Jason Zapata

Category: writing

  • All These Words

    By Jason Zapata

    Another would-be suitor is quick to depart
    Due to false stewardship of your heart
    I hate seeing this kingdom in neglect
    When it deserves only honor and respect
    Don’t be accustomed to frauds and liars
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  • Wheat Field with Crows

    By Jason Zapata

    I was the one to find you.
    You were in the very field you painted.
    The wind sighed. The wheat swayed.
    You lay still.
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  • Booted Foot

    By: Jason Zapata

    The future is condemned by the past.
    What has transpired becomes the basis,
    The reason why future decisions are made.
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  • Rydia and The Dancing Ghosts

    By: Jason Zapata

    To watch the dancing ghosts promenade and pirouette
    Rydia enters the castle ruins bathed in moonlight
    Letting herself become lost in the shadowy minuet

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  • The Wendigo Possession

    By: Jason Zapata

    Gruesome murders occurred in the winter of 1878
    The Indian swift runner would be hung at dawn
    Guilty of cannibalism or being a wendigo’s pawn
    I wanted to hear the mans side before he met his fate
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  • Zangetsu

    By Jason Zapata

    Why do you still believe you wander alone
    Can you not feel my presence in this place
    Hear my footsteps on this path I retrace
    Through the course of your flesh and bone
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