Two Untitled Poems by George Keyes

George Keyes is a writer who lives in the Mojave Desert, east of Bakersfield, California, with his family. Besides enjoying writing he loves photography and chest. His work has appeared in Scarlet Leaf Press, Literary Yard and Taft College among others. He was an awarded author from the International Latino Book Awards. He is currently working in a book, The Portrait of Oscar Wilde.


         Below the sun,
His starched valley
Seems starving with happiness

         Running
Like a kid
         I feel the sound
Life lifting me
Among the leaves of a petal…




        The fear slaps
The flow of the birds
        Under the golden shadow
While underneath it,
        I am waiting.

In this mountain
        The barefoot are digging heavily
Over the wide, narrow view!