Tag: expression
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Wolf among you
Wolf in the Nikes with a peasant-frightening psyche Bars make you jump, cars scaring pheasants off the curb My mind strewn, rune-carved pages Another planet’s Book of Matthew Gaining dishonour extolling extracanonical apocryphal gospels Rarest codices available, ancient psalters from life’s cradle Cracked like magma-strifed gryke-ridden ash plains Below hellflame spilling volcanoes Eat a pan…
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SPURNED VENUS
Months now since sex Ourselves often vexed Neglecting jealous Venus What legs sheath stays between Kept uncoupled mór capall destriers Make them bold Marengos open air As any who would repair what are termed tears In reality’s fairness should prepare themselves for Further awareness of a world distinctly uncaring. Hera hunts lovers making gello ghosts,…
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Trials, Tribulations, Trillions of Miles Yet
I’m a blind man and until Jason’s argonauts cast nets was highted mad saying, “Harpies stole my bread.” Red as yesterday’s paper, red as toothclaw Red as a cutter’s right-hand knifehand kinch the knifeblade dismayed mulling over rough beast Yeats’ Buck Bethlehem Mulligan’s word beastly Red as raptor’s bloodstained dewclaws Red as Somme soil, red…
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Death Brief Visitor
We who survive you do so begrudgingly, we the unsmiling Like a triumph spining along the road Lumps in throats blown noses Family read words they wrote, tears spatter coats Words more beautiful than merits so doleful a day, their voices did not break But rang out in elation and sang to broken hearts Music…
Alchemisland 