ADAM LEVON BROWN - POEMS

Adam Levon Brown is a published author, poet, amateur photographer, and cat lover. He is owner of Madness Muse Press; a micro-press that publishes dark poetry, and a book reviewer for Five 2 One Magazine. He has over 100 poems published in 9 different countries. He has been published in venues such as Burningword Literary Journal, Corvus Review, and Yellow Chair Review. Adam can be contacted via his website at www.AdamLevonBrown.org where he offers free poetry resources. Also see his press at www.Madnessmusepress.com

Adam has one chapbook out titled, “These Streets Don’t Cry For Us” which can be found on Amazon. He attends Lane Community College and will soon attend the University of Oregon as an English Major/Creative Writing Minor.
 

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                                                 Emotional Explosives
 


Sleeping with
A hand grenade
for a heart always
makes me jumpy.
 
As if somehow
in the middle of the night
I will explode into tears.
 
Soliloquy sorted
by synapses sifting
silently through
the sieve of sanity.
 
I hang my fears
on the nightstand
and press my head
into the pillow;
 
Hoping not to
wake the raging
beast that lies
within.
 
 
 
 
                                                           Memory Tainted
 

Tense and struggling
to keep the monstrosity
in check.
 
Pushing past adversity
and unseen barriers
makes a heart strong.
 
Halting memories
keep me bound
to a fate of my
worst fears.
 
When the juggernaut
sleeps, I will find
true peace.
 
 
 
                               The Marked Ones
 


Serendipitous soliloquy splintered through
Laborious salivation
 
Sanctimonious sacrilege survives through
Inseminating greed and sacrificing succor
 
Salacious sensations stagger sun-chipped
Soldiers with stock-eyed stares
 
Lunar cycles sell simplicity in the form
Of silent silk made for the secret salutations
 
Sins are secreted into the veins of the absorbent
As night slips by into the abyss of solace