My mistress burns – a sonnet
you conquer woods – entrap the cloudy skies with fingers stretched you carve my burning skin I open up like autumn-ripened cowpeas skive our breathing’s heavy as we yearn for […]
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From Solitude bereft – a slanted sonnet
she laughs insanely at those urgent needs and smile at dying pigeons from the north her mate composed reports of serpent’s death with fingertips that fluttered from remorse she’s stuck […]
A chalice of barbiturate – a slanted sonnet
a summer’s day can be a tender kiss when smiling blackbirds sing from thicket’s caves but when the chainsaw screams and timber crash this sudden death in May erase my […]
Prison of my dreams
‘We live as we dream. Alone’ (Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness) suddenly awake – I raise the draw-bridge and feed the alligators in my moat defend myself with razor-wire sentences […]
A lonely girl by mountain tarn
by forest tarn the little lonely girl in tears laments in bitter loneliness as silver moonshine kiss her golden curls the trees are bowing down in tenderness with bending limbs […]
Björn Rudbergs writings 