Tag: death
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Lover’s Declaration II
Soldappled courtyard open-aired, a vast cantharus spits Rarified air courtly peacocks plume-haired share with Recalcitrant barbary apes from far Abyssinia, split-haired Palm trees hoarding hirsute spheroids, pomes with plums grappling Adorning weakling child changeling limbs of saplings Gradients made such that all drainage is tasted, without wastage And no vestige of fungible, fertile earth should…
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Century’s injurious end
With the climate unstable Impatient seasons do not stay long Or delay overlong Until humid, drooping crops rot Without fixity, fluxing winter lasts a half year. During feared summer Acid rains quicklime once-sylvan demesnes Jettisoned for grim, austere tenements Through cracks in a haunted stairwell Farsighted kids stare out, that perilous without None save death-doubting…
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Scent of the resurrected
In miasmic waves, like orgasm multiplied Scents such as waft from corpse caves As at Bethany of the saved Lord, he stinketh in ways Which a peony nosegay little ‘suades.
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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…
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Hurtful retrospect; life’s scant accounting
What is life but mayhem barely grasped Actions performed clasping hissing asps Wroth what, louder sound amongst sounds Storm dormant little envies that raging now What the championship sash but wraps to cloth cerement on your death Earthen firmament cloven doth oven heat’d eat stink with slight ceremony When the presiding priest is seen frightened,…