Tag: creative writing
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Dambuilder
I feel my heart beating Silence through you are speaking Please repeat Replete with apple trees I, their keeper, this Eden Hesperidean ideal, idyll’s idyll Rilles to vision thrilling, birds trilling in derision of Time passing like the last of the villagers leaving They will flood it to build a dam, the green where we…
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Shitting in the woods
The sound of morningbirds, larks astir, striated barks on stern oaks Druidical drooping weeping willows stooping as if to hear more closely The streams choking from the narrow throat of the thirsty earth Thirty learned owls in parliament and none knows anothers’ name Their gaze a panopticon, the space of an octagon a hawk circuits…
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Violence of cavalry charge
Come to drain the boils of rancid cancer The needle wielding horsemen handsome Lancers on panting horses Coming down a painted mountain Like a flood coming to drown them On the backs of sweating four legged panzers Black breathy sweating panthers, lathered flanks like tough leather Sinewy legs, much rider and ridden faced together One…
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Docile
Rustling me easily, loyal cattle Gentled and docile, well practised Well used to the lash, by cruelty fashioned Every sour joy I knew traced its pitiful source back to anguish Days she is gone and I am left to languish I have no language, pigeon Spanish like a bit of the galleon From the drowned…
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New do
No cap like finally got hair plugs Having suffered male pattern baldness Planned return to good looks Differences between mine and yours not much Yet second I walk into the pub someone shouts nice plugs Bird in the hand worth two in the bush My hair is lush, I touch it, back push So much…
Alchemisland 