by Anthony Salandy
Smiles are feigned as self-reliance beckons
Just beyond the thawing reach
Of quashed emotions
Collated by decades of mental anguish,
For warring paradigms
Where warcraft is vulgarities spewed
By languid souls mature Dominates darkened discourse
Where crooked caverns Are demarcated with desolate shields Constructed of sharded screens Jagged, and dulled by inconceivable worlds
Conjoined by brutish broadband And ethereal eternities
Forcefully driven
From that age old
Quaint familial fabrication, Assembled by occidental demonstrations
Contorted by protective promises
That never truly transpire.
About the author:
Anthony is a Black Mixed-race poet & writer who has spent most of his life in Kuwait jostling between the UK & America. Anthony's work has been published 215 times internationally. Anthony has 2 published chapbooks titled 'The Great Northern Journey' 2020 (Lazy Adventurer Publishing) & 'Vultures' 2021 (Roaring Junior Press) as well as a novel 'The Sands of Change' 2021 (Alien Buddha Press). Anthony's Chapbook 'Half Bred' is the Winner of the 2021 'The Poetry Question' Chapbook contest. Anthony is the EIC of Fahmidan Journal & Poxetry Editor at Chestnut Review. More of his work includes Slumber and Demonstrative Demands is available in Erato, Issue I: Bloom. Twitter/Instagram: @arsalandy https://arsalandywriter.com/