Tag: creative writing
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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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Mr Barr of Scotland and What he has Planted
Mr Barr of Scotland Reputable planter whose hands tease blooms such rare leaves that all agree he aboves all others leagues He asks assistance seeking that upon life’s marker at death primroses planted be Favour he xanthine o’er green, that which like bee’s brighter half hued That which like a calf thought smiling and daft…
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Children dancing to death, cursed by Vitus through Osiris
Rufous priests cedartaller, ancestors Irish pirates, summoning cancers Blisters boils weeping pus, shaking hands lances them Bubbling bubos, those waiting shaking so fit to burst Stretched convex dome palm’s width pus-filled Dead skin cells which could neither escape nor be ingested, thence slow green marking infection Wound fresh flesh tender still, it is better to…
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DEIFIED BY MISSPELLING (BIRTH OF HEATHENFATHER DEMOGORGON)
Poetic annals Priding imperfections Electing admit mistake Taken to scribe’s place Of race shrewd he prune-faced, hardly graced by God with special place Before I see his book, a gentile cowan must be given dispensation through His power Before glowering at days yet to flower, funded by His bloody end By habit, beneath roughspun habit,…
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LANGEWAGE
One scholar writes demiurge Scourge all earth, Ur-antagonist Discussion of Panurge discouraged, save by courageous Cathars A cat hair from heresy Sire to all unfair, Job felt, doing good only by err An age later third son of first’s second feckless, thoughtless with feather, scribing drunk as Diogenes Mistranslates to Demogorgon, unwittingly commencing poetic tradition…
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