poet – Poems & Prose

{time and punishment} poem x e.l. jayne

{time and punishment} branches of the ancient pines bow gloomily, as the scarlet sunset fades into the forest. i suppose i write the story in past tense, because it’s the last thing i want to happen, but if i prepare for it, i won’t be surprised, and perhaps even suffer a little less. but also…

{lopsided love} poem x e.l. jayne

{lopsided love} i drink coffee at midnight, so i can keep writing, because my soul demands it, because today you told me, that i love you more than you love me, as if i didn’t know already. –e.l. jayne

{wind} poem part II x e.l. jayne

{wind} part II like the wind, your words leave no trace, you only see the aftermath of its destruction. –e.l. jayne

{detest}

{detest} you must choose what you detest, either your conscious or subconscious, your awareness or your dreams, the ultimate battle, zeus and typhon, you cannot have two supreme rulers. –e.l. jayne

Raúl Zurita, Chilean poet

Purgatory is the seminal literary text provoked by the military coup that overthrew the newly elected democratic government of Salvador Allende in Chile of 1973. At the time, Zurita wrote poetry in an act of defiance to being silenced and to exercise his freedom, or what he lacked.