Poems from Lucian A. Sperta
Published Author and Poet over 25 books in paper back and digital books
Selected American Library Association 2015
Model Citizen 2013
Writer of the Month Meridan 1989
American Society of Authors Composers and Publishers since 1994
#8 Hot Top 100 Hot New Release in Poetry
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Some people think I expose myself too much in what I say in my poems, I don't consider myself a poet as much as I feel I am a story teller, how can one write subjected to other peoples point of view on how I write, what I write, and how I express myself. This is my journey and self expression is how I choose to deal with it; words, writing has been the outlet where I control without fear, without shame, the pen and paper will never betray you. A poet is one, I believe, can take a surgical scalpel to the soul and let it bleed what it truly feels.....
Can I be whole?
Can I be new?
Can I be the caterpillar as it renews
Can I fly away?
On tattered wings
Or remained trapped in this misery...
It burns the skin
These tears of sin
Like acid rain, the years the pain
The hands that touched the naked thigh
Holding my breath until I...
Me aging
Slowly fading
No masquerades
Skin so thin
Hair around the ear
This is funny this is weird
What will become of these bones?
When I...
You look at me and see that I am free
No longer polluted by your chaos and disease-
In remaining pure I feel secure
These eyes that speak a...
The News
They said
There is this dread growing in my head
A fifty percent chance of being dead
No remedy but to cut it out
Squirming in my...