The
Poetry Of Ernest Williamson III
The
Picture Had Already Been Taken
the bay leaves were stapled together
hugging each other
unabashed by the sultry winds
Montego Bay had never been so maroon
and swamped with rainbows meddling with black sands
in my house
aside the plush verdant carpet
was a cherry dresser
pleasant to the eye
with four legs
curvaceous legs
flirtatious in a way
like an anxious tongue
willing but reluctant
to taste hot Black tea
at 6 a.m. in the morning
next to the dresser on the cream colored wall
was a painting I painted in 1974
I called it "Daydreaming"
Today at times I sit and staple bay leaves,
watch them hug,
in Montego Bay
on plush verdant carpet,
next to a cherry dresser
with four legs,
in a naked room,
and with no painting of any sort
on the walls
while daydreaming
at 6 pm in the evening
smiling
with paintbrush in hand
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Propagation
amid the bellowing pariah
in the staunch sickled cobwebs
of numerical ontology
I've sailed with sordid limbs
through the marsh
in Cavern's river
leaving the deft mute and besmirched
by the wistful dust
left in the tracks
in the denouement of awful urges
to change a prodding heart
from caring friends
spoken of by fanciful media
for the sake of a presiding landfall
falling slowly
from my quaking
Black
pin
into the deep
into the musk
into Cavern's river
into something anew
though a lie
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The
Symbol of Abiotic Needs
the cedar leaves danced in the ovum
crossing barriers leading to open spaces
vaulting corridors of sorts whistling loudly
to the winds of Apache's voice
in the dance of the silver flames strolling upwardly
from the caverns of subdued ground
pulsating with effort and soundless song
heard but only in the quietude
of pleasant loneliness
so as the nature of all things
plays along the clefs of good harmony
I stare into the mists of fervid expectancy
with a charging patience gone awry
while the grinding wind brushes
without relent
against my truest face
which is a shadow in all places
starving flesh for the symbol of abiotic needs
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Ernest Williamson III is a
31 year old polymath who has published poetry and visual art
in over 115 online and print journals within a time span of 8
years.His poem "The Jazz of Old Wine" has been nominated
for a Best of the Net award by the editors of "Thick with
Conviction". He holds the B.A. and the M.A. in English/Creative
Writing/Literature from the University of Memphis. Ernest is
now listed in the prestigious Directory of American Poets and
Fiction Writers. Ernest is an adjunct English Professor at Essex
County College. Professor Williamson is also a private tutor,
a Ph.D. Candidate at Seton Hall University in the field of Higher
Education, and a member of The International High IQ Society
based in New York City.
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