Tag: creative writing
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Visit to the national library
Ambulating as in a maze, keeping left Secret heart at breast Amulet below a dress AE in grand library, Theosophist Word his fist, artist’s emergence Song lips could have been a singer Clinging to a pen’s nib like a sinner Thin, square-chinned and influenced by Aristotle He twaddles along coves sandy implanting his impressions Lessons…
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OBSESSED
Puddled at own feet day’s end Evening disease day dreads dreaming Tree-threading breeze whispering secrets, slithering forth from Djinn sleep Strange things creeping below ocean cream, dead dreaming Knock boxbottom armchair arm to pop one Ox stubborn persist smoking despite doctor’s insistence stopping Coughing everytime I take a lungful Melville who captured best obsession’s gluttony.…
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Exams
Disgracing himself realm’s filth the lord of grapes come see what his followers sewn Examines what they have grown, appears to grow sad but says nothing Grape-hung gown hanging down like a wrinkleless mortuary drape obfuscating an obscened face Light beam injecting lethargic air with sentience Highlighting movement, corners highted irrelevant Trineing cloud lightning intellect…
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Making up
She sits on a wrinkled stool afront a scratched mirror, stirring admix Lather to visage affixes Wetting bristles circling China soapdish Blue and white spilled ink Irish sky miniature pictures of oriental temples, where stricture-bound monks, enrolled since infancy by orphandom, live structured lives away from potential criminal elements, awaiting happy endings, lending alms and…
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Starplay
Stars like void wasps Tossed warping wobbling in oreless voids vorpal matte contorting solar molar choler choker cholera carnal charnel temporal journal colonel hurtle hurdle hurl storms vortex hoarding hurtling boreing boles quarterdeck bestial viciousness jesuitical efficiency blistering heretically strange forms interlocking horns trining lightning lucifer intellect lucidity lucent orbless formless gormless
Alchemisland 