• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Poetry Catalog

We honor great poets. We honor great poetry.

  • Home
  • About
  • Contact
  • Submit Your Work
  • Writers
  • Advertising / Subscription

Desire And Guilt, By: Niall Quinn

May 2, 2025 by Niall Quinn

Desire And Guilt, By: Niall Quinn

Desire and guilt are
Ghosts manifest – trade-
in-hand closing doors, open-
ing casements on winter’s
Day in the spring, locking
Gates-to with a reassuring
Accidental snap : primary
Steps in sticking mud in cold
Fields of an eye-adjusted, brain
Calming light in the yellow window
Breathing, slow definite and In-
Finite silent sliding doors sadly,
Locked eternity in step.

Share this:

  • Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
  • Share on X (Opens in new window) X
  • Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit
  • Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr
  • Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest

Related

Filed Under: Poems

Get Every Post In Your Inbox 😳

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.
(This is not the newsletter.)

Primary Sidebar

Never Miss A Poem (Newsletter)

Be Social

  • X
  • Facebook

Top Posts & Pages

  • Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part II. - XXXIV - Latimer And Ridley, By: William Wordsworth
    Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part II. - XXXIV - Latimer And Ridley, By: William Wordsworth
  • My Mother's Thyroid, By: Diane Elayne Dees
    My Mother's Thyroid, By: Diane Elayne Dees
  • Ode: Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood, By: William Wordsworth
    Ode: Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood, By: William Wordsworth
  • The Song Of The Children, By: G.K. Chesterton
    The Song Of The Children, By: G.K. Chesterton
  • Truth And Beauty, By: Samuel Moesel
    Truth And Beauty, By: Samuel Moesel
  • A Very Cheesy Poem, By: Melissa Dennison
    A Very Cheesy Poem, By: Melissa Dennison
  • If This Great World Of Joy And Pain, By: William Wordsworth
    If This Great World Of Joy And Pain, By: William Wordsworth
  • Poetry Submission Deadlines April 2026: Contests, Prizes & Magazines Closing This Month
    Poetry Submission Deadlines April 2026: Contests, Prizes & Magazines Closing This Month
  • Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part III. - XXXV - Old Abbeys, By: William Wordsworth
    Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part III. - XXXV - Old Abbeys, By: William Wordsworth
  • She Was A Phantom Of Delight, By: William Wordsworth
    She Was A Phantom Of Delight, By: William Wordsworth

Advertising/Subscribing = Loving

Buy Me A Coffee

Sign up for the newsletter. Get a gift.

Footer

Made with ❤ in Lubbock, TX.

Poetry Catalog Sponsors

Haiku Examples

Search

Copyright © 2026 · Magazine Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in