Anna Vera's Poems

You dream a dream, And bathe your toes In scarlet flows Of icy streams. It softly glows Upon your knee, For your heart knows A dream is free. It glitters, plays, It makes you smile. You waste all day, You sit awhile. And watch it quote Quite quietly Words you once spoke Defiantly, Before you [...]

In Xinjiang the world is dry. The mountains scrape the bright blue sky With lifeless peaks of solid stone, And I amongst strangers, was never alone. There, the oases , their streets full of trees And bagels and children, were life at its knees… Where things could be bought, where no one had seen Someone [...]

Sometimes I sleep while the nations roll round, Mimicking bravery, muffling the sound Of unspeakable slavery… Sometimes I weep as the voice in the sky Whispers the reasons I ought not to die, Murmurs of treason, And fades to a sigh. Hesitance followed me, painfully lingering Wrapped round the dreams I was painfully fingering Wrapped [...]

If you should fly a million years, Leave behind your frightened tears, Escape the milky clustered sky, And peer grim thrills deep in the eye Forget your strength. Forget your mind. But pray! Don’t leave your heart behind. If you should leave your home, your friends, And seek new dreams, new loves… new ends, Leap [...]

Untouched, unfelt, unheard, unseen, Unlived, unlearned, unloved, unbeen, I’ve wandered lonely in the night. I’ve felt my footsteps turn in fright. I’ve cried out singing, to the stars. I’ve felt the light that beauty mars. Reddened rainbows in the sun Meant my worlds, and yet, not one. Shattered dreams about my feet; Shattered dreams incomplete. [...]