Tag: creative writing
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Choosy eater
In a word pickyeater Eat a random bird’s dirtbox But need my apples peeled Once smashed liqueurs drank the contents like a shot Once drank most of a bottle of Jäger from an ash tray But hesitate trying shrimp, because it has a face And shape I find repulsively unappealing Like a wriggling worm. Choosy…
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Reading passions well
Trapped, that passion’s surfeit volatile Like a Nile in manner Going going going Overflowing suddenly Toys outthrowing Boy at tantrum Nile painted red They fled Actium When Antony needed them. In the underworld, aspersions receipted In seatless eternity Nuzzled by nailed cudgel Nudged by spiked mace Blow-bent below Hole-riddled feet Of thorncrowned Martyrs Storming crow…
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Regarding my own works
Delving where I would not typically Bringing back the void lyrically From my black, seething wellspring Whence springs me, knowing me thence Thing unclean, unfit receiving hippocrene My unpublished books unfit even for charity shop shelves Beside Stieg Larsson, Stephen King, Stephanie Meyer and George Martin Present in every Concern and Vincent De Paul from…
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Delighting in flowers
Light foreboring columbines Mother in law’s tongue sharp, marbled Thorned knight the milk thistle A son of cursed Lambton. Stately elms housing owls Brocaded with striations Big pink bouquets of Stinking Billies For trenchant bully Orange William. In pale June Maylings still maere Gaunt and bare, as yet hairless In stolid boughs repose black bores…
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Why bother?
Why should I bother? No one knows My silent audience plauditless Along plodding, verb-bodied Grendel Tossing men verbosely across longhalls Howling ferociously, returning to my fen. When I go and poes no more flow from me Weeping policeman calmed at last When great heaped cone of my effort turns over to a draining funnel And…
Alchemisland 