Raven Poetry: Online Poetry Journal

John Bernard Bourne is a Canadian writer. He has been published in various journals and anthologies, including Macleans Magazine, Big Pond Rumours, Stellar Showcase Journal, Raven Poetry: Online Poetry Journal, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Ascent Review, The Monster Book of Canadian Monsters, and Nuit Blanche: Poems for Late Nights. He currently lives and writes in Brockville, Ontario, Canada. He can be reached at johnbernardbourne@yahoo.ca.

 

 Season Ending

 

 

Cutting through the snow

            into light and contrast

shedding the darkness of winter

resurrected;

 

            another season ending

in our long journey

orbiting, making sense

of space and time

 

but nothing

of the rest.

 

Cutting through the mythology

            into realization

rejecting notions of material

marketed;

 

            speaking of twilight

and images of nostalgia

stoking sentiment, changing

everywhere but here

 

ambling by, a tourist

of former times.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Night Springs Nocturnal

 

 

Sentiment brought me here

thoughtless

faceless

like so many times before…

 

pulling through alleys

navigating

through a haze of disjointed

aspirations

 

photographing

gothic churches at night

sneaking around

the foreign city

jet-lagged; out of synch –

 

wishing it was summer

of 1987

the humid, Roman night

makes me forget

it’s November.