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Unbalanced Awareness

April 4, 2017 By Guest

Won’t you shake me free of these moldings
Vibrate me into feeling
Something more
Than beaten down and torn
Let the moon pull loose
These entwined roots of regret
As darkness gives way to dawn
Let the wind carry me on

—Terry McGhee

Terry McGhee

Terry McGhee was born and raised in Bakersfield, CA. He began pecking at an old typewriter in 1992 at the age of thirteen and quickly found that words had a way of releasing emotions that otherwise would never have seen the light of day. Currently working with Bakersfield’s own indie film company Hectic Films Productions, he now splits his time between movies, madness, prose, and poetry.

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: National Poetry Month

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