CARL SCHARWATH - POEMS

Carl Scharwath, has appeared globally with 150+ journals selecting his poetry, short stories, interviews, essays, drama or art photography.Two poetry books 'Journey To Become Forgotten' (Kind of a Hurricane Press).and 'Abandoned' (ScarsTv) have been published. Carl is the art editor for Minute Magazine, a dedicated runner and 2nd degree black- belt in Taekwondo.

ASH WEDNESDAY IN DRESDEN (Aschermittwoch in Dresden)
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​Mosquito marker planes dropped
red and green imprints.
The Florence of the Elbe
awaited its charcoal nightmare.
 
Sirens proclaimed a terror, embraced
by formations of flying steel.
The first incendiary firestorm
rained seismic waves of heat.
 
Body parts and liquid flesh
christened the sidewalks in drips.
Like a grotesque summer
melting ice cream cone.
 
Trampled, no oxygen
a death dance in the street.
The dance floor reflected      
adults the size of children.
 
Burnt, screaming and gesticulated
in a mad frenzy to escape.
The cultural city morphed into
an aberrant, surrealistic landscape.
 
A German mother covered her babies
with kisses and wet blankets
and whispered silent prayers
on a Dresden Ash Wednesday evening.

An American City
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​The city slowly
withers and dies.
While the living
flow angry
in open streets.
To a new renaissance.
floating down the river
like a colorful leaf
on splattered sunshine.