Lonnard Dean Watkins

Stigma

Words
Words
Voices
In my head
I see in their eyes
Judgement coming from their closed mouths

Escape

Foul
Air
Gasping
Holed up here
In our pointless lives
No future in this bleak nightmare

Break
Free
Find life
Pay no fee
To the gatekeeper
Reach out your hand to steal his key

Bio

Lonnard Dean Watkins lives in Wellington, New Zealand where he works as an IT consultant. A talented artist, Dean is currently working on a series of paintings and poems influenced by the great Zen poets and artists of the ancient Chinese Tang Dynasty. A selection of his work is displayed on his website www.oldman.co.nz. He is also an accomplished haiku poet, where he's won online contests and has been published in the Heron's Nest haiku journal.

Dean continues to experiment with multi-stanzas, building the poem not only with words but with form and has been featured in an earlier issue on fib review.

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