element poetry

This collection of poetry is inspired by the video by Bill Viola in which explores the elements in visual format.

Air

Her lungs,

Polluted by

Poisoned perceptions

She gasped, 

Clutching at the 

Air for 

Control

It was becoming so

Much harder

To breathe

spoken word: 

Fire

The flames

Danced for 

Her 

Her world 

Erupting in 

Fluorescent hues

Of 

Red, yellow, orange 

spoken word:

Earth 

Embedded

In the soil

Were the 

Roots of 

Superficial 

Fiction

spoken word: 

Water

Her ambitions 

Grow as high

As the tallest

Wave, but 

Tragically

They fall, as

They collide

With 

Foreign convictions 

spoken word: