like ice in golden whiskey Faster till the stars start spinning, blurring spilling their pale silver light upon us and into the sea spending themselves in the process giving us all their glory happy to do so Faster faster, madly spinning your hair intertwining with the silver rays of night And later spent, sleeping with the golden purple rays of dawn
There is a tenderness I lie naked before her all cracks visible And beneath them, hellfire
I Don't Want Harmony I don't want harmony I want claws to rip into my soul Tear me to pieces Please A happy poet is a bad poet God what am I supposed to do with you? I don't deny you but I don't want you now I don't want harmony don't want peace Peace of mind just once... this terrible temptation
At My Most Beautiful At my most beautiful I can see the harsh beauty of misery the beauty of rainy nights and windswept streets At my most beautiful I'm a black-eyed cat stalking the darkened gardens Spit three times if I walk in front of you At my most beautiful I can hear the leaves rustling in the solemn nightwind stars falling and apocalypse coming....
Soul To Soul Another soul so close... Another soul like a warm jacket on your own Like me to you Mouth to mouth Heart to heart Soul to soul

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