Two new poems for my manuscript

I woke up today in the best of spirits. I've been searching my mind for a reason to feel so calm, and think it's because I've finally completed two new poems.

It's the first completed creative impulse I've had since beginning my anti anxiety med's.

So here they are. Enjoy.

Beauty Stalks The artist

I have yet to see

Beauty’s full face

A sneak, a peak

Is all I’ve been graced

Her silence is precious

Like oxygen to air

Her smallest sound

Is beyond compare

The atmosphere loves her

And shimmers with pleasure

Just for the privilege

Of being around her

Pearls appear as if

Out of no where

Adorning sun, spun

Golden strands of hair

Scent of apples

Ripple the airs surface

Her laughter showers

Those who’re not impervious

With visions of voice

And images of harmony

Of multitudinous hues

And infinite varieties

She fills to overflowing

For that is her nature

Boundless Beauty knows

No barriers.

With Leonine stealth

She plots her course

To distribute her wealth

If need be, by force.

For all of her charm

And all of her light

Beauty is as much Beast

As she is, delight

~o~

- poem and illustration ("Beauty", marker and ink) by me.

Lillith

Lillith scorned Beauty,

And bet the same for me.

She spun ‘round her words with lies,

To ensnare the numb and innocent.

She plucked the stars from the skies,

And called them deficient.

She took me far from love’s embrace,

To lead me through darkness.

She showed me a gaping hole,

And asked for me to fill it.

I lowered gently in,

Her ashes in containment.

Lillith scorned Beauty,

Who came in search of me.

Lighting Lillith’s shadow,

Casting rainbow revelry.

~o~

-poem and illustration ("The Smouldering", Marker and Ink) also by me.