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The Orlando Sentinel, Lake Healthy Living, Think Healthy and Mature Lifestyles Magazines have all described Carl Scharwath as the “running poet.” His interests include being a father/grandfather,competitive running,sprint triathlons and taekwondo (he’s a 2nd degree black belt). His work appears worldwide with over forty publication credits.

3:01am

Celestial evening oozes black
and droplets begin to paint
the schizophrenic atmosphere.

Incessant dripping announces
an awakening with an
ethereal alarm—3:01!

Turbulent moonlight dissipates,
alive in anxiety, sleep will
arrive just before dawn.

BRADBURY

A baby holds a relic from long ago.
Pages aged, words melting together in a last gasp of life.
The book falls from her unknowing hands,
the culture of man discarded on the living room floor.

Books combusted in an apocalyptic morning inferno,
casting a surreal and Dystopian dawn light.
The haze and smoke of literature dance in the room
and veil the infants perception.

FRACTURED

The days have the atmosphere of a convex mirror.
Untraceable nomadic obscurity, abstraction,
lack of emotion, the absence of lyrical self-hood .
Yet the fragmentation of the universe
is somehow mirrored in the ambiguous
nature of life itself.

EVERYONE HAS AN ELEGY

Facade assaulted in a small sadness,
as erratic moments
rise up from despair.

EARLY MORNING

Life mirrors a morning dewdrop, glistening,

a small universe perilously draped on a forgotten branch
evaporating into nothingness.