Silver Coins Upon My Eyes ~ dVerse ~ Poetics

When I came upon the Poetics prompt at dVersePoets this week, my mind automatically thought of this piece.  Joy (aka @hedge_witch) is talking about repetition in poetry, and it's something I often find myself relying upon.  I was just getting underway with poetry blogging, and had recently discovered One Stop Poetry when I wrote this, inspired by a photo by @ChasingTao.

This weeks One Shoot Sunday at One Stop Poetry brings us the stunning photography of Roger Allen Baut. His work is alive and amazing, and this weeks picture prompt is a stunning example of how he allows your imagination to simply run away with itself.  Thanks to Roger and Onestop for providing me the inspiration for the following piece:

Silver Coins Upon My Eyes

Roger Allen Baut Photo

Will these tokens pave my way
Through demon fire and yesterday
Towards the current
where old souls cry
And beyond the thunder
Of the mount most high
These silver coins upon my eyes

Silver molten seeping in
Yet icy cold upon this skin
Truth hides behind this fearsome pallor
As death waits for us all, our taking hours
Where mother's cry, the white dove does fly
These silver coins upon my eyes

Now no seeing I ride along
This river does sing a fiery song
Melting cool over dying flesh
Burdened by prayers upon my breast
A single tear slips from behind
These silver coins upon my eyes

Tokens for what waits for me
To buy my way past destiny
To seal my fate, release the me
From this wheel of suffering
To be born, one must surely die
With these silver coins upon my eyes.
~Natasha Head~