Author Archives: marthakelchpoetry

3 november 1998 *** 11:27pm . ever since i was five i’ve been always agonised by questions i could never answer spaces i could never fill . ever since i was able i’ve been speaking up at table with questions they would never answer spaces they would never fill . at thirty-five i’m still notContinue reading “her beautiful angel  (called to love)”

30.03.06/2 nisan 5766 ***. 23:32 . it’s too bad that you never got to know me – – too bad that we never had a chance it’s too bad that you’ll always be this lonely when you suck like a vacuum at romance . it’s too bad that you never really saw me while you wereContinue reading “more than crazy”

careening toward a paradise above  the meaning of the sacrifice is love sitting in the middle of a thousand little gardens  granting every minute of it heavy with her pardons . careening toward a poison snake below  with every single sacrifice you know  resting in the arms of a woman who’s a daughter flail in the arms of coldContinue reading “the meaning of the sacrifice”

14 august 1998 *** 11:55pm . break me gently hard your tongue . a lying tongue and i’m undone . break me gently like a bone . like a bone that’s shattered . with your tongue a victory won . like a bone that mattered . a victory won an overthrow . all that matteredContinue reading “break me gently”

17 february 1999/ 1 adar 5759 . that’s my fertile crescent that’s my vietnam . to let myself start crying i never could’ve calmed . that’s my knight in armour that’s my wall of stone . to keep myself from dying i wrote 200 poems . that’s my purple heart that’s my beauty shattered .Continue reading “mesapotameia (abr’ams lament)”

31 may 1998 *** 5:07 pm . has anyone told you that you’re beautiful? held you loosely in the dark? . has anyone brought you close to heaven? set a fire to your spark? . has anyone left you sadly waiting, for a love that never shows? . how many times should it knock, beforeContinue reading “beautiful”

. 26.07.04/8 av 5764  ***  15:10 . be a poet, get your kicks enjoy a life~span–minus 6 there’s other writing, that is true but none will do this much for you deliver what you’re looking for an early exit from the war a soul~gone~roamin’ o’er~the~ocean in perpetual emotion . a life that you remember asContinue reading “minus 6”

1 october 1998 *** 2:02am . love like death time-letting you can’t refuse it . love like death time getting used to it  . death like love end at the beginning . love like death end it isn’t sinning . love like death death like love . both alike from above . falling down orContinue reading “love like death (nine lives)”

. 05.07.04/16 tammuz 5764  ***  02:28 . two more hours the birds will start singing i wonder if i will too i wonder if i can stay focused enough to write a few verses for you . so quiet at first with a hesitant song when you know what is coming– the dance~of~the~dawn the blessedContinue reading “will i”

27.03.04/5 nisan 5764  ***  15:04 . . i can hear my mind racing a mile~a~minute when all of the jumble i carry within it comes masking a pillar of blistering rage as verses are spilling~out onto the page . how a child can grieve with a scream and a wail while he’s learning the lessonContinue reading “racing”