Tag: creation
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Love, Bastard Love
Love’s language bruised plum purple prose Prudent also, eyes to future Tensed knee blessings Greedy piety dreaming riches teeming Love-fettered arrows sent at love-denying breast, impressing good sense Sentence mended not by mere sentences Pittance of grace leant loved heart hearing true word dearly meant Lifetime spend pursuing ending More amazing by half journeys. Men…
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Pen of Heaven Arid of Ink
Quill of Metatron Pen with which bright stars were drawn Rudely expulsed from heaven’s bawn An angel spending one last dawn looking down No dappled dawn drawn, no daylight dauphin Sun fruited cloudlinings fluttering resemble Her oriflamme France, which when flown her ranks could never lose Flambeau lures moths of my memories, lots of my…
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Taking Under Advisement
Small, red-fleshed man sits Napoleon’s shoulder; destiny’s official Deigned command an Emperor, his missives success of missions, Ignore red man red fate endure, corpse of imminent boon grizzily hatcheted Russian factions lined like Risk troops, dice and action and warm jacketed. Breakfast chamber his tricorn tipped low, watery mush to the tip of the bowl…
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Craft
I – Old But Recent Craft I make pollicitations to cunning bards past, Place of old poets thy Parnassian pasts immortal Your past-prime virtues now victuals to vexers who make you victims of gaunt learning or love-chagrinning solar sojourns. In dissecting I seek to neither venerate nor eviscerate, My lancet taps ichor and flowing essential…
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Fly
Fly, are you even among your number heralded As one vigorous, swift, imperative. How dash thee to and fro just shy of my whip Educated wrist, slick; and yet you slip