Poetry - S A Healey

She Runs (a poem)

by SA Healey | Jun 10, 2015 | Poetry

She runs To and from Islands of composure Gliding through sun and shadow Fate pursuing dominance Against tenacious tides Where everything swims Unruly and collected Polite public masks Bobbing between cartoonish faces Distortion holding her close to fear Where...

Seductive Quill (a poem)

by SA Healey | May 20, 2015 | Poetry

She writes In succumb To the thrum Of a sinister Distorted base Thoughts swelling In midnight blue Surmounting Limbo states of want Fingers twitching With molten maledictions Ten interminable storms In elemental digression Hurling metaphors Against the clogs Of a...

At My Fingertips (a poem)

by SA Healey | Dec 5, 2014 | Poetry

It happened Against the nocturnal blush Of the whispering sky My eyes lost In its infinite blackness Until I suddenly found myself Up in those stars And again in the shadows That melded and danced Beneath the brooding trees And I caught an epiphany On the wind As...

See. Hear. Feel. (a poem)

by SA Healey | Oct 31, 2014 | Poetry

I see I hear I feel Am I the only one who can? Why do you rush when there’s nothing but time? Why don’t you dance when the music comes on? Is it because people are watching? Show them how amazing you are! Why wear beige and seep into walls? Why not wear red — be a...

Goodbye to Grace (a poem)

by SA Healey | Mar 15, 2014 | Poetry

No matter how she began Or the tears that came From the pain she felt In moments of shame Knowing poise and grace Weren’t hers to claim Though she wanted them so How incredibly vain To have taunted fate On a crowded stage That would never be Her sole domain When...